Comments on: The big swing http://neworleans.metblogs.com/2007/09/07/the-big-swing/ Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:09:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: barbawit http://neworleans.metblogs.com/2007/09/07/the-big-swing/comment-page-1/#comment-13558 barbawit Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:17:28 +0000 http://neworleans.metblogs.com/2007/09/07/the-big-swing/#comment-13558 Most of us here have been going through it, you have expressed it quote well. Sometimes to survive we have to put blinders on to make it through the day. Most of us here have been going through it, you have expressed it quote well. Sometimes to survive we have to put blinders on to make it through the day.

]]> By: barbawit http://neworleans.metblogs.com/2007/09/07/the-big-swing/comment-page-1/#comment-13557 barbawit Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:17:23 +0000 http://neworleans.metblogs.com/2007/09/07/the-big-swing/#comment-13557 Most of us here have been going through it, you have expressed it quote well. Sometimes to survive we have to put blinders on to make it through the day. Most of us here have been going through it, you have expressed it quote well. Sometimes to survive we have to put blinders on to make it through the day.

]]> By: Jules http://neworleans.metblogs.com/2007/09/07/the-big-swing/comment-page-1/#comment-13556 Jules Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:49:58 +0000 http://neworleans.metblogs.com/2007/09/07/the-big-swing/#comment-13556 I feel yer pain man, I really do. I sometimes wonder whether New Orleans has such a strong hold on me because of the way the city plays into the pathologies I suffer from. It's kind of a chicken-and-egg question. I feel yer pain man, I really do. I sometimes wonder whether New Orleans has such a strong hold on me because of the way the city plays into the pathologies I suffer from. It’s kind of a chicken-and-egg question.

]]> By: Ella Kliger http://neworleans.metblogs.com/2007/09/07/the-big-swing/comment-page-1/#comment-13555 Ella Kliger Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:05:07 +0000 http://neworleans.metblogs.com/2007/09/07/the-big-swing/#comment-13555 Thank you for the rawness of the post. These are the kinds of things that could help open up this disaster to the people who don't live here and don't get it. I have been volunteering on the Mississippi Gulf Coast for almost a year. People back home in Boston don't understand why I'm still here, why everything isn't back to normal yet. Come to think of it, some people in northern Mississippi and Baton Rouge don't get it. Hopefully, your blog can help to personalize this disaster in a way that the one day of coverage on 8/29 didn't. THank you for sharing. Touched my heart. Best, Ella www.reelrelief.com Thank you for the rawness of the post. These are the kinds of things that could help open up this disaster to the people who don’t live here and don’t get it.
I have been volunteering on the Mississippi Gulf Coast for almost a year. People back home in Boston don’t understand why I’m still here, why everything isn’t back to normal yet. Come to think of it, some people in northern Mississippi and Baton Rouge don’t get it.
Hopefully, your blog can help to personalize this disaster in a way that the one day of coverage on 8/29 didn’t. THank you for sharing. Touched my heart.

Best,
Ella
http://www.reelrelief.com

]]> By: Jack Ware http://neworleans.metblogs.com/2007/09/07/the-big-swing/comment-page-1/#comment-13554 Jack Ware Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:28:55 +0000 http://neworleans.metblogs.com/2007/09/07/the-big-swing/#comment-13554 Guess I kinda took some of the fun out of it hu. Sorry. Guess I kinda took some of the fun out of it hu. Sorry.

]]> By: termite http://neworleans.metblogs.com/2007/09/07/the-big-swing/comment-page-1/#comment-13553 termite Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:16:05 +0000 http://neworleans.metblogs.com/2007/09/07/the-big-swing/#comment-13553 uh hu. :p uh hu.

:p

]]> By: Jack Ware http://neworleans.metblogs.com/2007/09/07/the-big-swing/comment-page-1/#comment-13552 Jack Ware Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:38:43 +0000 http://neworleans.metblogs.com/2007/09/07/the-big-swing/#comment-13552 That's on all the Metroblog Sites, Termite. It's part of the design. I've never asked why its there. It lives in the generated html code and is being called from here <a href="http://assets.metblogs.com/img/bgbottom.gif" rel="nofollow">http://assets.metblogs.com/img/bgbottom.gif</a> Wikipedia offers some insight <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Long,_and_Thanks_for_All_the_Fish" rel="nofollow"> here</a> but of course our geekier readers would have instantly recognized it. From the link: "The book begins with Arthur Dent, hitch-hiking randomly through the galaxy, arriving at (as the book's blurb describes it) "the last place in the Universe in which he would expect to find anything at all, but which 3,976,000,000 people will find oddly familiar" - namely Earth, which was demolished at the beginning of the first book in the series." Pretty cool, hu. That’s on all the Metroblog Sites, Termite. It’s part of the design. I’ve never asked why its there. It lives in the generated html code and is being called from here http://assets.metblogs.com/img/bgbottom.gif

Wikipedia offers some insight here but of course our geekier readers would have instantly recognized it. From the link:

“The book begins with Arthur Dent, hitch-hiking randomly through the galaxy, arriving at (as the book’s blurb describes it) “the last place in the Universe in which he would expect to find anything at all, but which 3,976,000,000 people will find oddly familiar” – namely Earth, which was demolished at the beginning of the first book in the series.”

Pretty cool, hu.

]]> By: termite http://neworleans.metblogs.com/2007/09/07/the-big-swing/comment-page-1/#comment-13551 termite Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:51:52 +0000 http://neworleans.metblogs.com/2007/09/07/the-big-swing/#comment-13551 i was going to write somthing meaningful for a change; when i looked down at the bottom right of the screen and noticed something i hadn't before on this metro page.. "SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH". lmao.. i have no idea what it means or who put it there..(was that you craig??) but i spit my diet coke all over the screen and i'm still giggling at the absurdity of it all. gez, i'm easy. i'm feeling better already. i was going to write somthing meaningful for a change; when i looked down at the bottom right of the screen and noticed something i hadn’t before on this metro page..

“SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH”.

lmao.. i have no idea what it means or who put it there..(was that you craig??) but i spit my diet coke all over the screen and i’m still giggling at the absurdity of it all.

gez, i’m easy.
i’m feeling better already.

]]> By: mi http://neworleans.metblogs.com/2007/09/07/the-big-swing/comment-page-1/#comment-13550 mi Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:10:04 +0000 http://neworleans.metblogs.com/2007/09/07/the-big-swing/#comment-13550 hey we all are in this depression thing with out hope. I have been unemployed for 2 years and with our government not responding to the USA and the people of this country. And I was in dallas when Kitrina Hit but it is a ripple down effect!They ( Government) are more involved with posessions to make than to make economy strong, ( buy!Buy! things)It is like George bush giving everone a tax break but then at the end of the year you claim it, and by the way alot of people like my self did not get the credit. Pretty soon we will be making shoes for 3 world countrys. I could ramble on about depression but it is a large whole pills and booze or sex won't heal. But I was most impressed with you point of view how you handle it. Thanks, Mi hey we all are in this depression thing with out hope. I have been unemployed for 2 years and with our government not responding to the USA and the people of this country. And I was in dallas when Kitrina Hit but it is a ripple down effect!They ( Government) are more involved with posessions to make than to make economy strong, ( buy!Buy! things)It is like George bush giving everone a tax break but then at the end of the year you claim it, and by the way alot of people like my self did not get the credit. Pretty soon we will be making shoes for 3 world countrys. I could ramble on about depression but it is a large whole pills and booze or sex won’t heal. But I was most impressed with you point of view how you handle it. Thanks, Mi

]]> By: mi http://neworleans.metblogs.com/2007/09/07/the-big-swing/comment-page-1/#comment-13549 mi Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:58:39 +0000 http://neworleans.metblogs.com/2007/09/07/the-big-swing/#comment-13549 Hey I know where you are (in your head) I like the way you express your self being unemployed and past 50 years old ., has to be the most terriable event besides being a single mother many moons ago at least it was in the hippy days when people looked after others and was'nt what you wore or the auto you drove.( not to drone on) back to I also have dyslexia, postraumatic syndrone,on top o drepression. I like the way you put it as on ice with weight on top and seeing A visual of that weight being lifted by thought. I have tried all the positive reforcement books and they are hard to apply. lets hope the economy breaks and thing can shift so people and Governments care about our wealfare here in the USA. unemployed in the Heart of Texas. George Bush country Hey I know where you are (in your head) I like the way you express your self being unemployed and past 50 years old ., has to be the most terriable event besides being a single mother many moons ago at least it was in the hippy days when people looked after others and was’nt what you wore or the auto you drove.( not to drone on) back to
I also have dyslexia, postraumatic syndrone,on top o drepression. I like the way you put it as on ice with weight on top and seeing A visual of that weight being lifted by thought. I have tried all the positive reforcement books and they are hard to apply. lets hope the economy breaks and thing can shift so people and Governments care about our wealfare here in the USA. unemployed in the Heart of Texas. George Bush country

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