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Apr. 5th, 2005 @ 10:39 am Had to ask...
Since you are all more well versed than your average bear:

Who do you like in the local races? For the win? Personally? Why?

... did you know that there was a vote today, or have you managed to (along with 9 of 10 of my coworkers) avoid seeing the polling place at the entrance of your building? (yes, that last question was case sensitive and smarmy. Sue me. I don't want to read about politicians anymore, either, you know. But I do.)

Anyway, Here I am posting, so if you want to know a little more about what has been going on with me read behind this cut )
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Feb. 22nd, 2005 @ 09:57 am I probably won't eulogise for Ma this way.
I've never been the most voracious or thoughtful of my friends when it comes to political insight. Insight into anything for that matter. Wait! I'm not going to continue eulogising myself. All I'm trying to illustrate is my regret at Hunter Thompson's suicide. He wasn't my friend and there are those that don't figure him insightful, but for now I'm taking for granted that I'm lamenting to the choir. Hunter Thompson made a real difference in my life; decades and miles removed, he was an integral part of my change of heart towards America.
Bill Dixon is a lawyer in the Madison area who is said to have been in close touch, with my object of worship, til the end. He debunks the myth of self-embalment that inhibits our memory of Thompson. I don't know if he's right or decieved but I am wont to believe that it is better for everyone most concerned by the old drunk, tripped, coke feind that his memory live on as such. He spoke of his vice as the story of American decline, when appropriate, I think, to parallel for his audience the maddness of the country with a person. From the great to the meek; and maybe then there would be one more kid, clued. And crueler: his anti-hero was in the context of current political realities. We were rarely given the comfort of fiction by this troubled man. Thompson will not be remembered long (or at least widely) for being a voice of truth for four decades, but he was and I miss him already.
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Dick bowling
Feb. 4th, 2005 @ 01:31 pm He was here a minute ago, and here he is again!
I guess this is my send off letter for the weekend... Can't bring myself to read a normal book when I have the internet at my finger tips for a limited time only. BIG PLANS: Orchid show (aliant energy center) and Kites on Ice and "Homeland and We Won't Pay!".

In smaller and (for me) more exciting news, I might have more than one hour to relax with other human beings. Wow!

I'm reading several diatribes by what seems to be a self depricating communitarian named John Gatto and though I agree with him in terms of the result of early public education, he scares me a little, and the website I just linked and saw for the first time seconds ago, does not abate my discomfort. Ah well.

Have a good weekend everybody.
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Feb. 1st, 2005 @ 10:41 am So much fun I'm making myself sick.
And taking a note from myself to listen once again to myself talk. I'm very soothing: Ahhhh... I got a little worked up reading http://www.slate.com today. Charles Hitchens (who I really don't know from a hole in the wall save for this linked article and a Daily Show interview) calls for a cessation of the Vietnam/Iraq analogy. I'm sure that end is right around the corner (snicker). Some fair points though. In proper Slate tradition, there is one article devoted to the entirely benign and pointless ("Hoagie Eating Man-Baby Speaks!! Mother Faints! Masses Go to Quizno's!"). I love this website almost as much as I love The Angry Penguin.

Princess Beth has an inadvertantly dirty link posted today. It looked work safe, really it did. Her abstract of the link is hilarious AND safe for cruising, though.

USOLICITED MANTRA FOR THE DAY: Today I will make one persons life a little harder by enforcing breuocracy.

And now to ignore myself and do my homework. It's not so bad. I will pause every page or so to remember my yummy dinner and future nap. Both valuable because I ignored the idea of sleep on Sunday night... It is Tuesday, isn't it?
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Jan. 31st, 2005 @ 09:26 am Post for posts sake!
Or really just because on this particular morning I am enjoying the sound of my own thoughts more than my lectures. It's funny I was preparing myself for a really challenging course, and I'm still expecting it to become such, but this human biology thing has so far been rudimentary organic chemistry. Having failed the former I am in a good position to grasp rudiments. Anyway, my lecturer is animated, just not nearly as informative as the text. "Why is Sex Fun?' - Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs, and Steel) is a fun, informative and quick supplement to the subject. You are all as hot for evolutionary biology as I am, aren't you?

The weekend was interesting, to me. I put a cap on the shows for a week and was ever more convinced that I should hide in local politics for my fix and say fuck all to the stress, that is concerning myself with the racist facists in the fed.

... oh well, better go read the Gaurdian...
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Jan. 28th, 2005 @ 02:02 pm Not my finest hour...
But it's not my mood that's bad; there's lots to look forward to this afternoon and evening. For instance "HOMELAND" & "WE WON'T PAY, WE WON'T PAY!" open tonight and opening night at the Bartell is always a blast. In the more distant theater future I realized that I don't have any commitments on Sundays, which means freedom to see Callen's Radical Faerie, Harry Hay play. These are good things.

Less good is my email account destroying over a years worth of reference material. And also... no, that's really as bad as things have been, in a while.

Wait! It's bad that I have been ignoring my less than imperative responsibility to post on livejournal... Thanks for continuing in my stead, everyone. I sure that it has been almost impossible to even dress yourselves without knowing what it was like on my walk home, or at my home, or in my office. It has been good to lurk and read you all, in my compostional hiatus.

That said, I wish you love and speed to see my plays. Good luck on yours. Speak to you soon.
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Dec. 15th, 2004 @ 04:12 pm (no subject)
Steven woke up without the slightest idea that he was still dreaming and poured out his sould to dream strangers and friends about the nightmare he just had. Of course he did feel a lot better when he was through, and the sentiment carried into his non-dreaming wakefullness. It didn't last long.
A poncho is not a particularly worthy definition diversion for a short story.
Steven didnt' have time to put his on before he would be late for work yet somehow managed a cigarette shave deoderize before he had to go public. Libby was waiting patiently and wittily in her shared office as Steven panted in the cold to join her. The rest of the day was spent in socializing, reflection and internet surfing, and there was plenty of newsreading and oggling. It wasn't the day that he had wanted but it turned out better than he could have imagined just tweleve hours after dreamed the worst, and spoke the least.

(that was weired wasn't it? But I kind of liked it... you may have to suffer that omniscient thrid person voice when I feel like talking about myself in a narrative again. Hope you don't mind... Anyway, tonight should be interseting... I finally talked myself into auditioning for a scripted play again, it's been over a year, and I think I have a good shot to play a hippy. What a stretch. And yes, Mr. Gonzalez, I have my shots and believe in Bush's foreign policy. It's only acting! ... basicly I could get some school credit for doing this play, so I will accept a role in any capacity. Not to mention, I think that I will be eminently happier if I can talk myself into the idea that I am doing something for the world by working on these plays; which I can, will, and do.

Happy week before Christmas. And I'm sorry, is Hanukkah still in it's throngs? It's got to be on it's last legs... Not permenantly, just for this year, you see. Just curious.
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Dec. 12th, 2004 @ 08:06 pm Just for fun.
The next seventy-two hours should turn out to be rather exciting. There will be finals, food, uncontrolled subtances and maybe sleep ahead. It doesn't get much more exciting than that.
There is a wind advisory in Madison tonight and our northern neighbors are being kept warm by their festering racism and we our booze. Happily we accept every-Hmong, drunk or racist. It should be well below freezing with the wind chill, so bundle you bundles, already. You're plants, by the way, are dead now, and there's no one to blame but yourself: God gave you plenty of leeway this fall, so suck it up.
I don't mean to be so preachy and paternally fatalist; it's just these finals. I've been the worst version of my student-self this semester, and although much of the fixing has already been completed and successful, I still need to hear that authoritarian moan, somewhere, to whip me into finishing my last essays of the semesters. That somewhere is in telling you to bundle up. You stay warm and I hear the sound of my own bossy voice: we are all winners.

I hope that all of your holiday preperations are going as well as they sound to be. For those that don't sound so smooth, I've heard that God answers more prayers than usual this time of year (something about miraclous candles or king infant, I can't remember). If you can't beat 'em, venerate 'em. Anyway, that's my motto, take it as you will.

Merry week, and be well.
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Dec. 8th, 2004 @ 03:15 pm (no subject)
What is the average electricity bill, in Madison for three people?
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Dec. 8th, 2004 @ 02:03 pm This guy is lookin' for...
a roomate, for August, in the Willy Street area. He's okay, especially if you like movies and a big T.V.. Apparently the apartment he's got his eye on and his girlfriend (who you will not have to share a room with) are pretty cool, too. He asked me, but I would have to get a BED-roomate, to be able to afford the rent (probably) and I have grown to like living alone... besides, this guy saved my ass once, and I don't really want to tarnish that living arrangement memory with any new ones, for now.

Visit the link, in the subject line, to find out more about this guy, and look him up if you want more info on the apartment... I figured if you are going to room with someone, that someone is just as important to know about as the apartment, and anyway he has all the gory lease related details.

Happy hunting.
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