this spring with a second mild water damage.
OK, you need to have the water curse lifted from your place.
Oh my god. What can it be? We're all doomed! Who's flying this thing!? Oh right, that would be me. Back to work.
Wash ,'Bushwhacked'
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.
sarameg - Jul 07, 2005 6:55:21 am PDT #7794 of 10001
thegrommit - Jul 07, 2005 6:57:51 am PDT #7795 of 10001
Um.
I was longing yesterday for the day when I'll be in London again, and I'm still longing for it today.
Yes this. If only as a two fingered salute to the fuckers who did this.
Brother is good, though stuck at work.
§ ita § - Jul 07, 2005 6:58:01 am PDT #7796 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My god, msbelle, you're a maintenance whizz-bangy person.
My sister has reported our first related "but for the grace of my alarm clock" story -- well, a friend's husband was early for work, and therefore wasn't where he usually was when the bombs went off, which'd have been right in the explosion. 9/11 we had a friend who worked in one of the towers that was late leaving home.
Strix - Jul 07, 2005 6:58:22 am PDT #7797 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Ground Zero London?
Dude, there were 4 explosions! Which one is ground zero?
Idiots.
tommyrot - Jul 07, 2005 6:59:15 am PDT #7798 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Dude, there were 4 explosions? Which one is ground zero?
Wherever the reporter on the scene is standing at the moment.
Nora Deirdre - Jul 07, 2005 6:59:24 am PDT #7799 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Brother is good, though stuck at work.
AWESOME, thegrommit. Thanks for letting us know.
I am distracting myself by reading Overheard in NY. And giggling.
Nilly - Jul 07, 2005 7:00:34 am PDT #7800 of 10001
Swouncing
the buzz machines are always desperate to give something a name, no matter how inappropriate.
In Israel, where sadly we have too many of these sorts of news, there are rarely names, but some sort of adjectives competitions. Like, when to say that it's just an attack, when to say that it was a murderous attack, when to say that it was a tragic one, horrible and so forth, as if not all of them answer to each of these descriptions.
OK, you need to have the water curse lifted from your place.
What sara said (also, sara, I've skipped - are things starting to look a bit better for you?)
[Edit: thegrommit, very good to read that your brother is OK.]
Cashmere - Jul 07, 2005 7:02:21 am PDT #7801 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Katie Couric needs to not name this. American TV needs to not name this. Did they name the other terrorist attacks on London?
I'm watching BBC news and staying away from American TV for now. The facts I've gotten off them are more detailed anyway--like the specific sites, how they're getting people out of their, etc.
sarameg - Jul 07, 2005 7:03:28 am PDT #7802 of 10001
Nilly, it looks like I'm safe for now. That could change but I think all the notifications went out tuesday. They are so cagey about it, I can't be certain.
tommyrot - Jul 07, 2005 7:04:48 am PDT #7803 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Back to a subject from a few days ago - this was news to me:
Did Justice Sandra Day O'Connor intend her resignation letter--taking note of "the integrity of the Court and its role under our Constitutional structure"--as a barely veiled shot at the Bush Administration's political aims? Wishful thinking, perhaps. But O'Connor's unusual condition of departure--her resignation effective only upon confirmation of her successor--narrows the President's political options, forestalling a recess appointment and evoking memories of Earl Warren, who held his seat for a full term after submitting his resignation when President Johnson's nomination of Abe Fortas collapsed.
Bush has done a recess appointment before, so it's nice that he can't do the same for O'Connor's position.
eta: [link]