Yes, and you reminded her she was there and so did not let her off the hook. That's pretty awesome.
What Scrappy Said.
I want to torture you. I used to love it, and it's been a long time. I mean, the last time I tortured someone, they didn't even have chainsaws.
Angel ,'Chosen'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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 - Nov 23, 2012 2:23:10 pm PST #1919 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Jesse - Nov 23, 2012 2:27:07 pm PST #1920 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Anyway, sorry you had a shitty day, Tom.
§ ita § - Nov 23, 2012 2:56:58 pm PST #1921 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I say we engage in revisionist history and revise Tom's day up a grade or two. It takes guts to get as far as you did, Tom. People live and die without airing that much about destructive pasts. That's what helps making them a past and not a present.
In Jamaica pretty much no one has indigenous blood. The colonisers were an extinction level event, in the end. Just not enough space for them to flee, or enough for there to be low-value land that could be written off.
At least as far as we were taught, the Spaniards tried to enslave them, and the Taino did not survive the experiment.
Once you toss out the claims to all sorts of noble English blood having leaked in via raping the staff, the other "cool" heritage is Maroon, but there's nothing genetic there. Just the idea that your forbears managed to escape slavery and plague both the Spanish and the British enough to earn an exhausted detente and self-imposed exile which gave some measure of protection from cultural assimilation, the effects of which can still be seen today.
There was a police car outside the Best Buy I passed on the way home. Go deh, Black Friday, go deh.
msbelle - Nov 23, 2012 2:58:28 pm PST #1922 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Tom, I am in awe of you. Despite being raised by two people who were hurtful, selfish, and mean - YOU are none of those things. You are a joy and a love.
Lee - Nov 23, 2012 3:14:58 pm PST #1923 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
msbelle is smart as well as nice.
erikaj - Nov 23, 2012 3:22:46 pm PST #1924 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
Oh, Scola. We did an absolutely phony "Keeping it Together" show for my grandma.She's much sicker than I knew, even though I did know she turned 82 today.
Burrell - Nov 23, 2012 3:36:57 pm PST #1925 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
What everyone has said, Tom. You are great, you've risen so far above all the hardships of your childhood. And you totes get to take credit for confronting your mom. But on the other hand, it does sound like a crappy Thanksgiving. I think that means you get to make it up throughout the year with random meals of AWESOMENESS and feelings of gratitude.
-t - Nov 23, 2012 3:41:37 pm PST #1926 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Good for you saying as much as you did, Scola! That's not easy.
Dana - Nov 23, 2012 3:47:32 pm PST #1927 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Okay! Back from caroling in the park! Would have been more enjoyable if it was not raining!
flea - Nov 23, 2012 3:59:52 pm PST #1928 of 30001
information libertarian
I hear it never rains in Albuquerque, and you can Christmas carol in your tank top.
mr. flea leaves for China tomorrow at 7am and I have to think of something to do with the children all weekend, when I've spent 10 hours with them in the car this week already and the weather is going to be crappy. Ugh.