the best part about missing carnival 2006 is being able to blog carnival 2006 in real-time. the second best part is probably not getting maimed.

( 3 killed, dozens injured in Haiti carnival )

from page two of Reuters' coverage of the Saddam Hussein trial:Saddam, 68, who could face death by hanging if convicted, was subdued compared to previous sessions dominated by his tirades...Saddam ended a hunger strike for "health reasons", lawyers said, before returning to the trial...
man, i hate it when a good hunger strike gets fucked up by poor ( Read more... )

long story short: i'm going back to Haiti.

long story medium: i'm scheduled to be in the midst of Port-au-Prince's Carnival in about eight hours, where I will be riding in a parade float with Wyclef Jean and Fox News. update: parades are for suckers. also, i missed my flight [update #2: as it happens, American Airlines forgot to mention that they ( Read more... )

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Misplaced vote might have helped London win bid

LONDON -- A senior Olympic official says a misplaced vote might have helped London win the 2012 Olympics.
Alex Gilady said Friday a fellow International Olympic Committee member mistakenly voted for Paris rather than Madrid in July for the right to host the games. Another vote for Madrid might have ( Read more... )

now that this hideous year is almost finished, i feel possibly ready to emerge from my malaise, a beautiful butterfly.

my bro's poster for the upcoming Pere Ubu show at the Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland is pretty sweet.

next week: the return of me blogging, possibly.

cecily's livejournal is even deader than mine!!!

rumors of my not having died are greatly exaggerated.

there's no band better than the Books for smoking weed and eating pizza on a rainy Saturday afternoon in Brooklyn.

this morning's post is being written from Alfonso C.'s bed, in an enormous West Village loft that is about to become the third and most spacious apartment I've been kicked out of in the past week. true story, on both accounts, each account more absurd than the last. anyway, "Y Tu Mama Tambien" is a sweet movie, and incidentally, this is a sweet bed ( Read more... )