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One of my realistic sprees
Sep. 18th, 2004 11:20 amSometimes I have a realistic spree. When I look outside my own little comfortable world and look at the outside world. Politics. Or more scarier still: world politics.
It annoys me that some americans on LJ seem to think that the USA is all there is on livejournal. "If you're in the Boston area, come visit me one day!!". I'm pretty sure I won't be in the Boston area some time soon, if ever.
Robin Williams' Live on Broadway peformance I found on Kazaa was funny though. He had a lot of charicatures (sp?) of for instance, the French (sort of Monty Python-like only with a "Americans, I spit on you! Oh no! Ze Germans are here! Welcome America! Come in, come in!"), the Canadians, and the British. Best bit was when he compared Dubya to Blair. Blair: "It's sad that these miscommunications..." Bush: "Daymn. He knows woirds I can't even spell!"
My thoughts exactly.
Anyway. I try to do my bit on keeping up. I listen to local radio-news shows. Yesterday there was an item which portrayed the convict of a murder, and another person who had been apprehended for something else, who confessed that murder, and then 'took it back'. The bloopers our police made were humongous. The report of his hearing had been written down 2 weeks after the actual hearing, the description of a witness didn't match, etc. The poor fella has been in jail for four years, always appealed, and now the case is re-opened because some goofus who didn't know somebody was already sentenced confessed. I guess the police said "that case is closed, we've got somebody convicted for it already" and the guy went "oops, in that case, forget I said it!"
And ofcourse, I read Warren Ellis. Die Puny Humans is his blog /look at the world going to hell / this is disgusting / interesting tidbits junkyard.
But sometimes I feel so limited. Like I don't get out, or don't get involved enough. After all, I'm Happy. I don't need to bother myself with protest marches and everything. *blows a raspberry at herself*
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manesni and muizenstaartje came over for a butstraining yesterday. That was fun!
It annoys me that some americans on LJ seem to think that the USA is all there is on livejournal. "If you're in the Boston area, come visit me one day!!". I'm pretty sure I won't be in the Boston area some time soon, if ever.
Robin Williams' Live on Broadway peformance I found on Kazaa was funny though. He had a lot of charicatures (sp?) of for instance, the French (sort of Monty Python-like only with a "Americans, I spit on you! Oh no! Ze Germans are here! Welcome America! Come in, come in!"), the Canadians, and the British. Best bit was when he compared Dubya to Blair. Blair: "It's sad that these miscommunications..." Bush: "Daymn. He knows woirds I can't even spell!"
My thoughts exactly.
Anyway. I try to do my bit on keeping up. I listen to local radio-news shows. Yesterday there was an item which portrayed the convict of a murder, and another person who had been apprehended for something else, who confessed that murder, and then 'took it back'. The bloopers our police made were humongous. The report of his hearing had been written down 2 weeks after the actual hearing, the description of a witness didn't match, etc. The poor fella has been in jail for four years, always appealed, and now the case is re-opened because some goofus who didn't know somebody was already sentenced confessed. I guess the police said "that case is closed, we've got somebody convicted for it already" and the guy went "oops, in that case, forget I said it!"
And ofcourse, I read Warren Ellis. Die Puny Humans is his blog /look at the world going to hell / this is disgusting / interesting tidbits junkyard.
But sometimes I feel so limited. Like I don't get out, or don't get involved enough. After all, I'm Happy. I don't need to bother myself with protest marches and everything. *blows a raspberry at herself*
In more fun news,
manesni and muizenstaartje came over for a butstraining yesterday. That was fun!
