Your common wisdom is harsher than mine.
Look at all the jokes that were made about Martha Stewart's cellmate.
I like money better than people. People can so rarely be exchanged for goods and/or services!
Willow ,'Showtime'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Betsy HP - Dec 03, 2004 9:46:52 am PST #3366 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
§ ita § - Dec 03, 2004 9:52:18 am PST #3367 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Look at all the jokes that were made about Martha Stewart's cellmate.
Perhaps my not having seen any jokes about her cellmate reflects the composition of my common wisdom.
I've interpreted it as expected, near inevitable, but to be avoided by not going to jail, just like selling yourself for extra cigarettes or being stabbed in the shower for looking at the NOI guy wrong.
That's all. I'm not challenging your conventional wisdom. I'm explaining mine.
DXMachina - Dec 03, 2004 9:53:34 am PST #3368 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Look at all the jokes that were made about Martha Stewart's cellmate.
Coincidently, Sean just posted the lyrics to the song "Date Rape" over in Bitches that talks about it, too.
Sean K "Spike's Bitches 20: We'll catch the Natterers yet." Dec 3, 2004 10:36:28 am PST
That's the way it had to be.
They locked him up and threw away the key.
Well, I can't take pity on men of his kind,
even though he now takes it in the behind.
(eta: Nevermind...)
Strega - Dec 03, 2004 9:54:22 am PST #3369 of 10001
Nope, the DOJ just started a survey to track prison rape in 2003. There's been no national study before, but there have been statewide studies that suggest the number is pretty high.
Allyson - Dec 03, 2004 9:55:52 am PST #3370 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Jim Goad did a piece on prison rape in Answer Me! years ago that I remember reading. Will try and dig up...
aurelia - Dec 03, 2004 9:56:41 am PST #3371 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Right now, his mold to me (Firefly notwithstanding) is X-Files. So creepy, dark, FBI? Check.
Yep. When he appeared on Angel my reaction was "OMG, Knowle Rohr!"
sumi - Dec 03, 2004 9:58:23 am PST #3372 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Does anyone have a link to AB's post about being on "The Inside"?
I cannot for the life of me remember my username for the FF board!
Strega - Dec 03, 2004 9:59:56 am PST #3373 of 10001
D'oh! I hit post before I meant to: for "pretty high" substitute "100-150K." Because "pretty high" conveys nothing at all.
Ooo, you have Answer Me? I'm jealous.
Allyson - Dec 03, 2004 10:00:27 am PST #3374 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Allyson - Dec 03, 2004 10:01:51 am PST #3375 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I'm a big Jim Goad fan. Love his writing, even when he and his writing make me want to beat him to death with his own limbs.