more idiocy

there's been acres and acres of ludicrous behavior happening since the election... this is just another example of uppity christians thinking they can continue to get away with it...

i think what we need to do now is throw a couple of 'em to the lions again... that'll straighten 'em out... (hey, it worked last time...)

no soup for you

freemans just became my favorite restaurant in NYC... (scroll down to the section on the bush twins)

classic...

jhon balance

for those of you who haven't heard, jhon balance of coil died last weekend... the grisly details are here...

this from one of his biggest fans, my best friend zeny...

balance!
in a time *without* balance...
i LOVE you.
and so shall i cherish you, in passionate retrospect...
the intangible hours!
you and your musick, to guide me (via chaos) to absolute truth.
these personal effects:
a reno apartment(!) a seattle subway(?) new york city(*)
an astral disaster; a peculiar itch... an eternal obsession.
blessings, dear jhon...
you have changed the pathways of my heart and of my mind,
and i am grateful to you.
travel in peace,
surrounded by light
and my love.
you are eternal...
blossom, my love!
z e n

rest in peace

a very nice diversion

there's some wonderful pics up of my daughter at the Dresden Dolls show in SF last week on my wife's site... i unfortunately was unable to attend due to my stubbornly ridiculous habit of working all goddamned week.

amerika

if someone ever abducted me, i would hope a witness would have the common decency to do SOMETHING... ANYTHING...

the world we've created here just seems to get sadder and sadder...

next

needed about a week off to let this all soak in... THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR COMMENTS... your views and commiseration helped me get through a rather difficult time... feeling better now and getting angry about herr bush and his cronies again, which i suppose is a good thing.

i've decided to keep this blog going... my initial reaction to the election results was to just give it all up, that it really wasn't worth it and wasn't making any sort of difference... i've realized that maybe it was a little too ideological (and probably a little egotistical) to believe that i actually could inspire any sort of change... so now i guess i just need somewhere where i can bitch as much as i want with no one shutting me up (and save my wife the agony of listening to me constantly rant)...

in happier news, michael and heather at messiahbomb have brought rowan cassidy into the world... here's to hoping we can make it a better place for him.

the ugly american is alive and well

well, it's over... no recount in ohio is going to save sanity for this nation... not with bush winning the popular count by over four million votes... and this morning, every moderately sane person is asking themselves the same question: what now?

judging by the way the votes went in the senate, there's a pretty simple answer - more of the same... expansion of the patriot act (hence, the further erosion of what civil rights we have left), drilling for a miniscule amount of oil in alaska (hence, furthering the cause of ecological disaster), continuation of an unwinnable war in iraq, as well as probably a new one in iran, continuing loss of stature and respect in the world at large, and finally the eventual triumph of fear.

this is what the majority of american citizens want. they've just said so.

and now the republicans are calling for a deeply divided nation to "come together" to work all these problems they created (or exacerbated) out... in good conscience, i simply can't do that... i can't join in a government that propogates fear and prejudice, regardless if the majority of the people i live with think it's a good idea... so i find myself where i was back in the hell of the reagan years - slinking back down into the black hole of apathy... i've lost any glimmer of respect i might have had for the majority of the people living in my country, and it's probably best just to slip back into the anonimity of the "unwashed masses"...

in short, i'm disgusted. and very, very depressed.

...and finally

tip #3: vote your conscience... there's been so much spin on this election from both sides that it's nearly impossible to get all the facts... i'd just like to throw a few irrefutable ones out there for you to ponder:

satan will NOT crawl up through your toilet and eat your children if you vote for john kerry, no matter what little dickie cheney says... the jury's still out on whether george bush will send your four-year old off to play in an iraqi sandbox if re-elected (or rather, if he's really elected at all)... michael moore and ann coulter are NOT coming to your work to humiliate you for your vote... bruce springsteen is NOT going to play at your cousin's bar mitzvah... curt schilling (while quite possibly having the best pitching performance in a postseason ever) is NOT better than you... arnold schwarzenegger doesn't even know you exist... and seriously, folks, no one REALLY gives a flying furry rat fuck what p. diddy has to say...

all this aside, just vote.

it can't hurt.