Good ol' internet - source of reassurances that relatives of friends are okay, and cat talk. Glad to hear that sis is fine, ita. Hope everyone hears from loved ones soon.
So, how's that war working out again?
...burning baby fish swimming all round your head.
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
lori - Jul 07, 2005 4:36:45 am PDT #7707 of 10001
Jessica - Jul 07, 2005 4:37:46 am PDT #7708 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Gah. What a morning. Woke up (late) to the news about London. Listening to NPR online right now.
(Thank god all of my London friends/family remembered to post that they were okay, or I'd be a wreck.)
All my London co-workers are fine, but on a security alert, so work's gonna be slow today.
-t - Jul 07, 2005 4:38:26 am PDT #7709 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm glad to hear Jamaica is not too worried about Dennis. I was all prepared to stress out over the hurricane all day, and then woke up to the London news. Which promptly took over most of worrying capacity.
And which no one is talking about here at work. It's weird.
Volans - Jul 07, 2005 4:46:47 am PDT #7710 of 10001
move out and draw fire
Jeez, 40 reported dead now...and the news outlets have big BREAKING NEWS headlines up, which makes it an official EVENT.
sumi - Jul 07, 2005 4:47:08 am PDT #7711 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Yeah, when I got home last night I watched the BBC news so that I could catch all the happy Olympics celebrating. Then this morning NPR woke me up with the bombings and I was no. no. London is happy, celebrating. What a terrible turn of events.
TomW - Jul 07, 2005 4:50:43 am PDT #7712 of 10001
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
When I turned on the radio this morning, I assumed that all the London talk was Olympics-related. It took my brain about half a minute to tune into the fact that words like "simultaneous explosions" and "casualties" indicated an entirely different kind of story.
Connie Neil - Jul 07, 2005 4:54:17 am PDT #7713 of 10001
brillig
I hate this stage of things when the news stations are putting up whatever they can get their hands on because they've got air to fill and you're not sure what's right or wrong yet. Then when there's no new information, they grab anyone who might have an angle or a comment and put them in front of the camera/mike.
I love my CNN/NPR, but the fog of news is frustrating.
Volans - Jul 07, 2005 4:56:02 am PDT #7714 of 10001
move out and draw fire
I know exactly what you mean, connie. I'm trying to let it percolate and not hit "refresh" every few seconds on the news window.
But I'm having trouble concentrating on doing anything else.
Nilly - Jul 07, 2005 4:56:57 am PDT #7715 of 10001
Swouncing
Tom, lots of good vibes for your family and friends.
Calli - Jul 07, 2005 4:57:05 am PDT #7716 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm glad ita's family is OK.
It's odd. I'm a big ol' news junkie, but the place I first heard about the London bombings was on lj.