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!
Gunn: You ready? Fred: Is no an acceptable answer?
'Lineage'
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.
Cashmere - Aug 07, 2009 6:01:34 pm PDT #2711 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
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.
Lee - Aug 07, 2009 6:26:49 pm PDT #2715 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Can someone do me a favor and go comment on something in my LJ--it wasn't sending me notifications, and I want to see if I fixed it.
Jesse - Aug 07, 2009 6:33:23 pm PDT #2716 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I've been having problems with notifications, too.
Lee - Aug 07, 2009 6:34:04 pm PDT #2717 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Huh
§ ita § - Aug 07, 2009 6:37:12 pm PDT #2718 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I know diddly about New Age Travellers, Hil, so I can't say. I always assume Irish for the UK.
I've noticed some lag in notifications with LJ, but those are on comments on my comments in other people's journals since I'm not writing much myself these days.
Talk about bad ju-ju. Matthew Gray Gubler tore up his knee and needs multiple surgeries and then Shemar Moore gets hit by a car and breaks his leg. Time to let the women on the show get all the action scenes.
Lee - Aug 07, 2009 6:41:31 pm PDT #2719 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Matthew Gray Gubler tore up his knee and needs multiple surgeries and then Shemar Moore gets hit by a car and breaks his leg. Time to let the women on the show get all the action scenes.
Wha?
§ ita § - Aug 07, 2009 6:48:57 pm PDT #2720 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wha?
Some mojo, huh? MGG was dancing, of all things, on a (500) Days Of Summer night out, and Shemar was riding his bicycle. Apparently MGG has one surgery left to go, and can't stand without crutches, but Shemar who broke his leg about a week ago is in a walking cast they're just going to hide. But MGG's injury will have to be written in somehow.