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[bubbles83]

God, you guys write a lot. I didn't go online last night because my grandparents came over for dinner, then Heroes was on and then I got sucked into old family movies of my mom and her crazy family. So I go on today and I'm at skip 80. Not that I don't love it. I do. But I probably won't comment, because dudes, overwhelming. I'm a little frightened to check out my communities filter.

And I missed Jon and Stephen and I heard there was awesomeness.

It's Dan Patrick's birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAN! I love you! And if you keep talking about Keith showing up in only a bow, you can't blame me for my dirty thoughts.

Falwell died. Just thought you'd want to know.

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[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Oh, honey. If I don't get to skip=120 on a normal day's flist check, I wonder why my flist is being so quiet. I'm jealous :P

[bubbles83.livejournal.com]

Usually I get to skip 20 when I check in the morning, and then I check off and on during the day while I'm at work. Then after I watch TV at night. So I'd say in the course of a day I maybe get to around skip 80 maybe 100. If I had communities filtered in there I'd never comment on anything ever.

I don't know how you do it.

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

I actually am a pretty bad commenter, in order to make it through everything. :( But I've tried to trim my flist a few times, and I just can't do it! There's no one I feel okay cutting! I already have like... 80 people who have me friended that I don't have friended back. *hands!*

[smidgy06.livejournal.com]

\o/

[bubbles83.livejournal.com]

I feel bad cuz the guy had a family and stuff, but at the same time I feel like the world is a little better today.

[smidgy06.livejournal.com]

I don't feel bad. My insides are actually smiling.

*goes to hell*

[nam-jai.livejournal.com]

Falwell died. Just thought you'd want to know.

I'm wondering if this will be one of those funerals where the media coverage implies we're now supposed to pretend we liked and even admired the person just because they're dead and famous (e.g., Nixon).

[bubbles83.livejournal.com]

Probably. He had a family and I guess I feel bad for them, but really, I think we're all a little better off now.

[nam-jai.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, on the level of personal loss for his family and friends, certainly his family would be rightfully mourning -- didn't mean to imply they shouldn't. I'm more thinking of enduring days of pundits going on about what a great man and spiritual leader he was, and it would be just not done to mention nutty things like gay Teletubbies.

For me, Nixon is the ultimate in this: When he died, there was all this yammering on about him being a great statesman, and it seemed to be in poor taste to bring up a little thing like Watergate.

But Nixon was a president. Maybe Falwell is too fringe and we won't be hearing too much in the way of posthumous plaudits!