No, it's shiny! I like to meet new people. They've all got stories...

Kaylee ,'Serenity'


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.


tommyrot - Dec 23, 2010 5:29:46 am PST #12648 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.

German industrial baby dancing

As one YouTube commenter points out, this video evidences "extreme disconnect between the endearingly bubbly tots and the menacingly nihilistic, anomie-filled lyrics. Unless the viewer is beyond repair with misanthropy, each of those frenetic sock-wearing footsies set to DAF's toe-tapping beats breathes (metaphorically) laughing gas into the lungs of the soul of the lyrics, mired as its words are in the hopelessly impossible task of revaluing all values relying only on semantics and a sophomoric sense of rebellion."

Alles ist Lüge, indeed.


Jessica - Dec 23, 2010 6:02:44 am PST #12649 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

DH & Dylan are off to BounceU for a few hours, leaving me alone with nothing but my nesting hormones. So far I have CLEANED ALL THE STOVE and set the oven to clean itself (dear Other Things, why can't you be more like the oven?).

Perhaps next I shall tackle Sorting All The Diaper Covers. I would Dye All The Hair, but I don't really want to answer the door for the grocery delivery guy in a bathrobe and shower cap.

I also seem to have misplaced a pair of pants. This is both irritating and confusing.


Stephanie - Dec 23, 2010 6:07:38 am PST #12650 of 30001
Trust my rage

Jessica, would you guys have any use for Fuzzi Bunz, size M? They were Ellie's and are mostly pastel colors. My mom re-did all the elastic, but they are five years old. I have the liners, too.

Eta: they still work great; they are just the original style.


Liese S. - Dec 23, 2010 6:23:04 am PST #12651 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Oh, yeah, I meant to ask Buffista parents, do any of you have draw crazy children? I always have a ton of used paper arounf, with music on one side and blank on the other. And then I have 11x17 preprinted newsletter shells with the wrong address. So there`s big open areas on the inside. Does anyone want it for their kids to draw on?


Jessica - Dec 23, 2010 6:25:03 am PST #12652 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Eventually, sure! Impossible to say if she'll be wearing M's in 6 months or 18, though, so no rush - D was so skinny he almost didn't grow into them until he was potty trained.

[eta: Found my pants! They were in the carry-on I took to Chicago. In October.]


§ ita § - Dec 23, 2010 6:26:47 am PST #12653 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Oh, that just reminded me. I need to acquire more photocopier paper. For some reason I keep drawing on that and not my million sketchbooks. I think I have commitment issues.

Yeah, that's news.

When I was little my mother had a three foot tall roll of sketch paper she kept in her bathroom. It was the best ever. Drawing for yards.


Amy - Dec 23, 2010 6:33:41 am PST #12654 of 30001
Because books.

Sara used to draw on the backs of old manuscripts I had for copy-writing purposes. Then she learned to read and I had to start excising all the sex scenes.


Consuela - Dec 23, 2010 6:35:20 am PST #12655 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Thank you, guys. It's not awful at this point, most of the time: just a constant level of stress and concern, with occasional emergencies. I'm learning to be zen because you can't win an argument with an Alzheimer's patient.

Anyway, the good news is that I'm now on vacation, yay, and a friend in the UK sent me a tiny flashdrive with loads of audiobooks and BBC Radio stuff on it--it's probably the gift that will give me the most enjoyment over the year.

The bad news is that I'm still sick. I should probably call Kaiser, who will want to give me antibiotics. Bah.

Off to walk the dog and listen to audiobooks, yay!


brenda m - Dec 23, 2010 6:37:41 am PST #12656 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

DH & Dylan are off to BounceU for a few hours,

Is that like a dogpark for kids? Because that's what I'm picturing.


§ ita § - Dec 23, 2010 6:45:23 am PST #12657 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Is that like a dogpark for kids?

Isn't a dogpark just a playground for dogs?

I now reflexively react to all pictures with palms in them by going "it is not my [insert noun here] it is a palm." Thank you, Tom Hardy memes, for ruining me.

Okay, gotta go get cocoa.