It's like, in the middle of all this, I'm paranoid that you'll think I don't like poetry.

Buffy ,'Empty Places'


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.


tommyrot - Sep 12, 2005 12:20:21 pm PDT #6808 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

"Won't somebody think of the cocker spaniels?"

Obviously a liberal plot to bring refugee animals to San Francisco so they can gay-marry.


Nutty - Sep 12, 2005 12:23:53 pm PDT #6809 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Speaking of gay marriage, did I mention that the Mass. state constitutional convention is expected to be unable to pass the resolution that puts "no to gay marriage" on the ballot for a constitutional amendment?

Okay, forgive the tortured elocution. The upshot is, everybody realized that married gay people were no big whoop, except to the small minority of people to whom it is a huge whoop, and that kind of whoop is not exactly bringin' in the votes. Kind of funny. (There's still talk of "No, we meant civil unions," but the outright ban amendment is DOA.)

Anyway, marriage has been a universal right in this state for 17 months, and it pleases me no end how quickly the "no big whoop" status has come about.


Sean K - Sep 12, 2005 12:25:11 pm PDT #6810 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

But I have no idea if the trains are running yet.

I know the street lights in the area are all blinking red.


dw - Sep 12, 2005 12:28:58 pm PDT #6811 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval

Useless fact I learned from the magazine section of the Sunday Seattle Times:

The Japanese word katsu (as in tonkatsu or the signs in the U District advertising "chicken katsu") is a corruption of the word cutlet.

See the article: [link]


Lee - Sep 12, 2005 12:35:02 pm PDT #6812 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Will someone tell me to stop compusively checking ebay to see if more people have bid on my tickets?


sarameg - Sep 12, 2005 12:35:15 pm PDT #6813 of 10002

OK, traffic will be a bitch and I'm sure it freaked a lot of people out (and probably caused some injuries) but

Lee Sapaden, a spokesman for the county Office of Emergency Management, said the massive power failure was caused after an employee "inadvertenly cut a power cable" at a DWP substation in West Los Angeles.

[link]

excuse me while I go wipe the tears from my eyes.

So ....classic.

Some days I'm surprised we as a species make it out of bed without maiming ourselves.


erikaj - Sep 12, 2005 12:38:04 pm PDT #6814 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

Some of us don't.


Sean K - Sep 12, 2005 12:40:30 pm PDT #6815 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

"inadvertenly cut a power cable" at a DWP substation in West Los Angeles.

Yeah, I heard that on the radio.

So, just so everyobdy knows, especially any terrorists -- cutting one wire brings it all down! And that wire is in the West LA substation.


shrift - Sep 12, 2005 12:44:23 pm PDT #6816 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Well, we already knew that a dude with a backhoe on the Eastern seaboard can take out half the Internet...


Narrator - Sep 12, 2005 12:57:47 pm PDT #6817 of 10002
The evil is this way?

Well, we already knew that a dude with a backhoe on the Eastern seaboard can take out half the Internet...

See, this is why backhoes should be banned. And don't give me any of that "if backhoes are banned, only construction workers will have backhoes." I don't care. Darn things are a menace.