It's here, sj.
'Heart Of Gold'
Spike's Bitches 43: Who am I kidding? I love to brag.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Welcome back, Vortex! How was the cruise? Did you have to kill anyone?
Welcome home, Vortex.
Hil, I'm glad your talk went well. I hope your feet feel better soon, though.
No, everyone made it back alive. there were some close calls with my mother though. I'll write it up in LJ.
Glad your back and not wearing orange, Vortex!
Welcome back, Vortex!
And in a whole, other, I-have-no-words, fucking, stupid, war, why note:
We had the first "friendly fire" accident last night.
3 dead. Lots of wounded.
Fuck.
All I want is to hide somewhere and become very small and unnoticeable until that will be over. And not having so much to do would help, too. It's not a distraction, more like the other way around: when I have lots of stuff to do (90% of the time), the op is a distraction for these stuff. And not a good distraction.
I am trying and get a sense of the geography of the shit going on in Gaza. I have been searching to see if there are any interactive Google Maps. I haven't found what I had in mind, but I found two that are close. One is the Washington Post. They have a world map that you can scroll day by day, and geotags the pictures. But it doesn't do a great job at the geotagging, as they are concentrated in areas, so I'm thinking it was where they were uploaded from, rather than where the pic was snapped. It takes a lot of zooming, but it's interesting. [link]
The other is linked with youtube videos. A lot of propaganda types of stuff, but some are interesting, if not a brutal: [link]
And as I was listening to the news this morning, hearing some pretty warped justifications in an interview, I found myself defending Israel, then thinking what they are doing is crazy too. I realized, no matter how you flip this coin, its a wooden nickel, and neither side can buy you anything.