Safety and good wishes to all those in Isaac's path! Have my fingers crossed for you all.
I know I'm a bad poet, but I'm a good man. All I ask is that... is that you try to see me—
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
le nubian - Aug 26, 2012 8:03:21 pm PDT #19599 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
erin_obscure - Aug 27, 2012 1:57:49 am PDT #19600 of 30001
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
During a drunken evening years ago a friend commented that the texture of mushrooms reminded him of cock (he enjoyed both). Now every time I hear anyone specify that they don't like the texture of mushrooms, I assume that they also don't (or wouldn't) enjoy performing fellatio.
Jessica - Aug 27, 2012 3:14:23 am PDT #19601 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Kat, wow. I would love to do something like that if only I had the freezer space.
Stay safe, NOLAistas!
Jesse - Aug 27, 2012 3:26:04 am PDT #19602 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Good luck, smonster and Nora!
That's amazing, Kat.
amyth - Aug 27, 2012 3:32:57 am PDT #19603 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Safety and much good luck to you, smonster and Nora!
Kat, I'm in awe.
Nora Deirdre - Aug 27, 2012 4:20:04 am PDT #19604 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Mayor Landrieu, during his afternoon press conference today, recommended stay and shelter. Nora, as far as I saw the projected path hasn't changed, nor has time of landfall. Did I miss something, or is it just people's nervousness growing as it gets closer?
Ah, Jindal called for voluntary evac of low lying areas, Orleans Parish being among them, and then there were some Facebook reports of a weather dude (Bob Breck, I think?) who had been pooh-poohing the whole system, doubling back on that and freaking that people should evacuate tomorrow morning.
However, looks like Isaac is continuing to shift westward and strength has downgraded to Cat 1, for now. It's still a TS right now, though.
Jesse - Aug 27, 2012 6:00:33 am PDT #19605 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Consuela - Aug 27, 2012 6:17:18 am PDT #19606 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Yay! Thanks, Jesse. My day needs some dog-shaming.
There's been a run of bad luck around here. My nicest coworker has pancreatic cancer, and appears to be not doing well--she is still working, but only part-time, and was unable to stand up for an award in a meeting last week.
My sister's oldest high school friend, who already had, and survived, Hodgkin's Lymphoma in college, has just told us she has stage 4 metastatic breast cancer.
And my cousin's oldest son, who has had medical problems all his life because he was mis-diagnosed with Lime disease and developed epilepsy as a boy, died of a seizure last week.
Plus both my SIL and one of my climbing pals lost their fathers in the last few months.
I feel like the universe is trying to tell me something, and it's not good.
Jesse - Aug 27, 2012 6:42:46 am PDT #19607 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh man, that's a lot, Consuela. I would hope the only thing the universe is saying is that shit happens, and a lot of it is happening to people you know right now.
msbelle - Aug 27, 2012 6:46:06 am PDT #19608 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
also Fuck Cancer.