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 58: Let's call Venezuela!  

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.


Kat - May 29, 2008 5:05:48 pm PDT #9673 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Spinach Dip will hold up better in a sitting-outside-at-a-BBQ way.


sarameg - May 29, 2008 5:06:08 pm PDT #9674 of 10001

You know how I swore after my first pedicure I'd keep it up? NSM.

I try to eat a banana a day. Staves off the starvings around 4 pm. Except sometimes I don't get to. So poor banana gets all bruised up and mushy. It's been happening a lot lately. I really should just hit grocery when I'm running out instead of 6/week.


Jesse - May 29, 2008 5:06:59 pm PDT #9675 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

IME, spinach dip in a bread bowl is impressive well beyond the effort it takes.


Kat - May 29, 2008 5:08:37 pm PDT #9676 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

You know how I swore after my first pedicure I'd keep it up? NSM.

HA! Well, now that it's summer, I need to do more foot upkeep since my feet go public. Luckily that might mean just neater toenails.


Steph L. - May 29, 2008 5:14:47 pm PDT #9677 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Is there a word equivalent for the much older man with a young man? Not cougar, obviously, but something akin to that?

Chickenhawk, no?

Really? That's weirder than "cougar."


amych - May 29, 2008 5:16:44 pm PDT #9678 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I've always heard "chickenhawk" for older men who go after young women, but I never knew it applied to teh creepy old gay as well. Huh.


Jesse - May 29, 2008 5:19:08 pm PDT #9679 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Wikipedia backs me up: [link]

Why do I even know that?? I probably learned it from my mother.


amych - May 29, 2008 5:21:05 pm PDT #9680 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Your mother grows more interesting by the day. I stand corrected.


Jesse - May 29, 2008 5:24:04 pm PDT #9681 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Also, I love this footnote from the wikipedia on "chicken":

^ This term is more common in the UK; the more common term in the US is twink..


Steph L. - May 29, 2008 5:24:08 pm PDT #9682 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I've always heard "chickenhawk" for older men who go after young women, but I never knew it applied to teh creepy old gay as well.

I've heard "Daddy" (which is a whole other type of disturbing to me), but I guess that's a really specific type of older/younger gay relationship.