Heavyset woman with large beverage (hurtling toward me): “Excuse me. Excuse me!” Me: “No thank you.” Heavyset woman with large beverage: “No, I’m not selling anything. I was just gonna ask if I could borrow forty cents so I could make a phone call –“ Me: “– Just the curly fries, then, please.” Heavyset woman with large beverage: “Huh –? Me: “– The Horsey sauce, yes.” Heavyset woman with large
May 24, 2004
May 24, 2004
Encounters: The Arby’s parking lot, Alameda and Bryant St
Heavyset woman with large beverage (hurtling toward me): “Excuse me. Excuse me!” Me: “No thank you.” Heavyset woman with large beverage: “No, I’m not selling anything. I was just gonna ask if I could borrow forty cents so I could make a phone call –“ Me: “– Just the curly fries, then, please.” Heavyset woman with large beverage: “Huh –? Me: “– The Horsey sauce, yes.” Heavyset woman with large
May 24, 2004
Current Mood: Sisyphusian resolve, by way of Camus
“His fate belongs to him. His rock is his thing.” Current Favorite Movie Musical / lubricant / cooking byproduct: grease
May 24, 2004
Current Mood: Sisyphusian resolve, by way of Camus
“His fate belongs to him. His rock is his thing.” Current Favorite Movie Musical / lubricant / cooking byproduct: grease
May 24, 2004
Super Partisan Nursery Rhymes, 1
Hickery, dickery, dock! The mouse ran up the clock: The clock struck one, the mouse ran down… Hickery, dickery, John Kerry is an opportunistic scumfingerer.
May 24, 2004
A Poem from 1968, Revised by the Ghost of Richard Brautigan, 2004 (seventh in a series)
The American Hotel Part 2 Baudelaire Michael Moore was sitting in a doorway with a a wino on San Francisco’s skidrow. The wino was a million years old and could remember dinosaurs. Baudelaire Michael Moore and the wino were drinking Petri Muscatel. “One must always be drunk never trust a Republican,” said Baudelaire Michael Moore. “I live in the American Hotel,” said the wino. “And I can remember dinosaurs.” “Be
May 24, 2004
For best results, serve with citrus zest
Q: What do you get when you cross Fred Barnes, Michael Moore, and Al Franken? A: This Weekly Standard essay. Q: What What do you get when you cross Fred Barnes, Michael Moore, Al Franken, hot water, and chopped celery? A: Soup. Really awful soup.
May 24, 2004
Beam, mote, something or other
Scott at Wunderkinder looks at the Pew Study on the Media and notices that the numbers shine a peculiar light on many self-styled “moderates”: […] conservative media members seem more forthright about possible bias in either direction in the media in general. 68% of conservative members could think of a news organization that was especially conservative; the same could think of an organization that was especially liberal. Meanwhile, there was
May 24, 2004
Tomorrow’s headlines today
French “achitectural showpiece” collapses, killing 4 foreign nationals; UN moves quickly to condemn Israel for the catastrophe because why not?