Ginger, I'd love to get together sometime when you're in town! Since our families are both elsewhere, DH and I are often out of town for the holidays, but I'm hoping we can do either Thanksgiving or Christmas in Nashville this year.
Hello? Gay now!
Willow ,'Showtime'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
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.
Kate P. - Jul 07, 2011 9:21:49 am PDT #15662 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Toddson - Jul 07, 2011 9:27:32 am PDT #15663 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I commed bon bon and Ginger's exchange; afterwards it occurred to me - porn is an infinitely renewable resource.
sumi - Jul 07, 2011 10:21:02 am PDT #15664 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
I am watching the Tattersalls sale and they're selling the horses in "guineas" - is a guinea a particular no. of pounds?
Toddson - Jul 07, 2011 10:24:17 am PDT #15665 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Traditionally, a pound was 20 shillings, a guinea 21. Not sure what it is with decimal currency.
Basically, it's a little more than a pound with more class.
eta: Whistler had a dispute with someone who commissioned something - the Peacock Room - over whether he would be paid in pounds (as you'd pay a tradesman) or in guineas.
Rick - Jul 07, 2011 10:28:54 am PDT #15666 of 30001
You pay the auction house in Guineas. They pay the seller in Pounds. This gives them 5% commission.
sumi - Jul 07, 2011 10:31:29 am PDT #15667 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
How funny. . . and kind of unfair.
And what is a guinea compared to a dollar?
le nubian - Jul 07, 2011 10:31:47 am PDT #15668 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
fascinating.
§ ita § - Jul 07, 2011 10:40:53 am PDT #15669 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
§ ita § - Jul 07, 2011 10:50:18 am PDT #15670 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
serial:
Woman cheating on mentally disabled husband. I'm not sure how I feel about that. I'd have to live it to know.
Amy - Jul 07, 2011 10:56:55 am PDT #15671 of 30001
Because books.
A parent at the school where my mom works is in a situation like that. Her husband was in an accident that left him brain-damaged and mentally about six years old. He's at home because he can do basic self-care, but I can't imagine what that's like.