The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by ElizabethVomMarlowe:

Re: #80 Diatryma: I wasn't talking about a zombie apocalypse. For me, any walk is hard. Shopping in the grocery store is hard. I could make it from work to home, but it would take me a couple days, if I lost my car and public transit went splat.

I have a dumb question. I've got a bad knee, so walking anywhere with a backpack (or anything heavy) is hard for me. I live in an urban area. Do you think one of those wheelie carts is a good idea for emergency pack or a bad one?

I was delighted to read about Ann Coulter's (alleged) plagiarism here: Raw Story and expanded post.

Thought you all might enjoy this, as plagiarism is an occasional topic here, and who better to be outed than dear ol' Ann?

Thanks for the replies. I will let them sprawl as they will. They are sort of cute this way.

Question for the tomato rebels. I've got a couple of heirloom style tomato plants planted in cheap pots on my porch. They are sort of sprawling and slouching but they seem to be doing fine. Do you suppose the plants will bear tomatoes without stakes of any kind?

I also got a salwar kameez (indiashop1). Fabulous, fabulous. I thought it was going to be something fairly casual. The fabric appeared to be a nice black with ivy and flowers in red and gold. Ha! It's seriously gorgeous party-wear. Now I just have to find someplace suitably swank to wear it.

It's labelled dry clean only. I normally am a big fan of handwashing, but I don't think I'll even try it with this one. The salwar is a lovely thin crepe stuff with lots of embroidery in not always dye safe colors, and it is also lined. Seems too much to risk for me. I usually dry clean anything that is lined, or is obviously not water friendly, like suit type silk.

I had that happen with the Anita Blake series; so painful. I miss those books! Once the "Sue" aspect took over, I couldn't even reread the old ones. I confess that I actually had a little bit of salvage when I read a bit of fan-fic that put the new badness in a different light (insanity); it was so well-written that it worked for me to end the series.

Michael,
I hope you're right, too. I'm not coming from the perspective that people of Missouri are Sheeples; I think they're poor and desperate. I think they choose the best of the wretched options available; if the feds force an ugly rider onto something important enough, they'll go for what saves as many people as they can, because they're good people.

Most of the wealth *does* come from the cities and states themselves; but it doesn't come from Missouri. If push comes to shove, we would not have enough resources to do it ourselves. I agree that a state like New Jersey surely could tell the feds to stick it. But Missouri telling the feds to f-off would cost us schools, roads, ambulance services, trade, etc.

Teresa writes: "If you've got car-swallowing potholes, and classrooms where the ceilings are falling in, neighborhood clinics are going to get short shrift."

Sometimes you scare me. I live in Missouri, which some folks here may know is planning on getting rid of all medicaid, as well as all child abuse intake centers (yep, all of them) and other social services. Our roads are so bad in my city that rickety metal plates cover deep gaping holes on major roads. It took a special bill to fund repairs--there just was no other money. One year, I lost *both* axels to potholes. Our local schools waffle between acredidation and unaccredidation; the feds threaten to take them over from time to time.

Missouri does what it has to do to cover what it can. If the feds said no more birth control, we'd do it. I'm not saying I agree with Missouri's choices of priorities (I'd prefer a tax increase) but boy can I see how we're ripe to fall. I offer this as food for thought for those who think the cities can stand strong against Dominionists.

I suspect the Dems have their eye on the Supreme Court; it's the last protection of the Constitution. If it means letting in evil lower judges, well okay. Seems like no good options to me.

I'm pretty nearsighted but I do like the soothing-to-my-eyes gray of Making Light and always have. My only current issue is the italics for commentor's names. It makes me sort of queasy to look at it. Also, as someone else mentioned, the bold blue of clicked links isn't really clear to me, but I can live with it.

So far I am not having any issues with the column widths.

Graydon,

You said, "There are no non-Patriarchal religions of any historical significance in written history."

Well there's always classical Athens. Athena had quite the role there in various incarnations (Parthenos, Nike, etc), as did Hera and Demeter and Aphrodite and let's not forget good old Artemis. Sure, there was also Dionysos and Zeus, but the temple of Athena Parthenos is pretty much the best and the Eleusynian mysteries (Demeter related) aren't anything to sneeze at either.

Last time you posted, Teresa, I was so temped by the salwar kameez (kameezes?). This time I caved into bidding. Here's hoping I win.

It's just maddening. Food...what's next? Charging for field dressings?

You might enjoy: http://www.antimagnet.com/ I haven't gotten one, but it did make me laugh.

You have to get Sudafed and Theraflu at the counter at some places near me and other places require an ID or cap amounts (usually only 2). Our local Target sells a shockingly limited amount of pill/powder decongestent products; they have lots and lots of the liquids and gel caps though. Meth labs are a big cottage industry here in the heartland, according to our local news.

Just popping in to say thanks for this wonderful game. I'm without internet for a week while I visit relatives. I thought I'd let you know my attempt was Li Po doing the opening of the Long Goodbye.

Does it help if I say that the title comes from a characterization of a character, made by two other characters, in one of Chandler's works?

I'm too late on Alex's but loved it; the juxtaposition is great.

Lost Dog

Round the city flows the desert;

Eucalyptus look on as

I carry you, wine-drunk and loose limbed,

Like a sage gazing by a pool and carried away by the moon.

Your cab arrives and away we go, together,

To that place you live.

So polite and yet so poor, as some are,

Wealthy in manners and poor in pocket,

Clear voiced and cut with the fashionable knife,

You thanked me, just enough.

Oh the bottle of Scotch and worry for a stranger!

I go on my way, pricked under my skin by the

Sting of empathy, watched by Heaven.


Also hoping there are no negative points! I am so not a poet, but I had a lot of fun. I could not seem to resist.

Thanks Steve! It sounds great. I love a good gothic.

genibee, I remember this method being popular a couple of years ago. Some POD writer got some sales that way and then was interviewed in a magazine. I forget what magazine.

I'm planning on reviewing grammar over break. I wondered if anyone here has read Eats, Shoots and Leaves? Is it fun and good? I want to brush up but have fun at the same time.

Alex,

I'm still struggling, but I learned a lot about plot by taking the advice of one of my favorite writers, Suzanne Brockmann. She said she learned plot and pacing by writing TV scripts (not paid or anything). She said to pick shows you already know and love and then practice the patterns of the show--end on a cliffhanger at commercial breaks, etc. It really helped me because I could tell when I had enough story...or not. For me, a forty five page screenplay is a lot easier to do as an exericse than a 450 page novel. I also really like the Evil Overlord Generates A Plot, by our hostess.

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