Hil, I remember that (but it was local news at the time for me).
ita ! the thumbnails came up - you're insanely glamorous in those! I can understand loving that silvery (looks blue-silver to me) dress. And is that your fancy evening purse?
Gunn: Well, how horrible is this thing? Lorne: I haven't read the Book of Revelations lately, but if I was searching for adjectives, I'd probably start there.
'Hell Bound'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
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.
Toddson - Sep 15, 2011 9:02:27 am PDT #26395 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Fred Pete - Sep 15, 2011 9:10:11 am PDT #26396 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Hil, I didn't remember ever being aware of a Deaf President Now protest. However, after Googling, it seems vaguely familiar, but I'm not sure whether I knew of it at the time or only later. (It happened about 6 months before I moved to DC.)
Jessica - Sep 15, 2011 9:11:05 am PDT #26397 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I didn't remember ever being aware of a Deaf President Now protest. However, after Googling, it seems vaguely familiar
Yup, this is me.
P.M. Marc - Sep 15, 2011 9:13:06 am PDT #26398 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
ita !'s whole family is gorgeous. It's impressive.
Kate P. - Sep 15, 2011 9:14:37 am PDT #26399 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Ha, this is awesome: Trinity 'expels' barbarian teacher
Trinity College Dublin has said it is taking seriously an incident in which a profile page, complete with image, was inserted on its website for a fake staff member named ‘Dr Conan T. Barbarian’.
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The profile went on to say Dr Barbarian completed his PhD, entitled ‘To Hear The Lamentation of Their Women: Constructions of Masculinity in Contemporary Zamoran Literature’ at UCD and was appointed to the School of English in 2006, “after sucessfully decapitating his predecessor during a bloody battle which will long be remembered in legend and song”.
zuisa - Sep 15, 2011 9:15:48 am PDT #26400 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
I've never heard of either thing. But I feel like I would have known about it were I a little older.
Jesse - Sep 15, 2011 9:18:35 am PDT #26401 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Do you know what the phrases "Deaf President Now" or "Deaf Protest of 1988" refer to, without looking it up?
Can't say I've heard of them, but could guess what they were about.
P.M. Marc - Sep 15, 2011 9:19:37 am PDT #26402 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I had no idea of the Deaf President Now protest. It didn't register for me at the time, as I was pretty wrapped up in Canadian politics and ignoring US stuff. (Look, the late 80s were politically very interesting in Canada.)
Jesse - Sep 15, 2011 9:22:08 am PDT #26403 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I do wonder if there's a difference in the group of people who were adults in 1988?
JZ - Sep 15, 2011 9:30:32 am PDT #26404 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I know about it, but mostly from reading Oliver Sacks's Seeing Voices, which includes a not-perfect-but-pretty-decent thumbnail sketch of the history of Deaf culture in the US.