Fred: Oh my God! Angel, you're…cute! Angel: Fred, don't! Fred: Oh, but the little hands! And the hair! Angel: Hey! You're fired.

'Smile Time'


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 12, 2011 5:22:40 pm PST #11235 of 30001

Chex Crack Mix is what I call it. I bet homemade is even better.

I have a Pinterest account but have done about nothing with it.


meara - Dec 12, 2011 5:25:25 pm PST #11236 of 30001

Oh, I don't even eat store-bought, it's nothing like homemade. But I can devour a whole nine cup thing of homemade chex mix in about a day. OM NOM NOM.

...now I want to make some. And eat it. Mmmm.


Steph L. - Dec 12, 2011 5:42:49 pm PST #11237 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Chex mix, and Chex muddy buddies!


JenP - Dec 12, 2011 5:48:23 pm PST #11238 of 30001

sarameg, you totally made my friend S's kid's day, thank you -- she just messaged me to say he was so excited. Wait until he sees the picture tomorrow. Kid's going to plotz. Score one for Team Science!


JenP - Dec 12, 2011 5:50:35 pm PST #11239 of 30001

Ceral (for real!):

Chex muddy buddies!

I can never, ever be allowed to make those again, because I never end up sharing them with the people involved in whatever pretext I've come up with for making them. They are my precioussss.


Amy - Dec 12, 2011 5:51:04 pm PST #11240 of 30001
Because books.

A former neighbor used to give us a big jar of it every year, homemade.


DavidS - Dec 12, 2011 5:51:15 pm PST #11241 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Oh god. Matilda is turning into one of those kids who weeps and wails over doing homework. Two nights, and three hours of struggle to draw one fucking picture.

And it's that, "I hate it because it's not perfect" so she keeps erasing shit and undermining herself.

Dear perfectionism: go fuck yourself. It is the impulse to perfectionism that stymies all the shit we need to go through to grow and get better.

Shitty drafts. Sketchbooks. Drawerfic. Finish it! Do it! Make it! Finish it and say fuck it and make something better! But don't DON'T do it because it's not right.

No crossing out. No erasing until you're done. No revising until it's on the page. No stopping until Hammersmith.

You must do shitty work to do good work. It is the law.


DavidS - Dec 12, 2011 5:52:17 pm PST #11242 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I swear to god I'm going to cut the erasers off her pencils.


Theodosia - Dec 12, 2011 5:55:58 pm PST #11243 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

It's hell to be at the age when you can tell that it's no good but don't have the skills yet to make it good.

(I may still be at that age. Sigh.)


DavidS - Dec 12, 2011 6:02:34 pm PST #11244 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Well, she hasn't cried for ten minutes now and after one time out and two threatened timeouts seems to be close to finishing a thoroughly charming, entirely apt for a five year old drawing.