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Patty gets home today. So shower in a bit, then pick up the dry cleaning, then go to the farmer's market to get green things, then go fetch Patty at the airport. Good stuff.

College freshman steals a bunch of rare documents from university library.

Walk-ups way sexier than ours.

Why you can't understand our subway system: the V train is dead. Except it's not, it's just called the M now. But the M used to be brown and is now orange and half its old route is dead because it's taking over the V route. Sort of. We liked M better. It's a thing.

"I lived in the city when it was being eviscerated." - a response to our broken market and political cultures.

More swatches for shirts arrived from Duchess yesterday, And a gift certificate in response to some of your recent orders. So that's pleasing. And I'm a little closer on shirt decisions, although still challenging.

Where dogs come from.

ladyofthelog and friends made this cracky somewhat Robot Chicken Twlight/Harry Potter/X-files crossover. With barbie dolls. It's wrong, but it may be your type of wrong.

Comments

[idunn.livejournal.com]

That article about the student thieving those documents ... I'm a Drewid (and actually, I know a number of those interviewed as well as the article writer). I don't know this Scott kid since he's a frosh, but what an idiot to think he could sell documents from former heads of state and no dealer would do a background check.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Communitarianism sounds nice, but what it means in practice depends tremendously on the community.

Freedom of choice and association pretty much coming from the left is what made LGBTQ progress possible, but that doesn't enter into Brooks' and/or Blond's calculation of what needs to happen.

A libertarian points out that Brooks is an authoritarian.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

I'm certain a study will come out soon that will prove feline divinity :)

It's strangely heartening to live in the cradle and civilisation... and then return to my dry, cynical heart connected with the here and now.

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

I hope to god that freshman isn't a White Collar fan.

I was about to be all "WHAT ARE THEY DOING TO MY TRAIN NOOOOOOOO," but then I realized that the changes affect me very little: when I take the M, I either transfer to the L at Myrtle-Wyckoff or to the F at Essex-Delancey. I am still mildly weirded out by the color change, though.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I totally posted that link because of White Collar.

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

I can see Neal shaking his head at such carelessness. "You damaged the letters you didn't take? I'm sorry, you deserve jail for that alone, and I say this as someone who's done time."

[gement.livejournal.com]

Re: swatches, two of us kept fondling the very very very fine cotton that Sayta calls the butter fabric. Do you have any shirts made of the butter fabric? Mmm, butter fabric.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I don't. I don't actually like it for my purposes, which is that I feel the fabric is too fine and too likely to cling to my body, thus making it hard to conceal things I am trying to conceal.

[gement.livejournal.com]

That makes sense. I loved to touch it, but I'm not sure I would have actually been comfortable wearing it, completely aside from the practical concealment aspects. I'd either find it distracting or stop appreciating it properly, and I'd worry that it wouldn't hold up. (I tend to wear my clothing to death.)

I think I really just want a couple feet of it for a security blanket.

[rm.livejournal.com]

heheheheeh. I'm all in a tizzy because I've decided I need a slim, slim cut early 60s style suit now because of fucking White Collar, but don't know if my hips and I can make that work. Because Seyta really needs another crazy email from me during wedding season.

[paulshandy.livejournal.com]

All I can be is amazed that someone is grateful to find a one bedroom apartment for "less than $600,000." Frak, that's twice the price of my parents' two-bedroom house, with a lawn and basement, in Iowa. I knew prices in NYC were wild, but really.