terrorists_are_corny epitome of incomprehensibility (A copy-edit - copied but edited - from bblather blue.) And about copying: the problem with terrorists these days is that they're copying Hollywood too much. Friday the thirteenth indeed. What's next, Halloween? Granted, it's been a while since the September eleventh that became 9/11, but that too. Yes, yes, 911 is the North American emergency number. Very funny. I guess it's going to be another decade before we get hipster terrorists who kill people on Pi Day or Talk Like a Pirate Day. Anyway, fuck them, and not in a sexual way. I don't really agree with France going on a bombing orgy right now - "you become what you hate," as above - but if the Paris climate summit gets cancelled because of stupid ISIS I'm going to slap all the corny little terrorists in the face. 151116 ... e_o_i Climate summit: not cancelled (phew) Climate march: the one in Paris is cancelled because of security concerns. 151119 ... e_o_i I read a poem that was like my first post at a poetry reading Tuesday. Nobody laughed. I suspect it's not because I was too "morbid" (I expressed my sadness/worry before starting in about the attacks in Paris and Beirut) but because I wasn't expressing my ideas very coherently. It's still a mess of mixed metaphors. The idea was to make fun of Daesh (or ISIS, or whatever) who claim that "Western" media is degenerate and all that, but who make use of its technology and even its memetic material (okay, not Internet-meme, "LOLWUT" territory, but Friday the Thirteenth and such). You are what you hate, I guess. 151119 what's it to you? who go blather from