Love, Egypt and Wisconsin Winter
I am in love with Sharif Abdel Kouddous.
He would make an awesome boyfriend. Granted, he is about 6,600 miles away, I've never met him, and he's probably not gay.
Nevertheless, he is beautiful and brilliant and since I don't have a boyfriend I will make him the boyfriend in my mind. Damn, I hate February in Wisconsin.
Anyway, Sharif Abdel Kouddous is the Democracy Now senior producer who has been reporting live from Cairo about the Egyptian revolution--a subject with which I have become absolutely fascinated. You should check this out--his work is amazing.
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/2/voices_of_the_egyptian_revolution_democracy
Tuesday night I drove through some of the most extreme weather of my taxi-driving career. Not THE most extreme, but among the most extreme. When I left the road at 10:30, I think there were only two or three other Union Cabs on the road. Everything had been shut down. The snow was blowing so hard, that I gave up trying to keep the windshield cleared, and just bundled up and stuck my head out the window so I could see to drive back to the CWP and check in. On the way, I totally missed the road and (thank goodness) took the Aberg exit off Packers by mistake--because I was in a total whiteout.
This plus drought in the Amazon and cyclones in Australia. It sure is a good thing the Republican administration in Wisconsin is destroying the wind and renewable energy industry here. I am also particularly happy that the U. S. Congress has decided global climate change doesn't exist; because no one I know is feeling it's effects at all.
We're doomed . . .
. . . but at least February is a short month; and then spring comes in March.
He would make an awesome boyfriend. Granted, he is about 6,600 miles away, I've never met him, and he's probably not gay.
Nevertheless, he is beautiful and brilliant and since I don't have a boyfriend I will make him the boyfriend in my mind. Damn, I hate February in Wisconsin.
Anyway, Sharif Abdel Kouddous is the Democracy Now senior producer who has been reporting live from Cairo about the Egyptian revolution--a subject with which I have become absolutely fascinated. You should check this out--his work is amazing.
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/2/voices_of_the_egyptian_revolution_democracy
Tuesday night I drove through some of the most extreme weather of my taxi-driving career. Not THE most extreme, but among the most extreme. When I left the road at 10:30, I think there were only two or three other Union Cabs on the road. Everything had been shut down. The snow was blowing so hard, that I gave up trying to keep the windshield cleared, and just bundled up and stuck my head out the window so I could see to drive back to the CWP and check in. On the way, I totally missed the road and (thank goodness) took the Aberg exit off Packers by mistake--because I was in a total whiteout.
This plus drought in the Amazon and cyclones in Australia. It sure is a good thing the Republican administration in Wisconsin is destroying the wind and renewable energy industry here. I am also particularly happy that the U. S. Congress has decided global climate change doesn't exist; because no one I know is feeling it's effects at all.
We're doomed . . .
. . . but at least February is a short month; and then spring comes in March.