I freaking love the Paralympics.
ION, I finally did my piece of the reviews of my boss and another coworker! I kind of wish/hope my boss asked some other people for feedback on me, but wasn't confident enough to request it. Ah well.
Nothing worse than a monster who thinks he's right with God.
Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
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.
Jesse - Jul 30, 2012 9:30:28 am PDT #16087 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
sj - Jul 30, 2012 10:17:59 am PDT #16088 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I am still mad at myself for discarding (maybe 3 years ago) my collection of video tapes of ATWT and GL. I think I had every episode from about 1986 - 1991-- maybe longer. I could have put them up on youtube!
A lot of them are up on you tube. I threw out a bunch of tapes too, but the picture quality and sound on them were really poor.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 30, 2012 11:34:43 am PDT #16089 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
For some reason, the alumni of my high school have a face book group to post about people who graduated from that school who have died. A lot of it is remembering people who died while they were in school. Because I come from a small town, there are people who are a good 10 or 15 years older than me who I know as well as people who are younger than I am. Holy moses, it is depressing looking at this long list of kids who died in tractor accidents, football accidents, boating accidents, falling off pick-up trucks, gun accidents and suicides. Not to mention the murder. One thing I can say that is good, is there seemed to be a lot more accidents in the 70's and 80's than now- better safety precautions, less farming and hunting in the community (not that that is necessarily good) less drunk driving.
amyth - Jul 30, 2012 12:03:53 pm PDT #16090 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
§ ita § - Jul 30, 2012 12:31:54 pm PDT #16091 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Falling off pickup trucks? There aren't many good ways to die, but that's really really not one. Please don't do that.
DavidS - Jul 30, 2012 12:50:27 pm PDT #16092 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Falling off pickup trucks? There aren't many good ways to die, but that's really really not one. Please don't do that.
That's how my uncle died in WWII. Fell off the back of a troop carrier and bonked his head. Kaput.
Jesse - Jul 30, 2012 12:56:50 pm PDT #16093 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Uggghhhh. My poor cat puked everywhere today. Granted, my apartment is a nightmare of boxes, so I'm sure he's stressed out in addition to being sick, but now he's hiding in the closet, which is such a recent development, it makes me sad. Poor sick boo!
§ ita § - Jul 30, 2012 12:57:09 pm PDT #16094 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What was the name of that movie where someone's uncle (I think) dies because a pig fell on him (off a balcony, maybe)?
Uh...which is not to make light of your uncle, just that it made me think of the friend whose uncle died in an airplane crash, while he was driving a bus (Italian air traffic control not so good with small planes???), and that always takes me to the pig movie place.
sumi - Jul 30, 2012 1:02:44 pm PDT #16095 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
DavidS - Jul 30, 2012 1:16:26 pm PDT #16096 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Uh...which is not to make light of your uncle,
He was the only good one on that side of the family too.
just that it made me think of the friend whose uncle died in an airplane crash, while he was driving a bus (Italian air traffic control not so good with small planes???), and that always takes me to the pig movie place.
It's something that the military is aware of, but tends to get glossed over, but massive troop deployment always winds up taking its share of casualties on shit like that. I was surprised to find out that friendly fire accounts for about 20% of battle casualties.