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It must suck to live in a swing state right about now. There are, in fact, people in this country who exercise their right to choose NOT to vote. My mother is one of them. It drives me batty that she doesn’t, but she chooses not to encourage the system. Small form of personal protest, […]

Eminem has a new song out, Mosh. And you can view the video here. I’ll be the first to say it’s not a “great” song, but it’s angry and pissed-off, and it’s one of the best “go-vote” videos I’ve ever seen put before the Eminem target audience. It’s really pretty. And very, very angry. I

I’m behind on my new novel draft. Need to finish ch. 1 today. 100 pages by the 20th. More later…

Myst IV is out! Myst IV is out! Need I say more? I have very fond memories of lying on my mattress on the floor in my cockroach invested flat in Durban, eating brown rice w/peri-peri sauce and playing Myst III: Exile. Those were the days.

I wondered why my boss was funneling stuff onto my desk this morning, and why the phone kept ringing… Here we go: FCC OKs Cingular bid for AT&T Commission joins Justice Department in giving OK for $41 billion cellular deal. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday it has conditionally approved Cingular

Yet another reason I love my MA school – I had noticed that one of the buff boxing women at my MA school, Ray – who I was partnered with once and mentioned in a post a couple months ago – had started wearing her shirt untucked during class. This was a month or so

1) Go to google.com 2) Type in: weapons of mass destruction 3) Hit the “I’m feeling lucky” button, NOT the “Google search” 4) Read the “error message” carefully. Someone at Google (UK) has a sense of humor.

So, one of our small office number is now off to Iraq. He’s signed out and packed up and he’ll be getting on a plane Thursday. He’ll be overseeing the construction of cell phone towers. Need I mention that people like Blaine and Yellow don’t believe he’s qualified to do this? Hell, who cares, right?

I admit it: I got a bit teary-eyed. That alone tells you just how freaked out I am at another 4 years of international disaster and homeland fascism. Check it out. via Jenn.

Rolled out of bed at 7:30am on Saturday, ready to dress, shower, do some free weights, and head downtown for pilates followed by local writing jam session. Stumbled into the kitchen and realized I really, really, didn’t want to do anything at all. Stayed home, watched adventure movies, did some rewriting of what I’d done