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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Unexpected side effect.
With all the news of the flooding in Rhode Island, it's the place names that are having an odd effect on me. I keep expecting to hear about eyeless tentacled horrors washed out of the storm sewers...
I had a mild human-type interest in the last round of flooding, right up until I saw a news report that featured residents of Warwick demanding the government send guys out to clean their flood damaged homes for them. The common utterance was "who's gonna help us?!", of course delivered with all the righteous indignation they could muster. Gee folks, why don't you help each other instead of standing around in a parking lot bitching at some government toady? You know...help your neighbor, like they do in the civilized world.
"Animal fury and orgiastic licence here whipped themselves to demoniac heights by howls and squawking ecstasies that tore and reverberated through those nighted woods like pestilential tempests from the gulfs of hell."
For myself, I actually enjoy me some pestilential tempests.
I was just there last week and it doesn't take a lot of rain to flood out those streets but like OA said, where's that famous New England stoicism/self-reliance?
I have to admit that I wasn't watching for Cthulhu, but wouldn't have been surprised if he'd come calling.
OA: Don;t be fooled by a couple of sniveling nitwits. Us Swamp Yankees take care of each other. House down the street was in danger of washing away and the whole neighborhood jumped in to help sandbag the foundation. House is still there with only a little bit of damage. Don't sell us short!
Hell, when pressed, most everyone, regardless of country and size of town/city, will pitch in and do what they can to help. Most of the people in that parking lot were just sorry damn pigs, though.
The way the water is spurting up from my floors, I just assumed that Hell was an aquatic environment, and I'm just making sure Teddy Kennedy doesn't come up through one of those holes to take back his seat.
Seems fitting that Teddy with reside in the hereafter submerged, don't ya think?
"The way the water is spurting up from my floors, I just assumed that Hell was an aquatic environment, and I'm just making sure Teddy Kennedy doesn't come up through one of those holes to take back his seat."
Hey, there are some eyeless tentacled horrors on the side of the good guys, with four mouths and four noses, and wearing a Lens. Witness my email addy, in honor of one of them.
I had a mild human-type interest in the last round of flooding, right up until I saw a news report that featured residents of Warwick demanding the government send guys out to clean their flood damaged homes for them. The common utterance was "who's gonna help us?!", of course delivered with all the righteous indignation they could muster. Gee folks, why don't you help each other instead of standing around in a parking lot bitching at some government toady? You know...help your neighbor, like they do in the civilized world.
ReplyDelete"Animal fury and orgiastic licence here whipped themselves to demoniac heights by howls and squawking ecstasies that tore and reverberated through those nighted woods like pestilential tempests from the gulfs of hell."
ReplyDeleteFor myself, I actually enjoy me some pestilential tempests.
I was just there last week and it doesn't take a lot of rain to flood out those streets but like OA said, where's that famous New England stoicism/self-reliance?
ReplyDeleteI have to admit that I wasn't watching for Cthulhu, but wouldn't have been surprised if he'd come calling.
Beware the Zombie Quohog!!!
ReplyDeleteOA: Don;t be fooled by a couple of sniveling nitwits. Us Swamp Yankees take care of each other. House down the street was in danger of washing away and the whole neighborhood jumped in to help sandbag the foundation. House is still there with only a little bit of damage. Don't sell us short!
Spence in RI
Hell, when pressed, most everyone, regardless of country and size of town/city, will pitch in and do what they can to help. Most of the people in that parking lot were just sorry damn pigs, though.
ReplyDeleteOops, that was me.
ReplyDeleteI thought all of the children of our Dread Lord Cthulhu were amphibious anyway?
ReplyDeleteThe way the water is spurting up from my floors, I just assumed that Hell was an aquatic environment, and I'm just making sure Teddy Kennedy doesn't come up through one of those holes to take back his seat.
ReplyDeleteSeems fitting that Teddy with reside in the hereafter submerged, don't ya think?
> I keep expecting to hear about eyeless tentacled horrors
ReplyDeleteYeah, the RI politicians are almost as bad as the MA ones.
Hey, RI has the only Kennedy left...
ReplyDeleteInteresting to see tony Newburyport, MA on that list, Tam.
Lovely place - as long as you can stand the urban hipsters.
I miss living in RI. Weird Indian place names, crooked Italian politicians by the trunkload (I'm Italian), and fun beaches full of lovely ladies.
ReplyDelete"The way the water is spurting up from my floors, I just assumed that Hell was an aquatic environment, and I'm just making sure Teddy Kennedy doesn't come up through one of those holes to take back his seat."
ReplyDeletePh'nglui mglw'nafh Ted Kennedy R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Ted Kennedy R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."
ReplyDeleteOkay, I LOL'ed. Hard.
Midwest, Rogue Island is not exactly New England. It was founded by Baptists, not Puritans. Read yer "Albion's Seed."
ReplyDeleteHey, there are some eyeless tentacled horrors on the side of the good guys, with four mouths and four noses, and wearing a Lens. Witness my email addy, in honor of one of them.
ReplyDelete"...eyeless tenticled horrors..." So libs come from RI sewers?
ReplyDeleteSome would argue that the place needed a good hosing out, sort of like the back end of a garbage truck after a long August work day.
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