LJ Friending Meme

(Copped from springheel_jack)



Picture by Wuxi on Flickr
Feeling like you're drifting all alone in the once-fun-but-now-too-quiet pool of Livejournal? Not to worry! mallorys_camera is running a friending meme!

Friending Meme for LJ Survivors - 2015 Re-edition


Please remember that friending frenzies work only if you spread the word, so, even if you're not looking for more friends, would you mind doing me a big favour and pimping the meme on your own journals?

Thanks!

Name: mallorys_camera
Age: 63
Location: The Hudson Valley
What do you do: I'm a writer. But then, who isn't?
Hobbies/interests/likes: Reading, traveling, bicycling. I love walking around cities and small towns and trying to imagine what life was like 100, 50, even 25 years ago.
What can we find in your journal: I write about my life. I think journals are substantiatively different from blogs. Blogs are opinion pieces. I don't keep a blog.
What do you look for and NOT look for in other people's journal: I like reading about people's lives, having the opportunity to look through their eyes at perspectives that are not my own. I've made some close friends on LJ. I'm not at all interested in fandom. That's not a judgement: It's fine if you are -- but chances are if you are, we won't have all that much to say to one another.
Pick a quote/film/book/song that says something about you: Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly. ---- Harry Lime

Your Tax Dollars at Work

About a month ago, I get this folded yellow card in the mail: An announcement of the upcoming primary elections.

I’m a registered Republican.

This isn’t because I actually support Republican platforms. It’s because I believe in using my vote to inflict the most harm on people I do not like.

The primary was yesterday, September 10th.

Now normally, I wouldn’t waste my time voting in a primary election – that’s half an hour I could be watching reruns of The Real Housewives of New York, right? But Sue Serino’s son was running for something and I loathe Sue Serino (and if you live in the Hudson Valley, you should loathe her, too.) No Serino political dynasties on my watch, I thought.

So I drive to the fire station where the primary is being held, and there are twelve people sitting there in an empty room with the polling booths set up etc etc, and when I tried to vote, they told me, Nope. Only people who can vote today are Greens and Independents.

“I don’t understand,” I said.

One of the polling attendants shrugged.

I look down at the yellow card. Didn’t get the date wrong.

“Why can’t I vote?” I asked.

The polling attendant shrugged again.

“Does this mean that everyone who’s on the primary ballot makes it into the November election?”

“I don’t know,” said the polling attendant.

You figure there’s got to be some expense associated with pulling together a primary election. Yellow cards and stamps don’t grow on trees. I believe polling attendants are volunteers, the fire station is free, but even there, there’ve gotta be opportunity costs, right?

Why the hell would they announce an election if there isn’t an election?

Your tax dollars at work!