Happy Birthday, brenda! Hope it is super fun and the harbinger of good things to come.
Hands! Hands in new places!
Willow ,'Storyteller'
Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
JenP - Oct 25, 2025 11:28:37 am PDT #9892 of 10286
DavidS - Oct 25, 2025 12:15:11 pm PDT #9893 of 10286
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Happy birthday, brenda! I hope it's festive as fuck!
Rainy day in SF. I celebrated the weather by sitting in my window seat, drinking coffee and eating lilac/lemon shortbread.
Lunch will most probably be one of the little plastic tubs I got at Bi-Rite, either the grilled corn salad with kale, or the four bean salad (Note for -t: Green Beans, Black Beans, Kidney Beans, Garbanzo), or the beets with orange and goat cheese.
JenP - Oct 25, 2025 12:25:39 pm PDT #9894 of 10286
Go beets. Choose beets.
DavidS - Oct 25, 2025 12:36:57 pm PDT #9895 of 10286
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Go beets. Choose beets.
Who needs Executive Function when you have a chorus of Buffistae to guide you.
JenP - Oct 25, 2025 12:44:26 pm PDT #9896 of 10286
Woot!
-t - Oct 25, 2025 1:14:21 pm PDT #9897 of 10286
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
If you don’t make your own executive function, store bought is fine. Buffistae recommended where available.
Hey, those are four beans I have available and could assemble into salad! Sweet!
Laura - Oct 26, 2025 9:12:37 am PDT #9898 of 10286
Our wings are not tired.
Beets would always be my choice.
Today is Fiona's birthday. I haven't seen her around these parts in quite a while, but I do hope she is doing well and is enjoying her day.
DavidS - Oct 26, 2025 3:54:07 pm PDT #9899 of 10286
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Happy day to Fiona, who always inspires happy thoughts.
Are you ready for a true Halloween horror story?
I was flipping around my streaming options idly wondering if the new Fantastic Four was available yet.
I wasn't curious enough about it to go see it in theaters, but I do like that '62 World's Fair aesthetic and who doesn't like Pedro Pascal?
Up popped the thumbnail for Fantastic Four: First Steps all bright and shiny and I clicked on it.
I start watching the movie and it's not all bright and shiny and Jetsons in Manhattan vibes. It's gloomy and outer boroughs and it's incredibly slow moving. Also, there's this long prelude with other actors playing younger versions of the heroes, that nobody mentioned. I can't help but compare it to the new Superman which opens in the middle of action and goes bam bam bam all the way through to the end.
Then Michael B. Jordan shows up and I realize I'm watching the bad Fantastic Four. The worst reviewed superhero movie of all time. The 2015 version.
I don't know what's worse, that I wasted 20 minutes of my life on it, or that it took me that long to figure out what I was watching. Definite sign of cognitive dysfunction.
The horror! (Dag, it really really sucked though. So bad.)
Steph L. - Oct 26, 2025 4:02:34 pm PDT #9900 of 10286
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I don't know what's worse, that I wasted 20 minutes of my life on it, or that it took me that long to figure out what I was watching.
Thoughts and prayers in this confusing superhero multiverse. #neverforgetthose20minutes
Dana - Oct 26, 2025 4:14:56 pm PDT #9901 of 10286
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
You will very much like the new Fantastic Four movie.