Oh wait. It wasn't a murder. Just an arrest that took place in the complex. Whew. Glad I got moderately more curious.
Look, you got a little stabbed the other day. That's bound to make anyone a mite ornery.
Mal ,'Ariel'
Natter 57 Varieties
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.
sarameg - Apr 03, 2008 7:08:37 am PDT #9163 of 10001
Frankenbuddha - Apr 03, 2008 7:11:24 am PDT #9164 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
ION, I had a monumentally bizarre dream that I was playing Wii outside with Dick Cheney in Maine (we also discussed deviled ham). Racing go-carts with Shrub was in there somewhere as well, and friends of mine from Maine and college turned up at the end while we were taking a break from Wii. Eww.
That I didn't wake up screaming astonishes me. I'm really sorry I wasn't more lucid in the dream because then I could have gotten the imaginary pleasure of beating the shit (at the very least) out of the both them.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 03, 2008 7:13:03 am PDT #9165 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Like in NC, it's like they don't actually install turn signals as a standard feature in the cars there.
I think this may be an American trait, as I swear I see this EVERYWHERE.
Jessica - Apr 03, 2008 7:14:56 am PDT #9166 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
As someone who grew up in the greater Boston area and now lives in NYC, I have to confess that the idea of being spontaneously nice to a stranger doesn't really make any sense to me.
Bwah! So true. Though I have noticed that I get way more people coming up to me and asking for directions if I have Dylan with me. Apparently the baby accessory makes me look approachable.
Aims - Apr 03, 2008 7:17:35 am PDT #9167 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Cracks me up that I'm the "Talk to Random People on the Street" person surrounded by "ACK! HUMAN! GO AWAY!" people.
beekaytee - Apr 03, 2008 7:19:08 am PDT #9168 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Dick Cheney in Maine (we also discussed deviled ham)
As in, he IS one? i.e. evil pig?
If this ends up being a recurring dream t /hope kick 'em one for me.
Fred Pete - Apr 03, 2008 7:20:21 am PDT #9169 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Happy Birthday, Tom!
Sue - Apr 03, 2008 7:23:13 am PDT #9170 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I found people in New York to be surprisingly friendly and helpful. I tripped over some pavement and fell on 5th Ave and three different people stopped to help me up.
§ ita § - Apr 03, 2008 7:27:52 am PDT #9171 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I sat next to this woman on the bus yesterday that was having a most exuberant phone conversation. Exuberant enough that I knew she'd talk to me as soon as she hung up. And she did. I'm not sure what was up with that. At the bus stop I'd had an older guy stand just out of earshot and mumble things to me, to which I just smiled and broke eye contact. I do know he called me a pretty young lady, which, at 39, he can stick up his weirdo butt.
I don't in general mind talking to strangers. When I do mind it is when I may ever have to encounter them again and remember them from Adam. Can't promise to do that.
beekaytee - Apr 03, 2008 7:28:09 am PDT #9172 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
People often say that folks in DC are unfriendly...so I guess I go out of my way to counter that. And, of course, I have the benefit of living in an actual neighborhood, from which I seldom stray...so that might have something to do with the disconnect.
It's funny. I was born in FL, grew up in CA (parts of which I loved...I'm looking at you San Diego and Carmel), but I believe I did not come fully alive until I landed on Capitol Hill.