The Off Topic Topic

[CountDeMoney]

At least you can stay up past 11pm if you want.

No shit.  And I'm actually thinking about leaving all the lights on, too.  And run with some scissors!

[Ed Anger]

Don't feed the gremlin after midnight.

[CountDeMoney]

I really miss my cat.     She's not used to sleeping alone.   

[Ideologue]

The one thing I like about having more than one is that they've never got to be lonely.  Even if the way they behave sometimes suggests hell really is other cats.

[sbr]

Downtown Portland now having a snack. There is a guy standing in line in front of me dressed as a warcraft elf. He's wearing plastic ears.

What did Blizzcon get moved to Portland or something?

Nah, just a normal Saturday in downtown Portland.

You are just passing through right MiM?

[CountDeMoney]

hotels are boring.  And I'm too broke and not far enough away from home to call for prostitutes.

Hey Ed, is Campus Cuties still in operation in Columbus?  Now that was a fun evening.   God bless regional costs of living.

[MadImmortalMan]

Nah, just a normal Saturday in downtown Portland.

You are just passing through right MiM?

Yeah I just got to Seattle. We stopped there for dinner on the way up. Will do so again next weekend on the way back. That restaurant was awesome, btw. I didn't see the elf dude up there, but at the food trucks across the street. He had some kind of purple panties on over his jeans and feathers in his hair. Also some serious eye makeup.

[jimmy olsen]

 

[Brazen]

Heh, the latest version of the US Army training game Virtual Battle Space (VBS) features a fatigue bar based on the soldier's actual United States Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT) score. They should introduce that for couch potato gamers.

[CountDeMoney]

No replay value.

[Ed Anger]

hotels are boring.  And I'm too broke and not far enough away from home to call for prostitutes.

Hey Ed, is Campus Cuties still in operation in Columbus?  Now that was a fun evening.   God bless regional costs of living.

No idea. I never did the prostitutes. Ick.

[Razgovory]

John Pinette has died.

[Syt]

Peaches Geldof, 25, has died: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-26931337

TV presenter Peaches Geldof, second daughter of musician Bob Geldof and Paula Yates, has died aged 25.

Police say they were called to an address near Wrotham, Kent following a report of concern for the welfare of a woman on Monday afternoon.

The woman, aged 25, was later pronounced dead by South East Coast Ambulance Service.

"At this stage, the death is being treated as an unexplained and sudden," said a statement from Kent Police.

Peaches Geldof
Geldof was pictured at a fashion show in London last week
Born in 1989, Peaches Honeyblossom Geldof embarked on a media career at the age of 15, when she began writing a column for Elle magazine.

She left home at sixteen and went on to contribute to the Telegraph and the Guardian, and presented TV shows including ITV2's OMG! with Peaches Geldof.

She also worked as a model and, just last week, attended a launch for Tesco's F&F clothing range in London.

She was married to musician Thomas Cohen, with whom she had two sons, Astala, one, and Phaedra, who will turn one on 24 April.

'Numb'

Geldof lost her own mother when she was just 11 years old. Paula Yates died of a drug overdose in September 2000.

Speaking to Elle Magazine in 2013, Peaches said she had not come to terms with Yates's death for several years.

"I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out. I went to school the next day because my father's mentality was 'keep calm and carry on'," she said.

"So we all went to school and tried to act as if nothing had happened. But it had happened. I didn't grieve. I didn't cry at her funeral. I couldn't express anything because I was just numb to it all. I didn't start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16."

Geldof said she had experimented with drugs as a teenager, but was "never that wild".

She was previously married to rock musician Max Drummey but the pair separated in 2009 after a six-month marriage.

Her last tweet, posted on Sunday was a picture of her as a baby in her mother's arms.

She leaves her husband and sons; father Bob Geldof; sisters Fifi Trixibelle and Pixie; and younger half-sister, Tiger Lily Hutchence Geldof.

[The Brain]

wtf

[mongers]

wtf

Hard drugs are fashionable again with the in-crowd?

What ever the cause, sad to see a young mother die, leaving children who'll never remember their mother.