Just Look 2015-05-21

[Thor]

It's interesting how much older Atsali looks than her peers. And it's not just the more emphatic onset of puberty, but also the way she holds herself and the way she relates to others. And possibly the invisible weight of remembering past tragedies, both personal and vicarious.

[Sgt. Howard]

It's interesting how much older Atsali looks than her peers. And it's not just the more emphatic onset of puberty, but also the way she holds herself and the way she relates to others. And possibly the invisible weight of remembering past tragedies, both personal and vicarious.

I had the misfortune of watching both of my daughters shed their childhoods far too fast- I won't go into detail, but it came close to murder on my part. They both overcame it, but I would not wish it on any child.

[jwhouk]

It's interesting how much older Atsali looks than her peers. And it's not just the more emphatic onset of puberty, but also the way she holds herself and the way she relates to others. And possibly the invisible weight of remembering past tragedies, both personal and vicarious.

Death of a parent at a young age does that to you. Double that and add in the orphanage thing and you get what we saw back at the Library two years ago.

[AnotherFairportfan]

Sarge, that talent is a national asset. Don't ever leave it outside to rust, OK?

I keep it in a box, next to the mason jar that holds that five-year-old's heart in formaldehyde...

So you're the one who got it when Bob Bloch died.

[zachariah]

Sarge, that talent is a national asset. Don't ever leave it outside to rust, OK?

wait till he puts them to music

On a guitar using a limmer lick riff. I know picky, picky.

Drops a tortoiseshell pick in the pun jar. Can't afford to get caught with it. This lets the jar take the heat.

[zachariah]

I do notice all the other girls are IBT's. So are they envious, or just amazed that the cool Sali is hanging at the pool.

[GlytchMeister]

I do notice all the other girls are IBT's. So are they envious, or just amazed that the cool Sali is hanging at the pool.

IBT? Wassat?

[jwhouk]

I do notice all the other girls are IBT's. So are they envious, or just amazed that the cool Sali is hanging at the pool.

IBT? Wassat?

I'll spot you the "Itty Bitty" part.

[Skywatcher68]

Sarge, that talent is a national asset. Don't ever leave it outside to rust, OK?

wait till he puts them to music

Sgt. Howard - "Limerick Man"

[jwhouk]

Suddenly, I have this image of "Seventy-Six Trombones" and Robert Preston...

[DinkyInky]

Four truckloads in route to confusion corner- dry salami, swiss and mushroom piroshki, roast beef, cheddar and onion piroshki, spinach, mushroom and onion piroshki, salmon and cream cheese piroshki, round loaves of peasant rye bread, several selections of cheese, 1998 Porto (three cases), 2011 Chateau La Tour de Bessan Bordeaux (Eighteen bottles), several cases of unassuming Californian Chablis, a keg of Iron Bitch Ale, a keg of Fat Tire, a keg of Bass and a keg of Brew-Ha-Ha Irish Stout.

... and bits and pieces of dog...

Hey Sarge, what's a piroshki? Not being funny, it's just...
Kapusta i kiełbasa, ziemniaki i ser, grzyby i ziemniaki, owoce pierogi rozumiem...but the only thing I managed to find with my google-fu was similar to what Americans consider a Kolach, and appetising it's not.

I'm half Polish and love the simple foods of the region to clarify my reason for asking.

[AnotherFairportfan]

I do notice all the other girls are IBT's. So are they envious, or just amazed that the cool Sali is hanging at the pool.

IBT? Wassat?

Itty-Bitty ...

Wears a shirt that says "Objects under this shirt are larger than they appear."

[illiad]

I do notice all the other girls are IBT's. So are they envious, or just amazed that the cool Sali is hanging at the pool.

IBT? Wassat?

Itty-Bitty ...

yessssss.... and Atsali wants to be in that 'club', so no worries about things bouncing out!!!

[DilyV]

Knows all the cool paras? Hell, she's related to most of them now!!!

Talk about Shock and Awe... The other para kids are in Awe of Atsali knowing all the cool Paras... The Shock comes when she lets it out that he's related to them... Aunt Monica, Aunt Bud, Aunt Jin, Gramma Lily... You're going to need a case of selling salts to brig them all around after that revelation.

EDIT: Great Aunt (?) Mayahuel Who s somewhat related to Monica if I remember correctly... which would make Jin and Monica related too...

[Dave]

EDIT: Great Aunt (?) Mayahuel Who s somewhat related to Monica if I remember correctly... which would make Jin and Monica related too...

Mayahuel pretended (by some form of "astral projection" from the Demon Dimension) to be Monica's deceased grandmother, and in this role she taught Monica to read/speak Glyph.

I can't recall it being stated that Mayahuel is actually, physically related to Monica. Considering how long ago Mayahuel lived (and died, and became a golem) any such ancestral relationship would almost certainly have been so completely "diluted" through hundreds of generations of descent that it wouldn't be significant, let alone particularly meaningful.

Jin did carry on an affair with Monica's Grandpa Sullivan, but Jin was already a golem at that point (80,000 years' worth) and didn't (couldn't) bear Sullivan's child. So, there's just a social relationship there between Jin and Monica, not an ancestral one.

[Sgt. Howard]

Four truckloads in route to confusion corner- dry salami, swiss and mushroom piroshki, roast beef, cheddar and onion piroshki, spinach, mushroom and onion piroshki, salmon and cream cheese piroshki, round loaves of peasant rye bread, several selections of cheese, 1998 Porto (three cases), 2011 Chateau La Tour de Bessan Bordeaux (Eighteen bottles), several cases of unassuming Californian Chablis, a keg of Iron Bitch Ale, a keg of Fat Tire, a keg of Bass and a keg of Brew-Ha-Ha Irish Stout.

... and bits and pieces of dog...

Hey Sarge, what's a piroshki? Not being funny, it's just...
Kapusta i kiełbasa, ziemniaki i ser, grzyby i ziemniaki, owoce pierogi rozumiem...but the only thing I managed to find with my google-fu was similar to what Americans consider a Kolach, and appetising it's not.

I'm half Polish and love the simple foods of the region to clarify my reason for asking.

Pirogi, I believe, is the Polish for them. I learn from a Russian Babushka, but they are also quite popular among Saxons, Hessians and Prussians. Any man that can eat more than three is a serious troughman.

... the Brew-Ha-Ha anymore does not exist- it was my own personal recipe from my drinking days. Too potent to be called a malt liquor, it clocked in at 11.5% and qualified as a 'sparkling barely wine'. One would treat it with respect or suffer.

[Sgt. Howard]

Sarge, that talent is a national asset. Don't ever leave it outside to rust, OK?

wait till he puts them to music

On a guitar using a limmer lick riff. I know picky, picky.

Drops a tortoiseshell pick in the pun jar. Can't afford to get caught with it. This lets the jar take the heat.

... I wouldn't pick my nose with a tortoiseshell pick... actually, I don't know how to use a flat pick. I finger-pick without the clip-ons in true classical tradition. My acoustic is a YAMAHA 1983 231-G wide-neck gut string.

[Sgt. Howard]

Sarge, that talent is a national asset. Don't ever leave it outside to rust, OK?

I keep it in a box, next to the mason jar that holds that five-year-old's heart in formaldehyde...

So you're the one who got it when Bob Bloch died.

I got it in the will as a keepsake... I was part of the team that removed it... everybody else got caught...

[TazManiac]

... My acoustic is a YAMAHA 1983 231-G wide-neck gut string.

s'OK, my Acoustic has an IKEA label in the sound hole... (how come it sounds so good though?)

[Dave]

... My acoustic is a YAMAHA 1983 231-G wide-neck gut string.

s'OK, my Acoustic has an IKEA label in the sound hole... (how come it sounds so good though?)

Aah! You've discovered the secret excellence of the resonant properties of breen (a.k.a. Swedish meatballs)!