I’m doing this harder than I have ever done before…

My State of the Union Experience.

I had planned to catch Bush’s final State of the Union address tonight, perhaps celebrate the fact that the miserable fuck won’t be able to pinch another one out of his ulcered asshole, when I turned it on I heard the following phrase:
“ethical medical research”
Then I rolled my eyes, said “Oh for fuck’s sake” and [...]

Chan Marshall Owns My Ass

So my unusual silence here could best be described as audio-derived.
Not only have I bought and installed new stereos and MP3 players, I’ve been listening to Cat Power’s Jukebox on repeat since it came out, and the verdict is in.
Chan Marshall Owns My Ass.
There’s only one original song on the album, Song for Bobby, a  [...]

It warms my black little heart…

Many times when I look at the state of the world I see a lot to be down about.  War.  Genocide.  Political corruption.  Dangerous cults that profit on human despair.
I see a lot of people fighting back against those corruptions today.  Scientology is a topic I have long felt strong emotions about.  I see it [...]

Those last two posts were too serious Pt. 2: Electric Boogaloo

You know what the best word in the English Language is?
Pooper.
Goodnight, everybody!

Hate to bring you down more, but…

I’d just like to echo something a good friend of mine had to say about the recent passing of Heath Ledger.
For all the people who are going on about it being a great tragedy, you’re half-right, by my reckoning.  It’s sad, and it is a great cultural loss, to be certain.  Think about the world, [...]

Heath Ledger 1979-2008

I woke up this morning to talk with a friend about a big project I’m going to be contributing to, when my dad tells me the news.
Heath Ledger died.
For someone normally full of grandiose terms I’m at a loss.  I’ve always thought that Heath Ledger was to be one of the great talents of our [...]

Fear and Loathing in the Nation’s Capital (Again)

So I went into DC today to meet a friend, one who I haven’t seen in quite some time.  She’s a cool gal with a good sense of humor, we were going to get our pictures taken with President Stephen Colbert’s portrait at the National Gallery.
Things went awry.
I arrive roughly 2 PM, when suddenly I [...]

Modern Gladiatorial Competition

With the recent return of that most shameful of American institutions, American Gladiators, a television program in which mutants try and kill each other with gigantic Nerf weapons, I’m having a strange revelation.
Rome, the world’s first true Republic, seems to have given us two lasting plagues, that are not so dissimilar as they are brother [...]

The Hurricane in my Head

And on the seventh day, Andrew did look down upon his computers, and said that they were “good enough.”
Today is my day of rest.  I find myself not resting, though, so much as brooding.  Brooding is a common activity of late.  The fates long ago decreed that everything shitty that ever happens to me must [...]