What the fuck?!?! Black like who? Kerry’s making history all right John Kass, Chicago Tribune: Published March 4, 2004 If Democrat John Kerry wins the White House in November, he promises to make history. He hopes to become our second black president. “President Clinton was often known as the first black president,” Kerry told the
Stark lines in the sand
A recent discussion in Morris Stegosaurus’ journal and a conversation last night about the poetry scene got me thinking about change and evolution and what influences both. I haven’t been to Bar 13 in the longest and have been waiting for the next UPPERCASE to come around as a reason to go. UPPERCASE always represented
Rally for Kerry a Big Mistake
Let’s ignore the undemocratic idiocy of the fact that on the one day of the primary season that the most delegates are up for grabs, there’s only four of the ten original candidates actively running, one of whom has been routinely referred to as “the presumptive nominee” for the past few weeks. Let’s ignore the
Box of Dozens
One of the more interesting memes I’ve come across, swiped from theklute’s LiveJournal: So, say you were meeting a new person – blind date, new friend, who knows. And you wanted them to have some idea of what kind of person you are, and who you are. But you can’t actually tell them in so
Pumpkin Seeds: 3/1/2004
1. If I had gone for the Lord of the Rings sweep (that I’d hoped for but didn’t expect) and not taken a gamble on a couple of other longshot upsets, I’d have done better than 67% with my picks last night. Considering I hadn’t seen the vast majority of the nominees, though, it wasn’t
a home abandoned long enough returns to its base components walls, windows, doors, floors and ceilings the sum becomes considerably less than its parts old books lean listlessly on shelves next to faded pictures of places long-forgotten, friends no longer familiar a film of dust covers them all the last mix tape from years ago
I am the bad angel on Jack’s right shoulder. I take advantage of his need to blow off steam every now and then. The longer he resists, the more power I have over him. With great power, comes great irresponsibility.
On Gay Marriage
This whole gay marriage controversy is simply ridiculous. Sedalina has one of the better takes on the topic (as well as some particularly ignorant feedback from readers), and also led me to do to a little Googling to find the following: An Act to Preserve Racial Integrity 5. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any
My one-year review went better than expected. Only a 3% raise, but it’s the max they’re giving this year (after two years of no increases!) so I can’t complain too much. More importantly, I negotiated a restructuring of the department that will move me from a generalist working on several different publications as needed to
Debate Reactions
Initial reactions to tonight’s debate (which will be repeated tonight on CNN at Midnight EST, 9pm PST): 1. Ted Koppell, you may step down from the #1 Jackass platform. Larry King, please take Mr. Koppell’s place. Self-important moron! 2. Edwards came as close to getting the one-on-one he said he wanted as the panelists treated