Oh dearie

[hummingwolf]

Pretend for a moment that I have something deep and meaningful to say here. Thank you.

Today, spent some time reading books, some time reading online, a little time attempting to nap, a reasonable amount of time finding cute squashes and onions at the supermarket, less time doing laundry than I would have liked, and some happy time watching Bones (not a great show, but it didn't make me feel like hurling the TV set out the window) and House, M.D. (a great show).

The thought taking over my brain tonight is: Weather Porn. You see, back when Katrina was approaching land, daisydumont used the term "weather porn" in reference to the lurid details voyeuristic reporters dilate upon when some great storm is preparing to ravish the land. This discussion taking place before we knew the full extent of Kat's damage, it was more amusing to me then than it is now to think about weather-related fanfic all about the torrid relationship between the hurricane and the Gulf of Mexico. Anyway, I was reminded of the weather porn concept again today when I looked at Weather Underground's current tropical weather page and saw the name of this storm. If you do not know why that name triggers thoughts of weather porn, you have probably never been an English-speaking teenager.

Yes, please pretend I had something deep and meaningful to say here.

Comments

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Ah, it's been a long time since I lived in a house with cable. Something of a "Wild Hurricanes Attack!" idea, I take it.

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

oh yeah, every night at 8:00 for an hour, they have these Storm Stories on the weather channel: people giving their tales of horror, with footage of tornadoes and so on. i can't bear it. until my knee went out and my conditioning suffered, i was on the treadmill most evenings right around then and would have to turn to Emeril on the food channel to avoid the porn!