David, I'm sorry.
Buffy: How bored were you last year? Giles: I watched 'Passions' with Spike. Let us never speak of it.
'Beneath You'
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.
sumi - Nov 22, 2010 8:23:18 pm PST #6922 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
DavidS - Nov 22, 2010 8:53:25 pm PST #6923 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Wow, that fucking hurts. I'm kind of wrecked.
Beverly - Nov 22, 2010 10:12:45 pm PST #6924 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
David, I'm so sorry.
Anne, I hope you can smooth things over with your mom.
Goodness. On top of two days' of snow, we're having high winds tonight. If I had hatches, I'd batten 'em.
DavidS - Nov 22, 2010 10:15:03 pm PST #6925 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
we're having high winds tonight. If I had hatches, I'd batten 'em.
Yeah, but you've got swans. And eagles.
Shit, crying and Maker's Mark is giving me such a headache.
Raining here in SF.
Beverly - Nov 22, 2010 10:18:31 pm PST #6926 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
David, David. It's never easy, I know. I'm so sorry.
billytea - Nov 22, 2010 10:30:07 pm PST #6927 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I'm sorry, David. That's hard.
DavidS - Nov 22, 2010 10:47:58 pm PST #6928 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
She was only 48. But to me she'll always look 18.
Well, she'd be pleased to know I was taking it so hard.
She was that person who waved her magic wand over me and made me not a geek. A good first lover.
She had skipped a grade so she was younger than me. She started college at age 17, and didn't turn 18 until the day before Valentine's Day.
She was very Buffistalike in many ways. Her love of Shakespeare, and typeface. She was...complicated. Not an easy, sunny personality. She was smart and sophisticated. A preppy New York Jew. A very biting sense of humor.
She thought I was a ridiculous bumpkin from South Florida and mocked my white painter's pants.
She tried to bully me about Greek mythology, but when I countered with more than just the usual Bullfinch fare she respected me. She even conceded some ground when I talked about Norse mythology.
I know she fell for me when I told her how much I loved Oscar Wilde's "The Nightingale and the Rose."
We only dated my Freshman year, and broke up weeks into my Sophmore year. But I have a picture of us at our college graduation and we're looking into each other's eyes and you can just see how intense that relationship was.
The last time I saw her was in the nineties, before either of us were married. We shared a bed - just sleeping, but kind of typical that she'd finesse that situation to create something memorable/uncomfortable/familiar.
When I finally wrote a decent poem (many years later) I sent it to her. She told me she hated it (it was about another woman), but I knew she really liked it because she offered to set it in type.
Like that.
DavidS - Nov 22, 2010 10:54:57 pm PST #6929 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Sorry if that's TMI, but she was a constellation in my life. Somebody I charted my life by.
Polter-Cow - Nov 22, 2010 11:15:10 pm PST #6930 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Thank you for sharing, Hec. It's lovely. It's important to remember.
Calli - Nov 23, 2010 12:59:16 am PST #6931 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm sorry, David.