The looters in New Orleans are getting outrageous. Arming themselves with guns, attacking places in large groups getting in firefights with the police, harassing rescue workers and hospitals. There's going to be a massacre there pretty soon. Dumbfucks.
There are cockroaches in Mexico big enough to own property.
Cordelia ,'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.
DavidS - Aug 31, 2005 11:29:31 am PDT #3158 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
§ ita § - Aug 31, 2005 11:30:35 am PDT #3159 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
In your case, that would be somebody else's face, wouldn't it?
Nothing but rumour, I swear.
bon bon - Aug 31, 2005 11:30:38 am PDT #3160 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
The first thing that came to mind was facility with arguing, and then my brain tried to talk me out of it. I made some excellent points against myself.
Lee - Aug 31, 2005 11:32:31 am PDT #3161 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Hee.
Consuela - Aug 31, 2005 11:35:25 am PDT #3162 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Coolish thing: my firm is matching Red Cross donations for Katrina.
Wish mine was.
Ah, well, I got my receipt in case they decide to.
I'm depressed about the situation in NO. But there's plenty of blame to go around. Short-term: bad planning by the public agencies in that they didn't make any provisions to get people out of town who had no cars, all the people who could have left but chose not to because they figured it wasn't a big deal, the asshole looters (as opposed to those just trying to get food and water for their families). Long-term: oil production, wetlands loss, development of the ports, channelization of the Mississippi, reliance on oil leading to some climate change, budgetary reasons for not upgrading the levees...
What a horrifying mess. Human beings, individually, seem pretty fantastic. But occasionally I'm amazed we ever get anything done as a species.
juliana - Aug 31, 2005 11:36:28 am PDT #3163 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
One of my favorite things about myself is my wildly independent streak. It's given me some heartbreak, to be sure, but I like the fact that I can go off and do things and not think twice about it (even though I sometimes should).
Fred Pete - Aug 31, 2005 11:37:16 am PDT #3164 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
I was wondering other things too, but having one relative who attended Tulane, I'm not sure that no-school-for-months will be noticed by many of the students.
I'm guessing no school for the semester. Which would delay graduations. Plus, students will be home for several months instead of a streetcar ride from the Quarter.
§ ita § - Aug 31, 2005 11:37:16 am PDT #3165 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
YOU KNOW WHAT??? Stop declining my meeting invites and telling me you can't make it. Here's what I want you to do:
- Make sure your online calendar reflects your availability. I don't
- Make a freaking suggestion! I'm not doing this to torture you. I looked at your schedules, and you've turned down the two open spots.
P.M. Marc - Aug 31, 2005 11:38:02 am PDT #3166 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I'm especially fond of my nose.
Lee - Aug 31, 2005 11:38:40 am PDT #3167 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Even though it doesn't make you squee when someone beeps it?