Whoa! I... I think I'm having a thought. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a thought. Now I'm having a plan. Now I'm having a wiggins.

Xander ,'First Date'


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.


shrift - Feb 10, 2012 10:23:45 am PST #21301 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

For some reason I didn't notice any weather reports about today's snow, and now I'm at the office with no hat or snow boots. Bah.

Oh, but I do have a pair of Doc Martens at my desk. Still don't have a hat, because I'm unwilling to wear either a propeller hat or a police prop hat in public. Or a bike helmet.

Or a puppet.


meara - Feb 10, 2012 10:33:00 am PST #21302 of 30001

I want to see shrift wear a puppet on her head!

...I do have a picture of her in bunny ears somewhere...


Frankenbuddha - Feb 10, 2012 10:38:04 am PST #21303 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Oh, but I do have a pair of Doc Martens at my desk. Still don't have a hat, because I'm unwilling to wear either a propeller hat or a police prop hat in public. Or a bike helmet.

Or a puppet.

No rubber gloves around, I take it? Because that would be FG!


Jessica - Feb 10, 2012 10:44:50 am PST #21304 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

if you're seriously going to whine about "abortion-inducing drugs," at high enough dosages or in combination with the right/wrong other drugs, that's broad enough to cover just about every drug in existence. In which case your beef is with modern medicine, not Obama.

Not even "modern medicine" - plenty of old-fashioned abortifactants in nature, too! Therefore, Catholic-owned businesses should not allow plants on company property. You know, just in case. Because LIFE.


msbelle - Feb 10, 2012 10:52:19 am PST #21305 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

today: slowest day ever?


amych - Feb 10, 2012 10:54:51 am PST #21306 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

msbelle: YES


aurelia - Feb 10, 2012 11:08:24 am PST #21307 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

This kind of parenting amuses me. I know parenting isn't supposed to amuse me, and parenting with bullets is a dodgy premise, but, seriously, child? Shut up.

He could've donated that laptop somewhere.

I still think any "compromise" at all is conceding the point in a way that is not helpful long term.

Right. I'm increasingly disinclined to try to compromise with people who don't know how to compromise.

For some reason I didn't notice any weather reports about today's snow, and now I'm at the office with no hat or snow boots. Bah.

Oops. You may want to pick up a hat at Walgreens.


Kate P. - Feb 10, 2012 11:08:25 am PST #21308 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

She came to me late in the paper saying she had the hardest epiphany when she realized that you could be for preserving all life, or you could be for the best possible life for those who are born, but you couldn't be for both.

It is definitely hard to come to terms with this. I'm seriously impressed with your student.


le nubian - Feb 10, 2012 11:12:00 am PST #21309 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

What Kate said.

I'm embarrassed about the "nauseous" bit. I clearly have been misusing that term ALL of the time. I'm not sure I have ever used that correctly.

I feel sick about it.


sumi - Feb 10, 2012 11:20:56 am PST #21310 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

Man, I wish I could knit at my desk. . . because it is in fact extremely slow today.