It's far too nice a day to be inside but I'm sitting on the sofa right now anyway because I have to listen to these tunes and let it influence the way I write this. My passive aggressive, just beyond reality, I reach for you. Maria Columbia, whore of liberty; blind as always-- blonde in the field in the grass in shadows cast by the pines against ( Read more... )

Michael Douglas, in Falling Down, stands at the corner of a Long Beach intersection. Four Latin Princes pull out two pairs of semi's and drive bye in a low-rider, shooting up their own neighborhood. Douglas turns around from the pay phone, walks over to the busted up low rider and says to the gang banger:
You missed.
He picks up the errant semi and ( Read more... )

"Multiculturalism is not a fad, it's not going to go away. And multiculturalism is not political correctness. Multiculturalism is a serious effort to redefine who is an American." -- Ronald Takaki

"My question is: Does [Judge Sotomayor] really understand what America is about?" -- Lindsey Graham

For all their domination of the world, and whatever, ( Read more... )

When I got home from work at 10:49PM, I ran my DARS one last time and finally saw what I was looking for: I am go for launch... and a college graduate. That sheepskin comes postmarked, August 22.

Oddly enough, last night, in dream, the world ended. I was in Oxford for the weekend, helping Matt move back, and was at a party with the few of my ( Read more... )

Saw Cloverfield.
It was freezing outside, today. Really, really cold. It's even colder out now, which is exactly why I'm home, watching Flight of the Conchords, thinking about Cloverfield, because it was neat. It was at least neat.

One of the easiest things to talk about concerning the movie is its "exploitation" of 9/11. Or maybe just blunt ( Read more... )

I took my car to Sandy's Tire a couple days ago for an oil change and four new tires, because ours were bald as hell and crying from what they'd gone through on the trip back to CL last Saturday. Got there, sat around for an hour and a half reading Guide Posts magazine and Jesus' Son, looking around at the waiting area, the old 7 Up soda machine ( Read more... )

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CNN called Strickland the second the polls closed. Which is awesome because we haven't had a real governor in like a decade or more.
And then CBS called Sherrod Brown the winner of the Senate race. ...But no one else has yet.
And Chad Ellsworth, the Democrat, won in IN-06, which I don't think "should have" happened.

I knew that today would be a good ( Read more... )