I would prefer not to. *
June 3, 2004
Scenes from my driveway, continued x 15
Deadbeat neighbor: “Humid today, eh?” Me: “Hadn’t noticed.” Deadbeat neighbor: “Trust me, the humidity today is like atmospheric bunting or something…” Me: “You have no idea what bunting is, do you?” Deadbeat neighbor: “Not so much, no.”
June 3, 2004
Mike Wallace
Brillcreamed, rough-hewn, old school… And spanked like Carl Berstein “on assignment” in Bangkok.
June 3, 2004
Coffee shop chatter, June 3
Skinny guy with nose ring: “The great Green Mother is fighting back, man. She’s sending forth her winged minions to smite the land of the smirking, warmongering robberbarrons! It’s like, enviro-retribution or something. Long live the great Mother!” Fat guy with muffin: “Yeah, far out. Hey, do you have, like, eighty cents I can borrow…?”
June 3, 2004
CIAo
Well, there’s one less mule for Bill O’Reilly to flog… update: John Kerry released a statement in which he says blah blah blah me me me. The opportunistic europuffer. update 2: Bill Quick has some interesting thoughts on the resignation. I won’t steal his thunder, but I will say that Bill’s thoughtstew contains equal parts Chalabi and Rumsfeld (and of course potatoes, carrots, celery, and thyme).
June 3, 2004
A Poem from 1968, Revised by the Ghost of Richard Brautigan, 2004 (eleventh in a series)
The Galilee Hitch-Hiker Part 1 Baudelaire Michael Moore was driving a Model A aross Galilee. He picked up a hitch-hiker named Jesus who had been standing among a school of fish, feeding them pieces of bread. “Where are you going?” asked Jesus, getting into the front seat. “Anywhere, anywhere out of this Bush’s [evil] world!” shouted Baudelaire Michael Moore. “I’ll go with you as far as Golgotha,” said Jesus. “I
June 3, 2004
Click It or Ticket
Writing in The Weekly Standard, Andrew Ferguson takes a few well-directed pokes at the nanny state’s safety brigade, here represented by seatbelt zealots: More must always be done. We must always be made safer, if not freer, and the law of unintended consequences must always be blithely dismissed. The last great project of the safety mobilizers, you’ll recall, was to make air bags mandatory in passenger cars. This was saluted
June 3, 2004
Film reviews in 5 words or less, #7
Breezy (1973) Directed by Clint Eastwood. Stars William Holden, Kay Lenz, and Marj Dusay. Five words or less review: Hippy chick boffs old dude.
June 3, 2004
Talking back to 80s music, 24
Yeah? Well salt and pepper’s here, too — only it’s not quite so glamorous when you’re talking about ear hair and the like. So, y’know, shut up, you couple of frolicky tarts. “Push It,” Salt-N-Pepa