The Coakley defeat last night has brought into light the fact that things are not hunkey-dorey in Wall Street, Main Street, or Pennsylvania Avenue.

Someone posted that it doesn't get any more Democrat than Massachusettes... which is technically incorrect, as there are far more independants in Mass than Dems or Repubs. to say Liberal might be more ( Read more... )

Some, some time ago, I think it may be a year or more, there was the "best 100 albums" thing that had gripped LJ, and everyone had made their lists of the top 100 albums...

( Lot's of Self Indulgence Here... )

Look, mindless consumers- I hate to be the person to break this to you, but your grandparents hated 3d movies the first time they came out ( Read more... )

I am certainly not in the league of theklute when it comes to political posts, but when he shared with me last night the breaking news that a Federal Grand Jury had been conviened to look into maricopa County Sherrif Joe Arpio's use of his position to attack his political enemies, it came as good news.

Joe's office is just down the street from my house, and ( Read more... )

"A former attorney to President George W. Bush was arrested Wednesday at his Connecticut home and accused of trying to kill his wife, according to the New Canaan Police Department"

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer last night provided the Microsoft Keynote for CES, during which, he spoke alot about "will do" and how Windows is flexible enough "to do" many of the things that Google and Apple are doing ( Read more... )

Ok, two "Original" movies opening up this week and the 22nd in Legion (22nd) and Daybreakers (Friday). "original" insomuch as Daybreakers is a reimaging of The Matrix (replace Machines with Vampires), and Legion is a reimagining of Maximum Overdrive (replace trucks with Angels).

I digress, somewhat...

I generally disdain Vampire movies, I think that ( Read more... )

Anthology is holding a Volunteers meeting tonite at 6:30-7:30 for people that would liek to volunteer to help the organization. You'll get to learn more about Anthology and how you can help, and see a master list of volunteer opportunities ( Read more... )

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I had started working on a last post of 2009, "10 things that aggrivate me about poets/poetry organizers", but I most likely will not post it- so I'll let you do it...