Chicago 2005: Domestic duels.

Warning for unfavorable mun opinion of a classic movie.

"Peekaboo ( Read more... )

And there is the bartender ( Read more... )

The vodka martini would taste so much better were he in a more sophisticated setting. But people fall into dietary habits that eschew setting. If they are addicted to piping hot raspberry mochas, they will consume it any time of year even in the midst of a piping hot summer. If they are addicted to French fries, they will want them even in a four ( Read more... )

Outside, in the dark, one might hear howling.

It is not the wolfpack.

It's Ace.

"THROW THE MILK THROW IT NOW IT'S GAINING!"

(ooc: So, once, many moons ago, Ace and Raven tried to make cookies. Their attempt, sadly, was a major disaster. What they didn't know, between one thing and another, is that the dough is now aliiiiiive, and, it seems, ( Read more... )

In lieu of the newspaper that has increasingly bored him is a book of poetry. The setting is usual: a table, something to drink (wine; he's feeling relaxed tonight). He's very engrossed in the book.

Except for when his eyes are fogged over and staring at a vague spot that's not the book. Thoughts can be so invasive.

Teja is in the forge, folding steel and pondering the ups and owns of the universe, and fate.

More precisely, will that eunuch ever come back to be fought?

The forge door is open, though, for business as for the merely curious.

Written in chalk is the following.

DRINKS YOU'VE (POSSIBLY) NEVER HEARD OF 101.

Step one. Bartender selects drinks he's never heard of.

Step two. Bartender makes said drinks.

Step three. You (the patron) consume the drinks.

"Tonight's drinks are: Daring Dylan, Quiksters Delight, Upper Cut and Wadliegh."

Come try something new.

"What'll it be?"

OOM: California.

One woman, seven dogs, and a smile. Lissar has a book from the library upstairs and is curled on the couch with Ash draped across her legs and the rest of the dogs spread out on the ground around her. Lissar is sunburned, and about as relaxed as she ever could be while in public. Her sunglasses are on the arm of the couch next ( Read more... )

Bar can has a Sissy Skinner? Bar can has a Sissy Skinner. A Sissy Skinner with a basket o' flowers, even*.

(Said Sissy Skinner has a confused cousin back at home wondering what's gotten into him, why he didn't bellow out a greeting and act in his usual bombastic, invasive and theatrical manner, why he, in short, was acting normal. She is not the ( Read more... )