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.)
Doesn't matter that we took him off that boat, Shepherd, it's the place he's going to live from now on.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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.
Fred Pete - Sep 15, 2011 9:10:11 am PDT #26396 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
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.
§ ita § - Sep 15, 2011 9:35:10 am PDT #26405 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And is that your fancy evening purse?
That is indeed! Stupid thing cost more than the dress, and I didn't even find a tube of Black Honey stashed in there last night. But it's grey and sparkly and I love it too.
ita !'s whole family is gorgeous.
We do okay. I once asked my mother what it was like growing up pretty and she said she didn't know. I was all aghast and offended on her behalf, as only a sentimental tween can be. She was supposed to know, dammit. I had seen the pictures.
Though the best, the absolute best, are her six pack pics from the 60s. And my dad's corresponding ones. They act all veneer of civilisation and shit, but they were pretty shameless.
Okay, I have just continued to avoid project from hell, and set up the Sharepoint repository for the project from cute. At approximately 1pm I will pay dearly for this, but I think I want to go out and buy a top to wear tomorrow first.