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[shadowkat]

Waves to lurkers during lurker amnesty day. I have no problems with lurkers - since I rarely lock, I'm guessing about 50-60% of my readership are lurkers. Heck only 15% of the people I've friended ever appear to post. They post a lot, however. I also lurk - rarely responding to a lot of posts myself.

There's a rather good review by roz_k on Glee in the Guardian I believe or you can go read it here: http://rozk.livejournal.com/300779.html?style=mine#cutid1

Agree more or less with every word of the review above, especially the bit on Nip/Tuck - which I finally divorced. The characters became unwatchable along with the series. Apparently Ryan Murphy works better if he's combining his misanthropy with light Disney style High School Musical parody. It sort of lightens the blows. I enjoy Glee. I don't love Glee - for many of the reasons outlined in Roz's review. The characters still feel more like caricatures to me than real people.

Having a rather bad month. It's painful to walk. Again. The six blocks to work and six blocks back (not including train rides and steps) felt like forty. I don't know how I'm going to be able to do this. May have to invest in a car service. And I'm dreading tomorrow - when I have to walk the equivalent of six blocks from the train station to the podiatrist's office. And ten blocks home, plus groceries. God - it's times like these that I miss the suburbs and driving. City living is swell - as long as you aren't injured. Granted still have to walk to and from car. Just not as far. Didn't watch the Superbowl last night, because rather hate professional football (prefer college) but caught the score and was rather pleased the New Orleans Saints won. I hate Indiana and the Colts. Also, the Saints deserved a win. They hadn't won anything in a long time.

Avoiding politics. Politics gives me a headache. Stupid Palinmonster will not go away. She's threatening to run for president in 2012. Honestly, are people truly stupid enough to vote for this specific woman to become President of the US, who resigned as the Governor Alaska because she was in personal debt and got sick of doing the job?? If she can't govern Alaska, what makes anyone think she could be President of the US? Currently she's doing the tea party thing. [ETA: went back to clarify. I do want a woman President of the US. I'd have been happy with Hilary Clinton. If Palin was a man, I'd feel exactly the same way about her/him. Gender is not an issue here. Not that anyone thought it was...but just in case. ;-) Also nothing against Alaska. I wouldn't want Governor Patterson or Rudy Giulania or Bloomberg to be President either.]

Okay off to bed.

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[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I guess I've divorced from Glee (but it's more like broken up with it. I don't think I ever committed to it enough to call breaking up more than breaking up). I didn't like the direction some of the stories took. I'm rather horrified by what Nip/Tuck has turned into. And it's on opposite Modern Family which I've grown to greatly love. So, Glee got demoted.

[atpo-onm.livejournal.com]

No friends, co-workers, neighbors who could give you a ride?

Such a difference the size of the city makes. Where I live-- which is a small/medium size city-- pretty much everyone uses a car to go anywhere more than a block or two. If they don't have a car, they'll usually know someone who does, and as a last resort take a bus or taxi.

Walk? What's that?

Hope you're doing better soon.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

I don't think it is size so much as design. LA is a huge city, but everybody drives - you can't walk it - too sprawled.

The only cities in the US that have decent public transportation systems are Chicago (the El), Boston, Washington DC, and NYC. Of those four, the only one you don't have to own a car in and never have to drive or learn to drive is NYC. NYC is actually weird for the US. It's closer to the European city model and in many ways echoes European Cities such as London, England and Paris, France in how it is designed. Compact, not sprawled. Heavy dependence on trains, not buses. And lots of cabs. It's also the only city in the world that has a state funded 24/7 public transportation system - which is why the public transportation system is perpetually in debt. Other world cities don't do 24/7, although they are state funded.

NYC feels more like a city in Europe. You forget you are in the US at times, because you are surrounded on a daily basis by other nationalities, languages, etc. I've been to numerous cities, there is no city quite like NYC. It's its own unique animal. The closest that I've seen? Is London. Possibly Paris. And I'm told Amesterdam (although never been there).

[ubi4soft.livejournal.com]

"Avoiding politics. Politics gives me a headache." - I have different monsters in my country yet the result is the same. Guess Einstein's "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" is still valid.

Hope you'll feel better, soon. My back hurts from snow shoveling, I skipped yesterday but today I had to go to work. The alleys in my city aren't cleared, so I had to 'swim' through the snow to the main streets and public transportation, I had to hold on a pole not to be thrown away in the bus.

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

I think roz_K does hit on the reason why after one episode of Glee I was ready to let it go. The whole show is about extremes. I wouldn't mind if some of the characters were over the top caricatures, but it seems like all of them are. Too much going on and it all has too little importance, including the struggle over the glee club. High school angst is extreme enough for one story without expanding it to include all the teachers and their families. ;o)

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

I hope you were able to stay home and rest your foot, I hear you have a major snow storm starting today....
we had some serious snow fall a couple of days ago and the snow plows totally buried my car, luckily I have dear friends who drove over with shovels and dug me out!

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Even though the storm's not that bad here as of yet, or wasn't this morning, I stayed home and will stay home tomorrow too. Got Friday and Monday off as holidays (aka Presidents Weekend).

Podiatrist thinks it is a stress fracture. So I need to find a way and time to hobble off to get an x-ray between now and Tuesday.
So they can order me a boot to keep the thing immobilized for six weeks until it heals.

Sigh. I'm going on record and stating I hate Feb.;-)

Hope you got out okay. Sounds like you have some good mates up in Iowa.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

yeah, I wouldn't even consider moving back to Iowa if it wasn't for my good friends here who try to make life bearable.... I'm glad you have a couple of days off, and I wish you would take a cab to get the x-ray done! Take care of yourself!