September, a good time to invade Poland ( Read more... )

Anybody know why loomisreturns is suspended?! Wtf. They were just asking me about duck penises, and bam! strikethrough.

Dear LJ overlords, bring loomis back again, again. >:(

EDIT: back again: loomis_returns

Has anything new happened to you since August? Pls. summarize. I started reading the flist last night and it's like I haven't missed half a year! I'll get around to selectively reading some journals backwards soon, so here's your chance if you want to flag yours for immediate attention :)

I'll give my update later tonight ( Read more... )

A bit of synchronicity; I am reading some Simone Weil, and got to a bit about Matthew 18:20, "where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them", taken as an endorsement of intimate conversation ( Read more... )

dawn_guy writes (so I don't have to):

One of the disadvantages to the social interconnectedness of the Internet is that it makes it easy for me to be lazy ( Read more... )

New syndicated feed: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/whatwentwrong7/profile
This is vivian_shaw's brand new blog about life's endless litany of disasters. No, not like you taking a drink of curdled milk from the carton, more like Chernobyl blowing up ( Read more... )

Katie West, a.k.a. diosa_en_disfra, wants you to buy her book:
( it doesn't mean you don't have to also get her a wedding present! )

I get into a debate about the supposed moral flaws of a fairy tale about... uh, that's up for discussion it seems. Anarchy, incorrigible children, slavery, racism, classism, white folk, poor parenting, liberals, deracination of middle-class Americans, Shrekism, offending people, sociolinguistics of nomadic South Asians, etc ( Read more... )

I was in quite a lot of pain the last few days radiating from a point under my left shoulder blade and in a band around my chest, and had difficulty breathing; alas, it was neither a new and exciting heart attack nor a nostalgic flare up of pleurisy, but costochondritis, of dread insufficient to merit time off work. The doc at the walk-in blamed ( Read more... )

I don't know for sure that it's just Hotmail that's too blame, but I have verified that I have been receiving only about 5% of notifications I should have been getting. If you think I am rude or ignoring you or ducking questions, chances are I never saw your follow-up to my comments. It's easily enough fixed for comment threads in my own posts ( Read more... )