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1 by syntaxfree07_Archive
http://www.tricities.com/tristate/tri/news.apx.-content-articles-TRI-2008-05-07-0039.html

The entire city smells like a barbeque pit.

Here are some pictures that my mom took. Best view in town, evidently. The local press has been here to take pictures. I chased it with some friends for a little while last night. I can't remember the last time I was this excited. I may have been this excited during Katrina.

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See if you can spot the mothership.
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I didn t start the fire.

4 by syntaxfree07_Archive
Nina wrote:Why are you "excited?"


Because fire gives me a blue steel hard-on. Don't be an asshole.

Natural disasters are exciting when you are close enough to see them but not close enough to be harmed by them. I'm not saying that I want the fire to expand into the city or even destroy more of the park. I will stand in awe of it and not feel bad about it, though.
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I didn t start the fire.

6 by Andrew_Archive
syntaxfree07 wrote:
Natural disasters are exciting when you are close enough to see them but not close enough to be harmed by them. I'm not saying that I want the fire to expand into the city or even destroy more of the park. I will stand in awe of it and not feel bad about it, though.


This is almost exactly in keeping with Edmund Burke's 1756 Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and the Beautiful. It really is.

I didn t start the fire.

8 by STF_Archive
Andrew. wrote:
syntaxfree07 wrote:
Natural disasters are exciting when you are close enough to see them but not close enough to be harmed by them. I'm not saying that I want the fire to expand into the city or even destroy more of the park. I will stand in awe of it and not feel bad about it, though.


This is almost exactly in keeping with Edmund Burke's 1756 Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and the Beautiful. It really is.
Don DeLillo writes about something related in White Noise. One doesn't have to feel guilty for enjoiyng the spectacle of disaster on television. Anything on television is fair game to be watched as entertainment. It's even acceptable to want a disaster to get worse or to crave more and larger disasters.

A character says of Californians: "They invented the concept of lifestyle. This alone warrants their doom."
Dr. Geek wrote:I once found a soggy dollar floating in a puddle on the side of the street. I carefully picked it out of the water before it sank to the bottom. It smelled funny after it dried.

I didn t start the fire.

9 by syntaxfree07_Archive
STF wrote:
Andrew. wrote:
syntaxfree07 wrote:
Natural disasters are exciting when you are close enough to see them but not close enough to be harmed by them. I'm not saying that I want the fire to expand into the city or even destroy more of the park. I will stand in awe of it and not feel bad about it, though.


This is almost exactly in keeping with Edmund Burke's 1756 Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and the Beautiful. It really is.
Don DeLillo writes about something related in White Noise. One doesn't have to feel guilty for enjoiyng the spectacle of disaster on television. Anything on television is fair game to be watched as entertainment. It's even acceptable to want a disaster to get worse or to crave more and larger disasters.

A character says of Californians: "They invented the concept of lifestyle. This alone warrants their doom."


Good lord! I can't believe we're going there. Some just gimme a "Daaaaamn!" or something. Anything!
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