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Name: Holly
Country: United Kingdom
Birthday: 11/9/1965
Gender: Female
Interests: World travel, music (classic guitar, piano, cello, singing, listening), steep hills and easy mountains, sloppy clay, photography, reading, drawing, avoiding big hairy spiders, interesting architecture, creme brulee, woolly clothes that don't itch, cats, warm feet, cashew nuts, Cerruti 1881, hobby lists that gradually mutate into lists of what I like in life...
Expertise: I see dumb people. They are everywhere. Some of them don't know they're dumb.
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Yahoo:  holly_green
Member Since:
12/23/2000
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| I Can't Think of a TitleAnd now that I'm here in this big white empty text box, I can't think of what to say!
<Stares at keyboard, idly wondering what font is used for the QWERTY keys...>
Oh look! There's a butterfly! Must chase it...
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| Do you recall that poignant scene in the military movie: Platoon, where the character played by William Dafoe runs through the jungle chased by the enemy and then falls to his knees under a hail of bullets with his arms raised and head thrown back in a heartbreaking gesture of abandonment to his squad (who are witnessing his death from the safety of their retreating helicopters)?
Well...my daughter does that when she doesn't get her way.
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| Dear Melody,
Happy First Birthday!
Now that you are 1, please can you start contributing to your accommodation costs.
Lots of Love
Mummy | | |
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TEST
You are in Miami, Florida. There is chaos all around you caused by a hurricane with severe flooding. This is a flood of biblical proportions. You are a photo-journalist working for a major newspaper and you're caught in the middle of this epic disaster.
The situation is nearly hopeless.
You're trying to shoot career-making photos. There are houses and people swirling around you, some disappearing under the water. Nature is unleashing all of her destructive fury. Suddenly you see a man floundering in the water.
He is fighting for his life, trying not to be taken down with the debris.
You move closer . . .
Somehow the man looks familiar and you suddenly realise who it is. . .
It's George W. Bush!
At the same time you notice that the raging waters are about to take him under, forever. You have two options:
- you can save the life of G. W. Bush or
- you can shoot a dramatic, Pulitzer Prize winning photo, documenting the death of one of the world's most powerful men.
So here's the question, and please give an honest answer............
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Would you select high contrast colour film or would you go with the classic simplicity and drama of black and white?
Anon
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| The Bush administration's lack of response to and preparation for Hurricane Katrina is disgusting. You have to ask yourself whether the relief effort would have been the same had the victims not been predominantly poor and black. Offers of support from the UN and Canada have been stupidly, proudly & stubbornly rejected as "not required" - yet the extent of the devastation warrants a far larger and more effective mobilisation of aid than I have seen in evidence.
Piss poor governance aside, what I find additionally disturbing is the Press' focus on the looting and apparent anarchy rampant in what's left of New Orleans. I am by no means an advocate of mob rule, but if I were stranded in a flooded city with no electricity, sanitation, water or food for 4 days - I would not be queuing politely outside Walmart waiting for the tills to re-open...
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