PNH @11: Whoops! Mea culpa - I blame the sleepiness.
Wow. Just . . . wow.
I'm also narcoleptic, albeit of a more subdued variety. My
constellation of symptoms doesn't include catalepsy, but I've got all
the rest.
I had never heard about the connection with writing. I just knew that I fell asleep at the computer an awful
lot and that pieces of a length greaterthan flash fiction were
difficult to maintain voice, POV, pacing, and nearly everything else.
Still, the writing continues, with whatever new work around is getting
it done this week.
Thanks, Teresa. It's always good to hear you're not alone.
40 - That sent me scrambling to find the Sepulveda Basin on a map - just west of the pass and the 405, yes?
I suppose it's what I get for posting in the wee small hours of my morning, but I wasn't very clear - when I said "not built for it," I meant it in both a natural (soil composition and elevation)and human-constructed sense. My town in Ohio was pretty much wiped off the map by a trio of angry rain-swollen rivers in 1913, leading to an elaborate levy system that we all learned about as school kids. I do NOT mock the destructive capacity of fire, water, or wind.
We were lucky in LA proper, actually - we were slated to get three storms, but the first one passed north of us and blew over semis trying to cross the desert. Only one fatality associated with storm #2, and storm #3 still pending.
Blogger Here in Van Nuys has some interesting pictures from previous heavy rains - 1938 and '52. The '38 picture shows the part of the LA River I cross every day. A very different view. But the dangerous combination of water and SoCal hasn't changed much.
Here on the backside of the Hollywood Hills, we got about 12 solid hours of rain, and having just moved here from the midwest, my observation is that this place is just not set up to handle it. According to the papers, the SFV got most of the flooding.
Major roads have dips built into them (to slow people down? Sort of an inverse speed bump?) that become foot-deep creeks at times like this. We live on the LA "River", which is usually a thin strip of water running down the middle of a 50-yd-wide concrete gully. Yesterday, when I was walking home from the bus stop, the whole basin was full and moving at break neck speed.
This is the second of three storms we're supposed to get; the first missed us but hit SF. And while I agree with Stephan @#8 about the "sky is falling" tone, the truth is they really are not used to this out here.
Caroline @36: I'm glad you explained it - I was going to, but couldn't really word it well.
On a related note, to the "$20 AND a blowjob?" chorus - through my husband's line of work (he's a musician), we became socially acquainted with a number of "swinger" couples. Strangest quote I've ever heard one man say to another in a bar?
"If I buy you cocaine, will you sleep with my wife?"
This is why I leave my house; the world is where they keep the good stories.
As I was sounding out the excerpt, it took me right back to one of my favorite college professors, who spoke beautiful old and middle English, and taught me the Pearl Poet one summer.
I love texts like this because my eyes won't scan them, but if I say it aloud phonetically, the words magically resolve themselves into something familiar. A delightful form of code-cracking - thanks!
This was the MySpace message I sent Mark in Salt Lake City earlier:
Subject: Son, the internet caught you with your pants down
You've taken down your typepad blog. Probably for the best.
If you want to be a writer, or even if you don't, stop stealing other people's work and trying to pass it off as your own.
The internet is watching.
His Murderous Vegans
Salon's Carol Lloyd's Murderous Vegans
He's lucky he wasn't more widely read (most of his 'posts' have 0 comments) or people might take his little transgression more seriously. Like lawsuit seriously.
You know what's sad? He's probably thrilled to see his page views climbing this morning; little does he know it's to seal his doom. *cackling whilst screenshooting*
Looks like the reporter has graduated, at least from this.
Wow. That's just, kinda, astounding.
Does it say something positive about my outlook on humanity that I'm actually surprised?
And I second Susan: Who is this guy?
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