Archive for January, 2006

PIP-Prologue III: Pay Down

 By xaosseed

January 31st

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 [...]

It doesn’t rain but it pours

 By dixie

January 31st

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?

 By xaosseed

January 29th

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

 By dixie

January 27th

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?

 By dixie

January 26th

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, [...]

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