That sounds like a truly hateful piece.
It truly was.
Looks like civilization finally caught up with us.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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.
brenda m - Aug 23, 2009 1:40:12 pm PDT #5194 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
brenda m - Aug 23, 2009 1:42:39 pm PDT #5195 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
I pay so many of my bills electronically that I don't open them when they come in the mail.
I do this, and then with all the travel I was doing this spring I've kind of started forgetting to check my mail at all. Earlier this summer I actually wondered if I'd not actually been invited to a wedding I'd made travel plans to attend, until it occurred to me it'd been over a month since I opened my mailbox. (Luckily it was still two days before the RSVP date.)
beth b - Aug 23, 2009 1:51:41 pm PDT #5196 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
The article by Wilson seems to have a duel personality --- in the sam e sentence she praises and mocks JC Pennys - so odd.
and she is mean - to the point where she sounds ignorant. I don't shop a lot in JC penny's -- mostly because the one here is really messy. But it is the place where I found a pair of jeans for 1.99.
Amy - Aug 23, 2009 1:54:01 pm PDT #5197 of 30001
Because books.
How can wilson honestly write a column for the Times and say that she expects her article to be 1,300 women in Connecticut and Manhattan, plus "a couple of gay guys"? WTF?
I have become super strict about mail. Everything that is not a bill or something I need for work gets thrown away immediately. I still have a hard time with birthday cards and stuff, though -- my instinct is to save them, even knowing I never ever go back to reread them.
Jesse - Aug 23, 2009 1:57:26 pm PDT #5198 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
How can wilson honestly write a column for the Times and say that she expects her article to be 1,300 women in Connecticut and Manhattan, plus "a couple of gay guys"? WTF?
She had no ideeeaaaaa people read the New York Times outside of Manhattan! Pfui.
Dana - Aug 23, 2009 2:08:04 pm PDT #5199 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
How can wilson honestly write a column for the Times and say that she expects her article to be 1,300 women in Connecticut and Manhattan, plus "a couple of gay guys"? WTF?
Yes, thank you! It's like yet another person gets introduced to the internet, except Wilson's been publishing on the internet for years.
beth b - Aug 23, 2009 2:12:41 pm PDT #5200 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
you don't have to think Internet to know that the new york times is read all of the us and is available in much of the world
brenda m - Aug 23, 2009 2:14:57 pm PDT #5201 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
It's not that she didn't know, it's that the 1300 women in CT/Manhattan and the couple of gay guys are the only ones with any independent reality in her mind. They're the ones who matter. Why would you stop to consider the reaction of people who aren't real?
§ ita § - Aug 23, 2009 2:21:09 pm PDT #5202 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've kind of started forgetting to check my mail at all
I managed once to get mine so jammed up that my mailbox couldn't be opened individually--the postal service person had to open the whole thing and take my mail out for me. So I'm better about it now. That was shameful.
-t - Aug 23, 2009 2:37:29 pm PDT #5203 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I am embarrassed by how much I've allowed my mail to pile up. Part of the problem is that I have a huge mailbox, so there are no immediate consequences for not dealing with it right away, and when it does become something I have to deal with, it's an overwhelming amount of paper to sort through in one sitting.Y'all have inspired me, that will be my project this week, taming that mess.