Things I haven't posted aboutFollow

That's the same thing Flea told me about going to strip clubs.


True story.

I think that's a given.

If Darth Vader can't make it, I can do a flat-out amazing JEJ imitation.

In other semi-news, Tim Johnson is finally back in the Senate. You may remember his collapse and hospitalization following a brain hemmorage brought on by some giant blood vessel mass knot thingie I don't feel like looking up. Among his voting duties, he will be heading the Senate Ethics Committee.

Not currently.

I used to live right next to a really rough neighborhood. It was L.A. - thus every part is within blocks of grandiose luxury and within blocks of the hood. Anyhow, I walk my great dane everywhere, and I pretty much strike up conversations with everyone.

And they fight dogs. It would come up in about half the conversations with guys. "Nice dog. Do you fight her?", "I had a really nice dog, too, but my cousin took her and fought her and now she's really messed up".

If you'd asked me before I lived there: do people in your neighborhood fight dogs? I would have said no, of course not. It seems totally antiquated to me. It's like asking if they revulcanize their tires.

But it is alive and well. And people talk far more openly about it then, say, drugs. It would take a few conversations with the same person before the subtle drug hints would crop up. Dog fighting? It was often one of the first things they asked about.

I suppose this is an effect of the enforcement emphasis on drugs, and virtually none on dog fighting. But it was shocking, to me, to see people talk so openly about something so vile.

I really, really hope that the Mike Vick story sheds some light on animal fighting and gets people thinking they could be caught next. And maybe leads to a bit more enforcement. God knows I'd rather lock up people who fight dogs over people who use drugs.

Except a hearty set of blue balls.

Yay!

In the meantime, I had a work meeting that went amazingly well yesterday, and I'm becoming a key player in my field regionally.

I have no trouble believing it's an urban thing. I know that people up here fight dogs as well - I see the results in the animal shelter, which basically can't take enough normal animals because of the fallout.

And maybe he grew up in Atlanta or some other urban area, I dunno. But that's not as much Southern culture as urban gangsta culture, which was my whole point.

Had she said he grew up in an inner city area and fighting dogs was part of his culture, I wouldn't argue. But people would have assumed she meant black instead of inner city, so she threw it off on the South instead. /shrug

And Flea, let yourself be nervous. You're supposed to be a wreck, it's okay.

They'll be in a journal fo sho'. As for my upset stomach, I finally found the cure: Wedding Planner. I might hump her leg.

Your underwear flexes? It's probably trying to crawl away.

As long as my thread is being bumped, I'm going to note that the NPCs in my Fallout 2 group are all assholes. Which would explain why, when I'm busy busting up a drug lab and fighting the guards, my "team" is wandering around gunning down non-combatant slaves and tearing them apart (literally) with machine gun fire.