Category: long story short

Got my copy of Jaguar today, installed it no problem, so now I can use the latest version of Kung-Log for posting to MT (and it now picks up what tune you’re playing in iTunes, like the iJournal client for LiveJournal does, thanks to a request from shacker—woo hoo!—though it appears I have to insert…

In Lott to hold news conference – Dec. 13, 2002, CNN.com reports, “Lott said Wednesday night that he hoped he could be judged in the full context of his career, which he said has included support of historically black colleges and universities.” Well, sure. He can support historically black colleges and universities while still winking…

Salon.com Politics | Lott’s amnesia On Tuesday, on the racist Web site Nationalist.org, past Lott supporter Richard Barrett expressed offense that Lott would retract his remarks and try to portray Thurmond’s candidacy as anything other than what it was. “The reason that you have been elected is because you have been a segregationist, pitted against…

I just read Rich’s latest post to True Dirt, on the subject of welcoming the rain that we’re supposed to get here in the Bay Area in the winter, when we aren’t in a drought. He mentions the strange looks he gets at work when the prospect of rain makes him glad. I’ve gotten used…

Mark Pilgrim’s best writing comes when he is remembering the bad old days: And the bath—oh, the bath, it was like a time warp to old times. Not good old times, just old times. A pull-down chain on the john, an old sink that leaked, and small blades—like you could buy ten at a time…

As the year winds down, I find I have a surfeit of interesting things to think, write, and talk about but an overwhelming desire to sit and stare at a fireplace warmed only by a string of chili lights. I’ll be in New York for about a week before Christmas, returning to Oakland on the…

Sometimes satire gets at a deeper truth than “objective journalism” ever manages: WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 — President Bush today named Osama Bin Laden, a polarizing figure who is viewed with suspicion by some in the West but enjoys great cred in the Arab street, to lead an independent investigation into the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

For an often-morose moper, I have lots to be grateful for. I’m healthy, young(-ish), privileged, and free. I work at home. I live in a beautiful mediterranean climate. I have maintained a love affair for over a decade. I am still learning to know myself better, to listen to my body, to express my emotions.…

Full text: bin Laden’s ‘letter to America’

Harley Sorensen has some, on balance,very wise advice for the Democratic party in Dems Must Change To Win In ’04 / View from the left: To win in 2004, the Democrats must return to their roots, rather than continue their recent insipid balancing act, an act that has turned them into spineless, lukewarm Republicans. But…

Tom Tomorrow describes three scenarios and asks you to guess which actually happened and which are outlandish satire. I should probably just link to the cartoon every Monday….

The Well is a private conferencing system, its “current” topic notoriously incivil, and yet there’s been a great discussion there lately, with a frank exchange of a wide range of views about geopolitics today and the war on terror, and little patience for unexamined truisms Since I only “own my own words,” I can’t provide…

I’ve been in there rooting for “San Francisco Democrat” Nancy Pelosi, though I know her mainly as a fundraiser, and cutting her some slack as she tries to reposition the Democrats in congress, but Huffington put her finger on a real concern in her Salon column today: Turning her gaze on the smoldering ruins of…

At loose ends… I am suddenly adrift. There’s no immediate urgency to find a new project, but my current work has suddenly stopped… I know I should enjoy the downtime, the freedom, the sudden rush of patient but niggling fantasies, but part of me also feels like I should be immediately lining up “the next…

Couldn’t blog anything yesterday, dealing with a project-related crisis that’s still in progress. It feels funny to miss a day. I usually post something somwhere, but by evening, my first free moments, I felt too discouraged. Not chatty. On the other hand, change is good, so I may be able to rev up my writing…

At Salon this week Andrew Sullivan writes, “Where, one wonders, has Denby been? The main argument on the right these days is not white supremacism (I know that’s news to Joe Conason, but then a lot of what’s going on in the world is).” The line is designed to have conservative readers nodding in sympathy…

(via The Smirking Chimp) According to Jack Van Impe Ministries International, President Bush “knows” that he’s involved with prophetic events concerning the Middle East and the final battle between good and evil: I know that he as seen this video, “Jerusalem: War or Peace.” His brother in Florida, Jeb Bush, has seen it because he…

Tom the Dancing Bug nails the relentless search for the center.

coffee baguette blueberry scones white wine red wine roasted chicken reggiano pecorino gruyere dozen eggs qt half ‘n’ half qt nonfat milk pavel’s plain lo-fat yogurtses nonfat brown cow toilet paper (9 packs/fat) sardines w/o oil 3 lbs. of country style pork rib (for mex. dish) chicken stock so get some necks and feet from…

When I was a kid there was a fast-food chain on the east coast called Arthur Treacher’s Fish ‘n’ Chips. I seem to recall that Treacher was some kind of celebrity from long before my time. Whatever happened to that place? I can’t think of any other fast-food chains that have entirely disappeared since then.…

Dreary weekend, once the windy rain had passed. Moped around the house a lot. Didn’t get much done. I should feel better. For the first time in a while I don’t have anything too serious hanging over my head or way behind schedule. It always seems like when I get a little down time that…