Category: long story short

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…