Rants and Raves
September 10, 2008
- Strange days indeed. Yesterday, for example, by 9 in the morning, I had already found myself in a basement with an employee of the City of Seattle, a 6-foot-4-inch albino employee of the City of Seattle, who loudly and enthusiastically not so much recited as verbally bludgeoned me with several dozen lines of original verse having to do with a bunch of goddesses and a healthy dose of String ...
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July 17, 2008
- I am so in touch with my inner dork that when I go to grocery stores and approach the automatic doors, I pretend I am using The Force to open them, occasionally actually employing subtle Jedi hand gestures when I’m sure no one is looking. And but so anyway, my nightly walk inevitably takes me by the Fremont Bridge, which is the most drawn bridge in the country or something, which is true. ...
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June 25, 2008
- One of the few benefits of being fiscally raped each month by Comcast is that I have a channel called FitTV. Not the sort of thing I would usually watch, but the hands of Fate guided my fingers over the remote this morning and what to my wondering eyes should appear but a show called Shimmy - a bellydancing fitness show. Hot diggity damn! Never mind Cops, never mind South Park, never mind ...
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June 24, 2008
- I hope today is different than yesterday. Yesterday started off with a sleep-ending 6AM panic attack, and things only went south from there. I spent most of the day like a rabbit in rapidly approaching headlights...mezmorized and paralyzed by the advent of inevitable doom. Didn't really get much done, just sat there and freaked out. My moods follow a pretty predictable arc...total crap ...
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June 9, 2008
- I've been in Seattle for a week now. I miss everybody. I'm pretty broke, and totally lonely. But I'm here and it's right. Get here now.
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May 8, 2008
- I asked a friend of mine who is older and wiser: "Why do things seem to be getting worse? Am I just noticing more because things have always been this way or are there really more negative things happening in the world?"He replied, quite curtly: "News gets around faster these days."It seems to me that the United States' political system has lost its way. We have news agencies ...
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April 17, 2008
- Okay, F it. I'm leaving. Heading for decidedly greener pastures. There are simply too many ghosts in California. And the economy is in the toilet. And it gets too damn hot here in the summer. So I'm heading north. To Seattle. Yes. Indeed. Everything (except fuel prices) is better in Seattle: the temperature, the economy, the culture, The Scene, all of it. 45 days. See ...
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March 18, 2008
- Here are links to my last three articles, all of which address fellow Redroomer Barack Obama, and the phenomenon that has been his campaign. Mostly, they address the racial aspects of the Obama phenomenon. I post them in reverse order. The first of these examines the white denial and backlash that has met the words--most of which were demonstrably true--of Obama's pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. ...
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February 24, 2008
- It is simply pissing down rain outside, and the wind is howling around the valley. My back fence blew down this afternoon, just after 4, as I was sitting in my office, sipping a rather potent margarita and mutterling darkly to nobody in particular (nobody else was home) invective and indignities about the State of Affairs Today. I was just sitting there, looking out at nothing, which ...
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February 4, 2008
- It’s one of those I’d been especially prone to. I mean “long-standing” prone to. JAGS. The jag was always inevitably preceded by some quirky exercise of intellectual what-if-isms. Or if not preceded then it had occurred, was identified as having occurred, and once identified? Codified as a system. Eating food from the left side of the plate to the right side. Counting all the letter E in ...
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