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I've heard people complain about how pointless it is to post things like SNOW when it's snowed. Although I see the logic and point, I sometimes learn about major news items through LJ (yes I'm pathetic) and I kinda like to see everyone's varying opinions about issues. Everyone has a different take, adding their own flavor to a common experience.

I enjoy watching all the SUV drivers losing control of their wanna-be trucks in 2" of slush. Snow around DC is fucking hilarious. I'm sure I lose karma for laughing at other people suffering, but it's so deserved that I cash in just a lil private karma for giggles.

I wore combat boots to work. They keep me warm and dry, but SUCK on slick surfaces (hence good dancing). Downhill fast, uphill slow with setbacks.

9 years with da gummint and I was pretty sure we'd be open today - it takes major snow to close when it costs a bazillion dollars in tax-dollars to close us. What I don't understand is why, when it started snowing hard at like 8pm and supposedly snowed hard all night, it's only 2-4" or so.

EDIT SHIT school is closed. GAWD I hope they open later tonight. I would LOVE to miss class, but in law school they don't skip material because of some silly snow...they just pack it on in special saturday sessions, longer classes...in other words you play now you pay later. I dun wanna pay! I'd rather just sludge through it right now :(

My my hey hey plagarism is here to stay...

I just learned that Kurt Cobain is being quoted as though he said "It is better to burn out than to fade away." Needless to say, that is not Kurt Cobain's 'art' - it was lifted from Neil Young's Out of the blue (My my hey hey) from 1974.

I'm just amazed that people don't realize that virtually everything they see as 'art' is just reproduced work someone else did. There have been no new songs, scripts, or thoughts for the past 20 friggin years. Look up any rap song, it's just a paraphrased work with samples from 20 years ago. Look up any rock song and it's a cover. No one makes a damn thing anymore. Best you can hope for is that a good old book or comic book gets made into something with nifty special effects.
( Lyrics are always a cut )

I mean they're not exactly the best lyrics ever, but at least the guy wrote them...or was he ripping off / covering someone else's work? Perhaps I'm being all indignant when in fact the work in question is a ripoff of a folk song that pre-dates my knowlege...

My mom listened to country music...sometimes songs still get stuck in my head...( Somebody's knockin )