Right, that dink-dink-dink noise is the sound of a penny bouncing off the bottom of my accounts, because I’ve spent it all on flights, to see Peruuu and to visit my Eastern Seaboard cousins. I looked at visiting my Cali cousins and all the gang out there, but alas it was just too much and [...]
Archive for January, 2006
It doesn’t rain but it pours
You know it’s going to be a bad day when all you have time to do is pop a couple Advil to stave off the impending caffeine headache.
Where Were You When It Happened?
In an amazing example of how a shower can sober you up, I was reading Peak Oil while I dried off and found more things to confuse and amaze, but there were a few things I shall throw your way in the bleak hope that they may find purchase and that you may, in some [...]
If this disturbs you, then walk away
Disturbed is, I confess, one of my guilty pleasures. I listened to “The Sickness” and “Believe” a little too much during my otherwise quiet and somewhat lonely first year out here, and as a result hearing several of the tracks off “Believe” conjures up mental images of the California desert. Completely separate from any associations [...]
Ain’t democracy a female dog?
So it looks like Hamas did well in the Palestinian elections. I’d like to say something like, “Of course they did well, they’re the ones who have displayed themselves to be the most interested and passionate about the issues that matter the most to the Palestinian people.” That’s grossly (and perhaps incorrectly) oversimplifying the situation, [...]