I think we need to have a F2F at Liese's place (BTW, thanks for taking Des to the airport! Did you have to drive to Phoenix?!?)
Poor Buffy. Your life resists all things average.
Willow ,'First Date'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Dec 19, 2010 5:29:11 pm PST #12135 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
sarameg - Dec 19, 2010 5:31:43 pm PST #12136 of 30001
10:30, I think, MST, for the start? Convert from here [link]
Mom and Dad aren't coming for Xmas. Sigh.
Liese S. - Dec 19, 2010 5:32:59 pm PST #12137 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Totally! Everybody to my place for a star party!
Oh, no prob, Kat, and no, she was only going to the Flagstaff airport. It was tiny. I drove her around in circles first. Hee. And it worked out fine; it was the same day as our kiddoes' Christmas party in Winslow, so I had an excuse to come out and hang with them. I gave her two of the spice cookies to eat on the plane!
-t - Dec 19, 2010 5:33:56 pm PST #12138 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Charts and diagrams: [link]
Cass - Dec 19, 2010 5:38:51 pm PST #12139 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
It was tiny.
Truer words. I haven't been there in years but it is hysterically small. Still have fond memories of it.
Kat - Dec 19, 2010 5:43:42 pm PST #12140 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I am so very very tired. Like unbelievably. And stupidly. I think I'm carrying worry about the impending surgery and I've been stressing about insurance and meds and supplies and and and....
In other news, though, I've been reading the Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. Holy moley I LOVE it.
Ginger - Dec 19, 2010 5:50:21 pm PST #12141 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Any recs for post-apocalyptic/dystopian novels?
Life As We Knew It, Susan Pfeffer
No Blade of Grass, John Christopher
Damnation Alley, Roger Zelazney
and the classic of the genre, Alas Babylon
Of the post-zombie apocalypse oeuvre:
Feed, Mira Grant
The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Do not read Jupiter's Hammer or World Made By Hand if women who suddenly turn into idiots who must be protected by a man make you throw things.
Consuela - Dec 19, 2010 6:17:50 pm PST #12142 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oooh, also, Earth Abides, by George Stewart. And A Canticle for Leibowitz.
§ ita § - Dec 19, 2010 6:23:45 pm PST #12143 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The Parable series by Octavia Butler. Xenogenesis might slide in there too.
Steph L. - Dec 19, 2010 6:33:32 pm PST #12144 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I wanted to see if I was going to be able to shoot during the lunar eclipse. I am all worked up about the eclipse. What time does it start?
When I saw the cameraphone picure (which, I cannot believe that's from a cameraphone through a telescope!), I was going to make sure you knew about the eclipse, but of course you do. So -- there is no way I'm getting up at 2:30 a.m. (Eastern time) to see it, so please take lots of pictures!
The Forest of Hands and Teeth
This one is really good, but creepy. It has a sequel(ish), called The Dead-Tossed Waves, which I didn't think was quite as good, but I'm still glad I read.