01. My sexual orientation ( Read more... )

David--

Oh my god you are fucking kidding me.

I know we've been contacting you more than usual lately.

No kidding. I went ahead and changed my locks, so don't bother sending your interns out to slip these weird mash notes of yours under my door.

It reflects the reality that the campaign season is already ramping up -- whether it feels early or not. So ( Read more... )

David --

What the--je--fucking hell, man. Do I need to put a bell on everyone in Obama's administration? Shit.

The President and I have a routine -- we get lunch together almost every Friday. But all I get is lunch. You could be one of four supporters to have dinner with him soon. Donate $75 or more today to have your name automatically thrown in ( Read more... )

David --

Gah! You scared me!

I've set aside time for four supporters like you to join me for dinner.

O...kay.

Most campaigns fill their dinner guest lists primarily with Washington lobbyists and special interests. We didn't get here doing that, and we're not going to start now. We're running a different kind of campaign. We don't take money from ( Read more... )

1. Favorite childhood book?
The Hobbit.

2. What are you reading right now?
Kafka On the Shore, The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, a couple of Flashman novels, Yellow Back Radio Broke Down, want me to keep going?

3. What books do you have on request at the library?
Last one was a book about the history of moral panics. I...have weird historical ( Read more... )

Last night was the first WORMS lit. reading of the new year, as well as my second topic for Patch.com, who I now write for as a North Baltimore arts/entertainment reporter. Go me! Good times were had, and I joined my buddies Adam and Joe for libations (diet Coke with lime, in my case) at the Dizz, since it's near Joe's house and Adam was giving us ( Read more... )

 Merry Christmas, everyone! Hopefully the rest of you aren't as achy and sneezy as I am - being sick over the holidays totally sucks. Anywho, hugs to everyone. I need to talk to some of you (ahem, littledust ) waaaay more often in the coming year.  :)

Not sure if anyone's been keeping up with the Juan Williams controversy, but he was let go by NPR, where he was apparently an independent contractor, for anti-Muslim remarks he made during a conversation with Bill O'Reilly on Fox News. All sorts of pondwater has been stirred up about whether or not NPR was justified in kiboshing Williams' contract ( Read more... )

Welp, so much for my job. And possibly school. My boss just got done freaking out at HR over the phone because they're garnishing her wages over something they never told us about, so she's probably going to quit. Which leaves me twisting in the wind, so to speak. Not sure what I'm going to do.

Uh, any ideas?

I have found the following music worthy of mention:

45 Adapters - Fuck yeah, this is what oi! should sound like; part soul, part Thin Lizzy, part punk, shaken up in a paper bag and huffed by four degenerate skinheads from Noo Yawk. Boot rock at its finest.

Rag Rage - Has that sloppy, almost-chaotic-but-not-quite edge to it that early Distillers had. ( Read more... )