Category: long story short

Nothing much substantial has changed but for some reason I’m the optimism tip this week. I have a feeling something’s about to break big and I can’t quite put my finger on it. Or maybe I’m just getting hyped for south by southwest. I’m more productive when I’m in this kind of mood, though. I’m…

I keep telling myself to do some blogging every day, even if it’s boring- even-to- people-who- know-me journal entries in my persona blog. Why? For selfish reasons. When I’m keeping track of what I’ve been doing I get more done and I feel better about myself. I also notice patterns and figure out why I’m…

big box Originally uploaded by xian. this is all that was holding us up

Good interview with Brent Simmons of Ranchero at The Shape of Days.

DKo: Boldface is mine. USA TODAY, 6-22-04 On Nov. 27, 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved 17 “Category Two” interrogation techniques….He also approved one “Category Three” technique,…”non-injurious physical contact.”….Rumsfeld rejected three proposed Category Three techniques: exposure to cold weather or water;… DKo: So in November, punishment by exposure to cold was unconscionable, not allowed even…

“Remember, more than 90 percent of American homes celebrate Christmas. But the small minority that is trying to impose its will on the majority is so vicious, so dishonest–and has to be dealt with.” –Bill O’Reilly, Fox News: Cited in NYT, 2004: The Year of ‘The Passion’, by Frank Rich I was reading the Newsweek…

Where’s the moral majority when you need them?

It was bacterial, it wasn’t pneumonia, the zithromax killed the little buggers, and the prednisone kept my lungs inflated while my heart was breaking all week. Off to celebrate a friend’s birthday and watch the sun set over Alameda’s beach.

http://www.gnn.tv/content/eminem_mosh.html Here’s the Eminem Mosh vodeo. Blew me away. (Big file, 32MG, downloads in four minutes broasdband, but you can also click for a dial-up version.)

Apologies for radio silence. Over the weekend I was celebrating my birthday but I’ve also been experiencing really bad asthma and some nonspecific aches and pains. It got pretty bad last night so I went to Kaiser today and they told me I’ve got (if I’m lucky) bronchitis or (if I’m not) pneumonia. Well, at…

So does life really begin at forty? Given that I’ve just started playing music this year, maybe so. This is also the 7th birthday of my online journal in its various incarnations. I’ll be offline most of today. Up to Point Reyes later. All I want for my birthday is to see the last of…

Street poet Wordsworth from the Slam Bush convention in Florida Pretty cool. You have to stick with it past the part where Bush is “kicking his game.” It didn’t stream for me, but it downloaded for replay. I know I’m obssessing with the Hip-Hop angle, but we kids feel so misunderstood. Fight the Power!

*Props, i.e., proper respect This from Rolling Stone: [BTW, the post-11/2 dates don’t mean anything. The song will get its play–after this “leak”–before the election, and the issue of the magazine (despite its “cover date”) will also be out.] Eminem Talks Bush Song Rapper calls Iraq war “mess,” blames president Eminem’s upcoming album, Encore, due…

Poll Finds Pro-Kerry Vote Fever at Colleges LA Times “[A]ccording to a poll released Thursday by Harvard University…84% of students said they would ‘definitely be voting’ this year, compared with 50% who said so in the spring of 2000.” “The poll surveyed…210 campuses in 48 states. Students…preferred Kerry over Bush, 52% to 39%….The Massachusetts senator…

Yes, I do have a birthday coming up, the big four-oh on October 30. (That will also be the seventh anniversary of this journal – w00t). People never know what to get for me, but this year it’s easy. First of all, the perfect gift for me is to buy a copy of my book.…

Washington Post [T]he Indian Health Service, was created by treaties drawn more than a century ago that promised quality health care (along with quality education and decent housing) for every Native American in exchange for the federal government’s taking vast swaths of Indian land. But the health service, run by the Department of Health and…

Haven’t posted any to-dones in a long time, so there are so many they’d make our heads explode. Here’s a “classic” from just a little over two years ago – interesting all the already obsolete software brand names i was working on at the time (Radio Free Blogistan): Tuesday, October 15, 2002 To don’t Things…

A lot of people have been wowed by the intensity of campaign communication this year. Fair enough. It has been intense. But not intense like the Green Day back-beat, or Hip-Hop’s “Vote or Die,” or the amped-up slackers of 2004. I think there may be an intensity of yet a higher order still in store.…

“I”ll give you Nincompoop and In Denial, if you give me Flip-Flopper and Liberal.” “Flip-Flopper AND Liberal? You’ve got to be kidding!”

If you haven’t heard about Operation Truth yet, please take a minute and pay them a visit. Worth your time. And in my opinion, if you can spare it, worth a donation. Here’s a little bit about them: Operation Truth is a non-profit (501c4), non-partisan Veterans’ organization that seeks to amplify the soldiers’ voice in…

A phrase we would not be likely to hear in our own media, from the Arab News, referring to Iran: wedged between the American occupied countries of Afghanistan and Iraq.