Can't decide whether or not to click the link. I'm going through this thing where the possible devastation of the city overwhelms me and makes me ill, so I quit watching and looking for info. Then, I freak out because I don't have any info and overload on it, and the cycle begins again.
Uh, are we gonna fight, or is there just gonna be a monster sarcasm rally?
Stoner Vamp ,'Lessons'
Natter .38 Special
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.
Daisy Jane - Aug 28, 2005 8:12:24 pm PDT #1952 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Eddie - Aug 28, 2005 8:23:52 pm PDT #1953 of 10002
Your tag here.
Has anyone see David Blaine, street magician on TLC? This guy is like totally supernatural. I just saw him put a cigaratte completely through a quarter. Plus, he levitates with people standing three from him. I mean, we're past "magic"; this stuff is like impossible/miracle material.
Allyson - Aug 28, 2005 8:26:04 pm PDT #1954 of 10002
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
Didn't he like, almost starve to death in London and no one cared? It made me laugh.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 28, 2005 8:30:40 pm PDT #1955 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
it wouldn't surprise me if the Superdome is the most hurricane-proof bit of NO.
Wouldn't the more aerodynamic round shape help with this in addition to the solidness of its construction?
Daisy Jane - Aug 28, 2005 8:35:58 pm PDT #1956 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I watched, and now I'm just...It's like they keep saying "if this" and "if that" and all those conditions seem to be met (except for the evacuation predictions thank bob.
Scrappy - Aug 28, 2005 8:38:39 pm PDT #1957 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
David Blaine is a very, very good magician. It's his job to make it look like miracles, and he does.
DavidS - Aug 28, 2005 8:45:57 pm PDT #1958 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Oof, I'm in denial about New Orleans. I love it so much. I don't wanna lose all my shotgun shacks!
I'm holding on to the fact that New Orleans has been notoriously disaster prone its entire existence and has weathered hurricanes and plagues and fires before.
There's just so much there that's irreplaceable.
Daisy Jane - Aug 28, 2005 8:58:14 pm PDT #1959 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
There's just so much there that's irreplaceable.
You ain't lyin' Dude. I hope my friends and family will be ok, and I know their losses will be much greater than mine, but I'm terrified and crushed. It was never my home, but I adored it and went whenever I could. I skipped out on an 8th grade field trip to wander the streets by myself because I knew the place well enough to get back to the bus for roll call. I had my first drink there later that year (vodka and soda at the Hard Rock and I kept the reciept forever). I went to my first pro-choice rally in Old City Park and met Fay Waddleton. I used to visit my cousins and wave at the God Bless You Lady on our way to the streetcar. I saw my cousins graduate high school there. Mr. H and I spent our first Christmas together there. Mr. H and I were both in the wedding of one of my girls at her father's church there. I went to my first F2F there. And that's just the big stuff off the top of my head.
ETA- And now we're back to crying.
billytea - Aug 28, 2005 9:08:30 pm PDT #1960 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
There's just so much there that's irreplaceable.
Yes. It's the one place I mention when I talk about places I didn't visit in the US that I really want to see.
dw - Aug 28, 2005 9:14:33 pm PDT #1961 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval
From what I've heard on CNN and elsewhere, there are a lot of people still in New Orleans because they tried but just couldn't get out due to traffic or airport problems. 25,000+ at the Superdome, 1000+ at a third-floor hotel ballroom downtown.
WWL is broadcasting on the Internet. They're trying to be calm and professional, but you get the sense they're clearly scared to death.
The CNN shakycam shot of the Superdome is getting shakier... and it looks like the power is starting to go out in NOLA.