Ok I read this and did like it quite a bit but don’t think this author has ever met a living woman. The action was great and the characters mostly also, the men and vampires, but oh, painful to read the female characters. Always mothering, or falling apart, or providing a drink, administrative assistant.

Overall though - enjoyed it and thank you!

I think any story that has so much inner dialogue, thinking, tripping, and goes on for 6 volumes is impossible to communicate in the medium of film, but I loved these movies just because they were visually stunning, and the story kept my interest. I don’t think you will feel like your time was wasted, just accept the film is its own thing, and be entertained.

Probably when my dad died and my mom (understandably) fell apart.

I will say though - it has gotten better. Much better. I would not call my life difficult now. Only took half a century!

I love his music, voice included, but if you don’t like the voice please listen to the early stuff before he got so rough. I honestly like those records better. The Asylum Years album collects a bunch of the good ones.

Off topic but I watched him play piano and sing on some late night show a long time ago and oh boy did he look like he was on heroin, nodding off.

I should put this in the funny date stories thread maybe but when I was younger, my friend and I tried to go on a date, just to see (turned out no, we were just friends, still are 35 years on) and ordered soup at a restaurant.

We had the worst waiter EVER. He said the soup was dried out but he could ask them to put some water in it, made it sound so unappetizing when we wouldn’t have even known, I mean it’s soup, right? I can’t remember all the other bad descriptions, but he was just not cut out for the job. The food was fine when it arrived, even after his attempt to downplay it. Just the waiter was the worst.

Yeah I saw them around that time and they were awful here too. Also the venue had really bad sound.

Worst concert, REM when they were starting out.

Recorded voice that irritates me the most? Dead Kennedys.

I am, personally, pretty tolerant of imperfect singing if the song is good, think a whole lot of bands just let the best singer they have sing, instead of finding someone who can really sing, and that’s OK.

Oh yes, so nice. I try to wait until I am physically sleepy to go to bed. And if it’s late I send a text to my husband that says: Let me sleep until I wake up.

Yes it sounds like a stupid question, but it is an indulgence that not everyone gets to do. Many people have to work at a time that doesn’t match their natural daily rhythm. My work schedule is flexible-ish, so sleeping later if I have to is no big deal.

Well then, what are we waiting for? Let’s go visit Alpha Centauri!

My second daughter saw her middle school French teacher in CDG airport when she (my kid) was on her way to visit Italy with my mom. The teacher was leading a bunch of the students from her school on some school trip. One of the pricey ones my kids couldn’t ever go on, lol.

I’ve had a few things happen that made me wonder about the nature of reality, honestly. Had a ridiculous sex dream about a friend of ours who we hadn’t talked to in years and he called the next day (he is not someone I wanted to have sex with) and I also told my best friend I was pregnant in a dream (I hadn’t told anyone and this was pre social media) and she called me the next day to congratulate me. Prophetic dreams when I used to record them. I’m not sure any of that stuff is coincidence though.

Not who you are asking but I hate ketchup as a condiment with a burning passion, but can use it as an ingredient, so cocktail sauce or really anything where it is sort of hidden, it’s fine. It’s just way too sweet on its own to use the way people use it.

I like mayo and hot sauce, mixed, on fries. Tartar sauce, anything you like on other potatoes is good (gravy, cheese, salsa, chili powder, sour cream)

I put this only on popcorn but always on popcorn. Oh and sometimes in grits. So good in cheese grits, with cheddar, jalapenos and butter and salt. Way better than with just the cheese. So I guess only on corn.

The crust on Papa John’s is the awful part, that and the sauce both taste like they have a full cup of sugar in them. I don’t want sweet pizza.

Little Caesars is tolerable reheated - I don’t actually eat it fresh, it’s something my husband gets for him & the kids if I am fasting. And so cheap, my expectations are lower.

Well certainly not Papa John’s because their pizza is awful.

We get local coal fired when feeling spendy, Pizza Hut is best value per calorie (so calorie dense) and reheats the best for sure, so much grease it crisps right up in a hot oven, love that. Whole Foods pizza is legit too, often we get that if shopping at suppertime.

There is also Little Caesars by us, that is cheap and not too bad .

I sometimes make pizza too, sourdough crust, yum, but oven only goes to 550f (288C) so not as good as cooking them.

You don’t have a sword drawer?

You sold me, I am getting a used copy of this book.

Opposite climate here in Florida, it’s okra season now & not much else wants to grow except the basil and mint but in the fall, winter and spring we can grow a lot of different things. We did get a couple of watermelons to harvest too, that was nice. Apparently they don’t mind the 35C temps everyday, but once the rains start in earnest it’s just okra time.

Fennel isn’t fussy, that might be good too for you.

There is a lot of room between attraction and repulsion though. A not ideal looking person who is so good in bed, loves you and you get along with? Maybe they are neutral to you looks-wise but hot for reasons other than looks.

Someone whose looks repel you? No, that’s never going to work.

Honestly I never minded being “minority attractive” when I was, because the guys who thought me good looking really seemed to find me beautiful, and almost nobody is really universally physically attractive. She doesn’t need you specifically to be into her looks, let her find someone who is. Someone is, I cannot believe otherwise based on what I have seen. (Like my ex, into body types I find grotesque, or the guys I dated when I was underweight who just were so fat-phobic that I could have been a skeleton and they would have approved.)

Someone is into her specific physical being, never doubt it. Don’t mess with her head.

How is this going, where do you live, and what do you grow? I hobby-garden, have more space to plant and wouldn’t mind selling some of it but afraid of growing too much of one thing and throwing everything out of whack.