Interesting article about who owns the U.S. debt, consumption of imported goods, and where we buy our oil: [link]
I don't know about you guys, but I've had it with super-strong little women who aren't me.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 14, 2012 6:20:21 am PST #21877 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
brenda m - Feb 14, 2012 6:36:21 am PST #21878 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
alligator is a transvestite.
Oh my lord. My sister and I have a decade-long running joke about a transvestite alligator (Transvestigator!) stemming from a Keith Haring mural they had at Rush when my mom was in the ICU there. We even wrote a comic book at one point.
Cashmere - Feb 14, 2012 6:39:01 am PST #21879 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I, for one, believe the Bloggess is one of us and just doesn't know it yet.
smonster - Feb 14, 2012 6:44:33 am PST #21880 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I wish we could recruit her without bringing over all her fans.
Gudanov - Feb 14, 2012 6:45:25 am PST #21881 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Interesting article about who owns the U.S. debt, consumption of imported goods, and where we buy our oil.
I've heard all of those points from other sources as well. IMO, it really doesn't matter than our oil doesn't come from the Middle East, it's a fungible good so it's more of an issue of the effect our overall consumption has on the world market.
I find the manufacturing output point the most surprising. It wasn't very long ago I came across information that set me straight on that.
§ ita § - Feb 14, 2012 6:53:02 am PST #21882 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I was reading other people saying there were two more two hour blocks of Downton to come. I'm not precisely paying the most attention, just cursorily watching. Somehow this season didn't grab me like the last.
All I know from Sue Perkins is her Graham Norton appearance, but she's pretty much textbook-gay-lady-trying-to-seduce-ita !. It's patently, shamelessly obvious.
Jessica - Feb 14, 2012 7:00:44 am PST #21883 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I was reading other people saying there were two more two hour blocks of Downton to come.
If the S2 finale has aired, the only thing left is the 90 minute Christmas special.
(The S2 finale had me shouting at the TV. Seriously, how does Dr Clarkson still have a job? Between the "oh wait, did I say never walk again? My bad!" and his apparent total ignorance that the Spanish flu had killed 100,000 people in the UK that summer...and that maybe a wee little quarantine might be a good idea so EVERYONE DOESN'T DIE? GAH. What an idiot.)
Toddson - Feb 14, 2012 7:05:05 am PST #21884 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
A friend of mine went to a Downton Abby tea - not in costume, but dressed up, with a hat and pearls.
sumi - Feb 14, 2012 7:05:37 am PST #21885 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Umm, it did look rather xmasy from the preview.
Sue - Feb 14, 2012 7:07:55 am PST #21886 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Yeah, they also combined eps 7 & 8 into one 2-hour show, and the result was close to Moldavian Massacre levels of melodrama and WTF-ness. The dresses and people are still pretty.