awesome. next essay. after i make tea.
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Allyson - Jan 11, 2006 1:29:13 pm PST #9328 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
JZ - Jan 11, 2006 1:30:12 pm PST #9329 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
My preferential vote on the matter:
A. Lord, yes, it's funny.
If A fails to pass, then my vote should go to:
B. It is so.
And if B also fails, then:
C. Still funny. FUCKO.
ION, I think today has stopped in its tracks wherever it was and fallen over, just like everyone on Miranda. It's inertia-ing itself to death.
erikaj - Jan 11, 2006 1:35:23 pm PST #9330 of 10002
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Yeah. Kind of sick, but I like that, you know.
Theodosia - Jan 11, 2006 1:41:13 pm PST #9331 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I got to go home a half hour early? Does that count as a bright enough spot?
My roommate was recently diagnosed with diabetes, and has been having a whole bunch of nutritionist visits, classes in how to manage her diabetes and so on, which I would have thought would be routine. According to this NYTimes article, she is really getting an exception to the way most insurance companies want to handle that sort of illness:
Jessica - Jan 11, 2006 2:08:04 pm PST #9332 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Sue - Jan 11, 2006 2:08:15 pm PST #9333 of 10002
hip deep in pie
A purse for ita: [link]
Megan E. - Jan 11, 2006 2:11:23 pm PST #9334 of 10002
Topic!Cindy - Jan 11, 2006 2:11:59 pm PST #9335 of 10002
What is even happening?
Allyson, it is funny. It is really funny. It brings back wading through BBOvenGuy's stuff (but that only makes it funnier).
§ ita § - Jan 11, 2006 2:12:32 pm PST #9336 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sue, I was worried for a second that it'd be the dead chihuahua purse--which I now see is from the same people! I like your suggestion much better, and you've just reminded me that I meant to buy a knuckleduster pendant, and I forget where...
Sue - Jan 11, 2006 2:16:27 pm PST #9337 of 10002
hip deep in pie
Dead Chihuahuas don't come to mind when I think of you ita.