Atherton: Half the men in this room wish you were on their arm, tonight. Inara: Only half. I must be losing my indefinable allure.

'Shindig'


Natter 74: Ready or Not  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


meara - Feb 08, 2016 7:56:56 pm PST #15059 of 30003

I stole it from TWOP back in the day....

But yeah. I think they are being ridiculous. Like, fine, she's not over her ex (it's true) and you like her anyway. Fine. She may break your heart. And you may not be able to define your current relationship. But that's not a valid reason for keeping it SECRET. jeez.


aurelia - Feb 08, 2016 8:32:55 pm PST #15060 of 30003
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Seattle people, have you heard about the play that'swhatshesaid? [link] It sounds fascinating, but the meta story around it is seriously messed up. [link]

ion, growing up in the 80s doesn't always save us from teen embarrassment on social media. I know this guy. [link]


P.M. Marc - Feb 08, 2016 9:32:18 pm PST #15061 of 30003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I hadn't, but wow.

The weird thing about this cease and desist letter is that there are no women characters in Lopez's play, The Whipping Man, so there are no lines from The Whipping Man in That'swhatshesaid. This absence of women characters is acknowledged instead by the sound of 72 pages being flipped.


Sue - Feb 09, 2016 3:05:58 am PST #15062 of 30003
hip deep in pie

Seattle people, have you heard about the play that'swhatshesaid? [link] It sounds fascinating, but the meta story around it is seriously messed up. [link]

Sam French don't mess around. I did a SM'd a production of Grease for charity and Samuel French's granddaughter was on the Board of the charity and they wouldn't even consider letting us put in the final song from the movie.


sarameg - Feb 09, 2016 3:26:33 am PST #15063 of 30003

Snow barely sticking at 7:30, so I'm in the office. Figured less snow to clear off my car that way....


-t - Feb 09, 2016 3:32:14 am PST #15064 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That's fascinating, aurelia.


Sophia Brooks - Feb 09, 2016 3:47:57 am PST #15065 of 30003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I hadn't really thought about changing things (a little) in plays until very recently. Of course my first job out of college was at a theatre where the artistic director took three or four scripts of the play, and the book (this was theatre for children), literally cutted and pasted them into a script which we copied, and said that meant she wrote the play, and so we didn't have to pay royalties!

So I felt like changing the Polack joke in Grease was not so big of a deal. Or changing the word "rubbers" to "Galoshes" in an Our Town production that was presented to Middle Schoolers by High Schoolers.


Sophia Brooks - Feb 09, 2016 3:50:28 am PST #15066 of 30003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Also, I think this might be a Rochester accent thing, but I just hear, over the loudspeaker, to ignore the three warning tones for the Med Center antics. But the were saying Med Center Annex. Both pronounced ann-ix.


Tom Scola - Feb 09, 2016 3:52:18 am PST #15067 of 30003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

eehhann-ix


Sophia Brooks - Feb 09, 2016 3:53:55 am PST #15068 of 30003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I take it as a given that ann is pronounced "eehhann"! :)

ETA: For some reason the man on the loudspeaker most days has a fairly pronounced accent- you should hear him call a code team to the trauma bay! TRAAAHHHH-ma bay, I mean.