This font article was linked to from here, right? I'm reading the comments, and it's a delight watching people get het up about something I don't give the slightest fuck about. It's really relaxing. Because they care. Oh, god, they CARE. And I imagine someone skimmed my argument about the changes in English or some Supernatural canon issue with the same amused detachment. At least I hope so. Instead of writing the commenter off as psycho obsessed.
The next time you decide to stab me in the back... have the guts to do it to my face.
Mal ,'Ariel'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
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.
§ ita § - Nov 14, 2011 7:17:45 am PST #6493 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Kathy A - Nov 14, 2011 7:23:59 am PST #6494 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Happy birthday to ChiKat!!!
Strix - Nov 14, 2011 7:28:26 am PST #6495 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Happy Birthday, ChiKat!!
Consuela - Nov 14, 2011 7:37:12 am PST #6496 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Happy Birthday, ChiKat!
The Vonsuena Objection is noted.
Heh. I see what you did there.
So the cops started removing the Occupy Oakland encampment at like 4 AM this morning. Which meant that all of downtown was fenced off, and my bus got rerouted. Still ended up getting to work on time, though, oddly enough. So far it's all been peaceful, even the arrests are quiet (yay!).
I saw someone online yesterday comment that the Occupy movement appears to have developed into a protest about the right to camp out indefinitely. Which strikes me as somewhat distant from the original point. Surely there are other forms of protest that could be used?
sumi - Nov 14, 2011 7:40:27 am PST #6497 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Happy Birthday, ChiKat!
tommyrot - Nov 14, 2011 7:43:29 am PST #6498 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Surely there are other forms of protest that could be used?
I'm not sure what else. I mean, no one cares when there's a march on Washington. At least not the media, anyway.
le nubian - Nov 14, 2011 7:50:13 am PST #6499 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I am having a shitty Monday! I hope others are having a better one.
If not, check out this video of an 8 month old tree kangaroo:
Jesse - Nov 14, 2011 7:51:02 am PST #6500 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Here's an interesting interview with the author of that Single Women Atlantic article: [link]
Consuela - Nov 14, 2011 7:54:01 am PST #6501 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I'm not sure what else. I mean, no one cares when there's a march on Washington. At least not the media, anyway.
Daily marches. Letter brigades. Phone calls. Pizza deliveries. Balloons. Boycotts. Each day block the entrance to a different bank.
The point of the projects originally was economic injustice; but the camps have become about the camps themselves, so far as I can tell. They're losing the middle ground of citizens who won't or wouldn't participate in the occupation, but have sympathy for concerns about the economy. The more the narrative becomes about the occupiers themselves and the conditions inside the encampments, the less it is about the inequities in the financial system.
javachik - Nov 14, 2011 7:56:01 am PST #6502 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
What makes me sad about Occupy Oakland is that my city is already so completely in shambles that the OO thing is making it worse. It's a broke-ass city that already can't afford necessary police. And its very delicate downtown infrastructure (economy-wise) can't withstand the losses. So the effect of this protest against the 1% is ONLY fucking other 99%. Can't they go somewhere that actually targets the 1%?
I think in general, the OWS movement is necessary. But I don't agree with a lot that's happening around it.