I'm not phrasing this right.
I think you're phrasing it exactly right.
I'm so sorry, but if it makes you feel any better, my fun-time-Buffy party night involved watching a robot throw Spike through a window, so if you want to trade... no wait, I wouldn't give up that memory for anything.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
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.
Hayden - Jan 05, 2006 7:00:34 am PST #7723 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Kat - Jan 05, 2006 7:01:23 am PST #7724 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Okay, here's sort of where the discussion went (with my friends). I think swimming is very race related. Not playing in the pool, but swimming, actual swimming even in the deep end is more common with white people.
P.M. Marc - Jan 05, 2006 7:02:24 am PST #7725 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
Pleats assume a small waist and a flat stomach.
I've always had a marked waist/hip differential, but I've never had a flat belly. Pleats are the enemy.
§ ita § - Jan 05, 2006 7:02:52 am PST #7726 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think swimming is very race related. Not playing in the pool, but swimming, actual swimming even in the deep end is more common with white people.
Interesting. Being Jamaican, I can't really comment, because it's different there.
Hayden - Jan 05, 2006 7:02:59 am PST #7727 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
We'll be upgrading to a queen this month, which should buy us some time before the eventual transition.
We have a queen, but Li'l Sphere's become quite the little animated sleeper. He wakes us up constantly through the night and loves to turn perpendicular, which leaves us no room at all. It's nice when he wants to snuggle up to you, but not so good when he flails around and smacks me in the face at 3 am.
Trudy Booth - Jan 05, 2006 7:03:09 am PST #7728 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
When I was a camp counsellor there was a distinct urban/suburban split among the swimming kids and it often cut along racial lines with the white kids being suburban and more swimmy and the black and latino kids being more urban and less swimmy.
sarameg - Jan 05, 2006 7:04:15 am PST #7729 of 10002
The whoozit abuse picture of Lily is AWESOME. She has so many interesting faces.
Hil R. - Jan 05, 2006 7:05:37 am PST #7730 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hil - German WWI uniforms: [link]
Thank you! That was exactly what I was looking for, and now I can place this photo as somewhere between 1915 and the end of WWI. Still not sure who it is, though -- that would be my great-grandfather's generation, but I'm not sure who in my family was in the army.
Hayden - Jan 05, 2006 7:05:41 am PST #7731 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
swimming, actual swimming even in the deep end is more common with white people.
I can't speak to your general thesis, but a couple of my high school friends who also swam in the Gulf at night were black.
Kat - Jan 05, 2006 7:06:21 am PST #7732 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
What's interesting is that all of my students are urban. And my latino students can swim at least a full lap without flailing and concerning me about their safety, while my blakc students often couldn't. Though both groups said they could swim.