I had no idea until hearing the premise from the show that the US had a sizable sugar cane industry.
It's a lot bigger than it deserves to be, because it's heavily subsidized by the government.
It's a real burden being right so often.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
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.
Tom Scola - Sep 27, 2007 5:45:45 am PDT #3347 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
§ ita § - Sep 27, 2007 5:48:25 am PDT #3348 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Cause that's what my Master's project was about, and I had zero luck with it.
I had forgotten your topic! Sorry to hear it didn't pan out the way you wanted.
I have had the phrase "degrade gracefully" stuck in my head since yesterday, and I've now worked out both why (my eye makeup degrades gracefully--crying doesn't mess it up, or at least does it with symmetry), and where it's from (HTML). Being a geek can be hard.
shrift - Sep 27, 2007 5:54:11 am PDT #3349 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Shrift, which space is that show in? Is it the one straight ahead from the lobby doors?
Yep. At least, it was at the press opening.
lisah - Sep 27, 2007 5:56:22 am PDT #3350 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
(my eye makeup degrades gracefully--crying doesn't mess it up, or at least does it with symmetry)
Are you using the blinc Kiss Me mascara? I love that stuff!!!
§ ita § - Sep 27, 2007 6:01:04 am PDT #3351 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Are you using the blinc Kiss Me mascara? I love that stuff!!!
Now that I don't rub so it gets in my eyes, I love it too. My eye makeup is mostly invisible (shading to make my eyes look deeper), so it falls apart quite neatly.
Okay--remember that hour at a time thing? First hour is over and done with. ::muted booyah!::
tommyrot - Sep 27, 2007 6:01:40 am PDT #3352 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.
Go ita! on the non-head-pain thing.
I almost don't want to say anything out of fear of jinxing it....
Emily - Sep 27, 2007 6:02:14 am PDT #3353 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
"degrade gracefully"
I've been looking for that phrase! I meant to file it next to "planned obsolescence" but couldn't remember the "degrade" part. Thank you!
shrift - Sep 27, 2007 6:13:21 am PDT #3354 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
It needs to be lunchtime sooner.
Jars - Sep 27, 2007 6:17:00 am PDT #3355 of 10001
It needs to be hometime sooner.
§ ita § - Sep 27, 2007 6:17:11 am PDT #3356 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Now I need to stay on top of the head pain. Often I don't realise it until it's so full blown that the pills I have at home aren't useful.
Emily, I love that phrase. I need to slip it into more conversations. I did slip it into a krav class once, and everyone thought I was nuts.
But I am!
Tom--thanks for that link. Agriculture and politics continue to surprise me. I think I got the beet is king idea from something like that--that the US didn't import cane sugar, instead importing beet sugar. Which is not the point, even if it's one of the after-effects.
Then again, enough of my ancestors worked in cane fields (can't stand the stuff myself--the smell/taste of everything from the growing plant through the cut plant all the way to wet sugar nauseates me) that my perspective has odd holes in it.