Lorne: Once the word spreads you beat up an innocent old man, well, the truly terrible will think twice before going toe-to-toe with our Avenging Angel. Spike: Yes. The geriatric community will be soiling their nappies when they hear you're on the case. Bravo.

'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'


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.


Strix - Dec 29, 2011 1:22:26 pm PST #13450 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I KNOW, amyth! I didn't think I would love it so much, but when he was getting his hair cut today and was babbling up a storm to the stylist about Skyfalls or whatever the hell it's called, he was all "And Mom and Dad are having New Year's..." and a little bit ago, when I was making him clean up a little bit, he was joking with me and was all "You're the MEANEST MOM EVER!"

CRA. ZY.

I never, never wanted to have kids, never would have HAD one, and the fact that I met Dan less than a month after the hysterectomy that I was perfectly happy to have is so weird...but I love this kid.


Steph L. - Dec 29, 2011 1:45:29 pm PST #13451 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

This is adorable: JGL and Zoey Deschenel play What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? [link]

I'm not normally a fan of her voice...maybe she should do more standards.

I love that song (Harry Connick Jr. does my favorite version of it), and they are totally cute doing it! I would have expected her voice to be a lot higher. Shows what I know.


Polter-Cow - Dec 29, 2011 1:49:47 pm PST #13452 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I like the She and Him stuff I've heard. Like this one. It's cute.


Jesse - Dec 29, 2011 1:50:55 pm PST #13453 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

That's really sweet, Erin!

I just took it back to Astoria with taramosalata for dinner. YUMMERS.


Sophia Brooks - Dec 29, 2011 2:07:20 pm PST #13454 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Harry Connick's is my favorite version, too. I was OBSESSED with him in high college. I even owned the CD he made when he was a little kid.

Mom! That is so neat.


§ ita § - Dec 29, 2011 2:16:31 pm PST #13455 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

OMG. Tired. I can't believe it I timed it so I have a day's work tomorrow. Not sure what was going through my head there...

But I have a rental car. Enterprise's cheapest cars are $70/day! Not that I'm paying the daily rate, but motherfucker! That's about 3x the normal. I need my fucking title, and I need a fucking new car. Jesus.

One of my cousins sent me back with a cake to send to someone in the family she likes that I don't. Well, she didn't really send me--she never said anything about it to me at all, or even give me an address to mail it to. My mother insists we can meet in person, but I can't explain to her that I barely see people I like, how am I going to work in seeing someone I've been pointedly avoiding for eight years? Jesus.

Saw mother of second cousin once removed yesterday, and...I don't think I'm going to see her again. I don't think she'll live until the next time I go back to Jamaica. And she's not travelling again. Really sad. I lived with one or another of her kids for quite a while, although we're not related by blood.


DavidS - Dec 29, 2011 2:49:48 pm PST #13456 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Mmmm, I'm making a kind of turkey pot roast dealie and it's filling the house with delicious and homey smells.

I had to alter the recipe a little bit from the version I did last week, but I hope it comes out as well. Just thinking about how good it was is making me salivate.


sumi - Dec 29, 2011 2:53:30 pm PST #13457 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

Are you using an entire turkey? Or a turkey breast?

I had an Italian Beef, fries and a Greek Salad. It was good but pot roast sounds so much more tempting.


DavidS - Dec 29, 2011 2:59:12 pm PST #13458 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Are you using an entire turkey? Or a turkey breast?

Turkey thighs, which I can only find at Safeway. But it's a lot of meat fairly cheap, has the big thigh bone to make the stock richer and I actually prefer it to breast meat. Two thighs gives me all the meat I need.

Last week I used a veggie stock bouillion cube to start the stock and then added more of the vegetarian French Onion stock I like. I was going to make soup but I kept cooking it down and adding garlic and some brandy and it came out so richly flavorful. Anyway, I started with a can of chicken stock and thinned it out with an extra can of water just to get it going.

Smells good!


DavidS - Dec 29, 2011 3:04:04 pm PST #13459 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Here's a recipe that's pretty similar to what I'm doing, sumi.