OMG! I think I got work done today. I dunno how that happened. Of course, as I sit here, baking in the warm office, I realize, D'oh! I left the insulated shopping bags at home. And I know, once I step into that a/c'd heaven, I'm not leaving.
I got stupid. The money was too good.
Jayne ,'Objects In Space'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
omnis_audis - Jul 13, 2009 1:57:39 pm PDT #16528 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
askye - Jul 13, 2009 2:19:28 pm PDT #16529 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
Tying in the Dating Discussion with LotR Geekout, my first serious boyfriend was a HUGE HUGE LoTR fan. HUGE. He had the books, the poster, he could write Elvish (not sure about speaking it) and I gave him the unabridged book on tapes in the wooden crate thingy as a present.
I would love to know his reaction to the movies, but that will probably never happen.
I have a book he gave me where he wrote an inscription in Elvish (and then translated it), hopefully the book is packed away somewhere. It's a copy of The Book of the Dun Cow, which he loved for reasons I forget, but gave it to me as a present with a mushy inscription.
Cashmere - Jul 13, 2009 2:21:23 pm PDT #16530 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
Oh, my, that Radcliffe boy is ADORABLE.
Nora Deirdre - Jul 13, 2009 2:28:21 pm PDT #16531 of 30000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
ZOMG, how cute is that? Love that Radcliffe kid.
-t - Jul 13, 2009 2:29:51 pm PDT #16532 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
How charming and sweet. And Danielle wrote a nice article, good on her.
erin_obscure - Jul 13, 2009 2:47:56 pm PDT #16533 of 30000
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Wow, got tangled up in tolkien there for a bit.
omnis: the idea of a shop cat terrifies me. I mean, i know how many times my cats tangle themselves up in my feet and i don't generally walk around my flat carrying power tools. I shudder to think of the havoc a cat could wreak upon a scene shop. I suspect she is biding her time, waiting for the best possible time to strike. I recommend you stay far, far away from that place.
Ooooh, i just signed up for a book club! Now all i have to do is re-read _The Name of the Rose_ in two weeks. meep! Got through one chapter (i've read the book twice before) and all i can think is: "have i EVER read this before? because this all seems totally new!" It's like randomly flipping through the AEA rulebook during a boring rehearsal. I keep stumbling upon things that i SHOULD know and OUGHT to remember...but...total blank! Maybe it's a different translation?
-t - Jul 13, 2009 2:57:09 pm PDT #16534 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, good book. It's got an awful lot in it, I'm not surprised you don't remember it all. Eco's dense.
Polter-Cow - Jul 13, 2009 3:00:38 pm PDT #16535 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Very dense! But I liked The Name of the Rose, for the most part. Foucault's Pendulum, on the other hand, could have stood to lose 200 pages or so.
Vortex - Jul 13, 2009 3:01:33 pm PDT #16536 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I love that book. Not the least because I was reading it on the train as I backpacked through Europe.
-t - Jul 13, 2009 3:16:44 pm PDT #16537 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That sounds so romantic and intellectual. I read it for a class.
Foucault's Pendulum, on the other hand, could have stood to lose 200 pages or so.
Nuh uh. Foucault's Pendulum is pretty much perfect. I am inordinately fond of Eco in general and Foucault is my favorite.