1) Bravo! (holds up lighter, as I don't have a cell phone)
2) I'm at work shedding viruses like crazy all over everyone here because if I don't, I won't have a job. They don't care if I can work efficiently, but by gum my butt better be in this seat... Corporate America isn't all that good with logic.
delurking to report that I just laughed up a lung... thanks!
(cranky celiac delurking) Why did I read this thread? Why??? (sobs)
I'll have to drown my sorrows with a nice gluten-free Dragon's Gold from Bard's Tale Beer.
Ms. Jen @ 66: Eek! Nasal cross-contamination! ;)
(delurk) (grumble grumble darn celiac sprue) (relurk)
Scorpio (#108), albatross (#161): That's a far more positive interpretation of the scene than I came away with. Thanks!
Scorpio @22: But didn't Eddie end up stranded in the middle of the desert? I always thought he didn't survive the book... which pissed me off, as he was my favorite character. (/relurk)
Ahh, the sweet freedom of not giving a fsck... I'm a nerd. I don't have to have the latest look. Shoot, I wouldn't know it if it ran me over in a Hummer.
betsy: "personally, i just signed up to be an election judge."
What a great idea! I'm a wage slave, so I don't have the time (if I understand correctly how the election judge thing works), but my husband is a stay at home dad... I'll suggest this to him.
Elizabeth: "My rule was this--I could only read news (or political blogs or whatever) if I then took some kind of action."
Another excellent idea, and perhaps the impetus I need to get OFF MY ASS and do something.... shee-yah, right. Ah, well, a girl can dream.
Tiercel: Way back in high school, I played accompaniment for a friend who sang "Poisoning Pigeons" for various talent shows and one locally aired telethon*. I love that song, and inevitably start singing it to myself when spring threatens (as it does now -- sniffle).
* So now, when somebody asks "how are you", I can legitmately answer, "As seen on TV", which I alternate with "Life-like" and "Actual size".
PS: I can't even finish a short story, much less a novel. I come here for a fandom fix between conventions.
Tiercel: Alas, when I listen to Tom Lehrer I start thinking, "He wrote this 40 years ago and this shit is still going on?" and I get even more depressed. :(
ers: I wonder, do Doc Martens count as Liberal Democratic Jackboots?
Is that from the same one that had "strange because they were frightening; frightening because they were strange"? Love it, in an "ow my head my head" sort of way.
My town (Spokane, WA) got the honor of receiving PETA's "Santa's not coming this Christmas -- milk causes impotence" billboard, complete with a sad Santa looking down the front of his pants.
Story: http://www.msnbc.com/local/KHQ/M343544.asp?0LA=aap9&cp1=1
Gee, I think I AM America: I carry a Swiss army knife in my pocket and a Gerber pocket tool on my belt. For my 21st birthday I got a concealed carry permit (long expired, alas; ran out of money for renewals) and a target pistol. A friend gave my husband and I a 22 caliber rifle for a wedding present. My father was a reserve deputy, and I inherited his service pistol. And I briefly carried a .38 after a scary encounter at the bus stop, but stopped after a few weeks when I realized I wasn't morally ready to shoot somebody. (I call it my "steel teddy-bear" phase.)
As soon as the kid is tall enough to handle a weapon, we're going to teach her how to shoot. Like Jeremy Leader, we've long ago started on basic gun safety.
(Oh, and we taught our daughter where food comes from in no uncertain terms. Toddler looks out the window on car trip: "Cows!" "Mmm-hmm, honey, we eat cows." "Cows are tasty!")
Graydon, you have a very good point. There's very little I wouldn't do to feed my daughter. Giving into soul-crushing conformity would be on the "easy" end of the spectrum.
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