On The Secret Free Tarot Card-Reading Portal
@maevemealone Yeah, mine was all REALLY negative in a "You are depressed! You are despondent! YOUR STRUGGLES ARE MIGHTY" and... Not so much? Things are good! MAYBE THEY'RE NOT AS GOOD AS I THINK! OH GOD!
...no, really, I can't complain, and that's coming from someone who has struggled with crippling depression since I was 10.
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On Not Chasing Amy
@Susanna Yeah, I'm not one to dogpile regarding life decisions, but Amy sucks. Also, dude, your mutual friends suck for not telling you and then not joining you in a purgative game of Amy Sucks.
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On Before Showgirls Was Showgirls
@ejcsanfran That production was chock FULL of great stories. The entire second unit got delayed in the desert because somebody made a joke about a bomb, and then they had to wait to call an FBI team into whatever po-dunk airport they were shooting near. Then they took all the luggage off and searched it, and OF COURSE found drugs, fireworks, other illegal things, but by this time a few of the passengers had fled, so they got held an ADDITIONAL two days. All told, the entire second unit got paid something like 5 days of overtime, driving up the total production budget by something like 20%?
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On Before Showgirls Was Showgirls
@LaLoba That man is VERY full of himself. I know someone who worked on the set of Starship Troopers. One day, Verhoeven and someone from visual effects (may have been Phil Tippett, but I don't recall) got into it. Verhoeven's being all demanding, saying he wants it some way, the visual effects guy is trying to calmly explain that that's not how visual effects works, etc. The scene escalates until the vis guy gets real quiet and starts counting on his fingers.
Verhoeven: "What are you doing?"
Guy: " I'm counting how many Oscar nominations I've gotten for special effects. I think it's seven? How many times have you been nominated, Paul?"
And that was the last day they saw him on set.
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On Friday Open Thread
@reebs14 Go with Blondie. You can never go wrong with "Call Me." It is my go-to karaoke standard.
And, yes, NO BOBBY MCGEE! Unless karaoke cliche is what you are going for. Also, INVARIABLY you will sing it first and then some tiny girl who stammers "I really can't sing..." will go up there and KILL IT and...I feel like this has taken a turn for the autobiographical, so YMMV.
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On Why You Can’t Be The Prettiest Girl in the World
@Megano! The winner would be my husband. I swear, I think babies are trying to scan him, they stare so intently.
Or it's the facial hair.
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On Optional Activities at Post-Colonial Williamsburg in the Year 2076
@Lil Sebastian I have been working all day, but I am popping in SPECIFICALLy to tell you that you are a better person than I am, because if I'd seen the person STEAL MONEY off the table, it would have been ON. Like, HOLD MY EARRINGS AND MY PUMPS on.
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On Optional Activities at Post-Colonial Williamsburg in the Year 2076
@ayo nicole That is cheap and terrible. Socialize ye not with this wank!
Also off topic, but one of the NICEST things about eventually getting out of grad school and landing a real job with a real paycheck is taking people to dinner. Not as a special thing, just a "Hey, you wanna go get dinner?" thing and then pick up the check. Part of me worries that this is presumptuous, but part of me ALSO remembers what it was like to be a poor-ass grad student, and many of my friends are STILL poor-ass grad students (or underemployed, because the economy is SO freakin' awesome right now.)
Actually, to bring this BACK on topic, I would have pulled a passive-aggro "Oh, I'm sorry about that one dollar. Here, you know what, why don't I just cover this and you can get the next one." Shaming AND passive aggressive.
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On Optional Activities at Post-Colonial Williamsburg in the Year 2076
@Mrs. Coach McGuirk Dude, I am retroactively angry FOR you. Jeez.
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On The Secret Free Tarot Card-Reading Portal
@sophia_h I have a friend who uses her tarot deck basically as a brain storming/brain mapping exercise and she's remarkably good at seeing every angle of everything. I've always thought tarot worked, just not the way, you know, a tarot reader you pay to tell you your future wants you to think it does.