my sorted past

I feel exploited by the movie rent, possibly moreso even than the theatrical version. I don't know, I think it's because I spent a lot of my early adulthood (22-26) living in the East Village and I came to identify with it (a version of it that no longer exists) strongly.

Am I silly for feeling exploited by Rent?

feh.

Soup Exchange?

Should I bring back the soup exchange?

That's a thing where everyone brings 3 quarts of soup to some central destination, and then trades it for other people's soup. matilda is the only person currently on my LJ that participated in the previous ones, but a friend was talking about making a big thing of soup didn't work so well when it was just one person eating it, and that brought back the idea of the soup exchange.

matilda ended up giving the soup to a really cool quasi-homeless friend of mine hanging out at the Sit&Spin and not actually participating in the exchange, which I feel find funny to this day. Hopefully, this time it will be more together.

Would anyone out there be interested in participating?

1st rule of soup exchange: no damn chum chowder.

WEATHER PANIC EMERGENCY!!!

While I was waiting for the bus to take me home tonight, I witnessed my first WEATHER PANIC EMERGENCY!!! of the season. A bus driver was going the wrong way (for that route) down 15th ave, made a sharp turn onto campus parkway that pulled it's catenary system off the wires in the middle of the intersection.

The driver jumps out, says in a panicked voice 'Montlake is closed, if you want to get to capitol hill, get on this bus now' to people at my bus stop (which was about 15' from these proceedings) and then runs to fix the catenary wires. She gets in the bus, and then takes off with a sudden jerk.

So, the next bus coming down the street in the right direction is also a 43, so I ask the driver whether they're rerouted and she looks at me like I'm crazy. She trolleyed off into the distance, and didn't come back in the time it took my bus to come (about 15 minutes longer than the round trip would have taken her), so I assume that the first bus driver was just suffering from panic.

two notes about CS Lewis

Two interesting articles about CS Lewis and Narnia:

The Prisoner of Narnia from the New Yorker, and The Narnia Skirmishes from the New York Times.

I re-read the Narnia books recently, to get a feel for what they were about, I'm going to go and see the movie when it comes out. I hadn't read the Magician's Nephew previously, and I remember just being confused by the 6th book when I originally read it.

It's interesting, although the imagery that I completely missed when I was a kid now seems a little heavy-handed.