Pretty cool except for the part where I was really terrified and now my knees are all dizzy.

Willow ,'Never Leave Me'


Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?  

[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.


Shir - Nov 23, 2010 9:45:22 am PST #9326 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

Barb! So much Awesome~ma to you and your book.

And thank you, all. It is incredible. Hollaback NYC had 5 years of stories before that happened.

We're one month old.

(Hey, it's not such hard work, as much as enabling a certain space to exist and "then see what happens". Well, apparently A Lot Happens).

And I've got no one to blame but you people. You're the ones who told me about Hollaback to begin with.


tommyrot - Nov 23, 2010 9:57:59 am PST #9327 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I think P-C should get a kitty and name it Caucasian Devil Cat.


Shir - Nov 23, 2010 9:59:17 am PST #9328 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

I think P-C should get a kitty and name it Caucasian Devil Cat.

Ms. Caucasian Devil Cat.


tommyrot - Nov 23, 2010 10:00:20 am PST #9329 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Also, thanks, Shir, for helping to make the world a better place and stuff....


DCJensen - Nov 23, 2010 10:04:12 am PST #9330 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.

This American Life/X-Men poster


Shir - Nov 23, 2010 10:04:24 am PST #9331 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

Awww. You people. You're the best people. You're my people.


amyth - Nov 23, 2010 10:09:02 am PST #9332 of 30000
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen

Hey all. I'm not at all caught up, and probably won't be able to, but that's AWESOME, Shir! GO YOU!

book ~ ma to you, Barb, and much ~ ma to everyone, sprinkled liberally, with love.

I hesitate to update, because anything I say will be really depressing, but several of you have asked after me and my brother over email, which I so appreciate, and I don't have the energy to update folks individually right now.

Spent the week in NY last week, and I'm glad I went, but things are grim. Bro is coming up on his third week in a coma, and it doesn't look like he's going to wake up. His neurosurgeon said that the tumor is growing far more aggressively than they ever anticipated. They found evidence of the tumor deep in his brain where the brain bleed occurred, which they never expected to find.

It's hard to describe how much pain my SiL is going through right now. She just lost her father a little over a month ago, she's essentially lost my brother, but not really, not yet. Plus, my nephew is developmentally delayed, so he can't really share in the gravity of the situation with her. He doesn't process emotions very well, which is kind of isolating for her. In some ways, he's more dependent on her, and in some ways, he's more emotionally distant. All this, with the holidays coming up. My heart just aches for her.

And then there's my middle brother, argh. WTF. I called him from NY and he said, "If S. isn't going to wake up, I have no interest in coming to visit." Sometimes he just leaves me speechless. I could unpack the many ways in which that statement disappoints me, but I'm too tired. I didn't tell my SiL he said that. Oh, and classic: he said that he can't talk to my SiL on the phone because, "All she does is get upset." STAB.

In more trivial news, I tore some cartilage in my knee while I was in NY last week, and it looks like I'm going to have outpatient surgery on it next week. I was JUST complaining that I had extra money in my healthcare flex spending account that I was going to lose by the end of the year. GOOD ONE, UNIVERSE!


Shir - Nov 23, 2010 10:19:24 am PST #9333 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

Dear God, amyth. So much ~ma for you and your family, and especially to your SiL. {{{}}}

You're in my thoughts.


Kate P. - Nov 23, 2010 10:19:33 am PST #9334 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Oh, man. {{{{{amyth}}}}} I'm glad to see an update from you, but I'm so sorry the news is so bleak. God, your poor SiL. Does she have a good local support network? Friends, coworkers, other family members?

Oh, and good timing with the knee thing, too! WHAT.


JZ - Nov 23, 2010 10:22:06 am PST #9335 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Oh, amyth. A million billion hugs and vibes to you, your brother, your sister-in-law and nephew. And a thunderous cluesticking to your middle brother. I'm so, so sorry for all this pain and loss, and that middle brother is being so thoughtless and clueless and severely making nothing better.

Many, many vibes, and all the strength and coping~ma I've got to spare, to all of you.