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you know what job sucks? when you have to tell a long term contractor that you aren't going to renew their services for the upcoming year. - Andie Mar 25, 09:40 2
- ugh. I take it this is going to be a surprise? -- nm - prayformojo Mar 25, 09:41 1
  - oh, yes, yes it is. -- nm - Andie Mar 25, 09:41
Celeb BDays: Katharine McPhee (31), Danica Patrick (33), Sarah Jessica Parker (50 -- nm - budice Mar 25, 09:36 7
- FMK -- nm - Jovian Mar 25, 10:07
- FMK - Will Hunting Mar 25, 09:43 1
  - of course she will cheat. There is no sex in marriage apparently -- nm - Beaker Mar 25, 09:43
- MFK. nm -- nm - groiny Mar 25, 09:37 3
  - yup -- nm - decline Mar 25, 09:40
  - this -- nm - Beaker Mar 25, 09:39
  - this -- nm - spamlet Mar 25, 09:38
SHIELD has been fantastic. (spoils) - TWuG Mar 25, 09:34 7
- I watched the episode where Sif comes back. - groiny Mar 25, 09:41 2
  - Because you can't watch it piecemeal. You just can't. -- nm - TWuG Mar 25, 09:42
  - last nights was great -- nm - Beaker Mar 25, 09:41
- Can't go wrong with...spoils - budice Mar 25, 09:38 1
  - Spoils - TWuG Mar 25, 09:41
- The show really has turned into something great. My favorite simple scene was -spoil - Ultron Mar 25, 09:35 1
  - Yep. There has been some phenomenal writing a character building going on. (spoils) - TWuG Mar 25, 09:38
I think it's perfectly reasonable to have a chocolate milkshake at midday. --cnm - CQ Mar 25, 09:32 1
- I have had a bagel, some pretzels and some jellybeans, a shake would be logical next step. -- nm - groiny Mar 25, 09:33
Dear freaking utilities: you're killing our household budget so far this year! Stop that! You're usually one category that's in the black for us! - prayformojo Mar 25, 09:27 4
- And don't even get me started on the Peeps budget this season. -- nm - Qale Mar 25, 09:34
- word -- nm - Ultron Mar 25, 09:29
- Is this because of the wind issues from the renovation? -- nm - David Mar 25, 09:28 1
  - Mostly, yeah -- nm - prayformojo Mar 25, 09:30
io9 : "Wow, Game Of Thrones Season 5 Is Even Darker Than We Expected" -- (link) - decline Mar 25, 09:22 3
- What a grim dystopia. -- nm - Ultron Mar 25, 09:24 2
  - *snicker* -- nm - CQ Mar 25, 09:30
  - Pretty sure this season will fail the tests for greatness. -- nm - Shaun Mar 25, 09:26
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- Premiere is one year from today. -- nm - volnelk Mar 25, 09:36 1
  - oh man, what a fool, it'll all be grown back by then! -- nm - Max Mar 25, 09:38
- *even more less interested* -- nm - Max Mar 25, 09:19
- They cut off the top of his head! -- nm - Ultron Mar 25, 09:19 9
  - "enlarge photo" -- nm - budice Mar 25, 09:19 8
    - Ah. The first I saw of it this morning, you could not do that. -- nm - Ultron Mar 25, 09:21 7
      - This movie can only go one of two ways: Epic disaster or Epic and awesome. - Shaun Mar 25, 09:30 3
        
        I think it's 90/10 that it'll be a disaster. Maybe 98/2. - TWuG Mar 25, 09:35 2
        
        But but the head of WB said its gonna be edgier than any of the MCU stuff -- nm - eag Mar 25, 09:40 1
        
        Yay. More heroes as killers. -- nm - TWuG Mar 25, 09:43
      - you like head, there's head. -- nm - budice Mar 25, 09:29 2
        
        He does sort of remind me of someone in that pic. -- nm - Ultron Mar 25, 09:29 1
        
        Comics! -- nm - budice Mar 25, 09:32
Idris Elba may be the baddie in Star Trek 3. - Ultron Mar 25, 09:04 9
- *waits for dummy internetz people to call him African American some more* -- nm - Shaun Mar 25, 09:09
- Butbutbut...he canceled the apocalypse. -- nm - Der Frühlingshafterbaron Mar 25, 09:07 3
  - And now he is bringing it back! -- nm - Ultron Mar 25, 09:08 2
    - Pacific Rim 2: The Rim Job. -- nm - Der Frühlingshafterbaron Mar 25, 09:17 1
      - 2 Fast 2 Rim -- nm - budice Mar 25, 09:18
- you misspelled 'BADASS'. :) *grooving and shaking* -- nm - Diva Mar 25, 09:07 1
  - Him playing Charles on the Office seems so long ago. -- nm - budice Mar 25, 09:08
- Fuck.Yeah -- nm - Remlik Mar 25, 09:06 1
  - YONH!! -- nm - Diva Mar 25, 09:07
Speaking of Will Farrell, even though I know he's actually the voice, every time I see The Lego Movie, I head Bob Oedekirk's voice when President - prayformojo Mar 25, 08:53 6
- your spelling is pretty close to Dave's last name. - Andie Mar 25, 08:56 4
  - everytime I see his name on your Facebook feed I think wow you know Saul Goodman -- nm - zeitgeist roaming the dark galaxy Mar 25, 13:23
  - That has helped add to my confusion -- nm - prayformojo Mar 25, 08:57 2
    - and! we live off Ormskirk Avenue! - Andie Mar 25, 08:58 1
      - Bork bork bork? -- nm - Der Frühlingshafterbaron Mar 25, 09:06
- *Odenkirk* I always make this mistake -- nm - prayformojo Mar 25, 08:55
French plane crash; plane was losing altitude for 8 mins, yet no distress communication sent. -- nm - Loyola Mar 25, 08:53 2
- i hope this turns out to be something like they lost pressure quickly and everyone passed out. -- nm - Andie Mar 25, 08:55
- ~farewell and ado...~ -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 25, 08:54
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- I think the end bothered me most. - decline Mar 25, 08:57 1
  - Yeah, the last ten pages were a "Wait, what the hell just happened?" -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 25, 09:24
It's a bit early for April fools -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 25, 08:49
7 minutes of New Arkham Batman gameplay footage -- (link) - volnelk Mar 25, 08:44 [youtube] 5
- I'll watch actual trailers for this still, but I'm avoiding the gameplay videos. -- nm - Shaun Mar 25, 08:57 3
  - Yeah, it is killing me not to, but agreed. -- nm - Ultron Mar 25, 08:58 2
    - Really? I'm the opposite. I don't care about what cut scenes look like, I want to see the actual game before I buy it. -- nm - volnelk Mar 25, 09:33 1
      - There is zero chance I would not buy it. It is *the* reason I upgraded game systems. -- nm - Ultron Mar 25, 09:49
- Commissioner Gordon sounds like Harrison Ford. -- nm - David Mar 25, 08:48
new bag of SweetTart Jellybeans, opened. - groiny Mar 25, 08:41 2
- bag of SweetTart Jellybeans, finished. - Ultron Mar 25, 08:53
- I just had myself a bag of Skittles sours. - Loyola Mar 25, 08:45
In other news I'm going to a reception tonight marking 25 years of BBC Films. HATWE is apparently coming, among others. -- nm - LMS Mar 25, 08:35 18
- TiVo caught Matthew Goode and her version of Brideshead Revisited the other day. - David Mar 25, 08:43 7
  - That's one of our films. Try the drinking game for it: - LMS Mar 25, 09:07 1
    - The Catholicism stuff is what drove me to stop watching. - David Mar 25, 09:09
  - matthew goode might be my new hollywood boyfriend. (I'm sure you were all worrried when I dumped RDJ.) -- nm - amanda Mar 25, 08:57 4
    - Downton Abbey! -- nm - Andie Mar 25, 09:03
    - Have you ever seen Chasing Liberty or Match Point? -- nm - David Mar 25, 08:59 1
      - I've seen both many moons ago. I want to rewatch match point. I *loved* it. -- nm - amanda Mar 25, 09:02
    - I've been trying to pimp out Matthew Goode since Imagine Me & You. -- nm - Max Mar 25, 08:58
- we started watching season 2 of Broadchurch. It's all you can do not to burst into tears. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 25, 08:40 9
  - oh really? I would have guessed it's terrible. -- nm - amanda Mar 25, 08:41 8
    - They had to do another season and that's fraught with danger creatively but I like what they've set up. And (no spoilers)... - Mel Profit Mar 25, 08:42 6
      - I really enjoyed it -- nm - Remlik Mar 25, 09:07
      - is it on BBCA or streaming NF/AZ? I ... after watching season one, I kind of never want to see it again because of the subject matter - amanda Mar 25, 08:44 4
        
        we watch it on BBCA. - Mel Profit Mar 25, 08:48 3
        
        It's coming back for a 3rd season. -- nm - LMS Mar 25, 09:06
        
        I always say about mysterious skin that it's a wonderfully made movie that I would recommend to absolutely no one. - amanda Mar 25, 09:01 1
        
        more from andy -- (link) - amanda Mar 25, 09:03
    - Maybe that is why? -- nm - Ultron Mar 25, 08:42
wtf!!!! bus meet sinkhole.... -- (link) - groiny Mar 25, 08:32 [youtube] 3
- It floats! -- nm - Mop Mar 25, 08:52
- WHO WILL WIN!?! -- nm - Ultron Mar 25, 08:33 1
  - spoiler - znufrii Mar 25, 08:34
some insane things are happening at work right now (not my department). and with molly, too. - amanda Mar 25, 08:30 5
- i am so behind on Molly gossip. -- nm - Andie Mar 25, 08:38 3
  - you would seriously die. we may have to grab some wine and have a facetime or a google hangout. - amanda Mar 25, 08:39 2
    - how fun -- nm - Andie Mar 25, 08:49
    - but really others may be interested too. group hangout? I think so. -- nm - amanda Mar 25, 08:41
- Effin' Joshie!!! -- nm - Ultron Mar 25, 08:34
New song ratings: Breaking Benjamin's " Failure" meh, I waited this long for this?? Incubus..just stop Chevelle is doing it better -- nm - Epiphany Mar 25, 08:29 1
- "Failure". - Ultron Mar 25, 08:41
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Nice. Beastie Boys beat the sampling lawsuit. -- nm - Ultron Mar 25, 08:21 2
- I don't know, my kids told me this is what I need to do -- nm - judge si Mar 25, 08:32
- Yup. They couldn't make that album today, it would cost a large fortune to pay for all those samples. -- (link) - Krusty Mar 25, 08:27
this office is so luxe. I can't get over it. I feel unworthy. from now on when I need to be in 329, I'm squatting here. - amanda Mar 25, 08:16 1
- forward the phone and just move in. You could probably be there months before anyone noticed! -- nm - decline Mar 25, 08:19
lol. (if you are a comics person) Do a tweet with "Darkseid" in it and see what happens. -- nm - Ultron Mar 25, 08:15
Just got my Lollapalooza tickets. Good lineup. Paul McCartney is playing. -- (link) - pmb Mar 25, 08:10 19
- Friday and Sunday are the clear winners. - spamlet Mar 25, 09:31
- Marina and the Diamonds is fun live. And while not normally my thing, Gogol Bordello's live show is pretty nuts. -- nm - MDH Mar 25, 08:39 2
  - I saw Marina and the Diamonds open for Coldplay a few years ago. I thought they were fine, but they didn't do a lot for me. I don't know anything - pmb Mar 25, 08:50 1
    - Definitely check them out beforehand. They call themselves Gypsy Punk and it's a pretty apt description. -- nm - spamlet Mar 25, 09:06
- Our local radio's station annual concert has Rob Zombie headlining - heh -- nm - Epiphany Mar 25, 08:28
- didn't this used to be an alternative music concert? -- nm - groiny Mar 25, 08:11 13
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    - I like Paul McCartney, but he sticks out like a sore thumb on that list of players. nm -- nm - groiny Mar 25, 08:15 9
      - your mind how many times with some old white guy rise from up security by being the backup singer to Kanye -- nm - zeitgeist roaming the dark galaxy Mar 25, 13:30
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        Are you sure it's not part of every day? -- nm - Shaun Mar 25, 08:18 2
        
        5 minutes a day, in between the bowel movement and lunch. nm -- nm - groiny Mar 25, 08:19 1
        
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      - I dunno. He was pretty much the headliner at Bonnaroo a few years ago and people loved it. -- nm - Kim Pine Mar 25, 08:16 3
        
        I have no clue what Bonnaroo is. nm -- nm - groiny Mar 25, 08:17 2
        
        A pretty big festival (not as big as Lollapalooza but pretty famous) that is somewhere in TN. - Kim Pine Mar 25, 08:29 1
        
        I would love to go to Bonnaroo before I get too old to deal with a big festival. -- nm - Krusty Mar 25, 08:44
  - Yes, and it still has a fair amount of it, but it is definitely more mainstream than it was a few years ago. Lots of EDM music too. There were - pmb Mar 25, 08:12 1
    - "and for our next performer at Lilith Fair, DMX!!!!!" -- nm - groiny Mar 25, 08:17
I knows dozens and dozens of people who watch TWD, and I have never heard one who had an issue with Rick.... - groiny Mar 25, 08:09 17
- I hate his gumpy accent. -- nm - Kim Pine Mar 25, 08:48
- *this* -- nm - Ultron Mar 25, 08:20
- In my defense, it's a terrible acting performance of a woefully underdeveloped character. - David Mar 25, 08:09 14
  - we (you and I) I don't think are that far apart on shows that we like (firefly excluded) - groiny Mar 25, 08:13 13
    - My primary problem with the TWD is that it's soulless and empty. -- nm - David Mar 25, 08:21 11
      - I think if that were true, it would have been cancelled a long time ago. nm -- nm - groiny Mar 25, 08:25 9
        
        For some reason, people love the grim dystopia of that world. - David Mar 25, 08:31 8
        
        Do you have like a bullshit spewing generator somewhere? - Shaun Mar 25, 08:34 6
        
        Never be afraid of having minority opinions. - David Mar 25, 08:41 4
        
        I read this in Sheldon Cooper's voice. nm -- nm - groiny Mar 25, 08:43 3
        
        I'm just surprised Shaun is that defensive about Twilight. -- nm - David Mar 25, 08:44 2
        
        I never said a word about that. -- nm - Shaun Mar 25, 08:47
        
        I liked the concept of Twilight way more than the actual shit they put on screen. nm -- nm - groiny Mar 25, 08:45
        
        Avatar failed The Test For Greatness. -- nm - Ultron Mar 25, 08:38
        
        sometimes, people just like shiny things, David. nm -- nm - groiny Mar 25, 08:33
      - I don't see that at all. nm -- nm - groiny Mar 25, 08:22
    - The IM is the crux of it - Beryllium Mar 25, 08:17
auto-Mara (I miss Mara!) Tank full of books: -- (link) - prayformojo Mar 25, 08:08
Shit. Ya know what show I'd love to see come back? Kings -- nm - Jovian Mar 25, 08:05 6
- Yep. Kings was the show that when it was canceled broke me. - Mel Profit Mar 25, 08:23
- That was a fantastic show. -- nm - TWuG Mar 25, 08:21
- We never did watch the other ten episodes even though I own them on Amazon. - David Mar 25, 08:08
- Nowhere Man -- nm - Ultron Mar 25, 08:08 1
  - The best example of a show 20 years ahead of its time. -- nm - David Mar 25, 08:09
- interesting choice. -- nm - znufrii Mar 25, 08:06

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