Ok so people moved into these neighborhoods and started planting flowers and what not in abandoned lots. I imagine those areas became islands within the city and those people were easy targets for the corrupt cops and criminals
This guy wrote an interesting essay about it in 2014: http://www.buzzfeed.com/drewphilp/why-i-bought-a-house-in-detroit-for-500#.kc90yK3d
It's cool to kinda see people living better in what amounts to a collapsed 20th century civilization. They're like in-the-ruins tribesmen. In other news, thanks to a street fight, I now have a light chip out of one of my molars, but I'm glad to say me and my friend in that fray triumphed. And to think it started because of someone insulting another's shirt, and me and him chose to get involved because we didn't want to see some poor college kid gets his teeth curb-stomped out by an enormous Russian. Such is bar-hopping in Spokane.
Sitting in the office supporting a quarterly major code release is EXACTLY how I wanted to spend my Sunday. At least after it's over I get to go enjoy some super rare beer on the companies dime. (It's Founders KBS for any of you that are into that type of thing.)
Please be advised that from now on douchiness shall be measured in fractional 'Kanye' units. Since no one can actually be as douchey, and certainly not more so, than Kanye, the scale maxes out at 'approaching a Kanye' but never quite reaching it. I'm still tinkering.
Imma let you talk bewildered, but I just wanna say there's only one me. Unless there isn't . But there is. Or something
Oh man. You Only Live Twice is on BBC 'Murika. What a ridiculous pile of nonsense. This is the movie where all those later jokes came from. This alone is 95% of Austin Powers' source material. Henchmen being knocked out instantly, volcano island lairs, space age technology... rocket cigarettes. You can almost buy that shit until they turn Sean Connery into a Japanese man. Yes, this 6'2" 200 pound yeti with a speech impediment will totally blend right into a peasant fishing village because you put a wig AND EYELIDS on him. "Why don't you jush dye the partsh that show?" Fuckin' 60s man. Let's not even get into Goldfinger where he straight up rapes Pussy Galore in the barn. Eshcuse me, Pushy. I mush have appealed to her maternal inshtincshts. Somehow, SOMEHOW, the murderous sociopath Daniel Craig portrays is more of a feminist sympathizer.
Huh... I never knew this about my home town. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/19/serial-killer-london-ontario-canada
http://murderpedia.org/male.G/g/gohl-billy.htm Billy the Ghoul, he killed a ton of people. Died raving mad with syphilitic madness and pneumonia in a bug-house. Aberdeen, Washington has a fucking restaurant named after him. https://www.facebook.com/BillysBarAndGrill 'The Balcony Killer' sounds somehow scarier than 'Chamber Maid Slayer'.
Well, if you're 11 years old (like I was when I started watching James Bond movies on TBS), your "suspension of disbelief" is much greater. http://www.cracked.com/article_21534_7-disturbing-scenes-that-prove-james-bond-psychopath.html With that said, I think this is a great time to post pictures of Bond-girls. Caroline Munro (The Spy Who Loved Me) Spoiler Claudine Auger (Thunderball) Spoiler
Good call. That was waaay fewer pieces than a $10 lego kit. I thought Nicole Curtis was trying to save Detroit. Or, Detriot. Or D'toilet. I mean, she got robbed and is still trying.
I went to one of those Lego Expo things in Atlanta a few years ago with an 11 year old kid. There are games, prizes, build-offs, and different stations where there are about a million legos. Kids build stuff, they get all mixed together, half taken apart and thrown back in the bins. He had one of those separators that he took in with him, and became King of the Expo. He kept helping other kids trying to get pieces apart.
I was looking around for a knockoff bikini like Claudine Auger up there is wearing and I ended up on the Victoria Secret website. What the fuck? These bitches are skinny as hell. Are they getting skinnier or do my eyeballs need a calibration?
No, they're getting skinnier. It's telling when it creates a huge shock wave that VS or Sports Illustrated used a "Plus Sized" model who is, in fact, a US size 12.
There were a small handful of models on there that seemed like they might be healthy. Very small, petite, but still slightly curvy. There was one in particular towards the bottom with a green ruffle suit who literally looked like she is going to die in less than a week from starvation. I was shocked. The worst part is, these women are photoshopped to hell and that is what we are still left with. What do they ACTUALLY look like?
The overall look of the models in last Victoria's Secret catalog I saw could be summed up as "emaciated" and a few were posing like they'd been locked in a cage for a week and the photographer was teasing them with a sandwich. It's one thing to be fit and thin, but it's a whole 'nuther thing when you just look gaunt and could be an extra in a world hunger charity commercial. On the flip side I went to an NCAA women's gymnastics meet on Saturday with ms. katokoch (a former gymnast). LORD ALMIGHTY! Nothing but big 'ol butts and toned legs all over the place, and not just big but big as in the result of a healthy squatting program. It was awesome, I was in heaven. Makes no sense to me how it isn't a more popular spectator sport.