December 31, 2005
On or off, dead or alive, yes or no. The world is rarely actually so binary.
The testosterone crew is downstairs, beating each other to a virtual pulp on the newly arrived Xbox. It's not that I don't think it's fun - I do - but I don't have the same appetite they have for it. They're pseudo-martial arts sparring with pseudo-human characters. There is a winner and there is a loser. There is no inbetween.
It's the last day of the year, another randomly imposed binary. 2005 or 2006, one or the other, not both. Except this year we get an
extra second, a second of limbo, a second of greytime, a second of inbetween. ...
December 30, 2005
So they're going to
investigate who leaked information about President Bush's criminal spying on American citizens, but not investigate the crimes the President himself committed? This is completely outrageous. Where are the Democrats? Why are they not standing up more strongly, more vocally for the half of the country they supposedly represent?
December 29, 2005
The end must come for some good reason
I've heard it said before
To everything a time and season
What was this season for?
In a flash, in a flash
There one moment and gone in a flash
Think of all the strangers you've encountered
In cafes or subway trains
Or lined up at this water fountain
One drink and on your way
In a flash, in a flash
There one moment and gone in a flash
When hopes are rising like a rocket
When cups are overflowing
When hearts were filled like children's pockets
It's then I'll hear your song
In a flash, in a flash
There one moment and gone in a flash
Our eyes can't help but disbelieve this
Bad news and even though
The end must come for some good reason
Right now I just don't know
In ...
This ad was run in the December 29, 2005 New York Times.
December 26, 2005
I'm drained. Totally wiped out. I don't think I can feel one more thing. At all. Holidays are so weird. I've been up, I've been down. All over the map.
I sat on the couch and watched tv all morning today. Some show about 'North Mission Road' or somesuch, apparently it's the county coroner's office in LA. Grizzly crimes, solved by coroner-scientist-detectives. Skeletons in Griffith Park, a scientist buried in a shallow grave, a photo studio burned down with the owner and his parrot inside. I don't know what compelled me to keep watching. Inertia, I suppose.
It's not that it hasn't been a good holiday. We had Chinese for ...
December 24, 2005
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December 19, 2005
Hey - do any of you out there know of any nice-ish restaurants open for Christmas dinner? Could be A2-Ypsi, could be farther afield - Detroit, Dearborn, Royal Oak, whatever.
December 15, 2005
who is under fire again from his teacher this week:
"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day and find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."
- Thomas Lawrence
Day dreaming is dangerous for those who would preserve the status quo, baby. That's why they want to beat it out of you.
December 13, 2005
The kids have written their lists for Santa. Here's mine:
Amazon Wishlist
The role of Scrooge will be played by Bill Gates this year. Xbox 360 global rollout? Global? What on earth was going through that corporate hive mind of yours, Bill? I've been on a reservation list since August. Yes, 4 months ago. I had a nice chat with the GameStop guy today. They have 4 pages of reservations. Single spaced. In their first shipment from MS, on rollout day, they got 16 units. Next Monday they get 2 more. That's it. That's all MS has allotted them. The last ...
December 8, 2005
How could I dance with another?
The boys over at Martini Republic have posted some
recollections of John Lennon and the day he died. It was 25 years ago today. I was just a kid, really, a freshman in high school.
I've always liked the Beatles, and thinking back to age 14, some kids in my class had a band - they covered 'I want to hold your hand' and 'I saw her standing there' and so on, to great effect. Oh - listening to Curt on guitar - I sigh now like I'm sure I did then. I know it's just pop, but damn, it's good pop. I loved it then and I love it ...
