Friday, December 30, 2005
In the year 2006 I resolve to: |
Never would I have expected this nation — which emerged stronger from a civil war and a civil rights movement, won two world wars, endured the Depression, recovered from a disastrous campaign in Southeast Asia and still managed to lead the world in the principles of liberty — would cower behind anyone just for promising to “protect us.”
President Bush recently confirmed that he has authorized wiretaps against U.S. citizens on at least 30 occasions and said he’ll continue doing it. His justification? He, as president — or is that king? — has a right to disregard any law, constitutional tenet or congressional mandate to protect the American people.
Is that America’s highest goal — preventing another terrorist attack? Are there no principles of law and liberty more important than this? Who would have remembered Patrick Henry had he written, “What’s wrong with giving up a little liberty if it protects me from death?”
[via: Mike Luckovich]
President Bush recently confirmed that he has authorized wiretaps against U.S. citizens on at least 30 occasions and said he’ll continue doing it. His justification? He, as president — or is that king? — has a right to disregard any law, constitutional tenet or congressional mandate to protect the American people.
Is that America’s highest goal — preventing another terrorist attack? Are there no principles of law and liberty more important than this? Who would have remembered Patrick Henry had he written, “What’s wrong with giving up a little liberty if it protects me from death?”
[via: Mike Luckovich]
Does your city have a New Year's Eve celebration planned?Tempe, AZ, has a large Fiesta Bowl Block Party celebration centered around the Fiesta Bowl football game.
Atlanta, GA, has the Peach Drop at Underground Atlanta, which I've enjoyed a few times.
To celebrate New Year's Eve in Key West, Florida, they have a "wench" drop at Schooner Wharf Bar, the Conch Shell Drop from a 110-foot sailboat mast at famous Sloppy Joe's Bar, and the Drag Queen Drop, where, at the stroke of midnight more or less, a drag queen named Sushi, sitting inside a giant ladies' shoe, is lowered from the roof of a gay bar at Bourbon St. Pub/New Orleans House. Now you're talking. All taking place on Duval Street. (See Live Cam)
seen on: CNN
Many cities have recently elected to go alcohol-free and offer a "First Night" or "2006 Bash" celebration. Especially with DUI (driving under the influence) being the focus of many police officers.
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Enron Snitch Accountant Strikes Plea Deal
I can't decide who's worse -- Enron founder Ken Lay, former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling or this guy, Richard Causey, who's the latest in a long line of cooperating defendants.
So that's...
1) Leeches
2) Pond Scum
3) Enron Snitches
Link
I can't decide who's worse -- Enron founder Ken Lay, former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling or this guy, Richard Causey, who's the latest in a long line of cooperating defendants.
So that's...
1) Leeches
2) Pond Scum
3) Enron Snitches
Link
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Unconventional Marriage - Conventional Daughter
Throughout my life it seems I've either been taken care of, or have taken care of someone else. My long ago retired and widowed Mother is now all alone. Alone and a little frail with some health issues, but she's still sharp and witty as she ever was and she cooks, cleans and goes through the usual daily household grind.
My nurturing gene is strong. It gets stronger as I get older. Since my youngest child entered teendom, I've been dreading the time that she'd be ready to go out on her own. That time will soon be here. And through the unfortunate death of my sister on Thanksgiving, who also took care of our Mother, I feel it's my time to move in and take care of her.
This leaves my husband and teen daughter 90 miles away, which I admit is unsettling. The 'away from my daughter' part. She's in her last year of high school and wasn't thrilled about the option of moving in with her Nana and I didn't force it. My husband and I have always maintained an unconventional union, so a long distance marriage is certainly doable. And he really is a hell of a father. So I'm having some trepidation about being away from Skyler.
Many people my age are faced with tough decisions about their elderly parents. For some of them, it's the right thing to do to put their father or mother in a good nursing home, particularly if they require medical attention. Some are fortunate to have a sibling that can care for them so the parent moves in with the child and the child now becomes the caretaker. The traditional role of parent/child is often blurred. Some will hire a sitter or home health care nurse to come in to care for them there in their comfort zone of their own surroundings. It's never an easy decision to make, and many times life events make that decision for us.
For now moving in with my dear Mother feels like the right thing to do. One day my daughter may also comfort me in my twilight years.
Throughout my life it seems I've either been taken care of, or have taken care of someone else. My long ago retired and widowed Mother is now all alone. Alone and a little frail with some health issues, but she's still sharp and witty as she ever was and she cooks, cleans and goes through the usual daily household grind.
My nurturing gene is strong. It gets stronger as I get older. Since my youngest child entered teendom, I've been dreading the time that she'd be ready to go out on her own. That time will soon be here. And through the unfortunate death of my sister on Thanksgiving, who also took care of our Mother, I feel it's my time to move in and take care of her.
This leaves my husband and teen daughter 90 miles away, which I admit is unsettling. The 'away from my daughter' part. She's in her last year of high school and wasn't thrilled about the option of moving in with her Nana and I didn't force it. My husband and I have always maintained an unconventional union, so a long distance marriage is certainly doable. And he really is a hell of a father. So I'm having some trepidation about being away from Skyler.
Many people my age are faced with tough decisions about their elderly parents. For some of them, it's the right thing to do to put their father or mother in a good nursing home, particularly if they require medical attention. Some are fortunate to have a sibling that can care for them so the parent moves in with the child and the child now becomes the caretaker. The traditional role of parent/child is often blurred. Some will hire a sitter or home health care nurse to come in to care for them there in their comfort zone of their own surroundings. It's never an easy decision to make, and many times life events make that decision for us.
For now moving in with my dear Mother feels like the right thing to do. One day my daughter may also comfort me in my twilight years.
Monday, December 26, 2005
Hope you had a scintillating Solstice
A delightful Yule
May your mirth be multi-orgasmic
Your visions vibrant
Your glee glorious
Your festivities fulfilling
And your halls decked with Love and Peace.
Black & White & Red All Over
* She Prefers Black Men - "Black men have something white guys don't have anymore: confidence in their masculinity, their sexuality. They clearly know they're men. White men appear to be waiting for the latest sociological research study to let them know if they are men or not. Yet black men are gentlemen, something else white men no longer are."
* White Cop On Dope - "I bought drugs in uniform. I had been doing drugs my whole life. So I learned the ins and outs of the alleyways. Just because I put a cop uniform on didn't change that. I would shoot dope five minutes before roll call when I was a cop. No one knew I lived this double life. Just my wife knew."
* Why Are Your Reading the Little Red Book? - Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung, also known as the Little Red Book, a book once rivaling the Bible in circulation. To really monitor its readership would involve watching all internet access to the text, purchases of the book, and library loans of it. A formidable task and insane waste of FBI time, surely. But these are mad times.
* She Prefers Black Men - "Black men have something white guys don't have anymore: confidence in their masculinity, their sexuality. They clearly know they're men. White men appear to be waiting for the latest sociological research study to let them know if they are men or not. Yet black men are gentlemen, something else white men no longer are."
* White Cop On Dope - "I bought drugs in uniform. I had been doing drugs my whole life. So I learned the ins and outs of the alleyways. Just because I put a cop uniform on didn't change that. I would shoot dope five minutes before roll call when I was a cop. No one knew I lived this double life. Just my wife knew."
* Why Are Your Reading the Little Red Book? - Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung, also known as the Little Red Book, a book once rivaling the Bible in circulation. To really monitor its readership would involve watching all internet access to the text, purchases of the book, and library loans of it. A formidable task and insane waste of FBI time, surely. But these are mad times.
How to Serve the Ministry of Reshelving
1. Select a local bookstore to carry out your reshelving activities.
2. Download and print "This book has been relocated by the Ministry of Reshelving" bookmarks and "All copies of 1984 have been relocated" notecards to take with you to the bookstore. Or make your own. We recommend bringing a notecard and 5-10 bookmarks to each store.
3. Go to the bookstore and locate its copies of George Orwell's 1984. Unless the Ministry of Reshelving has already visited this bookstore, it is probably currently incorrectly classified as "Fiction" or "Literature."
4. Discreetly move all copies of 1984 to a more suitable section, such as "Current Events", "Politics", "History", "True Crime", or "New Non-Fiction."
5. Insert a Ministry of Reshelving bookmark into each copy of any book you have moved. Leave a notecard in the empty space the books once occupied.
6. If you spot other incorrectly classified books, feel free to relocate them.
7. Please report all reshelving efforts to the Ministry. Email your store name, location, # of 1984 copies reshelved, and any other reshelving activities conducted, to reshelving @ avantgame.com. Photos of your mission can be uploaded to Flickr, tagged as "reshelving", and submitted to the Ministry of Reshelving group.
Our goal is to relocate one thousand nine hundred and eighty-four copies, and to complete successful reshelving of 1984 in all 50 United States. Global contributions are welcome.
I missed The Ministry Of Reshelving when it occurred in August 2005. But many did not as the 97 comments will certainly attest before they were closed down and the BBC also reported on it. So why did people get bent out of shape? Looks like fun to me.
1. Select a local bookstore to carry out your reshelving activities.
2. Download and print "This book has been relocated by the Ministry of Reshelving" bookmarks and "All copies of 1984 have been relocated" notecards to take with you to the bookstore. Or make your own. We recommend bringing a notecard and 5-10 bookmarks to each store.
3. Go to the bookstore and locate its copies of George Orwell's 1984. Unless the Ministry of Reshelving has already visited this bookstore, it is probably currently incorrectly classified as "Fiction" or "Literature."
4. Discreetly move all copies of 1984 to a more suitable section, such as "Current Events", "Politics", "History", "True Crime", or "New Non-Fiction."
5. Insert a Ministry of Reshelving bookmark into each copy of any book you have moved. Leave a notecard in the empty space the books once occupied.
6. If you spot other incorrectly classified books, feel free to relocate them.
7. Please report all reshelving efforts to the Ministry. Email your store name, location, # of 1984 copies reshelved, and any other reshelving activities conducted, to reshelving @ avantgame.com. Photos of your mission can be uploaded to Flickr, tagged as "reshelving", and submitted to the Ministry of Reshelving group.
Our goal is to relocate one thousand nine hundred and eighty-four copies, and to complete successful reshelving of 1984 in all 50 United States. Global contributions are welcome.
I missed The Ministry Of Reshelving when it occurred in August 2005. But many did not as the 97 comments will certainly attest before they were closed down and the BBC also reported on it. So why did people get bent out of shape? Looks like fun to me.
Saturday, December 24, 2005
Fair and Balanced Predictions for 2006
* Soymilk will give me bitch tits. My attemps to get emo-thin by going vegan will backfire when all the estrogen from my soy-rich diet causes me to grow some B-cup boobies. On the bright side, my long lonely nights will not seem quite so lonely with my two new friends.
* “Intelligent Design” will become the cornerstone of science curricula across the country. Students will also be required to learn Chinese and Korean, so that when those countries figure out how to use stem cells to cure every disease known to man we can be their bitches and beg for them to save our lives.
* Looking to bolster his image, President Bush will team up with Mel Gibson to star in Passion of the Christ 2: The Second Coming. Broadcast exclusively on Fox News, Passion 2 stars the President as a loose cannon messiah, kicking ass and taking names. An action packed romp in the spirit of Lethal Weapon, Passion 2 was filmed entirely in the rare English dialect of Bushisms. Fundamentalism for the whole family!
* And more...
* Soymilk will give me bitch tits. My attemps to get emo-thin by going vegan will backfire when all the estrogen from my soy-rich diet causes me to grow some B-cup boobies. On the bright side, my long lonely nights will not seem quite so lonely with my two new friends.
* “Intelligent Design” will become the cornerstone of science curricula across the country. Students will also be required to learn Chinese and Korean, so that when those countries figure out how to use stem cells to cure every disease known to man we can be their bitches and beg for them to save our lives.
* Looking to bolster his image, President Bush will team up with Mel Gibson to star in Passion of the Christ 2: The Second Coming. Broadcast exclusively on Fox News, Passion 2 stars the President as a loose cannon messiah, kicking ass and taking names. An action packed romp in the spirit of Lethal Weapon, Passion 2 was filmed entirely in the rare English dialect of Bushisms. Fundamentalism for the whole family!
* And more...
George W. Bush has quipped several times during his political career that it would be so much easier to govern in a dictatorship. Apparently he never told his vice president that this was a joke.Virtually from the time he chose himself to be Mr. Bush's running mate in 2000, Dick Cheney has spearheaded an extraordinary expansion of the powers of the presidency - from writing energy policy behind closed doors with oil executives to abrogating longstanding treaties and using the 9/11 attacks as a pretext to invade Iraq, scrap the Geneva Conventions and spy on American citizens.
It was a chance Mr. Cheney seems to have been dreaming about for decades. Most Americans looked at wrenching events like the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal and the Iran-contra debacle and worried that the presidency had become too powerful, secretive and dismissive. Mr. Cheney looked at the same events and fretted that the presidency was not powerful enough, and too vulnerable to inspection and calls for accountability. [MORE...]
Go Cheney yourself, Dick. Just how does a soul-less stooge who's driven by greed and power get away with so much for so long? How he still has supporters astounds me.
saturday morning me//
long purple slinky gown & robe/ballet flats/lap quilt/
took out the dog/got the paper/a brisk 17° F/
visine/zantac/ginseng/milk thistle/
coffee/oj/banana/g-blonde cigs/
listening: left of center on sirius radio/
hows about you?/
* How many blue and red people live in your zipcode? Following The Dollars, a Google Maps mashup that points out 2004 election donations in your zipcode. [via]
* Interactive Pimp My Nutcracker is a fun time-waster.
Quote For Today
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
~Thich Nhat Hanh
long purple slinky gown & robe/ballet flats/lap quilt/
took out the dog/got the paper/a brisk 17° F/
visine/zantac/ginseng/milk thistle/
coffee/oj/banana/g-blonde cigs/
listening: left of center on sirius radio/
hows about you?/
* How many blue and red people live in your zipcode? Following The Dollars, a Google Maps mashup that points out 2004 election donations in your zipcode. [via]
* Interactive Pimp My Nutcracker is a fun time-waster.
Quote For Today
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
~Thich Nhat Hanh
Welcome To Austria
Tourists are causing a lot of anxiety — and are costing money — to a tiny village where signs keep disappearing. What do the signs read?
Click on Link to see the town signs.
Tourists are causing a lot of anxiety — and are costing money — to a tiny village where signs keep disappearing. What do the signs read?
"Welcome to Fucking, Austria."Pronounced "fooking," the little hamlet of Fucking is named after the man who founded the village in the 6th century. His name? Focko. The town sign has been stolen seven times in the last few months. With signs costing several hundred dollars apiece, much of the tiny town’s budget is being spent replacing the signs, says Siegfried Hoeppel, the Mayor of Fucking. He went on to express his hope that further thefts will be avoided through the use of increased concrete and . . . bigger screws.
Click on Link to see the town signs.
The Human Rights Campaign’s Buying for Equality guide provides you with the information you need to support products from companies that support equality. We can help affect real change in workplaces across the country.
Please view the online version of the Buying for Equality guide for the most up-to-date information.
Friday, December 23, 2005
Friday Random Ten - Haven't done this in a while. If you'd like to play along, shuffle 'em up and show us your ten in the comments or on your site. - Hide And Seek - Imogen Heep
- Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
- Rollin' and Tumblin' - Jeff Beck
- Glosoli - Sigur Ros
- Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan
- Heard Somebody Say - Devendra Banhart
- Lay My Love - John Cale & Brian Eno
- And It Stoned Me - Van Morrison
- I Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
- Bitch - Rolling Stones
WEB OUIJAThe Internet's leading website on Ouija boards.
Ask Your Question!
Then hold your mouse lightly on the pointer and follow it as your answer is revealed.
Link from Museum of Talking Boards
Thursday, December 22, 2005
* TEST POST - With my post on Stonehenge below, I'm trying out the new tool for Firefox called Performancing which I found on Bloglines popular links. It's a full featured blog editor that sits right within Firefox. Just hit F8, right-click, or click the little pencil icon at the bottom right to bring up the blog editor and easily post to your Wordpress, MovableType or Blogger blogs.
Currently my feed won't publish, but this extension has possibilities.
* Tom Goskar of Past Thinking was at Stonehenge for the solstice and has posted an album of photos on his Flickr account.
Winter Solstice at Stonehenge - a photoset on Flickr
Currently my feed won't publish, but this extension has possibilities.
* Tom Goskar of Past Thinking was at Stonehenge for the solstice and has posted an album of photos on his Flickr account.
Winter Solstice at Stonehenge - a photoset on Flickr
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
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BEST JOKE OF THE WEEK -- And it comes from Comedy Central star Jon Stewart: "Senator Bill Frist, he's a doctor and he says that AIDS could be transmitted from sweat and tears. Not unless your penis weeps while you're fucking somebody."
[via Doug Ireland]--who also has the "A Time To Impeach" piece in Alternet.
Monday, December 19, 2005
I just ran across this link asking if you maintained a secret site. Either sites that no one knows you're the author, (one you have anonymously or may use a nom de plume) or sites to which the general public does not have access. The consensus is that many people keep a secret site -- in fact many keep several. Count me among those who keep a secret site, although long time readers already know about it.
Do you keep a secret site?
Do you keep a secret site?
Saturday, December 17, 2005
URLS GONE WILD
Several mini-posts follow below for those of you reading this through Bloglines, Feedburner, etc.
Zombie Claus was celebrated in Michigan last night. [via]
* My favorite quotes: "...you've never seen the likes of it. A whole bunch of Santa Clauses, drunk as lords, cussing and cursing and scraping, all in broad daylight..." and "...Santas were brawling, swearing & falling about..."
* For Seattle, Denver, Nashville, Detroit, and More
* University Of Michigan newspaper does an online parody of Windows XP. Nicely done.
Link
* Skirt-chasing playboy Daniel Anceneaux spent weeks talking with a sensual woman on the Internet before arranging a romantic rendezvous at a remote beach -- and discovering that his on-line sweetie of six months was his own mother!
Link
* LSD Story Causes Flashbacks
* Reverend Billy exorcised the building, while the security guards looked on, wondering just how much damage control their PR people would have to do if they arrested a preacher and a gospel choir.
Link
* Howard Stern's free speech ride signs off.
Link
* Neil Young to keynote SXSW 2006
* A Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Allen Ginsberg's book as well as the American book launch for the 2005 publication of The Baby Beat Generation (The 1970s San Francisco Renaissance)
Link
Why is Christmas just like a day at work? You do all the work and the fat guy with the suit gets all the credit?
Several mini-posts follow below for those of you reading this through Bloglines, Feedburner, etc.
Zombie Claus was celebrated in Michigan last night. [via] * My favorite quotes: "...you've never seen the likes of it. A whole bunch of Santa Clauses, drunk as lords, cussing and cursing and scraping, all in broad daylight..." and "...Santas were brawling, swearing & falling about..."
* For Seattle, Denver, Nashville, Detroit, and More
* University Of Michigan newspaper does an online parody of Windows XP. Nicely done.
Link
* Skirt-chasing playboy Daniel Anceneaux spent weeks talking with a sensual woman on the Internet before arranging a romantic rendezvous at a remote beach -- and discovering that his on-line sweetie of six months was his own mother!
Link
* LSD Story Causes Flashbacks
* Reverend Billy exorcised the building, while the security guards looked on, wondering just how much damage control their PR people would have to do if they arrested a preacher and a gospel choir.
Link
* Howard Stern's free speech ride signs off.
Link
* Neil Young to keynote SXSW 2006
* A Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Allen Ginsberg's book as well as the American book launch for the 2005 publication of The Baby Beat Generation (The 1970s San Francisco Renaissance)
Link
Why is Christmas just like a day at work? You do all the work and the fat guy with the suit gets all the credit?Friday, December 16, 2005
Novak Out At CNN, In At Fox News...HuffPo Comments:
- "Who's my little douchebag of liberty???"
- "Fox News-where you go when your media/journalism career is in decline
(need we mention Bill O'Reilly and Geraldo Rivera?)"- "Novak to Fox? That's like shit crawling back up into an asshole."
Could Novak be on Patrick Fitzgerald's Christmas list? [via]
Monday, December 12, 2005
What has 1572 tips, is 7-feet tall, and can be purchased at your local Wal-Mart for $79.98? The artificial Christmas tree I promised my Mum I'd put up for her this year.Not only do you have to assemble the 1572 individual tips (which are actually on about a couple of hundred color coded branches or so-- which is the easy part), but you have to put together the holder and the staff which comes with assorted odd pieces. The kind where you end up with 3 extra thing-a-ma-bobs you never figure out where they belong.
What's more annoying about the box-o'-evergreen is that there are no instructions. Nothing but a perfectly adorned photo on the box of the finished fir unit.
Do I pour me a drink before or after the tree is put up?
You Can’t Eat A Soccer Ball - a poignant piece from Traveling Soldier. A site with great insight, if somewhat outdated, but the stories ring true with raw honesty and emotion. [via]
SANTARCHYfrom laughing squid website...
Well boys and girls, it’s that time of year. Santarchy is starting to spread again as Santas are taking to the streets for the annual Santacon events in cities around the world. It all started back in 1994 as a small Cacophony Society event in San Francisco called “Cheap Suit Santas”, and now it’s a global phenomenon. As my good friend Klaus Maginrannus says, “No force on earth can stop one hundred Santas!”
Looking for a Santacon in your town? Check out the Santarchy and Santacon tribes on Tribe.net. I’ll be updating the santarchy.com archive as notifications of Santacon events come in. You can also follow all the Santarchy action online using Technorati’s blog search and Flickr photostreams.
Always looks like fun.
Friday, December 9, 2005
Friday Cat Blogging, Sans Cat.
Like a Casual Friday. But today I'm raw. I'm flying without a net or a cat. No editing my thoughts, they're dangerously flapping from my keyboard before I have the time to reel them back in and clean them up. Just speaking my mind today about dog shit. Yes, the shit of dogs is the topic of the day.
Back at my house in North Carolina, dogs roam the neighborhood and spread their respective fertilizer on everyone's lawn and it evens out nicely. Nobody complains that they're getting a disproportionate share of dogshit. That was the unspoken rule when we moved there, so we gladly comply.
In Tennesse, my old childhood neighborhood ain't what it used to be. Everyone's all grown up and gone that I used to play with. We all played down by the golf course, skateboarded on the hills and rode horses in a nearby pasture. Many of the neighbors have passed on, leaving behind the widows and widowers where baseball fields and neighborhood plays and lemonade stands once ruled.
This morning, one old fart almost broke his neck getting out the door to ask me if I was "going to take care of that mess?" before my dog Buddy's mess had actually hit the frozen blades of grass below. Fuck, man. I had the fucking plastic bag in my hand! But I usually wait until my dog is actually finished before I pick up 'that mess'. And this wasn't even in his yard.
I really hope I'm more mellow than that when I get older. I'd like to think that I would greet the dog walker with a "Good Morning! Nice dog", and wait to see if the dog mess was picked up. If not, I'd politely explain the neighborhood policy.
Like a Casual Friday. But today I'm raw. I'm flying without a net or a cat. No editing my thoughts, they're dangerously flapping from my keyboard before I have the time to reel them back in and clean them up. Just speaking my mind today about dog shit. Yes, the shit of dogs is the topic of the day.
Back at my house in North Carolina, dogs roam the neighborhood and spread their respective fertilizer on everyone's lawn and it evens out nicely. Nobody complains that they're getting a disproportionate share of dogshit. That was the unspoken rule when we moved there, so we gladly comply.
In Tennesse, my old childhood neighborhood ain't what it used to be. Everyone's all grown up and gone that I used to play with. We all played down by the golf course, skateboarded on the hills and rode horses in a nearby pasture. Many of the neighbors have passed on, leaving behind the widows and widowers where baseball fields and neighborhood plays and lemonade stands once ruled.
This morning, one old fart almost broke his neck getting out the door to ask me if I was "going to take care of that mess?" before my dog Buddy's mess had actually hit the frozen blades of grass below. Fuck, man. I had the fucking plastic bag in my hand! But I usually wait until my dog is actually finished before I pick up 'that mess'. And this wasn't even in his yard.
I really hope I'm more mellow than that when I get older. I'd like to think that I would greet the dog walker with a "Good Morning! Nice dog", and wait to see if the dog mess was picked up. If not, I'd politely explain the neighborhood policy.
Thursday, December 8, 2005
New York Gets Venezuela Cheap Oil
An oil company controlled by the Venezuelan government has made its first delivery of cut-price heating oil to the Bronx borough of New York City.
The firm, Citgo, is supplying fuel to thousands of people in deprived areas in co-operation with charities.
Under the deal, Citgo said it would provide heating oil at a 40% discount to fill in tanks at properties owned by three non-profit housing corporations in the Bronx.
About 8,000 tenants from 75 buildings will benefit from the project, according to the company and the corporations.
This is a important story in my eyes. But of all the US news I read and watched yesterday I never saw this mentioned once. I should follow my own advice better. The advice about reading international news to get all sides of US news stories. And sometimes you get info the US hasn't acknowledged or printed.
[MORE »]
An oil company controlled by the Venezuelan government has made its first delivery of cut-price heating oil to the Bronx borough of New York City.
The firm, Citgo, is supplying fuel to thousands of people in deprived areas in co-operation with charities.
Under the deal, Citgo said it would provide heating oil at a 40% discount to fill in tanks at properties owned by three non-profit housing corporations in the Bronx.
About 8,000 tenants from 75 buildings will benefit from the project, according to the company and the corporations.
This is a important story in my eyes. But of all the US news I read and watched yesterday I never saw this mentioned once. I should follow my own advice better. The advice about reading international news to get all sides of US news stories. And sometimes you get info the US hasn't acknowledged or printed.
[MORE »]
Where were you when John Lennon died? A friend called me and I recall explaining it to my young son. I lit a candle in the dining room and turned off all the lights and sat at the dining room table overlooking all the twinkling lights in the Gap Creek valley below. I picked up my 12-string and began playing 'Imagine', showing Xyon who Lennon was.
A couple of neighbors (Landon and Mott) came by with smiles and beers. My sister, Robin, was inconsolable because John had always been her favorite Beatle from the very beginning.
October 9, 1940 - December 8, 1980
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
Re-Blogging* John Lennon Day Dec 8 - 25th anniversary of his death.
* Captain Beefheart and his mother, an elf or a freak, and the plastic, horned devil.
* Tea Time and more to come soon from Lightning Is My Girl
* For a sleepy beach town known for having more white people with dreadlocks than any other place in the nation, Santa Cruz is a Mecca for the self-proclaimed ideological liberal. [More »]
* Students send chocolate vagina to douchebag Rush Limbaugh. [via]
* Happy Dreams Can Become Reality. So what are you all waiting for? Didn't you hear? You can make the choice, right now, this moment sitting in your chair reading this, to maximize your level of happiness for all time. And if it is my permission you are looking for, then yes, go for it!! Follow your bliss, be happy, and the universe will take care of you. Because that is what the universe wants more than anything else, for you to be truly and deeply happy for all eternity. [via]
Most definitely. We can choose to be miserable or choose to be happy. Totally up to you.
* Peace On Earth is a nice outdoor setup, if a wee bit chilly.
Sunday, December 4, 2005
Interview with Stephen Gaghan, Director and Writer of Syriana"… and they’re all back! Just look at them! They’re all like a hundred and ten years old, they cut their teeth under the first Nixon administration ... they hang upside down like vampire bats when they’re out of power and they wait around. It’s the same guys: ‘Hey, don’t conserve energy! There’s no problem! Party on!’"
"... and I’d noticed some times when you could be in somebody’s house, and it could be a totally genteel type of drug dealer, or it could be a more gangster-y drug dealer, but whatever – there was often something similar about them, which is they have children, and the children are staring at violent television, cartoons or some shit, and they’re eating sugar-coated breakfast cereal and they look malnourished, there’s a handgun on the table – there’s always a handgun on the table, like on a coffee table or a table, and it’s so unsettling, and the TV’s going and you’re looking at the handgun and the children are over there and you want to say, 'I’ve got this great parenting book by Mary Hartsell and I just want to give it to you, because I think you could use some advice on parenting. …' But you don’t say that – because that would be breaking an unwritten code. And the unwritten code is the guy has something you need, and you really need it, and you’re not going to fucking bum him out."
It's a very compelling and raw interview and I'm anxious to see if this movie follows his vision.
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Did you know.......?
...that Andy Warhol created his version of A Clockwork Orange...SIX YEARS BEFORE it was even released? He called his movie, Vinyl; both are taken from Anthony Burgess' novel.
Saturday, December 3, 2005
» Introducing: The Beatles (or Retirement Plan #7129)Release Date: July 22, 1963? That's disputable. There are at least 3 different back covers of the album. I have the "Titles On Back" cover.
While visiting my old home place I looked through some of my old albums I asked my Mother to keep safe for me; after a few too many methaqualone do si dos and drinking games had left many vinyl treasures broken and spent.
I pulled out a few albums from their covers and researched them on Ebay with one eye towards my dream of sailing around the world and the other eye on it's ugly step-sister, reality. With so many variables on this particular Beatles' record-- (cover, sleeve, song selection and label,) and it's 'lovingly listened to' condition, I think I'll just hang onto it.
» Only $2.99 for Zappa's 200 Motels Soundtrack from 1971? But Ringo Starr is Larry the Dwarf. 2 lps and a booklet, too, and the booklet is priceless. 2 by gawd dollars and 99 frickin' cents.
» Blonde On Blonde and Ebay asks $7.49 for my favorite Dylan album. That's always the way. Captain, unhoist those sails. Stuff I think should be worth more is given away while I'm amazed at the high prices on some generic crap.
For 11 weeks, PETA supporters have hammered retailer J.Crew with letters, and phone calls, and protests, demanding that the chain stop selling fur. This pressure paid off on November 30, when J.Crew confirmed that it will pull fur from its stores and never sell it again. Most fur sold in the United States comes from China, where investigators found that fur farmers swing animals by their hind legs and smash their heads on the ground—breaking the animals’ necks or backs but leaving them panting, blinking, and conscious as they are skinned alive. So this is a huge victory for animals throughout the world, and we hope that you will celebrate with us!Good to see the hard work pay off. JCrew has a distribution center in Asheville and used to have a call center here which was later phased out. Actually, I was surprised when they recently began selling fur products.
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Mellen Thomas Benedict has some wonderful insights on after-death communications with departed loved ones through dreams and synchronicity. I remember waking up one morning at home about 4:30 am, and I just knew that this was it. This was the day I was going to die. So I called a few friends and said goodbye. I woke up my hospice caretaker and told her. I had a private agreement with her that she would leave my dead body alone for six hours, since I had read that all kinds of interesting things happen when you die. I went back to sleep. The next thing I remember is the beginning of a typical near-death experience. Suddenly I was fully aware and I was standing up, but my body was in the bed. There was this darkness around me. Being out of my body was even more vivid than ordinary experience. It was so vivid that I could see every room in the house, I could see the top of the house, I could see around the house, I could see under the house.
There was this light shining. I turned toward the light. The light was very similar to what many other people have described in their near-death experiences. It was so magnificent. It is tangible; you can feel it. It is alluring; you want to go to it like you would want to go to your ideal mother's or father's arms.
As I began to move toward the light, I knew intuitively that if I went to the light, I would be dead.
So as I was moving toward the light I said, "Please wait a minute, just hold on a second here. I want to think about this; I would like to talk to you before I go." [Read More »]
Since losing my sister Robin last week, we've been discussing dreams from loved ones on the other side. Our favorite cousin Ray had a very strange, vivid and fun dream of Robin at the exact same time she crossed over. He's never had anything like that happen to him before and has been extremely moved by it. I said he should feel honored. It's a privilege to receive a 'visit'.
The first book I read about NDE (near-death experiences) was Betty J Eadie's Embraced By The Light. Extremely powerful and poignant.
(website via Clifford Pickover's 'don't miss' Godlorica)
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Invitation to a Night of Nakedness
"Compadres," the e-mail states, "join us in refusing to comply with a culture that tells us to hide our body, to be ashamed of its scents, secretions, curves, and hair, to conceal those parts that have been dealt sexual connotations. We're gonna f-- this bondage we call clothing and party like the savages we really are."
Following in the footsteps of their exhibitionist peers at Brown and Yale, Columbia undergraduates are staging parties with one basic ground rule - all guests must part with their clothes upon arrival. The invitation circulating around Morningside Heights bans three additional items: cameras, masks, and "spikey things."
"Join us for a night of champagne, martinis, witchcraft, psychedelia, syncopated rhythms, thin bass lines, and body paint," reads the invitation, which was obtained by The New York Sun.
Like naked smart mobs. I love it!
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"Compadres," the e-mail states, "join us in refusing to comply with a culture that tells us to hide our body, to be ashamed of its scents, secretions, curves, and hair, to conceal those parts that have been dealt sexual connotations. We're gonna f-- this bondage we call clothing and party like the savages we really are."
Following in the footsteps of their exhibitionist peers at Brown and Yale, Columbia undergraduates are staging parties with one basic ground rule - all guests must part with their clothes upon arrival. The invitation circulating around Morningside Heights bans three additional items: cameras, masks, and "spikey things."
"Join us for a night of champagne, martinis, witchcraft, psychedelia, syncopated rhythms, thin bass lines, and body paint," reads the invitation, which was obtained by The New York Sun.
Like naked smart mobs. I love it!
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Monday, November 28, 2005
Happy Birthday Emmett Grogan?
Some say today is Emmett Grogan's birthday. Some say there never was an Emmett Grogan and that it's a compilation of characters.
OR...
The word 'Emmett' means 'tourist' in 20th century Cornish. Grogan means 'hairy' in Gaelic. So Emmett Grogan means 'hairy tourist'. Is this the belief you subscribe to?
OR...
The multiple-use name Emmett Grogan was used by San Francisco Diggers in the 1960s. The book Ringolevio is a biography of several members of the diggers merged together as the autobiography of one 'person', Emmett Grogan.
OR...
Dylan backup singer?
Anyway, today I say Happy Birthday to the spirit of Emmett Grogan.
Some say today is Emmett Grogan's birthday. Some say there never was an Emmett Grogan and that it's a compilation of characters.
OR...
The word 'Emmett' means 'tourist' in 20th century Cornish. Grogan means 'hairy' in Gaelic. So Emmett Grogan means 'hairy tourist'. Is this the belief you subscribe to?
OR...
The multiple-use name Emmett Grogan was used by San Francisco Diggers in the 1960s. The book Ringolevio is a biography of several members of the diggers merged together as the autobiography of one 'person', Emmett Grogan.
OR...
Dylan backup singer?
Anyway, today I say Happy Birthday to the spirit of Emmett Grogan.
Asheville's a "Cool City" – officially
When President George W. Bush pulled the United States out of the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement to curb global warming by reducing fossil-fuel emissions, a grassroots movement sprung up in municipalities across the country to commit cities to the international agreement's pollution-reduction goals.
Asheville NC's outgoing mayor, Charles Worley, became the 188th city leader to sign the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection agreement on Nov. 16.
Is your city a Cool City?
Link
Bush didn't think the Kyoto treaty was a priority? He may chop it off at the federal level knees, but concerned people are finding a way around it by taking it to the streets. Well, to the cities and states. So... can't we find a way to do that with a presidential election and leap-frog the sheeple's choice?
Friday, November 25, 2005
My beautiful sister, Robin, lost her brave fight with cancer Thanksgiving morning @ 6:00am. Her funeral is tomorrow.
There are so many loving memories I'll always hold dear, but for now my heart is simply broken. Life is just too short. I believe in telling everyone you're close to that you love them. Don't just assume they know how you feel. I'm glad Robin and I always made our loving feelings known.
One of her favorite quotes she was recently signing off her emails with is this one...
Life's journey is not about arriving at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "whee....what a ride!"
Indeed...
**Edited to add: I'm still in Tennessee with my Mother. Thank you so much for your beautiful sentiments. I take them to the center of my heart. (Nov 28 @ 8:22am)**
There are so many loving memories I'll always hold dear, but for now my heart is simply broken. Life is just too short. I believe in telling everyone you're close to that you love them. Don't just assume they know how you feel. I'm glad Robin and I always made our loving feelings known.
One of her favorite quotes she was recently signing off her emails with is this one...
Life's journey is not about arriving at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "whee....what a ride!"
Indeed...
**Edited to add: I'm still in Tennessee with my Mother. Thank you so much for your beautiful sentiments. I take them to the center of my heart. (Nov 28 @ 8:22am)**
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
32-year-old Norwegian bartender was sentenced to six months in prison Wednesday for serving a customer so much tequila that he fell into a coma and died.
Bartender matched customer shot for shot, but he was drinking water while the customer was drinking tequila. Bartending was my 2nd job for 10+ years and we always tried to be cognizant of our customers' condition. He fucked up big time.
Link
Bartender matched customer shot for shot, but he was drinking water while the customer was drinking tequila. Bartending was my 2nd job for 10+ years and we always tried to be cognizant of our customers' condition. He fucked up big time.
Link
"The plea came in a letter from a group of U.S. senators to nine big oil companies: With huge increases in winter heating bills expected, the letter read, we want you to donate some of your record profits to help low-income people cover those costs.
But the lawmakers received only one response. It came from Citgo Petroleum Corp., a company controlled by the Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chavez, a nettlesome adversary of the United States who has accused the Bush administration of plotting to assassinate him and invade his oil-rich country."
After the oil companies have been getting so much from the Republicans, they were finally asked to repay the generosity and use their enormous wealth to help the people. They just laughed. All except Chavez, the man Pat Robertson wants assassinated, the man who is the sworn enemy of Bush because Chavez is a better example of democracy than he is. It's funny how that works.
I'm really starting to like this guy. But are his intentions disingenuous, self serving, or are they real?
Link
I've seen this story a few places today...He has been fasting for six months, has been bitten by a snake, and witnesses say a light is emanating from his forehead. Thousands are flocking to the dense jungle in Nepal to see this 15 year old boy who has been silently meditating under a pipal tree (same type of tree as the Buddha did) for six months now.
If visiting Buddha Boy helps you make it through the night, carry on.
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Diana Darby’s album, The Magdalene Laundries, is inspired by the Irish social institution of the same name, which is in the long tradition of the Medicant movement founded by Francis of Assisi. In the Laundries women are sentenced to a life of slavery under the supervision of nuns; forced to work six days a week in the laundry of the Church, in an attempt to wash away their sins.The album was recorded and mixed on a 4-track device in Darby’s home--its malfunctioning was the impetus to end the album. Diana sings in hushed tones, lost among the strings and strums of a muted electric guitar.
The opening ballad, "The Magdalene Laundries," sets the stage. It is a voice we all recognize, the plaintive tones of someone whose soul is naked before god.
"Pretty Flowers" is a lullaby to the women, with their cracked and bleeding hands, calloused elbows dripping soapy water, to give them succor through their long, bitter meditation on the nature of virtue.
A black swan appears in the fourth track, lovely, lonely and terrified that someone will come to her small pool and see just that.
"Kierkegaard" is a track where nothing is what it should be, cat in the trees, birds on the porch a dead girl resting in bed with her book, bringing us to the edge of reason and the leap of faith. This is Kierkegaard’s Choice, which once you realize exists, are left with none but to continue to pound on the doors to the monastery in the pouring rain, already three days at your task. It was this image which Francis choose for his mediation on the true nature of happiness, which brings us to track 10, “there’s no leaving now,” and Ms. Darby’s own words on her composition, “it was me slamming the door on me. Telling myself that I couldn’t escape/run from the feelings and sadness I live with. There comes a point where you have to just sit
down and feel what you’re feeling. I wanted to take my audience with me. I wanted them to know that they can’t run away either. They’re on this ride with me. And there’s no leaving now.” (Richard Schave) [via]
Thursday, November 17, 2005
Known as a friend and champion of officers at the Pentagon and in the war zone, it is widely believed in Congress that Murtha often speaks for those in uniform and could be echoing what U.S. commanders in the field and in the Pentagon are saying privately about the conflict. Seldom overtly political, Murtha uncharacteristically responded to Vice President Dick Cheney's comments this week that Democrats were spouting "one of the most dishonest and reprehensible charges" about the Bush administration's use of intelligence before the war.
"I like guys who've never been there that criticize us who've been there. I like that. I like guys who got five deferments and never been there and send people to war, and then don't like to hear suggestions about what needs to be done," Murtha said.
I like that people are speaking out about getting out of Iraq. People who once embraced going there, like Representative Murtha and Senator Edwards the other day. If only those in power had the compassion and foresight to speak out against the pseudo-intelligence before so many people had to die.
Link
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
LSD Blotter ArtThis post's for the searchers who visit this site looking for posts about LSD Blotter Art. I've featured several sites over the past few years and thought I'd put all the URLS in one place to make it easier to find. Nice artwork and some will run as high as several hundred dollars for print.
Blotter Art is the original and still
has the largest selection of blotter art for sale. The All In Your Head and Felix-Yellow pics shown here are some top sellers.More Blotter Art Sites »
Tripatourium aka Blotter Sheets now.
Blotter Sheets
Blast
Stevee
RE-BLOGGING
The worldwide Freecycle Network is made up of many individual groups across the globe. It's an international grassroots movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. Since I first posted about it, many other communities have opened up their own Freecycle groups. Put in your zipcode and check it out.. Best thing I've freecycled or bartered lately? The car I'm driving was bartered for my husband building someone a deck.
Locally, Hendersonville and Ashevilleboth have busy groups.
* Bandnews.org - Live from the Web | Search & Read official Music News - Band Directory - Archive. "Bandnews.org is a search engine keeping track of what is going on in the band scene. A bot collects the news from official band websites and magazines so you can read them on one page." [via: DJ Martian]
Professors publish case study of successful nutritional treatment for cancer. Link [via: Rutabaga Stew]
November 15, 1969. 250,000 War Protesters Stage a Peaceful March and Rally in Heart of Washington. - Link [via: One Thousand Reasons]
AOL has a new stand alone browser. They took some ideas from Firefox, like tabbed browsing, and there's some nice, new features of their own. Check it out @ AOL Explorer. For Windows, Mac, and Linux. 10 minutes download for modems; 1 minute for DSL, Cable.
Now Playing - Incredible String Band - The Sun In Pale Silence
The worldwide Freecycle Network is made up of many individual groups across the globe. It's an international grassroots movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. Since I first posted about it, many other communities have opened up their own Freecycle groups. Put in your zipcode and check it out.. Best thing I've freecycled or bartered lately? The car I'm driving was bartered for my husband building someone a deck. Locally, Hendersonville and Ashevilleboth have busy groups.
* Bandnews.org - Live from the Web | Search & Read official Music News - Band Directory - Archive. "Bandnews.org is a search engine keeping track of what is going on in the band scene. A bot collects the news from official band websites and magazines so you can read them on one page." [via: DJ Martian] Professors publish case study of successful nutritional treatment for cancer. Link [via: Rutabaga Stew] November 15, 1969. 250,000 War Protesters Stage a Peaceful March and Rally in Heart of Washington. - Link [via: One Thousand Reasons] AOL has a new stand alone browser. They took some ideas from Firefox, like tabbed browsing, and there's some nice, new features of their own. Check it out @ AOL Explorer. For Windows, Mac, and Linux. 10 minutes download for modems; 1 minute for DSL, Cable. Now Playing - Incredible String Band - The Sun In Pale Silence 
Monday, November 14, 2005
With a cigarette dangling precariously between my teeth, I come across a curious photo and am compelled to click on it for optimum viewing.
8,441 addictions down; 1 more to go.
8,441 addictions down; 1 more to go.
Random-ness* Full Moon in Taurus on Tuesday
On Tuesday, Nov 15th, the full moon takes place in the sign of Taurus at 7:57pm EST. With all the astrological tensions happening right now, even some of the astrologers are suggesting to 'take up knitting, and just ride it out..." Link
* So long Sitemeter? Google launches Analytics so I'm test driving it.
* I read on an old post of mine from 2003 that we were paying an average of $1.65 a gallon for regular gas here in North Carolina. I remember thinking it was way too high at that time and we're happy and complacent with $2.00 per now.
* Napalm In Iraq? That's old news, kiddies. US admited napalm use in August 11, 2003. New Report
* Tip For Today: Hold down the CTRL key and the mouse wheel will zoom text size in Internet Explorer most of the time; and in Mozilla ALL of the time.
* I've finally dumped AOL. I decided to use them as my ISP at home for my daughter who was a young girl at the time and for computer-illiterate Cap'n Cook. Anyway, all this to say to anyone out there who may still have an AOL email address for me, that my main address is the susan AT easybakecoven DOT net now. Get it? Got it? Good.
* Ample Sanity is where you can go to explore daily fresh links and and the web's diverse offerings. As an ex-bartender, I say the site's positively 'top shelf'.
* What about night life in Charlotte, NC? Paid To Party will tell you all about it. She writes for the Charlotte newspaper and keeps an excellent blog where the comments sizzle with plenty of activity.
* Got a website of your own? Google is paying $1 for each new Firefox user you refer (each soul you save from IE-hell). Link
Quote For Today
When comes the time to leave this world someday, what you get to keep is what you gave away. You can't take that u-haul to heaven with you, can you?
Friday, November 11, 2005
Haydn Cornner was born in 1961, in a room above his grandmother’s haberdashery shop. As the son of a sailor he led a peripatetic childhood. When he was young Haydn realised that he loved being in his own private world and he had an imaginary friend called Christopher Beaker, they both left school when Haydn was sixteen. His vivid imagination benefits us all.
Link
Members Of The Wedding
When Al Q
blows up a wedding party
in a five star hotel
moral outrage dominates media meditations,
the bride had such a sweet smile,
how heartless our foe
how justified our cause.
When Rummy bombs a wedding party
on the Syrian Iraqi border
and almost everyone dies,
it wasn't a real wedding party
must have been criminals creating cover
because who goes to a middle of no-where
desert for a catered event
when five star hotels are available?
How heartless our victims
how justified our cause.
A succinct and powerful post says it all.
Link
When Al Q
blows up a wedding party
in a five star hotel
moral outrage dominates media meditations,
the bride had such a sweet smile,
how heartless our foe
how justified our cause.
When Rummy bombs a wedding party
on the Syrian Iraqi border
and almost everyone dies,
it wasn't a real wedding party
must have been criminals creating cover
because who goes to a middle of no-where
desert for a catered event
when five star hotels are available?
How heartless our victims
how justified our cause.
A succinct and powerful post says it all.
Link
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
How US Prices Death
Hameed Hassan sat in the remains of his car, next to his dead wife, and watched his four-year-old son begin to bleed to death.
The family had been on the way to buy clothes in Rawah's small market when the American soldiers opened fire. A helicopter gunship joined in the attack, cutting the car and two of its occupants to pieces.
A dead family member brings $2,500, while a television destroyed by a hand-grenade is valued at $350.
One entry in the 4/14 Cavalry compensation log reads: "blown-up house, pay $1,300". Another: "destroyed boat, $20". Others include a blown-up potato field and irrigation equipment ($2,000), a damaged door in a hospital ($50) and a burned-down store ($2,500).
During the past two months about $100,000 has been paid out to Iraq residents of the Rawah region for damages caused by the U.S. 4/14 Cavalry and its predecessors.
It's so beyond crass to have such a small pittance placed upon the killing of an innocent loved one. As if the war wasn't fucked up enough already.
Link
Hameed Hassan sat in the remains of his car, next to his dead wife, and watched his four-year-old son begin to bleed to death.
The family had been on the way to buy clothes in Rawah's small market when the American soldiers opened fire. A helicopter gunship joined in the attack, cutting the car and two of its occupants to pieces.
A dead family member brings $2,500, while a television destroyed by a hand-grenade is valued at $350.
One entry in the 4/14 Cavalry compensation log reads: "blown-up house, pay $1,300". Another: "destroyed boat, $20". Others include a blown-up potato field and irrigation equipment ($2,000), a damaged door in a hospital ($50) and a burned-down store ($2,500).
During the past two months about $100,000 has been paid out to Iraq residents of the Rawah region for damages caused by the U.S. 4/14 Cavalry and its predecessors.
It's so beyond crass to have such a small pittance placed upon the killing of an innocent loved one. As if the war wasn't fucked up enough already.
Link
Are You A Republican?
Monday, November 7, 2005
1% Republican. | "You're a complete liberal, utterly without a trace of Republicanism. Your strength is as the strength of ten because your heart is pure. (You hope.)" |
Arrrrrrrrggggggghhhhh...must---purge--other---1 %
(via: preemptive karma) Read more...
This is Wal-Mart The Movie documentary premiere week. Don Hazen (Alternet) organized an impressive editorial collaboration around our film release: Harold Meyerson profiles whistleblower Jim Bill Lynn for the American Prospect, Christopher Hayes tackles Wal-Mart's union busting for In These Times, Joshua Holland investigates Wal-Mart's China Price for Alternet, Liza Featherstone sniffs out the Wal-Mart Money Trail in The Nation, and Greg LeRoy reveals the Wal-Mart Tax for Alternet. To support Wal-Mart or to NOT support Wal-Mart? Has Wal-Mart affected your community directly? I've lived in small towns with sky rocketing unemployment that embraced Wal-Mart royally for the jobs it brought. But it later leads to the closing of many home grown stores. Then there's the ties between the Democrats and Wal-Mart. Therein lies the dichotomy.
[via Wal-Mart The Movie Blog]
Saturday, November 5, 2005
saturday morning me//
tie-dyed pjs/lapquilt/black fleece hat/
oatmeal/hot white tangerine tea/
daughter away with drummer friends/
hubby flipping tv channel changer
faster than the speed of light/
so how about you?/
Web Trail
Best quote of the day--
"From the desert to the White House, there are so many asses being covered, it looks like a Christo art project." --Paul Krassner
Link
18th Cannabis Cup - November 20-24, 2005 in Amsterdam.
Link
November 10th - On November 10th, 2005, stand with the Ogoni people in remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa.
Bhagavan Das will do a live interview with Virato on Asheville's The Revolution radio this Saturday morning. Link
Ben Frost Gallery - Art as freeform popculture assault. I like it.
Link
Take revenge. Shit on a pigeon.
tie-dyed pjs/lapquilt/black fleece hat/
oatmeal/hot white tangerine tea/
daughter away with drummer friends/
hubby flipping tv channel changer
faster than the speed of light/
so how about you?/
Web Trail
Best quote of the day--"From the desert to the White House, there are so many asses being covered, it looks like a Christo art project." --Paul Krassner
Link
18th Cannabis Cup - November 20-24, 2005 in Amsterdam.Link
November 10th - On November 10th, 2005, stand with the Ogoni people in remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa. Bhagavan Das will do a live interview with Virato on Asheville's The Revolution radio this Saturday morning. Link Ben Frost Gallery - Art as freeform popculture assault. I like it.Link
Take revenge. Shit on a pigeon.
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