Wow. That is one stretch of suck dere. And you didn't even mention the Red Flops. That was pretty awesome video of the fire aftermath you linked to on the Bookface the other day- they've taken it down, but what do they call the bigass fire truck they showed at the scene? It was something totally Port-outlandish.

We haven't had any LJ problems lately, and the status site isn't reporting anything. That screenshot may reflect some kind of broken cookie. Try logging out of LJ, then your browser, dump all your cookies and temp files, and start over.

(And DW comments should work the same.)