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bratenfrau

Burned like brilliant trash at your funeral.

Aug 29, 2007 14:49

I'm feelin' pretty full-up of maudlin melancholia and bitter longing today, boys and girls, as I am prone to being every year about this time. August 29th rolls around and I get to sentimentalizing and eulogizing and it usually devolves into anger and sadness ( Read more... )

unburdenings, nawlins, saddest post ever

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bratenfrau August 30 2007, 01:49:45 UTC

Awww. Thank you. Glad I didn't just manage to bum out the entire intarwebz for no good reason. :)

I FUCKING LOVE GREG PALAST. Thank you thank you. And also HOLY CHRIST I'M ALL ANGRY YET AGAIN. Goddammit.

You should really go. Give it about five years, though. It will probably take at least that long to clear out all the flipping garbage and let the rich assey white people finish building their federally-insured megacondo complexes and all.

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bratenfrau August 30 2007, 01:56:53 UTC

Hahahaha. Oh, honey, apparently you've never heard of a little place I like to call FLORIDA!? Or... The South in General? Grr.

I guess the era of uberdevelopment happens to be a crisis all over the country, huh. Stupid rich assey white people. We need to create a special fancypants leper colony just for them. That way, they could have their very own Starbucks, Neiman Marcus and Whole Foods, and never have to leave the comfort of their own Stepford!

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bratenfrau August 30 2007, 02:26:09 UTC

Yeah, I think it's Duty Numero Uno as landlord to, you know, make sure your tenants aren't in danger of falling through any crumbling floors or having big chunks of their bathroom walls suddenly going missing, etc. Starbucks would be a DISTANT NUMERO DOS. Stupid stupid stupid.

It's exactly the same deal here, except we don't have any old buildings. So they're just knocking down crappy regular-people condos and building fancier new rich-people condos. Ah, the irony.

:| ljvscmr August 30 2007, 00:05:55 UTC

That would be me, aforementioned, that this got showed to.

Wow. I was brick-to-the-head-ed by your eulogy celebrating a place now gone. The way you described it made the tale snap through the computer screen.

bratenfrau, best of luck from someone you've never met.

And to the people fighting to build a new community in what was once New Orleans, good luck too.

Good luck to everyone who deserves it.

Re: :| bratenfrau August 30 2007, 01:52:45 UTC

Wow. I'm flattered to be a brick to anyone's head. Heh. Thanks for reading. And thanks to you as well for the Palast article. Damn it all. I'm pissed off all over again. WHY DO WE LIVE UNDER SUCH A STUPID FUCKING REGIME IN A NATION FULL OF PEOPLE WHO ARE FUCKING STUPID ENOUGH TO ELECT HIM... TWICE!?

Oh wait. We didn't. Either time. Okay. Feeling ever so marginally better now. But not really. Thanks again for that as well, Greg. Eesh.

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