That was happening around my HS experience, but I was so peripheral to that whole scene none of the characters would have known me. Well, probably Landry. But nobody else.

My HS experience was mostly sitting around making fun of the characters on this show.

I know, I'm being a baby, but I am really worried about slipping and falling on the sidewalks.

Not being a baby at all. I already lost it once this year, despite the lack of snow (this was after the freeze following a day of rain we got a couple of weeks back), and I was hurting the next day. And the sidewalks are craptastic today, as I expected they would be.

Kevin Sorbo wank! HEE: [link]

I don't *want* to wait til Sunday!

t cries

Also ... um, have any of you felt really like, irrationally irritated with a co-worker because you perceive them to be DUMB AS A BOX OF HAIR?? I currently am and I feel like such a SHIT for being that snobby because she's just not that smart. Am a horrible horrible person??

lisah, it's up to you. I think it'll be ok, but I also don't want to put you in a position where you're stranded with me either!

The thing with Mac is, it's such a prevalent sort of racism down here in the south. It's not the outright hateful kind you generally see from anyone in a tv show with a southern accent. It's the kind most of our grandparents, sometimes parents, aunts and uncles have. I can look at my grandmother and know she's a kind and loving person who doesn't have a speck of hate in her heart, but who also has racial prejudices. This was a much more realistic depiction of the everyday racism that still exists (not that there's not also the nasty hateful kind) in the south (and probably other places, I'm just more familiar with down here). So sad on all sides. I heart my show.

Consuela, I think there were several things going on there. First, they not only lost the game, but it wasn't finished. And, it wasn't finished because of a fight that, in their eyes, Dillon started. Go after Smash because he's a "Junkyard Dog." Even his own coach believes it, so why wouldn't they give him up.

I'll have to ask Dad if he has any stories like that from when he was at Ole Miss.

shrift, I have this Alan Davies stand-up thing to bring you. Do you want it as a VCD or just an AVI?

FNL: Suela: I was flabbergasted that the cops stopped the bus. Does that shit happen?

I watched that bit and thought to myself, "Self, okay, they are not really meaning to imply that we are one step away from Emmett Till. Self, just because the filmmakers are allowing me to infer such a thing does not mean that is what they intend."

But wow was I inferring it. And, yeah, that's not "a mistake." Holding or expressing a shitty attitude is a mistake; abusing your power to pursue a teenager, in hopes of hurting him, is a federal case waiting to happen.

In some ways, it was effective drama, because I expected the worst out of small-town Texas. In other ways, it felt like it exploited my stereotypes of small-town Texas, because they better not have been implying what I inferred.

[edit: sorry!]

shrift, I have this Alan Davies stand-up thing to bring you. Do you want it as a VCD or just an AVI?

We can play both, so whichever one is easier for you.