Look, you got a little stabbed the other day. That's bound to make anyone a mite ornery.

Mal ,'Ariel'


Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Spidra Webster - Sep 03, 2010 1:41:04 pm PDT #21999 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.

Skanky McFarland is an excellent derby name.

LA Times today pub'd an article about getting airplay on KCRW. The advantage is that I now know more about it (I submitted my album to them months ago), but the disadvantage is now everyone ELSE knows too and will be competing with me to get through to their phone during the brief weekly window when you can check whether your CD has been added to their library and is getting any airplay.

I've GOT to turn my hours around. I was up 'til 3am again last night. It's adding to my depression missing so much daylight and it's bound to get worse in the winter. Gotta turn it around!


Strix - Sep 03, 2010 1:42:59 pm PDT #22000 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Happy birthday, Liese!


§ ita § - Sep 03, 2010 1:58:00 pm PDT #22001 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Ugh. There was an actual farce of mistaken identity due to the lady with the name like mine mispronounced. A whole cascade of coincidence, too. Because I walk out of the restroom and they're wondering if they've found the right person, and all i can think is "she's actually washing her hands right now, if it's not me you want..."

I can't properly dislike her, because she's never been anything other than enthusiastically nice and cheerful towards me (wait, that might be rationale in and of itself). I just want her called something else, dammit.

Unrelatedly, decision isn't a verb, and timebox isn't a word.

Also, why do we kill a tree for every daily meeting? I'm in content management. I'm supposed to be minimising paper in the workplace, dammit.


Hil R. - Sep 03, 2010 2:00:56 pm PDT #22002 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

The storm is starting to arrive here. It's kind of creepy. Alternating between the air being totally still and wind blowing everything everywhere, with no real in-between periods.


Sue - Sep 03, 2010 2:26:58 pm PDT #22003 of 30001
hip deep in pie

I just finished clearing up everything in my yard. I managed to break a toenail trying to get my compost bin under the steps.


Ginger - Sep 03, 2010 3:14:02 pm PDT #22004 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I am supposed to announce: "We encourage you follow us on Twitter at @DBookFestival and we ask you to tag your tweets with #Bookzilla."

How should I actually say that? "at DBookFest" and "hash tag Bookzilla"? At sign? Pound sign?


Jesse - Sep 03, 2010 3:15:32 pm PDT #22005 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I think you would omit pronouncing the symbols, on the assumption that people who use the Twitter understand how to use them.


Lee - Sep 03, 2010 3:16:34 pm PDT #22006 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Happy Birthday Liese!

I didn't mind the MRI much at all, which kind of surprised me. I got a little twitchy because of the don't move thing, but the tube didn't bother me.

I was face down though, so I wasn't as aware of being in a tube.


tommyrot - Sep 03, 2010 3:19:55 pm PDT #22007 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I didn't mind the MRI (or tight spaces in general) at all. When I was about four I would play this game where I'd pull the bed away from the wall so there was almost enough room for me to fit through the gap. Then I'd pull the covers around me and purposefully get myself stuck between the bed and the wall. I'd pretend to struggle, which would sorta' cause the bed to slide further from the wall, and eventually I'd slide through the gap and land on the floor.

eta: When about the same age I'd also play a game where I'd crawl head-first into a sleeping bag, turn myself around and then crawl out. I tended to get stuck while turning around, which was part of the fun.


Sophia Brooks - Sep 03, 2010 3:45:58 pm PDT #22008 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Happy Birthday Liese!