Oh Berlusconi, you're just made of fail, aren't you. Says he about the earthquake survivors:
But Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi appeared to brush aside the dire conditions facing survivors during a visit to one of the camps. "They have everything they need, they have medical care, hot food...," he said in an interview with a German television station. "Of course, their current lodgings are a bit temporary. But they should see it like a weekend of camping."
*facepalm* Weekend of camping? They've just lost their homes, been traumatized, possibly lost people they know and are in fear of aftershocks, of which there have already been several - that ain't like no camping I've been on. Berlu, are you trying to weasel your way into 'soulnemesis' status here now that I retired Bush from it or something?
Ugh.
In brighter news, have written over 5000 words on my Doctor Who/BSG crossover and am almost done. Just gotta fiddle a bit with the draft and settle on a title, which can be such a pain. So a question for people who know Latin out there - what would 'doctor in the box' be in Latin? I'm considering making a play on 'deus ex machina', but my Latin is non-existent.
Funny thing, writing a story. It so often evolves as you're doing it, going unexpected places and sometimes ending up as something a little bit foreign to even you.
Speaking of fanfics, return of the 'I'm going to publish Twilight fanfiction!' saga of DOOM. Oh dear. There's dumb, and there's that.
Podcasts, as voted for in mah poll:
Cam reads 'The Art of Not Having Sex'. (Doctor Who)
Cam reads 'Sleeping With Your Laundry'. (BSG)
Now my dear darling cat, I do adore you very much, which is why I bought that tasty fish for you and why I let you sleep in my bed with me. But in 'Ways to Wake Camilla Up Because I Want Something', I would very much appreciate it if you took 'poking her breasts with this paw with the claws out' off the list. Because ow.
How are you all on this Wednesday?
But Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi appeared to brush aside the dire conditions facing survivors during a visit to one of the camps. "They have everything they need, they have medical care, hot food...," he said in an interview with a German television station. "Of course, their current lodgings are a bit temporary. But they should see it like a weekend of camping."
*facepalm* Weekend of camping? They've just lost their homes, been traumatized, possibly lost people they know and are in fear of aftershocks, of which there have already been several - that ain't like no camping I've been on. Berlu, are you trying to weasel your way into 'soulnemesis' status here now that I retired Bush from it or something?
Ugh.
In brighter news, have written over 5000 words on my Doctor Who/BSG crossover and am almost done. Just gotta fiddle a bit with the draft and settle on a title, which can be such a pain. So a question for people who know Latin out there - what would 'doctor in the box' be in Latin? I'm considering making a play on 'deus ex machina', but my Latin is non-existent.
Funny thing, writing a story. It so often evolves as you're doing it, going unexpected places and sometimes ending up as something a little bit foreign to even you.
Speaking of fanfics, return of the 'I'm going to publish Twilight fanfiction!' saga of DOOM. Oh dear. There's dumb, and there's that.
Podcasts, as voted for in mah poll:
Cam reads 'The Art of Not Having Sex'. (Doctor Who)
Cam reads 'Sleeping With Your Laundry'. (BSG)
Now my dear darling cat, I do adore you very much, which is why I bought that tasty fish for you and why I let you sleep in my bed with me. But in 'Ways to Wake Camilla Up Because I Want Something', I would very much appreciate it if you took 'poking her breasts with this paw with the claws out' off the list. Because ow.
How are you all on this Wednesday?
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Date: 2009-04-08 07:34 pm (UTC)LOL! I only laugh because I have felt your pain. One time there was a whole hair kneading/claw/nipple diaster that still makes me wince.
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Date: 2009-04-08 07:39 pm (UTC)It's a good thing they're so bloody cute so they get away with it.
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Date: 2009-04-08 07:43 pm (UTC)What a total douchebag! He sounds just like Dubya did when he toured the Gulf Coast after Katrina and declared that everything was going smoothly. Heckofa job, Berlusconi! Yeah, I'm sure after my elderly parents lost their home of 50 years and everything in it to Katrina they were excited to spend the next several months in a tiny trailer as they pieced the remnants of their life together. Cheesygirl smash!!
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Date: 2009-04-08 07:52 pm (UTC)Really, sometimes people in charge just need to get down to the ground level and know what they're talking about before they open their fucking mouth.
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Date: 2009-04-08 07:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-08 07:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-08 08:48 pm (UTC)Oh WORD. so often, more often than not actually, I'll start writing something and it becomes something else instead. Like you've got what you think is a Lily seed but when it sprouts and grows its totally a Tulip. which is just as awesome but not what you were expecting!
I am very tired and clearly talking crazy LOL
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Date: 2009-04-08 09:20 pm (UTC)Sorry it doesn't sound more poetic!
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Date: 2009-04-08 09:21 pm (UTC)And further clarifies that 'doctor' does work for teacher/instructor/academic-type doctor.
Hopefully he's done now ;).
(and I assume that you could do the 'ex' thing if you mutated it to 'doctor from the box')
ONE LAST THING (really). He says, "if you wanted to pick a different connotation for box from that url, let me know, so I can give it the right case to be the object of 'in'."
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Date: 2009-04-08 09:36 pm (UTC)Eeeee! Cam + Kitty scene! Eeeeee! *dies of fangirl-y squee*
Well, it was a nice way to end a post that began with such a source of Stupid!Rage.. ^_^;
As an Italian, I apologize for inflicting the PsicoDwarf to the rest of the world.
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Date: 2009-04-08 09:53 pm (UTC)And the Italian PM is so low that he and Bush should be stranded on a low lying and uncharted island. And any charts made to get them there should be burned.
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Date: 2009-04-08 10:09 pm (UTC)One of my teachers' brother's wife was in Italy at the time. She's okay, but... wow.
yay podcasts! :]
I've always wanted a cat. :]
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Date: 2009-04-09 09:32 am (UTC)You too? Only mine thought it was a good idea to walk all over my boobs as well, and he occasionally uses them to hang one when I pick him up. If I ever get asked why I have scratches in my cleavage, it will be all his fault.
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Date: 2009-04-09 02:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-09 02:48 pm (UTC)And now we've metaphor killed it, I think.
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Date: 2009-04-09 02:49 pm (UTC)You have my sympathies.
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Date: 2009-04-09 02:50 pm (UTC)Me and Saz were discussing just sticking all the asshats of the world on an island for themselves to be asses to each other; Bush and Berlu would so be qualified.
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Date: 2009-04-09 02:52 pm (UTC)Cats are awesome. Had them all my life, pretty much.
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Date: 2009-04-09 02:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-10 08:10 pm (UTC)hahh- your cat has something in common with mine.... ^_^ we are victims here! :P But then again- those fluffy things are too cute for us to be mad at for too long :P