The internet is pretty dead. So dead that I've started the Food For Thought course on edX: [link]
Edit: Which I am enjoying!
Spike: Lots of fuss over one girl. Other things to do around here--important things. Angel: You know that whoosh thing you do when you're suddenly not there anymore? I love that.
'Unleashed'
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.
shrift - Jan 27, 2014 5:16:26 pm PST #18330 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Kat - Jan 27, 2014 5:19:33 pm PST #18331 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I hemmed pants last night and repaired a pair of K's krav shorts. Tonight, I helped Grace and Noah do their science fair project. We kept it simple (how maps work) and looked at why you can't make a sphere flat without having extra space on a map.
sarameg - Jan 27, 2014 5:56:27 pm PST #18332 of 30000
Uhg, thought I heard what might have been a quartet of gunshots a couple hours ago. Or ice or tree branches. Checking local crime reporter's tweets, homicide is working 2 blocks north and several over, the one with the jesus victorian under constant renovation on the corner I pass everyday.
This won't make national news, not like the Columbia Mall. Nevermind it is a fairly stable residential street on the cusp, nevermind it is #19 or 20 since Jan 1. It's just Baltimore.
Mutterings mutterings.
Kat - Jan 27, 2014 6:03:51 pm PST #18333 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Ugh, sara. I'm sorry.
sarameg - Jan 27, 2014 6:13:50 pm PST #18334 of 30000
It's just depressing, you know? This city I love, so broken in ways.
(I don't know if I need to clarify this, but this doesn't elicit fear in me. It's not that. It's the complex and sometimes toxic brew of society's -isms on display.)
brenda m - Jan 27, 2014 6:14:30 pm PST #18335 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
This won't make national news, not like the Columbia Mall. Nevermind it is a fairly stable residential street on the cusp, nevermind it is #19 or 20 since Jan 1. It's just Baltimore.
Yeah, I feel you. From here in a city that people on the South Side have taken to calling ChIraq.
sarameg - Jan 27, 2014 6:21:19 pm PST #18336 of 30000
When TAL did the series on the high school in Chicago, I went google-touristing. And so many of those blocks I traversed, yeah, they looked like these blocks of Baltimore. Not the bombed out devastation of N. Monroe and many other areas, but worn but still somewhat tended older family homes. Written off at ChIraq, or Baltimore City.
I don't even know.
javachik - Jan 27, 2014 6:22:47 pm PST #18337 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Chiming in from my beloved Oakland. I hear ya.
lisah - Jan 27, 2014 6:37:30 pm PST #18338 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
Yeah, what sara said.
Steph L. - Jan 27, 2014 6:45:49 pm PST #18339 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
This city I love, so broken in ways.
My neighborhood is fighting SO HARD in the face of gangs and shootings and drug deals that take place in broad daylight. There's so much good in my neighborhood, and so much deep, systemic damage.