I'm watching Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin ring in the New Year in New York.
It's just now 12:01 a.m. over there.

The whole time, I was like, "Yay, it's 9 p.m.!"Awww, Pacific Time sucks eggs ( Read more... )

Yeah, I'm not putting this behind a cut ( Read more... )

I'm leaving to spend the next day or so with the family in the valley.

Have yourselves a merry little Christmas.
Whether you're with family, friends, loved ones or thinking of them from afar, I am thinking of you and hoping you know that you are important to someone and loved.

Merry Christmas, one and all.

-- Alfred.

While it's not exactly huge news that I spent six unpaid, volunteer hours at the Obama campaign office yesterday; the truth is that I'd much rather be doing something I love for free than something I loathe for an ungodly amount of money. Well, maybe that's not entirely true, but there is truth to it ( Read more... )

Ever since those damn "Home Alone" movies came out, I've always toyed with the notion of being all alone on Christmas ( Read more... )

This year's Thanksgiving, as most go in my family, was completely devoid of politics ( Read more... )

I've come to the decision that I am going to regret telling Jonah about later.

I don't support a national health care system and I don't think I ever will.

I'm still a Democrat, don't worry and Jonah really didn't influence the decision, but I know he's going to think he did.
Details later.

*Kind of an in-joke between annaclaire and I.I just checked my old bank account balance at an unnamed, undistinguished financial institution in the upper Midwest. I have $10.02 in the account. It is from my days at attempted maturity. I was guided to this institution during my campaign days in the vain hope that I would use it to flourish and thrive. Tsk, ( Read more... )

Since "The West Wing" went off the air over a year ago, I've been salivating for a new political drama without any satisfying nibbles.


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Everyone, please make welcome, my nephew, Meyer James.


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