Late shift, anyone?

00:51 / 11.07.08

Why do I feel like that bit in Manhattan where Allen's explaining why he needs a cigarette in his mouth even though he doesn't smoke it? Except, y'know, with an opium pipe and massive silky furniture.

00:51 / 11.07.08

I'm totally going to miss Flyboy, even if he did bang the snarkhammer a little hard at times.

00:53 / 11.07.08

Just take another hit off the houkah, darlings, and you'll forget all about it...

00:55 / 11.07.08

Why do I feel like that bit in Manhattan where Allen's explaining why he needs a cigarette in his mouth even though he doesn't smoke it?

Cigarettes make great props. So do whiskey bottles in paper bags.

00:56 / 11.07.08

Particularly when one is prone to gesticulating wildly.

00:57 / 11.07.08

I always find the empty, bottom shattered and held by the neck, works best. Mostly 'cause it means you've probably already finished the contents.

00:58 / 11.07.08

I feel like going into the Carlin thread and trying to break it up in there. Saying something like, "Hey folks, this doesn't pertain to the topic, can you take it outside?"

But I'm scared I'll be verbally ripped to shreds.

00:59 / 11.07.08

And then it's over, but for the screaming...

00:59 / 11.07.08

Deca, can I borrow your bottle?

01:01 / 11.07.08

You might need two. Very sharp. And some opium fumes to diffuse the emotional aether some.

01:01 / 11.07.08

And then it's over, but for the screaming...

So it is, guess I don't need the bottle after all.

01:02 / 11.07.08

Hi. Back.
This is the busiest the shift has been in a while.

The naysayers just dont understand the shift.

01:02 / 11.07.08

That was more referring to what happens after one has attended to a situation using a broken bottle.

01:05 / 11.07.08

Hey Keggers!

That was more referring to what happens after one has attended to a situation using a broken bottle.

I dunno, I checked it out in there and it looks like things have quieted down a bit.

For now...

01:05 / 11.07.08

While bits of the board roll around in the ruins and others take to bunkers and braintrusts, I think I'll just sit a lot of it out. I've never been comfortable wearing any kind of (legit or pretense) mod-hat outside of Comics, and not even really there, since I got my badge and pistol by suggesting in Policy that I'd be suspect for the job.

01:06 / 11.07.08

Hey, K!

I think I'm going to leave y'all and fetch some whisky and dinner, shortly here, but I will return.

01:10 / 11.07.08

See ya Decadent. Enjoy your foodstuffs. and your whisky; enjoy that too.

Soon I will break back into a gallon of mysterwine that my unlce sent me.

01:15 / 11.07.08

I looked back in and there's more bloody-minded hand-wringing. Whenever there's a dust-up around here, there's hand-wringing to follow. Repetitively. "This is what Barbelith would have been like without Flyboy!" What, bickering and hand-wringing? It was like that with him, without him, around him, etc.

We all have our strange bunkers to escape down, so when the inevitable starts we'll be okay.

01:15 / 11.07.08

Wait!!! I NEED THAT BOTTLE!!!!

*runs after Decadent, flailing arms wildly trying to flag him down*

Princess

01:16 / 11.07.08

I sleep now. I love you all.

01:18 / 11.07.08

G'nite Princess!

01:18 / 11.07.08

Night, Princess. Mind the pea.

01:19 / 11.07.08

Good night Princess!

01:24 / 11.07.08

It's still bright and glorious outside! I want to run around in the sunlight and eat ice cream with glamourous people.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

01:31 / 11.07.08

Glamourous people dont eat ice cream. Its in the rule book. sorry.

01:39 / 11.07.08

THEY SO DO.

On ice cream adverts, anyway. And they're REAL, dammit! REAL!

01:48 / 11.07.08

But they can't enjoy it. It tastes like poison to them, but they must smile regardless. Glamourous people are often tormented by the world around them. But they can't let on.

01:49 / 11.07.08

No they dont. I saw how they make those commercials. The icecream is made with shortening and food colouring. It wont melt. There were glamourous people eating icecream in that commercial. Glamourous people eat shortening and food colouring so they dont get unglamourous icecream drippings all over their glamourous faces. They lie to you. Not only is the cake a lie.. so is the icecream.

01:50 / 11.07.08

Now that's a post to come to with a drink in hand.

Everybody still sound, then?

01:58 / 11.07.08

I dont know... what do you mean by still sound?

02:00 / 11.07.08

I can make sounds, but I'm verging on "Bat-villain" in terms of mental soundness.

I'm still around one more hour before I go home, and then I'll be around while doing other stuff at the old Homestead.

02:03 / 11.07.08

So long as we don't lose anyone else to scrambled passwords tonight.

And, Papers? Are you sure you can make sounds? I'm sitting right here and I haven't heard a thing from you.