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September 15, 2005
Disaster Preparedness
While in San Francisco the the voices beaming out of the radio buzz with the anticipation of impending earthquake doom and imperitives to possess an emergency hand-crank radio, and New Orleans continues to marinate in pathogen stew, and the pro-active take classes on emergency preparedness and the paranoid blog about the likelihood of liquefaction in the living room, there is one area of disaster management that continues to be tragically disgredarded. With so much worry and attention being frittered on Acts Of God and Acts In God's Name, we leave ourselves vulnerable as parapelegic lambs to the very real possibility of a zombie infestation. Zombies pose a very real threat, one that has received not nearly enough attention from the media and authorities. See for yourself how catastrophic the arrival of a single zombie in this or any other fair city could be by modeling it with this simulator. In a city so dangerously underprepared to cope with this kind of a disaster, it is essential that you educate yourself on how to survive a zombie invasion. Prepare yourself. Protect yourself.
Posted by hissycat at September 15, 2005 09:53 AM
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Hola to HissyCat! Nothing exciting is going on with me. Do you watch Nip/Tuck? If you don't, you should. I'm kind of excited about the third season starting soon. Pretty pathetic, eh?
Posted by: Gwyneth_Paltrow at September 15, 2005 12:37 PM
By the way, you might want to check out this: http://www.livejournal.com/users/crazyjackie/135872.html
This girl Jackie runs a literary journal. Basically, most of the comments are from fellow young writers with publishing deals.
Posted by: Gwyneth_Paltrow at September 15, 2005 01:02 PM
Gwyn-
Sadly, although my neighbor has repeatedly offered to help me steal cable from my other neighbor, I've yet to get around to going to a hardware store to buy the, like, two feet of wiring I'd need. That, and the knowledge that once I have access to Law & Order 24/7 I could only too easily never leave my apartment again. So, no, I haven't gotten into Nip/ Tuck, though, frankly, it sounds right up my alley. Perhaps I should start downloading episodes at work.
I am excited, though, because a friend who just got cable is letting me go to his place to watch the O.C. Which reminds me, I totally need to TV-Without-Pity it before I go over there. The demands of my thesis, cruel mistress that she was, prevented me from keeping up with it. But two years ago, my roommate had cable. The first season totally ate my brain.
Also, I checked out the LJ. What's your take on that crowd, anyway? It speaks only to my own embitterment that I'm always suspicious of any kind of literary success club not to mention young writers with publishing deals.
Oh, and I see that Marty Beckermen fellow hangs around there, too. Now, I've never read anything of his and, for once, my distaste is so strong it cancels out any purient interest his books may hold; which is to say, I have no interest in reading his books and sure as hell wouldn't give him my money. I've run across a couple of interviews with him and have poked around his site a bit. He seems to be an ass. But much worse.
Thanks for lit world gossip. It is always appreciated.
-H.C.Posted by: hissycat at September 15, 2005 04:28 PM
This is a small clue to my identity and it's not really going to help much.
I figured out that Marty is a good buddy of a kid I've known since fifth grade. Actually, Marty's buddy used to date one of my friends. Marty's buddy is still a student at Marty's alma mater. (This does not mean that I plan to milk this connection for an autographed book.)
I guess I'm being a total snob (hey, I've got to live up to my namesake, good old Gwynnie who almost failed English class at Spence) but I don't really see any seeds for major success in the future for that clique. Something strikes me as amateurish or second-rate about them. Of course, people might say the same thing after reading old Hissy and Gwynnie's entries on this website. Nick, by virtue of his effete pedigree, might be successful in the future. Helen Oyeyemi is a decent bet. Christopher Paolini is already successful (his first book beat down Harry Potter on some bestseller lists).
I think that Marty does not really despise Nick for his poor writing; it seems like Marty's just jealous of people from better backgrounds than him. Granted, I did not like Prozac Nation but Marty characterized it as a book about a young woman complaining "about being young, white and rich." It's pretty obvious that Elizabeth Wurtzel's background has nothing in common with Nick McDonell except for their hometown and alma mater (future alma mater for Nick). She talks about how her mom has to struggle to pay for the mental health treatments. She talks about skipping Jewish day school to lie in bed and listen to music. She even talks about how her father is narcoleptic loser who mooches off of his parents. She talks about how she feels awed by the dumb WASP preppies kicking hacky sacks around Harvard Yard with their Sperry Top-Siders. She talks about working in the middle of the night to earn pocket money during the school year. Elizabeth is a big complainer but I do not think the point of her first book had any relation to being white or rich. I could see a young female college student of any race or any social background complaining in place of her (with some modifications). Maybe you could write the next Prozac Nation?
By the way, Elizabeth is a student at Yale Law now.
Posted by: Gwyneth_Paltrow at September 16, 2005 08:07 AM
I'm not gonna lie to you, Gwyn. After reading your comment the first thing I did was go to Beckerman's site to see if I could figure out the identity of his friend, and, in turn, you. A completely futile excericse, of course, but that's ok-- it's gotten that I now really relish the mystery.
So wading around his site I discovered that Beckermen (sit down) was on (deep breath) The O'Reilly Factor. EEEW. It's so sick. He and Bill hit it off quite well, it seems. Beckerman gives his usual schtick that the kids these days are out of control, blowjobs in the back of the schoolbus, that sort of thing, and how feminism and oral contraceptives are the cause of teenage gang rape. O'Reilly just eats that shit up.
So not a fan
Posted by: hissycat at September 16, 2005 10:21 AM
O.K., this previous comment thread is making my comment completely out of context. But speaking of zombies, I wanted to add a geekier take on the threat, since it is perceived as a real one by some people out there. What do you think?
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