There are exceptions, the quadrants aren't symmetrical, and then there are the diagonals. DC only makes fake sense! And I lived there for four years.
Zoe: She shot you. Mal: Well, yeah, she did a bit... still --
'Serenity'
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 - Jun 15, 2012 4:54:29 pm PDT #9916 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
beekaytee - Jun 15, 2012 4:58:21 pm PDT #9917 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
Lately, the people who have been feeling my Tourist Rage are the people standing in the bike lane on the Brooklyn Bridge to take pictures.
Mine used to be the folks standing in the middle of a major highway to grab snaps of the cherry blossoms at the tidal basin. My solutions? I don't go there March-May.
I am a directions giver on a pretty regular basis. It intrigues me the percentage of people who actually seem offended that I ask, even when it is obvious they are lost. All I ever say is, "Can I help you find something?" Not any kind of snarky 'you look lost' or anything.
eta: on the other hand, there are plenty of people who seem surprised and relieved to get the help. There was that one couple from Denmark who offered to take me to lunch for saving them from a huge navigational error. (I declined. They looked beat lower than a gopher's belly.)
Sue - Jun 15, 2012 5:11:07 pm PDT #9918 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Yes. I also fantasize about it being a story on This American Life
Yes!
smonster - Jun 15, 2012 5:31:07 pm PDT #9919 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Yes. I also fantasize about it being a story on This American Life
OMG. That would be kind of awesome. But then, think of the newbies.
erikaj - Jun 15, 2012 5:43:53 pm PDT #9920 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
whose? TV Tropes? Is it wrong if I don't care? We all had to learn it...why shouldn't they? I should sic David Simon on him...they could have a war of words that lasted for *years*, I mean, unless my fictional husband wanted to destroy him early and put out his corpse as a warning to others.(Um, not that I fantasize about it or anything. But it's still kind of news to Simon(And his shiny...well, actually, fucking grimy and downbeat, new blog, that people talk a lot of crap on the internet. I think he would HATE knowing how much worse it could get and that he took my and several others' Wire-love in vain to spread his bullshit.)
Aims - Jun 15, 2012 5:44:58 pm PDT #9921 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Aims - Jun 15, 2012 5:45:58 pm PDT #9922 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Ok, so. Eve Ensler is flying into Lansing on Monday and along with a bunch of female members of the state legislators is doing a performance of The Vagina Monologues at the capitol building. I totally want to go, and I think it would be fantastic for Em, but I admit I am worried a bit about the language in the monologues.
Would I be shirking my motherly duty in teaching her that her ladyparts aren't a dirty word and shouldn't be considered thus if I drop her at my sister's house nearby and go?
erikaj - Jun 15, 2012 5:47:59 pm PDT #9923 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
I don't know...how old is she now?
Aims - Jun 15, 2012 5:48:30 pm PDT #9924 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
She is seven.
Jesse - Jun 15, 2012 5:50:30 pm PDT #9925 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Nah, it's pretty adult in various ways, as I recall.