I haven't even turned the TV on since I got home from work, because I think it will break my heart.
Bester: Mal. Whaddya need two mechanics for? Mal: I really don't.
'Out Of Gas'
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.
Steph L. - Aug 29, 2005 2:48:37 pm PDT #2229 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
DavidS - Aug 29, 2005 3:01:09 pm PDT #2230 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The roads look impassable in most New Orleans. All those pretty Garden District oak trees in the streets. Broken glass, bricks, power lines. 9th Ward is just underwater up to the rooftops. Sounds like the flooding happened really quick over there - from lapping at the door to filling up the first floor.
JZ - Aug 29, 2005 3:09:32 pm PDT #2231 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Aw, man. Between the marvelous Tom Scola news and the NOLA updates, I am whipsawing between crazy emotional extremes, teary and breathless at each extreme.
I was going to buy myself a couple of new shirts with the leftovers from my next paycheck, but screw that. It isn't much, but Louisiana's Red Cross can have it.
dw - Aug 29, 2005 3:14:10 pm PDT #2232 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval
Elsewhere, Mobile is flooded out. Storm surge remains at 10 feet or so.
Jackson's water treatment plants have lost power; the mayor has advised people to limit water use to essential purposes only.
500K people in MS without power, 150K in Alabama, 750K+ in Louisiana.
And, in today's oddest lede:
Familiar landmarks destroyed
At DeBuys Road at U.S. 90., the Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants were obliterated.
I guess that's the best you can do for "landmarks" in Biloxi-Gulfport.
Steph L. - Aug 29, 2005 3:16:37 pm PDT #2233 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
lede
Ah, I haven't seen it spelled that way in YEARS! Takes me back to the good old days of j-school. I still spell "head" as in "subhead," etc., H-E-D. It freaks my co-workers out.
I have, however, dropped "graf" (for "paragraph") in favor of the paragraph symbol itself. It's sleek.
dw - Aug 29, 2005 3:19:22 pm PDT #2234 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval
Ah, I haven't seen it spelled that way in YEARS!
It's what I get for hanging out with newspaper folks.
Tom Scola - Aug 29, 2005 3:21:05 pm PDT #2235 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
¶¶¶¶¶¶!!!1!
Steph L. - Aug 29, 2005 3:23:23 pm PDT #2236 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
¶
Yes!!!!
When editing a manuscript (abbreviated "mss.") the Luddite way, which we do in my office (and I dearly love editing the way we do, pen to paper), making that little ¶ makes me unaccountably happy.
I'm easy to please, when it comes right down to it.
t edit Heh. I just thought "OMGWTF¶¶¶¶!!!"
Kat - Aug 29, 2005 3:24:15 pm PDT #2237 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
you should teach middle school writing, steph. I spend an INORDINATE amount of time making that precise symbol on kid's papers.
Topic!Cindy - Aug 29, 2005 3:24:27 pm PDT #2238 of 10002
What is even happening?
¶graph; ?
Oh. Just ¶