Monthly Archives: September 2006
QotD: My Musical Horoscope
What's your musical horoscope? (Put your music player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.) Inspired by Stephanie.
Nights Introlude — Nightmares on Wax (Cafe Del Mar)
Our Day Will Come — kd lang (Drag)
Plastic Jesus — Dead Kennedys
Samurai Champloo/Battlecry — Nujabes
Battle Without Honor or Humanity — Tomoyasu Hotei (Kill Bill: Volume 1)
The Bends — Radiohead (The Bends)
Use Me Up — Bill Withers (Lean On Me: The Best Of Bill Withers)
Spanish Flea — Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass — (Going Places)
My Secret Wish — Club 69 (Adults Only)
Ruhe (Ayla Mix) — Schiller (Trance All Stars 1)
I Love You (Conte Partiro) — Donna Summer Hot Stuff for Disco Sluts
Christmas Time Is Here (instrumental) — Vince Guaraldi Trio (A Charlie Brown Christmas)
9-11
I missed the whole 9-11-five-years-later-blink-blink-yawn-scratch routine. I'm still recovering from my trip to Burning Man and didn't want to spend the energy eulogizing about something that everyone else (literally, it looks like) would have blogged about already. Fuck it.
And then I saw Pants Party's blog entry on Olberman and realized that there is still quite a bit that needs to be said. Or shouted, over and over and over, until this country gets the message.
There's something in the air…
Worst Girlfriend EVER
Can I have ten bucks?
This is Angie Paccione (rhymes with catch a pony) and she's running for congress against Mailyn Musgrave, who is not only an unethical witch, but also the author of the no-marriage-for-homos amendment for the United States Constitution Musgrave has GOT TO GO—she's a source of much evil in the world and in congress in particular.
Angie Paccione actually stands a pretty good chance of winning.
I just gave Angie $10. Please, pretty-please-with-sugar, contribute $10 yourself. Ten bucks is nothing and it's a nice gesture that you are sick of people like Musgrave in the congress.
QotD: Words To Live By
What's your motto?
There comes a time in every man's life when he has to throw on a wig, squeeze into a party dress, and jump into the life boat with the women and children.
—Jeremy B. Funk
Burning Man Media Collection
QotD: Words To Live By
What's your motto?
Everything you say should be at least two of these three:
• Nice.
• Honest.
• Necessary.
Ann Richards, RIP
I was always a fan of Ann Richards, Governor of Texas. She made the best political speech ever.
Twelve years ago Barbara Jordan, another Texas woman, Barbara made the keynote address to this convention, and two women in a hundred and sixty years is about par for the course.
But if you give us a chance, we can perform. After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels….
I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio. Well, it was back then that I came to understand the small truths and the hardships that bind neighbors together. Those were real people with real problems and they had real dreams about getting out of the Depression. I can remember summer nights when we’d put down what we called the Baptist pallet, and we listened to the grown-ups talk. I can still hear the sound of the dominoes clicking on the marble slab my daddy had found for a tabletop. I can still hear the laughter of the men telling jokes you weren’t supposed to hear — talkin’ about how big that old buck deer was, laughin’ about mama puttin’ Clorox in the well when the frog fell in.
They talked about war and Washington and what this country needed. They talked straight talk. And it came from people who were living their lives as best they could. And that’s what we’re gonna do tonight. We’re gonna tell how the cow ate the cabbage….
Now, in contrast, the greatest nation of the free world has had a leader for eight straight years that has pretended that he can not hear our questions over the noise of the helicopters. And we know he doesn’t wanna answer. But we have a lot of questions. And when we get our questions asked, or there is a leak, or an investigation the only answer we get is, “I don’t know,” or “I forgot.”
But you wouldn’t accept that answer from your children. I wouldn’t. Don’t tell me “you don’t know” or “you forgot.” We’re not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are gonna tell the truth; not most days but every day; leaders who don’t forget what they don’t want to remember. And for eight straight years George Bush hasn’t displayed the slightest interest in anything we care about. And now that he’s after a job that he can’t get appointed to, he’s like Columbus discovering America. He’s found child care. He’s found education. Poor George. He can’t help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.
Well, no wonder. No wonder we can’t figure it out. Because the leadership of this nation is telling us one thing on TV and doing something entirely different….
