Earlier today I was looking at pictures of the wreck of the USS Yorktown (a Navy carrier that was sunk at the battle of Midway.) The guy who found the Titanic (Ballard?) found it. It's in remarkably good condition for its age (except for all the torpedo damage it suffered). It has none of the weird rustcicles the Titanic has and is all in one piece. It's eerie - its anti-aircraft guns still point skyward from the last air attack it suffered....
I don't fancy spending the next month trying to get librarian out of the carpet.
Spike ,'Chosen'
Spike's Bitches 36: Did I Sully Our Good Name?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
tommyrot - Aug 02, 2007 12:17:35 pm PDT #9713 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Susan W. - Aug 02, 2007 12:20:18 pm PDT #9714 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Gettysburg is one of many places for me, some with violent histories, others not, where the ground almost thrums with the past. I feel like I if I concentrate hard enough I should be able to part the veil of time and step through. My rational mind knows that's just my history buff's imagination at work, but it's creepy-in-a-good-way for me to get that sense of communion with the dead.
omnis_audis - Aug 02, 2007 12:26:58 pm PDT #9715 of 10001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
why is it hitting the refresh button on the Message Center doesn't make the conversations happen faster in the individual areas of b.org? Hmm, maybe a question for the tech section.
Oops, work to do.
brenda m - Aug 02, 2007 12:27:47 pm PDT #9716 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Susan, that's exactly it. It's so close in a way that's hard to articulate.
Trudy Booth - Aug 02, 2007 12:29:30 pm PDT #9717 of 10001
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
How much do they cost?
A lot less than screwing up buying a house.
(i.e. You should deffinately see one)
Susan W. - Aug 02, 2007 12:33:50 pm PDT #9718 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I get it in a small way from the Peninsular War campaign token DH found on ebay and gave me for my birthday last year. I hold it and think about what its original owner must've seen and experienced, and it gives me chills.
I've felt it in the stone circles I've visited--all two of them, Avebury and Castlerigg. We know so little about them and who made them, but when you're standing right there in them, they're so heavy with the past and ancient sacredness that it doesn't matter what you know.
Which is something you'll almost never hear me say. I'm normally all about the knowledge and mattering thereof.
ChiKat - Aug 02, 2007 1:01:53 pm PDT #9719 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
I think the creepiest place I've ever been is Gettysburg. You look out over those fields and it's like you can feel the weight of everything that happened there. It's got a very odd vibe. The natural beauty of the place probably enhances it.
Vicksburg was that way for me.
NoiseDesign - Aug 02, 2007 1:13:30 pm PDT #9720 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
I have popcorn and a coke and my movie starts in twenty minutes.
omnis_audis - Aug 02, 2007 1:30:43 pm PDT #9721 of 10001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
I have popcorn and a coke and my movie starts in twenty minutes.well don't message me what happens! I haven't seen it yet! (what are you watching??)
Ginger - Aug 02, 2007 2:04:19 pm PDT #9722 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
How much do they cost?
It depends on how much they do for you. Many of them have standard fees that they'll tell you upfront.
Dachau was creepy, but I think some of that was the fact that I felt like that kind of evil had to make the ground cry out. Civil War battlefields don't do it for me, except things like the shiver you get when you look down from the emplacements on Kennesaw Mountain and see how lethal it would have been to be attacking from below. Atlanta is kind of one big Civil War battlefield anyway. Those of you who came to the F2F were staying only a few hundred yards from the hill where Sherman watched the Battle of Atlanta.