Not even in the Shakespearean sense?
Dude, I spent the weekend drinking. I left my pride in my other pants.
Everybody plays each other. That's all anybody ever does. We play parts.
Saffron ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
shrift - Aug 29, 2005 2:15:10 pm PDT #2217 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
DavidS - Aug 29, 2005 2:18:22 pm PDT #2218 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
They are just getting rescue crews out there in the last hour or so. Whole huge areas aren't getting reports because they're so flooded. The north short of Lake Pontchartrain got hit really hard. Wind damage too and the flooding. It's not good over there.
Topic!Cindy - Aug 29, 2005 2:20:11 pm PDT #2219 of 10002
What is even happening?
Oh my word, those poor people.
Kat - Aug 29, 2005 2:20:34 pm PDT #2220 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Go TOM! You rock!
dw - Aug 29, 2005 2:22:51 pm PDT #2221 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval
I could make something up.
I'll make something up.
The "cleanup hitter" is a wingman whose job it is to lay any of the target woman's posse in need of a shag. Once the guy gets the hot girl and her friend gets his wingman, the "cleanup hitter" takes the remaining women home for a threesome (or more).
Feel better?
dw - Aug 29, 2005 2:27:09 pm PDT #2222 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval
I'm following along with Google Maps. That's a pretty big chunk of the city underwater. Better that worst-case cataclysm, but still a lot of people in danger.
And what's sad is how many of these people couldn't flee for one reason or another.
DavidS - Aug 29, 2005 2:33:10 pm PDT #2223 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Magazine Street Lots of tree damage, but not so much the flooding.
Downtown Hyatt is ripped to shit
Covington - across the Lake. They're letting it burn. They can't get there.
dw - Aug 29, 2005 2:35:11 pm PDT #2224 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval
Here's some semi-raw video from WWL of some of the rescues from the 9th Ward:
Includes a stupid-ass commercial. But awful stuff.
§ ita § - Aug 29, 2005 2:41:09 pm PDT #2225 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oy. Just told a co-worker that the smell of his popcorn was triggering migraines.
I know it doesn't make any sense for me to sit around and be in pain, and this is the third consecutive time he's popped up and I've had a headache.
And he's being very nice about it. I just feel freakily imposing.
But looking forward to no trigger tomorrow. And I'm making a note to get my migraine prescription by mail, so I don't run out anymore.
DavidS - Aug 29, 2005 2:42:11 pm PDT #2226 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Some news from Uptown:
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Streets in the heart of Uptown once known for their canopies of old oaks -- Calhoun, Nashville and State -- now have carpets of oaks. The streets are impassible, wall to wall fallen oaks trees.
Another Uptown landmark, the root beer mug on top of Ted's Frostop on Claiborne and Calhoun, was on the ground.
There was hit-and-miss street flooding Uptown and in Hollygrove. Some streets were inundated and others bone dry. Most streets were impassible because of downed trees and power lines. Damage to most homes appeared to be minimal. There was an occasional tree on a car or home and some roofs were blown off in Central City.