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Aug. 17th, 2006 08:07 amGood grief. Leafy Sea Dragons. The world is stranger than we can imagine. (ganked from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Aug. 17th, 2006 02:48 pmFurther to recent spit-hate for pavement cyclists: I was just downstairs with the cat, looking out of the window at the rain, and along came a policeman. On a bicycle. On the pavement. Please may I run out and make a citizen's arrest, please? Snarrrrllll...
Well, that's a draft, I guess. I have typed 'Blackout', anyway, at the end of 42 pages. And printed them all out, and flicked through them, and thought 'Bleah'. It's just a load of words. What good are they?
And now I don't know what to do. I was going to listen to the cricket and do virtuous house-things, but the cricket's foul and so's the weather, so running off into town isn't a hugely attractive option either. I suppose I could do the house-things anyway, but there's no great incentive. Maybe I'll just curl up with a good book and a malevolent cat; that we can do. (Oh,shadesong has a link through to a news story about a woman who got mauled doing something so utterly skank that I don't want to link to it directly, it's just too ewwww! for me. You want to know, go seek. I'm fairly sure Barry would have mauled her also, and damn right too. But who knew that about valerian...?)
And now I don't know what to do. I was going to listen to the cricket and do virtuous house-things, but the cricket's foul and so's the weather, so running off into town isn't a hugely attractive option either. I suppose I could do the house-things anyway, but there's no great incentive. Maybe I'll just curl up with a good book and a malevolent cat; that we can do. (Oh,
shadesong has a link through to a news story about a woman who got mauled doing something so utterly skank that I don't want to link to it directly, it's just too ewwww! for me. You want to know, go seek. I'm fairly sure Barry would have mauled her also, and damn right too. But who knew that about valerian...?)Further to my last on traffic...
Aug. 17th, 2006 08:55 pmJust to expand the image of how things are around here:
I've been to visit a couple of friends, with their charming granddaughter; and I'm walking home feeling that all is right with the world, when I encounter this car. It's being driven by a teenager in a local soccer strip, and I assume that the woman in the passenger seat is his mother, by her sour expression; and she's holding a leash, and outside the car is the dog on the other end of the leash, and he's running alongside.
And I have no idea which of them it was who thought this would be a good idea, around city streets in city traffic; but I cannot conceive of the mindset, because it is dangerously stupid and stupidly dangerous, both at once and both for the dog and for everyone else trying to drive around 'em. And I walk home entirely gobsmacked, and am now here and still gobsmacked, and...
I've been to visit a couple of friends, with their charming granddaughter; and I'm walking home feeling that all is right with the world, when I encounter this car. It's being driven by a teenager in a local soccer strip, and I assume that the woman in the passenger seat is his mother, by her sour expression; and she's holding a leash, and outside the car is the dog on the other end of the leash, and he's running alongside.
And I have no idea which of them it was who thought this would be a good idea, around city streets in city traffic; but I cannot conceive of the mindset, because it is dangerously stupid and stupidly dangerous, both at once and both for the dog and for everyone else trying to drive around 'em. And I walk home entirely gobsmacked, and am now here and still gobsmacked, and...