be jealous. be very jealous. kirk and i love to cook, and any excuse will do. thanksgiving is an especially good one. we usually go to his parents’ house in reading, pa., but this year we are staying home and they are eating at cracker barrel, which is legal now, at least for me, since they stopped firing all the gays.
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Category: General
fingerprints
last few hours of work before the thanksgiving holiday. and what am i thinking about?
fingerprints.
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inconsequential conversations
quick take: another rant on red state/blue state stuff, this one in the form of a concession speech. familiar territory, but worth reading.
and on the subject of familiar territory, for some reason today i started thinking about the comfort of familiar conversations.
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random radio musings
first off, i missed my first day of blogging since i started this mess. i had wanted to keep an unbroken streak for as long as possible, but i worked my butt off around the house yesterday until late into the night. at 12:03, when i had finally sat down for a few minutes to watch u2 on saturday night live, i realized i had missed blogging.
it’s not a catastrophe. but i’m a little disappointed in myself. just a little. and this blogging software doesn’t allow you to cheat and backdate an entry, which i like. dirty little secret of blogging revealed.
but this morning, here i am blogging again. after a nice calm morning of npr, which i’ve decided to rediscover.
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abc news, reevaluated
i’m an abc news fan. i think it’s a holdover from when they actually were the best in the business. and i have a very dear friend who was a producer at abc news, and she’s told me so many great stories of how they were the best and why, that i still watch them almost exclusively.
post-election, though, i’m taking a break from tv news. i was overdosed, and needed a bit of a break from it. so, news fast time.
but, while watching abc news pre-election, i had started to notice a conservative slant to their reporting. not so much as to compromise integrity, but subtle things. i wondered if ownership had influenced news decision making, or if it was an inevitable product of budget cuts and pooled coverage.
then today i read a story about an upcoming 20/20 story on matthew shepard that, while i haven’t seen it and thus have not finalized my opinion, has the potential to send me over the edge into full-blown rage.
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childhood unconsciousness
everyone has their backlog of stories. i sure do. i really respect a person who has the confidence to be able to tell a story or two on themselves. a little humility and self-deprecating humor goes a long way with me.
so, in that spirit, i’ll occasionally tell a story or two on myself on here. that way when the probably inevitable senility sets in (both my mom and my dad have alzheimers. poor kirk.) i’ll be able to read these stories (assuming i still can) and say, “my, what an interesting life this fellow had.”
don’t be offended. you gotta laugh. what else can you do?
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quick takes, random thoughts
first in a series of short takes on various subjects. perfect for when i don’t have the energy or inclination to come up with a big statement.
such as today.
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6th grade history, 2090
civil rights
by jamie howard
civil rights has come a long way since the turn of the century and before the turn of the century. i saw on 3-d where countries used to take rights away from people because they were black or because they were gay or because they were poor.
it doesn’t make much sense to me, but the history book says it’s true, so it must be true.
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honey and vinegar
“you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.”
or do you? most times you do, but sometimes the vinegar is necessary. but when?
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my vote for rev. al
it’s been a weekend full of projects. the coffee soda always helps with that–i don’t normally drink beverages with caffeine (although i have nothing really against them…) so when i do it’s look out world. these are the thrills you get when you are 41 and boring. it’s come down to this.
so i’ll take a break from the furniture reclamation (we found a great hutch top on the street that makes an awesome bookshelf), the making of homemade mozzarella (astonishingly easy, you should try it), the general cleaning (kirk calls it “zipping” because i zip around the house like a maniac) and tell you about the day i voted for rev. al sharpton for president.
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coffee soda
it’s the best tasting soda in the world. manhattan special espresso coffee soda.
of course, it’s also the reason i’m up all night cleaning the house.
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missing the point
there’s a long article in this morning’s new york times about gay marriage. it seems that groups such as lambda legal are backing off pushing for gay marriage in the courts so they can try to regain rights taken away in the 11 states that passed anti-marriage amendments during this past election.
again with the pragmatism.
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the big thing
ronald reagan got everything wrong, as i’ve said numerous times already in these blogs. you could look it up.
except that he got the one big thing right. the soviet union and the cold war. say what you will about that rat bastard, and i do, he got that right, even when at the time everyone was telling him he was getting it wrong. he stuck with what he thought was right and it turned out to be right.
was he lucky? i don’t know. were we lucky? damn straight we were.
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the game
i’m reading “the poisonwood bible” by barbara kingsolver.
i’m a great believer that things and events come to you when they are supposed to, and it’s up to you to figure out why or be open enough to possibilities to let the intended meaning reveal itself, and this book is no exception.
the book was lying on a table of free stuff at work just before the election, and it said to me, “pick me up and read me.” so i picked it up and, after the election when i wanted some distraction, i started to read it. aaaargh.
it’s about a family of fundamental christians. just what i needed, to get my mind off of current events.
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extra extra
i just have to post this, because it’s so raw and so perfectly right. so here’s a bonus blog for today.
thanks to whoever wrote this because it says exactly what i think and expresses exactly how i feel.
don’t click on “more” if really rough language offends.
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intolerant of intolerance
random snatches of babbling are driving me nuts.
dialogue heard in passing this morning: “i don’t agree with gay marriage, but it doesn’t matter if i voted for george bush because congress won’t pass the amendment anyway.” i’m paraphrasing, but that’s the gist of it.
this from someone who married someone who is not an american citizen.
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two-sided demonization
karl rove was on “meet the press” and various sunday shows yesterday. i didn’t watch any of them, as i’m still on my news fast. getting over the overload.
i did see a clip of him on fox news. i wasn’t watching fox news; some other channel ran the fox news clip. just to clarify.
and, of course, he claimed his mandate from 51% of americans and proclaimed that mr. bush would be hotly pursuing the passage of the anti-gay-marriage constitutional amendment. it’s a priority.
you could have put money on that. but we were getting screwed by the democrats too.
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changing the subject
i’m forcing myself to change the subject today. not, understand, because this massively messed-up election and electorate isn’t on my mind twenty-four seven. because it is. i dream about it, and i daydream about it. and i’m far from finished with telling you what i think. i haven’t even really started yet on the governmental and economic inequities between red and blue states, which is becoming my obsessive passion.
but i have to force myself to take a break, because my little inner voice is telling me to do so. not those big loud voices that talk to me inside my head, which i’ve had to name to palliate them a bit. not those. my little self-preservation voice is telling me to do so.
so i’ll tell you about richard teeter, and el goya.
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i know it’s cheating
…but this random email that came from i don’t know where is just really well written. and says just about everything i’d want to say on the subject of fear and terrorism and this country and this election. so, i’m taking the night off, and you click on more, and read all about it. here ’tis:
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lifelong democrat (?)
always. always. straight ticket.
except once. one vote for a republican, just once. it was for sheriff of alachua county, gainesville, fl. i was talked into it by a woman i carpooled with–her husband was on the force, she knew both candidates, and swore she wasn’t steering me wrong.
well the republican sheriff must have worked out fine–at least he never arrested me, so that’s something right there.
otherwise, all democrats. every time.
but now i’m wondering.
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