Mal: So we run. Nandi: I understand, Captain Reynolds. You have your people to think of, same as me. And this ain't your fight. Mal: Don't believe you do understand, Nandi. I said 'we run'. We.

'Heart Of Gold'


Natter 69: Practically names itself.  

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.


JenP - Dec 06, 2011 7:02:10 am PST #10069 of 30001

Caught up.

In Delaware when I learned to drive, everything was Rte. numbers. I didn't know the actual names of many main routes.

Post office: I'm still surprised when a letter I drop in a mail box or at the post office gets somewhere the next day. I guess I feel like it should always take about 2-3 days like it did in my youth. When I was mailing bills as a first-time self payer of bills, I sent them out a week in advance of when they were due because I guess I thought it still took that long, which it probably didn't.

So, postal changes will not be hard for me to adjust to, I guess, because I never caught up with how fast things were actually getting delivered. And that fact that I can get mail delivered to my door and leave things for the postal carrier to pick up is really kind of super convenient. We should keep that.


DavidS - Dec 06, 2011 7:02:28 am PST #10070 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Huh. I didn't realize Lisa Bonet had two kids with Jason Momoa.

I must've let my subscription to People lapse that decade.


Jesse - Dec 06, 2011 7:10:32 am PST #10071 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Huh. I didn't realize Lisa Bonet had two kids with Jason Momoa.

More future supermodels.

Or, I mean, of course they can do whatever they want with their lives, but I am sure they will look like supermodels.


Hil R. - Dec 06, 2011 7:11:48 am PST #10072 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Thats kind of amusing, because when I moved from Pennsylvania to Utah, I was freaked out by having to drive more than 10 miles to get somewhere. The town 25 miles away was a Saturday excursion, and a trip to Pittsburgh, 50 miles away, was something you planned a week in advance. Now a trip to Salt Lake City, also 50 miles away, is something we'll think of doing in the evening.

In PA, there are roads with nothing on them! Like, you can drive for ten miles and see maybe two buildings. That doesn't happen in NJ where I grew up, unless you're on the Turnpike.


sumi - Dec 06, 2011 7:12:56 am PST #10073 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

Stealing from a Toys for Tots donation box????

That makes a nice partner for a story I read last week about how theft of ponies goes up in the Christmas season.


DavidS - Dec 06, 2011 7:18:00 am PST #10074 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Or, I mean, of course they can do whatever they want with their lives, but I am sure they will look like supermodels.

Zoe Kravitz is gorgeous.

So, I'm looking up stuff on Lisa Bonet because I'm compiling a list of the most beautiful women of the 80s. Why? Uh...I saw Rachel Ward when I was channel flipping yesterday and thought, "Dag, she might be the most beautiful woman of the eighties!"

So here's my tentative list of the contenders. Who am I missing?

Rachel Ward

Nastassja Kinski

Michelle Pfeiffer

Jessica Lange

Kelly Lebrock

Cindy Crawford

Iman

Amanda Pays

Naomi Campbell

Juliette Binoche

Isabelle Adjani

Kim Basinger

Diane Lane

Jennifer Connelly

Lisa Bonet

Robin Wright

Sherilynn Fenn

Joan Chen

Phoebe Cates

Vanity

Sean Young

Jennifer Beals

Brooke Shields


sumi - Dec 06, 2011 7:24:16 am PST #10075 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

Adorable video of the Hallelujah chorus from Handel's Messiah.


Hil R. - Dec 06, 2011 7:24:18 am PST #10076 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

PayPal vs. Regretsy Christmas toys for poor kids. [link] I think this is the most ::headdesk:: bit:

PAYPAL: Only a nonprofit can use the Donate button.

ME: That’s false. It says right in the PDF of instructions for the Donate button that it can be used for “worthy causes.”

PAYPAL: I haven’t seen that PDF. And what you’re doing is not a worthy cause, it’s charity.

ME: What’s the difference?

PAYPAL: You can use the donate button to raise money for a sick cat, but not poor people.

Also, at one point, the PayPal representative insisted that no reputable website will ever let you buy something and have it sent to someone other than the buyer.


sumi - Dec 06, 2011 7:27:14 am PST #10077 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

Yeah, because nobody has ever sent somebody a gift from, for example, Amazon.


Steph L. - Dec 06, 2011 7:32:55 am PST #10078 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

PayPal vs. Regretsy Christmas toys for poor kids.

I imagine when the internet shitstorm gets too large, PayPal will suddenly have a different interpretation of their rules AND will kick in some dough to the fund for human children who otherwise don't get Christmas.

I just can't decide if it will be tomorrow, or end of the week.