Not unless you went to Boston to see it, Steph! (It traveled; Cincinnati just gave it the most kerfuffle, natch.)
Overwhelming? How much more than whelming would that be exactly?
Anya ,'Touched'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
flea - Dec 04, 2009 1:28:07 pm PST #23083 of 30001
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Atropa - Dec 04, 2009 1:29:08 pm PST #23084 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I am SO grateful for my dad's addiction to sci-fi, and my mother's addiction to romance. Censorship was never an issue.
I am starting to suspect that Erin and I have the same parents.
Steph L. - Dec 04, 2009 1:31:22 pm PST #23085 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Not unless you went to Boston to see it, Steph! (It traveled; Cincinnati just gave it the most kerfuffle, natch.)
You know, I couldn't remember if you ever lived here pre-college, and I thought I would have remembered if you and Nutty had, but then I thought maybe you visited someone, and and and...
So went my thought process.
Jessica - Dec 04, 2009 1:33:17 pm PST #23086 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The first weekend my mother met Ethan, we all went out to see Boogie Nights together. She was totally unphased.
And yet, she stopped taking movie recommendations from me for almost a year after I suggested Heavenly Creatures.
Freak.
(In my defense, I was totally not thinking of that part of the plot when I gave her the DVD. But I can see how it might have stood out if my daughter had given it to me.)
flea - Dec 04, 2009 1:38:16 pm PST #23087 of 30001
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I was born in Cincinnati and lived there until I was three (1972-1975). My father moved back (he grew up there) when I was in college (like, 1992?), and I (coincidentally) went to grad school there from 1995-2000.
And then I moved away and THEN you and I met!
javachik - Dec 04, 2009 1:38:43 pm PST #23088 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
I am positive I've told the story here: as a middle-schooler, I earned my lunch money every day by passing around Judith Krantz books in various classes with the good parts marked. A quarter per 5 minutes.
Polter-Cow - Dec 04, 2009 1:41:04 pm PST #23089 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ha ha, that's great.
§ ita § - Dec 04, 2009 1:42:00 pm PST #23090 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Man, Tiger Woods is all over the magazine stands. My family shares sport more than fiction. Golf sex scandals we can talk about in detail.
-t - Dec 04, 2009 1:44:02 pm PST #23091 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Private Practice: what Jesse said about the first hour. This is one of the frustrating things about this show, they seem to try so hard to show all the different sides to anything remotely controversial, but do't mention really obvious things that might actually simplify matters. Seems like it happens a lot.
Kathy A - Dec 04, 2009 1:44:12 pm PST #23092 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I got started on reading romances in sixth grade while sitting in the cafeteria. One of the teacher's aides who was assigned cafeteria duty would sit at my table with a book, read for five minutes, then get up and do her walkaround. While she was gone, I'd pick up her book and read--it was a Rosemary Rogers bodice ripper (she was the big romance writer in 1976/77). After that, my aunt gave me her batch of Harlequin Presents (got hooked on Janet Dailey and Charlotte Lamb) and Barbara Cartlands (talk about a change after Rogers!).