Katie Doyle, Girl About Town

Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2002 - 12:04 a.m.

Wow, you guys, look at that. All you have to do is use the phrase "limey brit," and suddenly someone from the UK randomly decides to read your diary. I would think maybe they googled the phrase limey brit, but according to my stats page, that link did not lead anyone here, and in fact, I googled it just now out of curiosity, and it turned up 366 items - scary in and of itself - but none of them were me. However, someone at South Trafford College had nothing better to do with his or her time than wander over into my little neck of the cyberwoods. Go figure.

The Meeting Will Now Come to Order
Okay, first off, lemme tell ya Lola is more than a little peeved right now, and I have to agree with her. There's been a fair amount of stupidity in the world this week, much of it in the last 2 days, and Lola's right to be outraged. I'll see if I can rein her in a bit though, and dole that ire out over a day or two, instead of all right here. I do think you'll be surprised at the things Lola has to bring up. They're actually most of them entirely unrelated to the dope-snorting, drunk-driving, military-duty-shirking cheerleader currently ruling the White House.

(yes, Lola gets mad about all kinds of things, not just Idiotboy and his moronic and fascist incompetence...top among them right now, because I'm forced to listen to the damn jingle, is that ridiculous excuse for a network, Oxygen. but i digress.)

Gosh, where to start? How 'bout with my favorite feature...

Stupid Quote(s) of the Day:
"I thought I'd catch a break because I'm an American Catholic, not a Muslim."
--NY Times commentator Maureen Dowd, on being stopped by the mutawwa in Saudi Arabia for being improperly dressed on the streets of Riyadh at 11:30pm on Ramadan.

For those of you who don't know, the mutawwa could actually be called the Fashion Police. They're the meanies who enforce morality on the streets in Saudi Arabia. That being said, Ms. Dowd was lingerie shopping on Ramadan, which I have to think is tempting the Fates, right there. Ramadan is like big time Muslim holiday thing, all about abstinence and (I believe) submission to Allah, very similar to Lent, and Idiotgirl being CATHOLIC, she should fully understand the importance of that - unless she's congenitally stupid, which, clearly, she is. Secondly, in a country which she KNOWS is extremely religious and Muslim AND observing a holy day, she was out wearing a long skirt, with a t-shirt and sweater, and had a scarf over her hair. Wow, she took precautions there, baby. In fact, she *had* been wearing a pink skirt and had been told no way was she going out like that, so you'd think she'd've had the sense to realize a t-shirt and sweater were not going to cut it, especially since you could see the outline of her body, in a country that makes a point of shrouding women into shapeless black masses that make Cousin It look like Betty Boop...or whatever the hell Cousin It would pass for. But the reason this makes the Stupid Quote(s) of the Day is that she had the supreme fucking arrogance to think that just because she was an American and Catholic, she didn't have to adhere to the restrictions of another country. It's insulting and imbecilic on more than a few levels, but I'll leave it at that.

"This woman is known for her fashion sense. Was she going to start a new line of Winona wear with holes in it?" --Ryder Defense Attorney Mark Geragos, in his closing argument, when he also suggested Winona was framed by a salesperson, who slipped the pair of scissors she was found carrying into her purse.

Please. Have you seen what she was wearing in the surveillance video?

"Can anyone see Ms. Ryder with this on top of her head? Does that make sense?" --Garagos during trial, after having placed an "allegedly" pilfered bow on top of Winona's head.

Dude; that *hat* was a trend setter?

"What's really gotten me is that this woman calls us discriminatory. She calls us bigots. ...If we discriminate, do the Girl Scouts discriminate? Do the Boy Scouts discriminate? Does Spelman College discriminate? Does Smith College discriminate? Do social fraternities and sororities discriminate?" --William "Hootie" Johnson, Chairman of Augusta National Golf Club, on charges the exclusive men's club discriminates against women.

Uh, yeah, Bill, they do.

discriminate:
v. intr.
1. to make a clear distinction; distinguish
2. to make distinctions on the basis of class or category without regard to individual merit; show preference or prejudice

v. tr.
1. to perceive the distinguishing features of; recognize as distinct
2. to distinguish by noting differences; differentiate
3. to make or constitute a distinction in or between

So Bill, what part of your club not allowing women to join do you think lacks discrimination?

(I won't go into the fact that he later favorably compares himself to both Scouts organizations as being favorable. He really needs to get his examples straight. What kind of a grown, adult, septagenarian allows himself to be called "Hootie," anyway? Damn, Billybob, git on down to the store and pick us up s'more berr.) In fact, Bill's just beggin' to be stupid quoted. He could have this entire section to himself:

"They're totally different, racial issues and gender issues. You've never heard a constitutional lawyer say they were the same thing. You've never heard a civil rights activist say that they were the same thing. And if they were the same thing, maybe they would've been put into the Civil Rights Act. So they're totally different."

Is he really that stupid, do you think? I mean, seriously, to claim there are varying stages of discrimination, and that any one is more acceptable than the others is the most asinine thing I have heard in quite a while, and that includes most of what Idiotboy has said in the 2 years he's been in office. I personally feel Billy has the right to keep his stupid little club exclusive, because it's private, and frankly, I think men and women need to have places where they can go without having to deal with members of the opposite sex. But this comment makes me want to find him and just beat the ever-lovin' holy hell out of the little fuckwit.

"What's done is done. We are where we are. And we're right. And right usually prevails."

Cling to that, Bill. Legally, you have every right to stay exclusive. But your attitude? That's a different matter altogether. And I'm willing to bet you've pissed off a lotta women, and women spend the money advertising is mostly geared for. Let's see what happens in future, you sanctimonious little twit.

I found more Linda Sibley stuff, but I think we've maxed on the golf quotes today, so let's leave it at that for now, shall we? Whew.

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's--OW!
Here's something I find oddly interesting and strangely hard to believe: in all of recorded history, no human being has ever been killed by a meteorite. Oh, they've been struck by them, all right, but apparently, no one's ever been fatally so. Jose Martin of Spain did get his finger broken though, when one slammed through the windshield of his car, bent his steering wheel, and bounced on past, into the backseat of his car. Boy, and I thought that big piece of rubber that flew off of a semi and bounced of the windshield in front of my face was scary...

The Leonids were pretty impressive last year, you guys. If you get the chance next week, I heartily recommend them. They're supposed to be just as good this year. And don't be lazy. Take a blanket, get in the car, and go find a spot away from ambient city light. It's majorly worth it, and you'll be glad you did. It's once in your life; don't be chintzy.

Who knew something the size of a grain of sand could cause that much agitation and spectacle? :)

Life in Katieland
So rejoice and be happy, dear readers, school is almost done, and I am gettin' *short*. Woohoo! One more final to go...

BTW, does anyone out there know why a) suddenly the home button no longer works in MS Word on my freaking computer, even though it does in every other application I run; b) also suddenly, when I select a block of text and hit delete (also in freaking Word), I have to then tell it yes or no to delete the fucking block of text (again, even though I don't have to in any other application); and c) sometimes, for no explicable reason, when I am surfing the web, the tab button ceases to tab and instead switches from the current window to whatever window is open beneath it?

If you can answer those questions, I will be eternally grateful and forevermore refer to you as the computer GOD, because I use all three of those things all the time, and the fact that they have suddenly fucking gone haywire drives me absolutely nuts. I swear, I am going to drive up to Marin County and open up with a high-powered rifle. Fucking Bill Gates AND his bullshit applications.

Wow. I had no idea until this very minute exactly how much it bugs me not to be able to use those functions; how dependent on their use and convenience I have become. But I'm sorry; as a writer, you really need to be able to use the first two. Especially the home function.

Oops! I almost forgot...

And a great big Shout Out to:
Scott Shaffer, the Van Wert, Ohio, theatre manager who thought to get his patrons out of the theatre auditoriums and into the halls, thus surely saving lives this past Sunday, Nov. 11. Excellent job, Scott.

All right, then, kids, this is it. It's 3:24am, and I am tired. 9:00 comes awfully early when one has been surfing the web all night. Have a good one.

Peace out,
Katie

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