le n, I saw that, and had to go looking at three more news sites before it seemed like a real thing that happened. 31. Just barely not a kid. And coming right on the heels of the awful news about the deplorable (and depressingly predictable) verdict, completely, idiotically surreal. Oh, Universe, you sick fuck, you.
Simon: I, uh... I never-never shot anyone before. Book: I was there, son. I'm fair sure you haven't shot anyone yet.
'War Stories'
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.
JZ - Jul 14, 2013 1:56:30 am PDT #29124 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Amy - Jul 14, 2013 3:45:30 am PDT #29125 of 30001
Because books.
Cory Monteith, wow. That's shocking.
Jesse - Jul 14, 2013 4:01:55 am PDT #29126 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sad.
Dana - Jul 14, 2013 4:51:26 am PDT #29127 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Holy shit, what a morning to wake up to.
Kat - Jul 14, 2013 4:52:39 am PDT #29128 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Definitely sad about Cory Montieth.
Jessica - Jul 14, 2013 4:55:41 am PDT #29129 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I am sickened and disappointed at the Zimmerman verdict, but not shocked.
How in hell are we still passing laws that make it LEGAL TO KILL PEOPLE?!?
Hadn't you heard? Discrimination against gun-owners is the new civil rights movement. Those poor, poor oppressed gun-owners, with no way to defend themselves against liberal meanies. Oh, except their guns, I guess. They do have those.
Amy - Jul 14, 2013 5:02:41 am PDT #29130 of 30001
Because books.
What's awful is that no one is really talking about Marissa Alexander, the woman who got twenty years for firing warning shots (in her own home) to intimidate her abusive husband. How is this the country we live in?
sj - Jul 14, 2013 5:08:39 am PDT #29131 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
What's awful is that no one is really talking about Marissa Alexander, the woman who got twenty years for firing warning shots (in her own home) to intimidate her abusive husband. How is this the country we live in?
I've actually seen lots of people talking about this, but that may be the bias of the news I watch and the people I follow on Twitter and Facebook.
Laura - Jul 14, 2013 5:09:15 am PDT #29132 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
I am so heartbroken this morning. Trayvon was just like my basketball sons. The dozens of basketball kids that DH has driven home from practices and games for years because he knew it wasn't safe for them to walk home. I can't even type about it without crying. They can expect to be hugged hard as I see them in the next few weeks, not that they will find that unusual.
I'm listening to news, but may have to turn it off. I want to hope for some justice in the federal courts or civil courts, but the pain of the failure of court's justice is too blinding to see through at the moment.
I have about a hundred pages of A Storm of Swords to finish today and then will dive into A Feast for Crows. I think I need to bury myself in treachery and murder that is fiction for a time. It is so much less painful.
Sheryl - Jul 14, 2013 5:15:53 am PDT #29133 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
The news...ugh, just awful.