Destroit

Roommate: "So I need to clean out my shit for this job coming up..." Me: "I can sell you some piss." Roommate: "Raven...your girlfriend just offered to sell me some of her pee, I think she's aiming to fail me..."

I could care less about either because I'm a "Havealifer" .

I call this masterpiece "Kitchen Squatter". It's a portrayal of the types of things you might wake up to in your house, mainly if you're me, but I'm sure it happens to other people also...

Cat came back . She's taken to running around attacking everyone and all the other cats due to a nervous breakdown now that she has no idea what reality is anymore.

Lonely and a little worried. We let one of the cats out that hasn't been allowed outside her whole life and I'm hoping she comes back okay. She's a bit older so I don't expect her to go far, but you never know. The kittens are both home safe, Gitzie is still outside but I don't worry about her much because she takes care of herself.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42919502/ns/travel-destination_travel/ The big yellow Ferris wheel sits idle; the bumper cars look frozen in suspended animation, as if they were abandoned mid-collision. So does the nearby school, whose cafeteria is littered with the detritus of dusty gas masks in case of nuclear war, its classrooms strewn with Cyrillic math textbooks and Soviet newspapers from the 1980s. A sign warns schoolchildren to save energy and heat. Slideshow: Tour Chernobyl Welcome to Pripyat, the Ukrainian town with the misfortune of sitting just miles from the world's most notorious nuclear power plant, Chernobyl. Twenty-five years ago this once heavily forested area bore the brunt of the world's deadliest nuclear power disaster, leaving untold victims who suffered from the radioactive fallout and ecological disaster in its wake. Now it is one of Ukraine's most visited sites. Roughly 6,000 tourists — most of them Europeans — stream through this ghost town annually on private tours unsanctioned by the authorities. But starting this year, the government is also looking to cash in on the plant's notoriety, with plans to open up the zone to official tours, as well as boost its safety by building a giant concrete shell to encase the reactor by 2015. After making the two-hour drive from Kiev, the tour kicks off in the no-frills office of the Ukrainian information agency. My guide, Yuri, points at color-coded maps of the radioactive fallout from the exclusion zone — or "dead zone" — a 30-kilometer radius that requires permits (and passports for foreigners) to enter. Next up is a drive-by photo op of the half-finished cooling towers and rusting nuclear reactors. There's an Iwo Jima-like statue devoted to the 29 firemen who died here, too. Tourists tote around a yellow Geiger counter, which resembles a garage door opener and beeps incessantly as it measures the air's radiation. Levels can vary from as low as 10 microroentgens or one-millionth of a roentgen, in Pripyat (harmless), to 200 in front of Reactor No. 4. (possibly harmful with long-term exposure), the site of the meltdown. "Only when it started beeping a lot was I scared," said Lina Selander, an artist visiting the nuclear zone from Sweden. "It's like Chernobyl's soundtrack." The most surreal stop of the tour is Pripyat. There are no hazmat-like outfits or special masks necessary. The poplars do not glow from radiation. The town is an eerily mundane time capsule, buried in dust and left almost exactly as it was when its roughly 50,000 inhabitants were forced to flee in 1986. Tourists are allowed to roam relatively un-chaperoned through the necropolis' spooky remains of apartment blocs, a gymnasium, dance hall, swimming pool, and an Orwellian-eque Palace of Culture, whose peeling sky-blue paint and scattered broken glass feel like a Soviet version of the Titanic. After the four-hour tour and a prison-style meal, visitors stand on a contraption that looks like a time machine. If it flashes green — no radiation — then you are good to go. On your way out of the exclusion zone, you (and your vehicle) must go through a similar radiation x-ray of sorts. Tours are not cheap, running upwards of $150 for groups and $400 for individuals. Sergii Mirnyi, a commander of the radiation reconnaissance platoon that responded in 1986, accuses the government of "milking" the disaster for every last tourist dollar. He says the reactor should stand as a monument to ecological education. "Chernobyl tourism," he told me, "undoubtedly can generate money. But I believe it can generate so much more."

Yeah it was abandoned. As I said in a previous post, it looked like it wasn't vacant, I had no idea what it was before it exploded.

Latinobyl says go DRINK TEQUILA!

The second I found out it was an abandoned laundromat/linen company, I thought that it was possible chemicals were involved. Still have yet to drive by it today, I'm supposed to go to a barbeque when my boyfriend gets home, so maybe we'll finally see it. My house, even though it physically moved during the explosion, does not appear to have any cracks in the foundation thank God.

I expect it more and more in Warren because of the faulty way our building code operates, corrupt building enforcement that are easy to bribe, and the fact that we had a slew of abandonment that we're still trying to weed out. It's going to be a long process, the mayor is taking an active approach and knocking down any commercial buildings that have been abandoned for a certain amount of time. Once that operation is over, they're going to see about residential homes, but that's more of a touchy thing to do as those homes are starting fly off the market around here. It's going to take South Warren a few years to come back, but I've only been living here about a year and a half and I'll tell you the place is already looking less like Detroit every day. What I LOVE is the fact that Warren isn't doing it so RACIALLY anymore! Warren was synonymous with "rednecks" who didn't want "n$%^#@" moving up in their neighborhoods. Well I can't stand that, I want to live in a giant fold of tons of different people, and it seems as though Warren police are not as overzealously racist (along with the citizen) anymore. I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime, never-the-less live on a great block with great people and racial representation from almost every ethnicity. So when they bring Warren back...hopefully it's more blended .

I have no idea how, in an area that populated with houses directly behind the building, only one pedestrian that was standing across the street sustained minor injuries. There were no casualties at all! The linen company was apparently abandoned, which I hadn't known because I drive past it all the time and it didn't appear to be vacant to me.

My house TIPPED like a boat, it felt like I was at sea. I'm less than a mile away. I just read that all the glass within 400 feet of the building has been shattered, I'm so driving past that in the morning!

Living in south Warren, that's exactly what my first guess was.

Wish it were tomorrow so my life can continue as regularly scheduled. I know one day a year...I sound like a whiny selfish bitch .

Wish it were tomorrow so my life can continue as regularly scheduled. I know one day a year...I sound like a whiny selfish bitch .

The news has not decided which building it is (One said Cozy Cafe, a breakfast joint, another said Metro Signs, another said it was a textile factory). Through my brilliant journalistic genius, I was able to solve it myself: "Nothing amazing ever happens here. Everything is ordinary." - Naota Nandaba, FLCL

I'm a wizard.

Does anyone know what is going on? It was HUGE! There is such a gigantic amount of black smoke in the air that it was NOT an ordinary explosion on an ordinary house. Almost every fire truck in the surrounding cities are here trying to put it out. It was so massive that from two miles away it SHOOK the house to the point where everyone got up, started running outside grabbing the pets on the way, because we thought that maybe our house was about to go down. I thought my house was going to come down on us over two miles away, the whole house BOWED under the blast. Does anyone know what's going on? I'm nervous about going outside or opening up windows because I don't know what I'm breathing in. Figured maybe someone might live closer than I do. It's in the same area as The Ritz, only a few yards away. There is no way that there are no casualties, it was too massive.

Have fun you guys...

Everything is so boring all the time now.

Ladytron - Deep Blue