Gunfire or Fireworks? has been a common game around here this summer.
FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S TRUE. And I love the poster for the Loop.
Yep. The Wicker Park one is pretty funny, too.
Tell me more good stuff about me.
Kaylee ,'The Message'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
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.
aurelia - Jul 13, 2012 9:14:42 pm PDT #13804 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Cass - Jul 13, 2012 9:30:10 pm PDT #13805 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Gunfire or Fireworks? has been a common game around here this summer.
I played a lot of Earthquake or Truck in San Diego. Mostly I waited to see if LAistas immediately posted. Then I discovered the USGS site.
meara - Jul 13, 2012 9:41:26 pm PDT #13806 of 30001
Yeah, I'm wondering how I'll find out--I guess if the neighborhood blog has a dramatic story in the morning, I'll know. They let anyone post, if they want, and last week there was someone all "what was that big bang and the police and stuff at 5AM at 24th and Judkins?!?" and it turned out that was the po-po raiding the anarchists and the big bang was busting down the front door. Drama!!
bon bon - Jul 13, 2012 10:15:55 pm PDT #13807 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Twitter searches are also good for aggregating local stuff.
Calli - Jul 14, 2012 3:10:03 am PDT #13808 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm big on buying and storing books for vacation. So I have about 30 books I've bought this year where I downloaded them read a page or two to make sure they came through properly, and then set them aside. I guess I'm misleading the monitors--I'm not really that picky, honest!
Kat - Jul 14, 2012 4:02:19 am PDT #13809 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
le nubian and Amy, I think Gone Girl starts really slowly. She plants many clues and redundantly repeats them. Then midway through, she shifts the story in a pretty dramatic way that casts a new light on everything in the first half, which is cool and more compelling, frankly.
But both characters are patently unlikeable and I'm just not that interested in what happens to them now that I have the general gist of what happened to them. And then when I spoiled myself for the ending, it was fucked enough that I felt "enh.now I don't have to read to find out." So definitely read it if you aren't planning on spoil yourself and you'll want to know how to get to the end.
Amy, I think I ultimately like Post Apocalpytic better too. Have you read Starters? The writer lives in my neighborhood, I think. It was... okay. But part of that string of YA post apocalyptic that is the new vampire. My issue is that she is on a dystopian panel at Comic-Con and... she's just not writing dystopia!
Kat - Jul 14, 2012 4:07:19 am PDT #13810 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Awesome infographic of good storytelling by Pixar: [link] I should figure out how to posterize it and put it in my classroom.
Sheryl - Jul 14, 2012 4:40:21 am PDT #13811 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
We had a bit of rain this morning, which I slept through. Today will be "only" in the mid-80s, and then we go back to sauna level temps. Ah, summer in DC.
Theodosia - Jul 14, 2012 4:53:47 am PDT #13812 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"
My local neighborhood (davis_square) has a community Livejournal account that has a regularly used tag "What Was THAT?" that often gets answered promptly -- it's actually kind of handy. And the Somerville official spokesperson for city hall, the delightfully named Tom Champion (who has a voice to match) makes sure to post announcements of interest to the neighborhood.
Jesse - Jul 14, 2012 4:58:24 am PDT #13813 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My mother doesn't get all the fuss over Tom Champion, which makes me laugh.