Month: October 2003

A moving lecture from Indian writer Arundhati Roy: (from Democracy Now

I bought a lemon zester to spice up my oatmeal in the morning – read a recipe in a men’s fitness magazine about adding orange zest to oatmeal to give it a little citrus kick. I haven’t been this excited since I got the tuna press. I was gleefully zesting my orange this morning and […]

Updated the entry for my hometown on Wikipedia.org – my stuff is the External Links and the History. Go Big Red!

I’m on the second DVD of Taken, the Steven Spielberg-produced miniseries that was on the Sci-Fi channel a few seasons ago. It’s really not that great. There’s just not enough icky-alien stuff going on. The entire cast is a white-wash – its like a Norman Rockwell painting. Everybody’s clean-cut and fresh-faced. The men are solemn, […]

Andy: am I immature that I’m giggling because they just used the words ‘fudge factor’ in this meeting I’m on right now? My Sisters Beau: definitely Andy: I guess it’s better than saying ‘guesstimate’ My Sisters Beau: hey try to use fudge packer somehow My Sisters Beau: or SWAG Andy: yeah – I either picture […]

The Bush administration has found a simple solution: It has ended the public dissemination of such images by banning news coverage and photography of dead soldiers’ homecomings on all military bases.

Sometimes nuns kick ass: There are children hungry, children sick and dying There are mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers crying They?re only pawns in your play of power and corruption. Slowly starve them, your new weapons of mass destruction. And prove to me America, that you care And prove to me America that you?re aware Who?s […]

DOES IT LOOK LIKE I’M SCREAMING AT YOU.