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Attention all Californians - election next Tuesday, 6/8
The upcoming election next Tuesday, July 8, has some truly evil ballot propositions on it. They're stealthy, by design, so you might just vote for them unless someone told you otherwise. They're funded by big corporations to allow them to screw us over -- with our own consent ( Read more... ) -
Justice
If this country and its government were not so thoroughly in the pocket of the corporations, this is what I would like to see vis á vis BP ( Read more... ) -
Too long to fit on Twitter
When I think of mono, I think of trying to extract the sound of Giovanni Martinelli's voice from an ocean of crackles and static while a tinny, tuneless orchestra plays almost silently from a couple of miles away. -
Ugly Ben
The trending topic for today is the new $100 bill -- a curious thing to get excited about, given the other activities of the Treasury Department -- and the disfavor with which it is generally viewed.
Three possibilities for the relief of the afflicted:
- The counterfeiters catch up - it didn't take them very long the last time -- and the entire ( Read more... )
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Calm with the car
We are made whole, and essentially in the position we should have been in at this time last week ( Read more... ) -
Lives of Concertgoers
In the middle of all the tsores, we went out three times this past week. We feel like rich socialites. But there was a free lecture, a free concert, and one concert for which one of us got in free. The first lecture and concert were by Charles Rosen, a great pianist and musicologist. It was the Yoda effect -- this shambling, short old man with ( Read more... ) -
Two weeks in
The Total Turtle Tea Trolley has been going strong for about two weeks. I think people either really, really like it or are really, really turned off by it. Readership is flat, at about 10-15 readers a day, and I know four of the readers. Everyone I know who is from my "literary community" -- the people I went to writers' workshop with, the people ( Read more... ) -
Countdown
Two days and forty minutes until the end of Passover! Around this time every year, the Feast of Matzoh becomes the feast of Too Much Matzoh. As impious as it is, I start looking foward to the end. At college, we celebrated that event with pizza and beer, two of the most leavened foods one can get. Nowadays, I'll be happy for just pizza. -
Announcing the Total Turtle Tea Trolley
The Total Turtle Tea Trolley, my blog of silly stories, is now live at http://www.totalturtleteatrolley.com/. It recounts the adventures of the intrepid Tea Turtles as they deliver tea and snacks to other imaginary creatures.
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Retreat from Usenet
I remember the old days, late '80s to mid '90s, when posting to Usenet was a reasonable way of getting a question answered. Boy, is it bleak out there now. Spam and kooks as far as the eye can see ( Read more... )