Tom, you're totally an inspiration. I can't help but admire how much strength you show. You absolutely can do this.
Jilli, I love that interview. I'd totally move to PNW, except for the pesky no job, no money, two children, one really sick thing.
You walk in worlds the others can't begin to imagine.
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
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.
Kat - Jan 31, 2008 1:23:53 pm PST #6612 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
JZ - Jan 31, 2008 1:29:06 pm PST #6613 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Completely random: When Hec and Emmett dropped Matilda and me off this morning, they were just starting a discussion about who was left in the Democratic race. I emailed Hec a bit ago to ask what the 11-year-old perspective on the whole bucket of madness was, and he said:
Emmett and his friends are very excited by the possibility of Obama winning. It definitely resonates as something that belongs to them and not past decades, as Clinton does.
I can't even say why, but that almost makes me all choked-up and misty.
Kat - Jan 31, 2008 1:33:18 pm PST #6614 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I can't even say why, but that almost makes me all choked-up and misty.
Cause it's cool to see a kid connect with something political.
Where I get all choked-up because I'm like, whoa, now I feel old.
JZ - Jan 31, 2008 1:39:04 pm PST #6615 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I keep thinking about November 1991 and how giddy my friends and I felt (we were in our late twenties to early thirties and had never voted for anyone who won), and one friend told about going to vote in the cafeteria of an elementary school. As she walked out, all the windows in one room flew open and a flock of second-graders stuck their heads out and warbled, "THANK YOU FOR VOTING!" ::pause:: ::pause:: "FOR CLINTON!"
And oh my God, they're probably all out of college by now.
Susan W. - Jan 31, 2008 1:44:17 pm PST #6616 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Well, the almost-4-year-old reaction to the process is to let Mommy watch maybe five seconds of an Obama speech before whining to watch her TV.
Same kid who kicked and cooed for Kerry's speeches in the summer of '04. Of course, that was before she discovered Clifford the Big Red Dog and the Backyardigans.
Jesse - Jan 31, 2008 1:49:12 pm PST #6617 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Tom, in case you forgot in the last 25 minutes, you're absolutely doing this. And will continue to.
Scrappy - Jan 31, 2008 1:50:25 pm PST #6618 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
A friend who works in Admin at a lefty school wangled her kids into an Obama appearance. It was at the home of Carlos, who is their school's head maintainance guy and active in the Latino community. Her 10-year-old is all about Obama now, but her 4-year-old came away from the apprearance with the conviction that CARLOS is running for president. He is a firm supporter, by the way.
Pix - Jan 31, 2008 1:51:42 pm PST #6619 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Also, Kristin, I don't know if that it your real last name or whether you want it up there, but I didn't know we had the same real lastname, if it is!Oops! I didn't mean to put it up, and it's now been edited. And yes, it was my real last name. My sistah!
Susan W. - Jan 31, 2008 1:52:54 pm PST #6620 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Awww
I don't think Annabel really knows what a president is. It's not like I've given her any chance to be exposed to sound or images of the existing one, given how fast I lunge for the remote when Bush appears on anything other than TDS for mockery.
Sheryl - Jan 31, 2008 1:53:29 pm PST #6621 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
~ma to all who need it.