I'm watching PBS tonight: it's a special on Billie Jean King, and the clips of the various journalists and announcers are just... horrifying. I lived through this, although I was a child, and it amazes me how far we've come. It was so patronizing, so snide and sneering. Gah.
A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything.
Wash ,'The Message'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
Consuela - Sep 10, 2013 7:27:44 pm PDT #4864 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Kat - Sep 10, 2013 7:51:43 pm PDT #4865 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Burrell, yes. And kids in other districts (we're in Glendale) will also be off!
le nubian - Sep 10, 2013 7:59:56 pm PDT #4866 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
OMG, it didn't really hit me that tomorrow is September 11th. Damn. I will come see you all, but I think I might stay off twitter.
Trudy Booth - Sep 10, 2013 8:19:28 pm PDT #4867 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
They need to start putting together gardens and shit. Figuring out how to use what animals they have left. Get out pens and paper and figure how long resources might last.
The episode where they'd gone all Lord of the Flies and had a fight club was DAY 8! On day 14 they finally had a town meeting. IDEK
I did see the one where the tornado-looking cloud was swirling. How are they getting weather inside that thing? Or is better not to ask?
Sometimes? But possibly not always. Rain permeates (when required by plot, anyway) but a bomb meant to take out the county does not.
I was under the impression that the weather system was inside the dome. Though that could have been my mind desperately filling in plot holes...
I'm in an unhealthy relationship with this show. I sit here yelling at the television. I keep swearing I wont' watch it again and then I do -- it's worse than Copper for hell's sake.
If the kid who plays Jr. can act at all, though, he's going to have an amazing career.
WindSparrow - Sep 10, 2013 10:50:23 pm PDT #4868 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
I can't write more than about 500 hundred words of fanfic unless I yell, "Oh come on, I can write better than that!" at least once. But then, not since Star Trek: Voyager have I stuck with a show that caused me to say it more than three times. Not that I'm watching The Dome.
Jessica - Sep 11, 2013 3:04:39 am PDT #4869 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
So the NYC mayoral election will be between a guy who wants to send every kid in the city to pre-K, and a guy who thinks MTA trains should be allowed to run over kittens. This should be fun!
sarameg - Sep 11, 2013 3:44:02 am PDT #4870 of 30000
Getting stuck behind an idiot driver with political bumper stickers that are not only inaccurate but riddled with bad grammar and misplaced apostrophes makes me very mean in my head.
Tom Scola - Sep 11, 2013 3:44:15 am PDT #4871 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Yesterday was only the third most humiliating day in Anthony Weiner’s life: [link]
Sophia Brooks - Sep 11, 2013 3:47:32 am PDT #4872 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
My poor mother was in labor with me when the Billie Jean King match was on. She didn't have a partner, and her father and brothers didn't want to take her to the hospital until the match was over!
Jesse - Sep 11, 2013 3:50:45 am PDT #4873 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I thought Joe Lhota was the kitten-killer!