News From My Sister, A-Rod: Evil Prankster, LJ Deletes Support Groups and Slash Fiction
So my oldest sister did this awesome thing today.
So I'm at work and it's about 4:00pm. As I'm going through the closing procedure, my oldest sister Davelyn calls.
Now, my car is in he driveway until I get it insured and the plates put on/registered with DMV. We had just gotten a really bad thunderstorm, and her house in particular got a lot of lightning and hail. So she calls me and says she has some bad news. She informs me that a bolt hit a tree next to the house, knocked over a branch, and it landed on the car.
She describes the damage in great detail, saying that the hood and windshield are both completely totaled. She asked if I had gotten it insured, and I say no. At this point, I'm freaking out. I'm thinking about all the damn money I've unnecessarily put into this car, and envisioning the damage and over $1,000 being flushed down a toilet.
I stop for a moment and realize something. I say to her "well wait, that falls under your homeowner's insurance anyway." She responds questionably, saying that she's not sure that's the case. Then something else hit me.
"...wait, the only trees there are seven foot pines, and they're nowhere near that car."
The bitch did it just to get a rise out of me. I'm not sure how I can adequately convey how convincing she was on the phone. Like, it should've been recorded so she could receive an award for her performance.
So I start laughing, and I asked her why she really called. "Oh no, that's it" she said. "I was just sitting here waiting to take the kids to go see 'Shrek the Third' and said to myself 'I've got to get Kevin good'."
And she did. The end.
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Since everybody's chiming in...
"Thousands of LiveJournal customers are rebelling against the company's recent decision to censor hundreds of sex-themed discussion groups, a broad swath that has led to the removal of literary critiques and fan-written fiction about Harry Potter."
Oh no! Not Harry Potter Fan Fiction! Those MONSTERS!
Seriously, I read the part about Harry Potter fan fiction being deleted, then later on that they were searching specifically for the tags "rape", "pedophilia", and "incest"...and I cringed. I think I died a little inside, too.
I know there's an actual issue here (specifically that the folks at Six Apart didn't take a look at the journals and communities and instead just deleted them en masse by tags rather than taking the thirty seconds necessary to look at the journals/communities in question), but the Harry Potter thing was just too much. Some are saying that Slash Fiction should be taken off LJ entirely. But if they did that, there'd be what - 100 of us left? And what would Maeve do with all her free time?
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So the Yankees yesterday finally won a game, but not without controversy.
Hey, a win's a win, even if it has to come as the result of A-Rod swiping the patented "7th Grade Gym Class" strategy of yelling at people while you're running by them to do it. I really don't know whether to shake my head in shame and disgust or just laugh that it was actually attempted in the Majors.
More later...
So I'm at work and it's about 4:00pm. As I'm going through the closing procedure, my oldest sister Davelyn calls.
Now, my car is in he driveway until I get it insured and the plates put on/registered with DMV. We had just gotten a really bad thunderstorm, and her house in particular got a lot of lightning and hail. So she calls me and says she has some bad news. She informs me that a bolt hit a tree next to the house, knocked over a branch, and it landed on the car.
She describes the damage in great detail, saying that the hood and windshield are both completely totaled. She asked if I had gotten it insured, and I say no. At this point, I'm freaking out. I'm thinking about all the damn money I've unnecessarily put into this car, and envisioning the damage and over $1,000 being flushed down a toilet.
I stop for a moment and realize something. I say to her "well wait, that falls under your homeowner's insurance anyway." She responds questionably, saying that she's not sure that's the case. Then something else hit me.
"...wait, the only trees there are seven foot pines, and they're nowhere near that car."
The bitch did it just to get a rise out of me. I'm not sure how I can adequately convey how convincing she was on the phone. Like, it should've been recorded so she could receive an award for her performance.
So I start laughing, and I asked her why she really called. "Oh no, that's it" she said. "I was just sitting here waiting to take the kids to go see 'Shrek the Third' and said to myself 'I've got to get Kevin good'."
And she did. The end.
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Since everybody's chiming in...
"Thousands of LiveJournal customers are rebelling against the company's recent decision to censor hundreds of sex-themed discussion groups, a broad swath that has led to the removal of literary critiques and fan-written fiction about Harry Potter."
Oh no! Not Harry Potter Fan Fiction! Those MONSTERS!
Seriously, I read the part about Harry Potter fan fiction being deleted, then later on that they were searching specifically for the tags "rape", "pedophilia", and "incest"...and I cringed. I think I died a little inside, too.
I know there's an actual issue here (specifically that the folks at Six Apart didn't take a look at the journals and communities and instead just deleted them en masse by tags rather than taking the thirty seconds necessary to look at the journals/communities in question), but the Harry Potter thing was just too much. Some are saying that Slash Fiction should be taken off LJ entirely. But if they did that, there'd be what - 100 of us left? And what would Maeve do with all her free time?
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So the Yankees yesterday finally won a game, but not without controversy.
Hey, a win's a win, even if it has to come as the result of A-Rod swiping the patented "7th Grade Gym Class" strategy of yelling at people while you're running by them to do it. I really don't know whether to shake my head in shame and disgust or just laugh that it was actually attempted in the Majors.
More later...