Welcome back Aurelia!
I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
Lee - Aug 07, 2009 5:48:27 pm PDT #2705 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
aurelia - Aug 07, 2009 5:50:13 pm PDT #2706 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Teaching was good. The schedule was brutal as usual. Many other things were just bizarre. I think we had a full moon all summer.
Oh, and if anyone in Houston is looking for someone to smite I have a deserving candidate.
Barb - Aug 07, 2009 5:52:56 pm PDT #2707 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”
Yargh-- the sheath on my laptop's power cord has split and broken in the worst possible place. Guess what I'll be buying tomorrow?
Kathy A - Aug 07, 2009 5:55:23 pm PDT #2708 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I know that Travelers were the ones I was warned about when I started working retail after moving up to the NW 'burbs--they're rather notorious for being shoplifters. I never encountered any, though, so it's probably more of a myth than anything else. There was an ep of L&O:CI in the first season with William Sadler as the head of a Traveler clan.
brenda m - Aug 07, 2009 5:56:57 pm PDT #2709 of 30001
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
Jesse, yes.
Jesse - Aug 07, 2009 6:00:20 pm PDT #2710 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse, yes.
Thank you!
Cashmere - Aug 07, 2009 6:01:34 pm PDT #2711 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Have you seen Snatch, Hil? That gives you a movie version of Irish Travelers in the UK. Brad Pitt does an awesome job in that!
Trudy Booth - Aug 07, 2009 6:04:00 pm PDT #2712 of 30001
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
Wikipedia is a menace. In addition to Irish Travellers there are Norwegian and Swedish travellers of various configurations.
brenda m - Aug 07, 2009 6:13:15 pm PDT #2713 of 30001
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
Hysterical. This is Digby on the freaky health care uproar, lining grandma up for the suicide booth etc. (and tangentially Sarah Palin), but what made me laugh is it's also exactly what Raq was saying about conversations with Mal a few weeks ago:
It's like listening to Sarah Palin, which I find akin to listening to a pre-verbal toddler just before they get the hang of the real thing. They've got all the expression down, the lilt, the emphasis and the cadence and if you didn't know better you might think they were speaking a foreign tongue. There are even a few phrases and ideas in there that are true enough to have you trying to piece together some logic in it all. There is none, of course --- it's infantile gibberish, but they say it with such confidence that you are almost convinced that they know what they're saying.
Hil R. - Aug 07, 2009 6:20:34 pm PDT #2714 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Oh. I wasn't thinking of those Travellers--Britain has non-Roma Travellers that aren't new agey at all, they're old. I think of them as primarily Irish, though that's probably narrow on my part.
Yeah, I knew about those, too, but the dreadlocks and tie-dye in the picture, plus the worry about children wanting to become Travellers, had me thinking New Age.