Ewww, Meara.
Oh, wow, they're playing The Waterboys' "The Whole of the Moon". Man, I loved that song.
Me too.
This is my boat. They're part of my crew. No one's getting left. Best you get used to that.
Mal ,'Ariel'
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.
Sue - Apr 20, 2012 8:55:15 am PDT #1807 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Consuela - Apr 20, 2012 8:58:47 am PDT #1808 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Eewww, meara. That's awful, and gross.
-t - Apr 20, 2012 8:59:43 am PDT #1809 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, meara, how awful! And that's annoying that the police never got back to you after they said they would.
Steph L. - Apr 20, 2012 8:59:52 am PDT #1810 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Or perhaps as: excuse me, ELDER God?
No good can come of dating Yad-Thaddag.
However, when I left my house this morning to go get coffee...there was puke all down my front door.
That's just adding insult to injury. Bleargh.
amych - Apr 20, 2012 9:05:21 am PDT #1811 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I love the census map. My census tract is almost equally black and white, but much less hispanic than I would've guessed. (On the other hand, my immediate neighborhood -- i.e. the few blocks in each direction that my gut feeling calls "right here" -- is a much closer balance, so at least my gut feeling isn't totes crazy.)
Sophia Brooks - Apr 20, 2012 9:10:05 am PDT #1812 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
meara- ewwww.
I was shocked to find out that the part of the city I thought was predominantly black was about 50/50 black and hispanic, and a neighborhood that I thought of as a very even mix (it is the neighborhood near the school where I want to buy a house) was about 90% black/10% white.
javachik - Apr 20, 2012 9:11:08 am PDT #1813 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
amych, speaking of hispanics in NC, the best Mexican food I've ever had (and closest to actual food I ate in Mexico) was in my grandfather's hometown of Troy, NC. I thought it was so weird! But the restaurant manager talked to me for quite a long time and educated me about the emigration out of Mexico up the Eastern seaboard. Fascinating. And oh my dog I still salivate thinking about that shrimp dish.
Sophia Brooks - Apr 20, 2012 9:11:27 am PDT #1814 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I also just realized it is 4/20 and I have to go to campus because I signed up to do costume maintenance. And my students will probably be high!
Liese S. - Apr 20, 2012 9:17:25 am PDT #1815 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Ha. Half my friendslist is high today.
amych - Apr 20, 2012 9:19:26 am PDT #1816 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
NC (along with a few other southern states) has had the fastest-growing latino population in the country (not the largest overall) for about a generation now. It's been fascinating to see in action: when I moved here, new immigrants were just starting to settle permanently after an earlier generation had primarily worked migrant jobs; now the population has become much more city-based, whole-family-based (i.e. no longer just single workers), having kids, parents naturalizing and starting a ton of businesses. Cultural and attitude shifts on the part of both the previous population and the immigrants. The whole American immigration story, basically. We've been lucky to have less of the ugliness that some states have had (which isn't to say none at all, of course).
Troy is awfully far inland for good shrimp, though.