Do you remember the first thing you ever really cared about?

This is no normal runoff election.  This one really matters.  If you are a registered voter in Georgia, please take the time tomorrow to visit your polling place and make sure that George W. Bush's pal and overall shithead Saxby Chambliss does not represent Georgia in the Senate.   Palin is in GA today rooting for Chambliss.  If you are a resident ( Read more... )

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 Now is the time to take stock of ourselves as individuals and who we are.  Now we have to do the work that remains to be done in our daily thoughts and conversations.  Every atrocity is an extension of isolated, interpersonal aggressions.  We still have to decide what it really means to have a better world, and what it would really take to ( Read more... )

Last post, I wrote this:  "I may return to substantive contributions to your face soon, probably after the election." This edict remains upheld.

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I may return to substantive contributions to your face soon, probably after the election. For now, the current political and social climate has got me feeling out-of-body, like I am hardly even alive.

"My greatest strength would be my humility. My greatest weakness is that it's possible I am too awesome." - Barack "Barry" Obama

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I'd like to sum up tonight's Presidential Debate by referring to the compact version of the Oxford English Dictionary:

"strategy
/strattiji/

• noun (pl. strategies) 1 a plan designed to achieve a particular long-term aim. 2 the art of planning and directing military activity in a war or battle.

tactic
• noun 1 an action or strategy planned to ( Read more... )

For two days in a row, I have spent nearly an hour crying over the death of someone whom I have never met.

The convulsive, face-smearing brand of crying. David Foster Wallace is dead and it is no coincidence that suddenly the overall abundance of unicorns, flying killer whales, and rainbow water slides in the world is greatly diminished. When Kurt ( Read more... )

I know for a fact that video of the following photo spread exists. I wish someone would please upload it.

http://lessthan5minus2.livejournal.com/6559.html

It just occurred to me that I haven't told a lot of you this, but I have begun making music solely on my computer. I am releasing the songs under the moniker Prizmatic Spray, for fucking obvious reasons ( Read more... )