I'm going to the gym after work, do my set of leg and hip exercises. I think I'm seeing improvement, it no longer hurts to cock my hip and pull my leg up to put on my socks. Tomorrow night I think I shall go into the pool.
I know I'm a bad poet, but I'm a good man. All I ask is that... is that you try to see me—
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Feb 23, 2011 10:06:16 am PST #24507 of 30001
brillig
Connie Neil - Feb 23, 2011 10:12:43 am PST #24508 of 30001
brillig
While reading some stuff about the various protests in Wisconsin, I flashed back to a Doonesbury series from the early '80s/late '70s ( I think) about the truckers' protests. Mike Slackmeyer falls in with some truckers planning a protest and reveals his radical past, and the truckers ask him for pointers on how to run an effective protest. He telegrams back to Walden Pond to ask for his armband and gas mask to be sent to him, saying "The revolution lives!".
And I can't help thinking if there are grey-haired people in some of these back rooms giving lectures--or podcasts!--on how to handle yourself when the police are moving in or on the best way to get tear gas out of your clothes.
erikaj - Feb 23, 2011 10:18:13 am PST #24509 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
I don't doubt it.
§ ita § - Feb 23, 2011 10:29:10 am PST #24510 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I love that this site gets snarky if you get recursive with it.
Consuela - Feb 23, 2011 10:31:04 am PST #24511 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So it's not a meltdown; we are at the er. I would think she broke her hip except she hasn't fallen and barely walks. What fun
amych - Feb 23, 2011 10:33:13 am PST #24512 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Oh, dear, suela. ~ma for something that can be treated and resolved easily.
hippocampus - Feb 23, 2011 10:42:26 am PST #24513 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
Oh Consuela, I hope you find the ER speedy and helpful. Much calm to you and quick resolution to her.
Sue - Feb 23, 2011 10:43:23 am PST #24514 of 30001
hip deep in pie
I hope you guys get speedy and good treatment, Consuela.
Theodosia - Feb 23, 2011 10:45:32 am PST #24515 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I just read a profile of the distinguished educator who as a young and idealistic guy wrote The Anarchist Cookbook -- which, by the way, he researched on a bunch of declassified government manuals and so on, i.e. publically available sources -- which since he sold the copyright he can't stop from being published.
Anyway, it sent me thinking that there really should be a "Non-Violent Protestor Cookbook" with lots of advice about setting up effective safe protests, how to train your demonstrators and all that.
javachik - Feb 23, 2011 10:47:10 am PST #24516 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Didn't Thoreau write one of those?