Hey y'all. Sorry I disappeared yesterday. I've been working on an actual news site instead of operating out of my personal livejournal.

So! If you still want to get your updates, you can get all the latest information (still provided by me!) at channel4000.com. We are not affiliated with AP, and we generate all our own content and share with our ( Read more... )

This is your friendly neighborhood journalist signing on to tell you she's signing off for a bit.

In the interim, I have comprised a links list of related content:

• Fatigue Evaluation of the Deck-Truss Bridge 9340 from March 2001 [PDF]
  
• ABC News: What it takes to survive
  
• CNN: NTSB begins investigation [a sort of "how this will go down" article]
  
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Holy crap, you guys. A girl was just mugged on our block, and there is blood on our stoop.

She lives in my building, in apartment 17. She was walking home from Lunds with a friend, carrying kitty litter and Tide liquid laundry detergent.

mattador and I were watching LOST, and we heard screaming for help and another woman shouting "let her go." We got ( Read more... )

Um... what happened to my sky?

It was bland and overcast, and now it is furious. I mean, it's 6:30 and it's almost black outside. These clouds aren't fuckin' around. There's gale-force wind, and I'm almost convinced that one of these branches is going to come through our window. This is not good. Plus, they're talking about "large hail" and that ( Read more... )