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August 18, 2004

Teresa Heinz Kerry drinks a YooHoo

THK:  “My God—it’s like chocolate!  In a little bottle!  How thoroughly decadent! “Bring me several more.  And a mink bib.”

“Every decoding is another encoding”—Stanley Fish

…Speaking of which, if Amber Frey were a bed of long-grain wild rice, do you suppose Scott Peterson would’ve slept with her that first night—or would he simply have gobbled her down with a piece of grilled rockfish and a small arugula salad, then gone home to Laci and offered her a footrub? Sturgeon. 

“Every decoding is another encoding”—Stanley Fish

…Speaking of which, if Amber Frey were a bed of long-grain wild rice, do you suppose Scott Peterson would’ve slept with her that first night—or would he simply have gobbled her down with a piece of grilled rockfish and a small arugula salad, then gone home to Laci and offered her a footrub? Sturgeon. 

Moqtada al-Sadr Agrees to Deal to End Siege at Shrine

…y’know—just in case Allah did mean “raisins.” Because raisins—while certainly quite delicious—are decidedly not worth a scalpful of 7.62 mm minigun holes.* update:  Unless the 7.62 minigun holes like to do the freaky, that is.

Overheard inside Imam Ali shrine, Najaf, 2

nervous militant:  “It is easy, Halil.  Simply force the mini-Satan Iverson to take 10-15 shots from beyond the 3-point arc by collapsing your perimeter defense and doubling up on the big-Satan, Duncan, inside.  Then box out carefully.  “The American hegemons will surely crumble under the weight of their own selfish materialist decadence—and we would save ourselves the trouble of having to festoon a customized explosive device inside one of Carmelo

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A Poem from 1968, Revised by the Ghost of Richard Brautigan, 2004 (twenty-third in a series)

Haiku Michael Moore Ambulance A piece of green pepper       fell off the wooden salad bowl:      so what? Just leave it.  [Michael Moore will lap it off the floor later — along with those peanut shells, and that dollop of guacamole I spilled during last year’s      Superbowl.]

Talking back to 80s music, 32

Nope, sorry lady. This train goes to Albuquerque.  Dennis DeYoung, “Desert Moon”