Category: long story short

“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…