'Dirty Girls'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Minutemen Founder Accused of Threatening Family With Guns >[link]I saw that headline, was dismayed, eventually remembered that one of them has been dead for a while, got even more confused, and then realized, oh hey, they aren't talking about the band, are they. The guns should have been a clue. Reading the article would have helped.
I need a new car. The driver side mirror fell off on Saturday. It's not even possible to replace the whole mechanism as they don't make it anymore. And it would cost $100 for just a partial fix. Whole van's not worth $600. I have a good 260,000 miles on it, so I figure it's done its job and we're under strict instructions not to do any more major repairs.
But it worries me, just waiting for it to break. I would rather buy something now so that I have both, and can use the van for hauling. Something with better mileage, but that can still handle my dirt roads. That I can put a kayak rack on.
This is what I want right now, but it's probably wrong of me to want it just because it's a black Impala. I mean, it's a newish black Impala. It has no real resemblance to the black Impala. But still.
And I kinda don't want a car payment. We haven't had one in aeons because these have all been company cars.
I am only in the sense that I'm positive bad things are going to happen.
Ahahaha! Ah, Frank. Never change.
cut 'em DJ
I am opting for leaving the office instead. That'll learn 'em.
Why an Impala, Liese?
Hee.
The questions is never why an Impala, javachik. The answer is supernatural.
YELLOW CRAYON CAR
today is not working well.
Can we return it, and get a better one?
Today kind of sucked, it's true.
It's not like I have the money for one, but even if I did a vintage *four-door* Impala is damn hard to find.
More specifically, this is the tendency to react to horrible misfortune, like homelessness or drug addiction, by believing the people stuck in horrible situations must have done something to deserve it.
This. And this is why the positivity stuff makes me so uneasy. Yes, if you're tackling many challenges it will likely be more productive to strategize and plan than to mope and despair. But not everything is actually in your control. And shitty situations might just make you feel shitty.
We slip very easily in this society into implicit shaming when it seems that people aren't shrugging off their breast cancer or brain tumors or crippling chronic illness in quite the way we approve.
