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16743. Ms. No - 9/26/2005 4:31:07 PM Yes, his other grandparents live in Wyoming, but they don't farm or raise livestock.
I think I was about 5 when the news got broken to me. We were living in Snow Hill in this huge old farmhouse and we had a tenant downstairs who was raising a pig off in a pen in the woods near the house.
My friends and I used to go out and feed it table scraps and stuff and one day I went out and it wasn't there and I asked my dad what happened to it and he told me Ron took the pig to a barbeque. I don't think I cried, but I was a little blue. I'd likely have been more upset if the pig was less smelly or friendlier, but honestly, visiting the pig in the woods wasn't all that frequent an occupation.
I was vastly more distressed when Reddog splashed mud on my Pooh-Bear the one time I took him outside to play. I was hysterical because I thought he'd drown if my mother put him in the washing machine. 16744. Macnas - 9/26/2005 5:07:49 PM 5 years old eh?
That is a bit young. I didn't drown my first litter of kittens 'till I was at least 8. 16745. judithathome - 9/26/2005 5:33:54 PM My grandfather raised rabbits to eat and I used to play with them in their pen...I think I saw him kill one for dinner when I was about 8 years old. Never ate meat at his house after that. 16746. judithathome - 9/26/2005 5:46:31 PM Magos, our dinner was great, as usual, and the librarian from New Orleans had a great time, despite the fact out host's neighbor (who is in love with him even though he has assured her it is not reciprocal) was very rude about us bringing the girl. The librarian looked spectacular and the host was very impressed with her clothes...she made a little joke about wearing Shelter Chic and charmed everyone but the host's snotty neighbor, who spoke not one word to her all night and left early in a snit. She told the host, who walked her across the street to her house..."You'd better get back to your little gift that Judith brought you tonight."
I thought she was beyond rude...to be hateful about a young woman who had just lost everything she owned and had watched her cat drown as her house was engulfed in flood waters and who spent 5 days and nights in the Superdome using an empty plastic water bottle as a pillow while sleeping on the floor. It certainly lowered my opinion of that neighbor. 16747. Ms. No - 9/26/2005 6:14:34 PM Women can be so catty. Just plain vicious. It's bizarre. I mean, I have lots of female friends and I adore women in general, but I'm very aware that there are harpies in our midst. 16748. judithathome - 9/26/2005 6:16:33 PM Well, there certainly was one at dinner Saturday night!
That might make a good short story title..."Harpie At My Table" 16749. PelleNilsson - 9/26/2005 6:28:51 PM A couple of weeks ago, a feminist party was founded here amidst great ado. A leadership council was elected, but the week after it fell apart in a catfight between the HBT-persons and the heteroxuals. "She's just a middle-aged, bourgeoise hetero hag" is one of the more memorable phrases. "To have sex with a man is gender betrayal" is another one. 16750. jayackroyd - 9/26/2005 7:05:28 PM So much for those dour Swedes I'm always hearing about. 16751. Ms. No - 9/26/2005 7:46:22 PM You know, radical feminists wouldn't sound so incredibly stupid if they'd quit saying stuff like that. I mean, honest to god, when your political philosophy flies in the face of biological reality you're just a hack. 16752. alistairConnor - 9/26/2005 8:33:10 PM It's just run-of-the-mill far left factional behaviour, certainly not specific to feminists. Some people shouldn't bother forming political parties, they will never have any influence if they are not even prepared to work with their allies. 16753. arkymalarky - 9/27/2005 1:58:34 AM Dang, Judith. That's awful--both the neighbor and your NO friend's situation. What's her situatioin now and her plan for the future?
I hate petty snipy crap. One thing I really love about where I work, and about the Mote, is that all that is pretty much nonexistant. Not to say no one ever gets into it or gets mad, but it's not from that kind of boring, constant yah-yahing.
Something about Pelle's post is just hilarious to me, partly because they're certain never to be taken seriously, and they'll never get it. It really boils down to a control thing, that fits right into the very stereotypes they hate. In my more paranoid moments I suspect they're conservative plants.
I also can relate as a liberal who usually detests working with liberal political activists. They're often completely impractical and have no sense of how they appear to the general population, and they're constantly baffled about why they have so little political influence. They attribute a lot to money--rarely do they pause for some introspection and maybe a shift in strategy. In fact, the very idea that they should employ strategy insults them.
16754. judithathome - 9/27/2005 2:51:47 AM They attribute a lot to money--rarely do they pause for some introspection and maybe a shift in strategy. In fact, the very idea that they should employ strategy insults them.
Funny...to me, that sounds like conservatives! 16755. judithathome - 9/27/2005 2:56:32 AM What's her situatioin now and her plan for the future?
She's planning on staying here, in Fort Worth, and has already applied for a job with the FW library system. And, even though she has an apartment for six months rent free, thanks to one of my group's members, she realizes she cannot afford to rent this palce on her own and is looking for an apartment within her means.
I can't stress enough what a wonderful person this lady is...she is a realist and a survivor. I admire her beyond belief.
16756. judithathome - 9/27/2005 2:57:50 AM And I meant place instead of palce. 16757. wonkers2 - 9/27/2005 4:16:34 AM I just watched part one of Martin Scorcese's movie "No Direction Home" about Bob Dylan. What memories it brought back! What a monumentally talented poet and musician is Bob Dylan! The movie consists of clips of early live Dylan performances of Like a Rolling Stone, A Hard Rain, The Masters of War, Mr. Tambourine Man and of course, Blowin'in the Wind and many more interspersed with commentary by Dylan, Dave VanRonk, Joan Baez, Alan Ginzburg and many others who were involved in various ways with Bob Dylan's early career. The movie provides good music and perceptive historical understanding of Dylan's developing talent and work. 16758. judithathome - 9/27/2005 5:44:43 AM The most memorable concert I ever attended was Dylan's Rollimg Thunder Revue. 16759. Ulgine Barrows - 9/27/2005 6:15:06 AM 16738. Magoseph - 9/25/2005 1:08:33 PM
Sorry, Ulgine, but 16736 had to go.
Yeah, I was wondering whether it would go to the ether or inferno. winky
dutch pink and italian blue, tempatation I can't resist
~Diana Krall 16760. judithathome - 9/27/2005 6:22:16 AM Sometimes, resisting is the better part of valor. 16761. Ulgine Barrows - 9/27/2005 6:27:34 AM And how would any scientific progress come from that mindset? 16762. Ulgine Barrows - 9/27/2005 6:31:06 AM Forget the scientific, strike that.
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