Precisely three years ago I began this livejournal by posting a copy of an email I sent at work. It was a pirate-themed email about a script which automated work in ways I no longer recall (but which AT&T probably still exploits).

Days later this journal would pick up a narrative element that would dominate most its existence ( Read more... )

( My Interests Collage! )

Went with Brother, Jon Moore, and the other Jon, now dubbed "Dub" to an open mic poetry thing last night. Brother wanted me to read something. I'm not good with words, but I tried to write something about the one night I went walking along the highway thinking about Eddie Adam's photograph of Col. Loan executing a VC suspect on the streets of ( Read more... )

I will no longer post political or Mormon-related stuff here.

Beginning this these pictures and comments about the protest of President Bush, I'll put all that junk into a blog that no one will ever read. In this way I'll be discouraged from ever writing such crap and I'll settle for muttering over my newspaper, like arguably normal people do ( Read more... )

Apparently they caught polygamist leader Warren Jeffs.

So far, nothing Waco has happened. As FLDS contacts have long claimed, they do not allow guns in their community; Jeffs was found with the cash and supplies of a drug dealer, but not a single firearm. I stand by my freakish commitment to fringe religious freedom. The enormous manhunt for Jeffs ( Read more... )

So Bush visits Salt Lake City next Wednesday. It's kinda nice that the sitting US President will visit Utah more times than the former President of Mexico-but on the other hand, it's Bush. It's the first time he's staying the night (something he didn't even do for the Olympics). Rice and Rumsfeld are also coming for the chance to speak to ordinary ( Read more... )

I hate it when I miss the small tidbits from the newspapers. Apparently Netflix screened The Searchers (one of my favourite movies) in Monument Valley (about six hours away) on Friday. John Wayne's daughter was there, and it was emceed by Lisa Loeb for some reason. About 100 people showed up. I should have been one of them. Dammit ( Read more... )

One of my tires blew out on Highway 201 on my way home from work today. Luckily it was a rear tire. Otherwise I would have hit a concrete barrier and needed to assure everyone that it wasn't an attempt on my own life.

There's lightening outside. Less than a mile away. Salt Lake Valley seldom gets thunderstorms, even on these late summer nights.

I've informed my employer of my last day. September 11 is penciled in as my last day in Salt Lake City. Five year anniversary. Strange. A moment of silence before I leave. My family prays before long trips, perhaps I should. Anyhow, I plan to travel non-stop to Kansas that day, which is something like 16 hours. A day with my grandmother, then ( Read more... )

Liberals make light of the wholesale destruction of our civilization, but flag desecration is the defining topic of our time. I'll prove it ( Read more... )