I am ready for the drone to drop my free ticket over my house.

The Shingles Virus: It's Inside Us All.

Please do not speak for us all. You are but one of many voices.

I thought this was the geeking out about the nuances of language and terminology thread.

Not racist, since the Sherpa are not a race. If you use "sherpa" to mean "schlepper," for fuck's sake, at least use lowercase.

Unnecessary appropriation, for sure. Who says, "Jew someone down" or "get gypped" any more? How are those different from calling the hired help "sherpa"?

Taskrabbit?

Yeah, I read it. That's my comment.

Mystery solved: I'm poor because I'm not lazy.

Lovely. Can't wait to see your stand-alone thread on your prep and experiences.

It's not Sherpas, it's sherpas. "Sherpa" is an ethnic group and takes a capital S; "sherpa" is hijacked, appropriated word that means "to schlep with minimal compensation." Do you use "Sherpa" as your last name? Are you ethnically Sherpa? Do you speak Sherpa? Could I find something more significant ...

The feed was fabulous. Occasionally off-air, occasionally glitchy, which I actually didn't mind, and often just enviable.

Thanks to all involved.

(((Divreon)))

You have not fucking failed!

Can't fucking believe I'm saying this, and I know someone else said it, but it sounds like you've got some nasty folks near you, so please take extra care that you don't write anything that some fucker might use against you.

(((Hugs out)))

Thanks, indeed for the wonderful gift. Might be the closest I get to the playa this decade.

I know it's totally wrong, but I keep seeing "Furkurde."

This thread--Simple Morning Shade for Small Backpacking Tent: viewtopic.php?f=277&t=40542

Nothing of substance to add, except deep empathy. To those who tried but were unable to stop what sounds like an inevitable tragic outcome, I hope you can find ease and self-forgiveness (if you are holding any guilt or self-blame). To those across the Internet who feel this lends itself to an easy j...

(((Divreon))) Hoping you find some ease and solace. And a visit to the Fuck thread when you need it.

Airplanes had smoking sections.
You used the telephone book to find phone numbers.
The Summer and Winter Olympics were the same year.

Fabulous prizes.

Don't know who said it, but this: "You're wrapped up in this lame Puritan view that redemption only comes from labor."

I think it came from one of the many, many, many threads on the right and wrong ways to burn.

Just posting to increase my snark points.

Snark points. Jesus Snarking Christ. Brilliant.

I am interested in hearing from others about drama. How do you recognize or define it? To me, crankiness and grumpiness can be worked through and solved, sometimes relatively easily (e.g., drink some water, take a break, acknowledgment of the emotion, engagement without defensiveness, etc.). Drama i...

Judging books by their covers, Rainbow Brown is my new favorite author.

Ah, beaten to the punchline on "Jackalope Speaks"!

(( jcliff)) Sorry about yor father. Grief and all that goes with death is hard work. You have a new and deeper connection to the temple. No apologies for that! Lost my father unexpectedly two years ago, and I learned so much about the depth of love through his loss. Wasn't able or willing to go so d...

So someone disagrees with your discussion point and now you feel you've been labeled a bad burner who can't freely post for fear of snark-back? That's your own thing. Truly. If having a not-so-great idea makes a person a bad person, then I'm in big trouble, being so very full of ideas, some of which...

Great article--I can't express how relieved I was to finally learn how to tell "hippies" and "hipsters" apart. (Note to self:dreads = hippie; no dreads = hipsters)

Sounds like you had cognitive dissonance: holding two distinct and separate feelings at the same time.

For me, it was Joseph Beuys. I remember a lengthy front-page article on him in the New York Times Arts and Leisure section back in the early 1970s. I was very young and was blown away by his life story and the notion of conceptual performance art. Like, "That can be art?" And it could. And his work ...

Go to the library immediately and check out "The Cornbread Gospels" by Crescent (not her birth name) Dragonwagon. It's the definite book on cornbread, packed with history, scholarship, and recipes. Make as many cornbread variations as call to you. Host potlucks and get invited to potlucks. Bring cor...