The spookiest thing to me is that in Atwood's mythos, Gilead starts with an evangelical Christian being elected to President in 2012.
Thanks for sparking my nightmares!
Angel: Connor, this is Spike and Illyria. Guys, this is Connor. Connor: Hi. umm...I like your outfit. Illyria: Your body warms. This one is lusting after me. Connor: Oh...no, I--I--it's just that it's the outfit. I guess I've had a thing for older women. Angel: They were supposed to fix that.
'Origin'
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.
le nubian - Feb 16, 2012 3:29:17 pm PST #22407 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
brenda m - Feb 16, 2012 3:32:35 pm PST #22408 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
I feel the need for some wingnuts I can laugh at without also cringing. And lo, they provide!
It’s very clear what side President Obama is on here in Wisconsin. Behind the stage where he will speak today are two flags: an American one, as usual, and right alongside it — and a flag for the local union, Wisconsin 1848.
This would be from Obama's visit to Masterlock yesterday. And the flag in question is the Wisconsin state flag. [link]
Dana - Feb 16, 2012 3:34:03 pm PST #22409 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Unions get flags? I want a flag.
Allyson - Feb 16, 2012 3:34:35 pm PST #22410 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Dear women of Oklahoma,
California is quite nice almost year round, and we consider you to be people.
Love,
California
brenda m - Feb 16, 2012 3:35:54 pm PST #22411 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
I want to join Local 1848.
Pix - Feb 16, 2012 3:44:31 pm PST #22412 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.
Thanks for sparking my nightmares!
Just call me the ita ! of literary allusions.
§ ita § - Feb 16, 2012 4:02:31 pm PST #22413 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, jesus, I saw a reference to that Wisconsin flag story earlier, and I could not work out what they were talking about. I've never seen the Wisconsin state flag before, and that's all that flag could be in my head. A Wisconsin 1848 union flag made and continues to make no sense.
Someone give me money, okay?
Right, tripping on down the list of random things I recorded, and now it's Something Borrowed, which is Ginnifer Goodwin being totally man-stupid again, and I don't understand a) how these movies get made and b) why I feel a compulsion to actually watch the crap I recorded during some obviously more hormonal moment.
And, basically, I don't effectively get hormonal.
tommyrot - Feb 16, 2012 4:09:34 pm PST #22414 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A Wisconsin 1848 union flag made and continues to make no sense.
I think he was thinking 1848 was a union local number.
§ ita § - Feb 16, 2012 4:13:49 pm PST #22415 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think he was thinking 1848 was a union local number
I get that, but it's sufficiently stupid that I don't get it as a destination. Are there really *that* many jobs titled Wisconsin that they get union representation?
Ginger - Feb 16, 2012 4:17:27 pm PST #22416 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I think he was thinking 1848 was a union local number.
Also that there are 1848 chapters of the "Wisconsin" union.