Comments on: Another Open Thread

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:07:44 +0000

We actually liked the emphasis on sexual attraction in the Song of Solomon, especially as a way of emphasizing publicly our “forbidden” fat love. :)

Marriage is basically no work at all, at least for me. All that mushy “my own true love” celtic music stuff? That’s us. Ed might be struggling mightily without ever complaining, but I kind of doubt it. We have the same meyers briggs personality type with borderline measures on the same two traits. This makes us blissfully happy just the way we are. There is definitely a price though – what we are bad at we are REALLY bad at, and there’s no balance at all. So determining what we truly couldn’t handle for ourselves and finding ways to get them done has taken years of work and compromise. You know what, we are NEVER going to be neat and clean, we are never going to be organized or smart financially. So we make adjustments.

Parenting twins, on the other hand, is definitely the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I’m lucky to have the love of my life to do it with.. :)

By: Theriomorph

Theriomorph — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:37:51 +0000

Oh I love this quote. I love Rilke.

So so so right on.

By: L & J

L & J — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:47:48 +0000

Sorry about the planes during the reading. It’s nice to read it again, 4 years later. Since we’re still married and seem more different than ever yet closer than ever, I guess it must be true!

By: Jae

Jae — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:23:09 +0000

Sharon, I’m obviously not Kate, but I’m pretty sure she was just poking fun at the fat must automatically equal lazy stereotype.

By: SharonC

SharonC — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:09:00 +0000

“Because I am fat and lazy.”

I don’t get it. Laziness, open thread, yes, I get it, but why are you having a thread that is open because you are fat?

(I’m assuming the answer is not that you want to perpetuate the “fat and lazy” stereotype.)

By: bellacoker

bellacoker — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:59:40 +0000

Diosa!!!

The Dot and The Line is from a book by Norton Juster, who also wrote the Phantom Tollbooth, one of the greatest books of all time.

By: lila

lila — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:32:34 +0000

My parents were totally obsessed with the being one thing and when it ended, my Dad ran right into another relationship and my Mom completely fell apart because she didn’t know who she was separate from him. She’s finding out. My dad is on his 4th marriage.

By: DiosaNegra1967

DiosaNegra1967 — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:30:46 +0000

the ideas of marriage y’all are giving me kinda reminds me of a fave cartoon…”The Dot And The Line: A Romance In Lower Mathematics,” an MGM cartoon, done in 1965 or so, i think…..

a line falls in love with a dot, who loves a crazy looking scribble…..and….well, try google-ing it……

as for “dexter”….unfortunately, i’ve not had the pleasure of seeing this show….though i do <3 michael c. hall…..loved him in six feet under…..

By: The Rotund

The Rotund — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:22:10 +0000

I am about halfway through season 2 – I bought the DVD set the other day when I bought the Bones season 2 set – Barnes and Noble was having a 40% off sale. We’re working through Bones at the moment but there is only one disc left of that so I can catch him up on Dexter! I was watching them online on, like, hulu.com, but that got old and so I stopped until I could get the DVDs. And season 3 is about to start! It’s going to kill me to wait and I NEVER feel like that about tv so I might actually have to watch those online as they come out. So I have seen some of LaGuerta’s “interaction” with the new liuetenant but I not how it finishes playing out.

I think you’re on to something with Doakes being the most like Dexter – it’s interesting how that is playing out in the show versus what happened to him in the books (I totally didn’t see that coming because I saw the show before I read that book!).

You know what else I appreciate about the show? That people sweat. It’s fucking hot in Miami! And there really is an intensity to the light in South Florida that I think the cinematography (is it cinematography when it is a tv show?) really captures and explores in interesting ways.

Oooh, yes, we do! Feel free to email me (therotund at therotund dot com) – are you on livejournal at all?

By: lauredhel

lauredhel — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:18:15 +0000

There was a terrific series about Dexter at The Hathor Legacy last year: "Learning Not to Trust". I had trouble figuring out just how I was enjoying a show about a serial killer - until I read this series, and it all came together.