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Patty will be home on Friday. I can't wait.

Humans are weird. We are compelled to create things like the world's largest mug of hot cocoa for marketing purposes.

End of life decisions for the wealthy are proving to be particularly complicated this week because of changes in the estate tax in 2010. Families weigh whether it's appropriate to take heroic measures for loved-ones who may not want such so that they live until Jan 1.

I think I'm going to be pretty disinclined to do a decade retrospective -- I feel too tired and worn. Somehow, jonquil's post about Thatcher's racism didn't make me feel less tired and worn, even if the Thatcher years were even longer ago. Christ, Thatcher. Time to watch Watchmen again.

invisible_lift wrote "Allison" which is Tosh/Ianto and involves a strip club and, I believe, was sort of hatched by this really fucked up group outing to a strip club when we were all in Minneapolis and someone said "let's go see some classy burlesque" and I didn't say "burlesque is an art, not a euphemism." Er, yeah.

Prepare for The End of Time with Bingo cards. These are funny. They also made my heart hurt in places.

NY'ers: anyone know where I can get those anti-seasickness bracelets in the city before we leave for our trip on Jan 3? Also, underwater disposable cameras?

My tuxedo is stuck in customs. I know you know this, I just can't really get past it and whether it's hilarious or making me cry.

I'm going to see a rehearsal of my play tonight. It's freezing out and I have to go to Queens, but I'm trying to be sanguine about it all nonetheless. It'll be interesting to see the piece in a way that involves no one I know.

Last night I had a cab driver who said, "I came from Africa fourteen years ago, and people come here for the New Year, to see the buildings and the lights, and they do not know, Central park is the most miraculous thing. I called my family, and I said, you have to come to this country."

I have been sitting on a brilliant idea for an event for a few weeks now. It would be awesome. It would be fun. It would make good things happen for many, many people I know. I just have to write an email to one of those people pitching the idea. And I can't seem to make the email make sense. And I don't know why. It's driving me mad. I could save the whole matter until next time we see each other, but there's a timing element involved and I don't know if that will make it too late. Argh, the whole thing is a bit stupid.

Last night I dreamed I was in Bangalore, and there was a cat who looked just like Little Kitty that was a "train cat" that lived on commuter trains and ate scraps of food people dropped. I called her Curry Cat and was amused by her antics. I remembered this this morning while on the subway and standing next to a woman who's outfit for her baby in these frigid temperatures was a lion suit and the baby had body language that reminded me of Little.

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[jonquil.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to bring you down in difficult times.

My understanding is that Thatcher is now widely loathed in England.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Speaking as a child of the Thatcher era:

...now?

[penguineggs.livejournal.com]

We're waiting for the actual death, but since the grave won't be nearly big enough for the actual dance we'll probably have to hire an aircraft hangar or four.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Eh, it's okay. It was a really interesting post, and in a different week would have led to some length 80s-melancholy from me, but this is not this week. I read your post and had such a jarring moment of "man, that all really happened!" Not that the world is all that less fucked up now, but it's all presented so differently now.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

As I recall, CVS had the bracelets.

[rm.livejournal.com]

You are a god.

[tod-hollykim.livejournal.com]

And if CVS doesn't, Walgreens does.

I was thinking maybe even a sporting goods store. Like a serious camping store, not Modell's.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

RiteAid does as well, Duane Reade might, but their website doesn't have a search bar (seriously? seriously?! Bad store, no biscuit!)

They're called "sea bands", if it helps any.

~Sor

[starkyld.livejournal.com]

I got my sea bands in the Duane Reade at Penn Station, but I've seen them all over.

RM, you may also want to consider preggie pops or preggie pop drops, if you can stomach the idea of taking something marketed to pregnant women. They helped me in my couple of months of unrelenting nausea. I'm not positive that they're gluten free though, so check the website. You can get them at A Pea in the Pod at the Herald Sq Macy's.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Regarding acupressure-bands and underwater disposable cameras, they're both good ideas: I'm surprised the local drugstores (or at least the nearest Duane Reade) don't have at least the former.

I wonder if there really is a "curry cat" in Bangalore?

[ladyaelfwynn.livejournal.com]

When the kidlet was tiny we had an all in one fleece thing that made her look like a giant green bean. And then there was the Eeyore thing my sister got for her when the kidlet was about 1 1/2 or 2. It was thick and very warm and she never wore it because it was never cold enough outside to be comfortable for her to wear.

[logospilgrim.livejournal.com]

I can never hear Margaret Thatcher's name without being reminded of Adrian Mole's poem about her:

Do you weep, Mrs Thatcher, do you weep?
Do you wake Mrs Thatcher, in your sleep?
Do you weep like a sad willow?
On your Marks and Spencer's pillow?
Are you tears molten steel?
Do you weep?
Do you wake with 'Three million' on your brain?
Are you sorry that they'll never work again?
When you're dressing in your blue, do you see the waiting queue?
Do you weep, Mrs Thatcher, do you weep?

[moonpupy.livejournal.com]

Re: Your Tux.

I'm thinking someone in Customs is your size and wants a really **smart** outfit for New Years Eve.

Bastard.

[marchek.livejournal.com]

Depending on how many underwater disposable cameras you need you might want to consider a trip to Costco. They might have a pack of 6 or something like that which might cost less than buying four in CVS.

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

Minneapolis is a really friendly city. REALLY friendly.

[rm.livejournal.com]

That really was a stupid amount of fun, no matter how much went wrong on that trip.

[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

Really looking forward to seeing your play!

[penguineggs.livejournal.com]

Have you used Sea Bands before? Because I'm all for people having whatever works for them, with regard to seasickness, but from my own experience off-shore yachting sea-bands principally worked for me in making me feel so damn uncomfortable I hadn't time to think about being sick.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Nope, I just want to have them just in case, as I'm usually fine on boats, but this is a LOT of being on boats, and I've had a couple of seasickness incidents over the years (one on a ferry to Yankee stadium that kept changing speeds and one _on land_ while looking at the water).

[sethg]

Of course, there was at least one person to whom Baroness Thatcher was more than happy to grant asylum....

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

Re: Who bingo card
That's a piece of art, that is!

Someone on my FL claims that he saw a TV guide listing Dalton as playing Rassilon wielding the Glove of Omega. (I can't find a source for that, myself.) The former, I suspected, and I then wonder if at least some of those other Time Lords are ones that were entombed with him. I can't find an exact list of how many that would be, but I'm referring to The Five Doctors...which is also the first time it was suggested that a Time Lord could go beyond the 13 lives generally adhered to.


(you might enjoy some of this trivia: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Death_Zone)

[abnormal-apathy.livejournal.com]

"End of life decisions for the wealthy are proving to be particularly complicated this week because of changes in the estate tax in 2010. Families weigh whether it's appropriate to take heroic measures for loved-ones who may not want such so that they live until Jan 1."

Yes, and my father was so inconsiderate to drop dead before he was 59.5 and legally able to withdraw from his IRA, because when it was left to me, I got shredded by the IRS for taking the withdrawal.

[alumiere.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the link to Allison.

Can you explain to me why TW slash is such a turn-on, no matter who the characters paired are? I've only watched parts of the first season, and while I liked what I saw I wasn't in love with the characters until you rec'd something and then shared IHNIIHBT.