Yesterday, a young black man was apprehended at a BART station. Honestly, in the upshot of things, why makes no nevermind. Its Rodney King all over again, white officer, black captive. During the course of trying to control him and his friend, the white officer shot the young black man dead.

The news reported that young man was shot in the back ( Read more... )

My self esteem, as we all know, is far from sterling. Having added a good 40 extra pounds of baggage to my already somewhat chubby figure hasn't helped matters any. I have back folds. I don't fit into my fat jeans. Its a sad sad thing.

And, of course, I'm one of those women who always has it all go to her waist, giving me a butt the size of the ( Read more... )

My bus was almost hit by a car this morning.

We come near the Lake Merritt Bart station, and we see...nothing but firetrucks. The area is plastered with them. Its 6am, not another noise in the city, not a soul stirring, but here there is a gathering of fireman the likes of which I've never seen. Its like they emptied out several departments. No ( Read more... )

So in the wee tiny hours of the morning, I haul my carcass outside and tramp the distance to the bus stop, barely able to keep my eyes open. Once there, I sink gratefully to the edge of the curb (no bench), pull out a book, and start to read. The bus comes and I drag myself in, gratefully claiming the nearest empty seat. All I want is to crawl back ( Read more... )

In other news, if my furry little boy cat doesn't stop prancing aimlessly back and forth and yowling at my feet just because he's bored I'm going to set his fuzzy little tail on fire. That'll give him something to do.

I moved into my place with two rose bushes. One is a pretty little thing called the ( Evelyn rose (and named, unimaginatively enough, Evelyn): )

Go and read this right now:

Wikihistory

"Anyone want to go back and stop Asian Avenger from negating his own existence? Anyone?"

*dies laughing*

"Only you could confuse a toilet!"

Please be aware, my account got removed from the fictionpress archives. I have nothing bad to say about the site, and in fact I was very happy there. However, considering the subject matter I write about, it was probably only a matter of time before someone freaked out. No big deal ( Read more... )

Is anybody else on Facebook?

Just curious.