Yearly Archives: 2005

Dec29

13 Things I’ll do in 2006

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13 Things I’ll do in 2006

Thirteen Things I’ll do in 2006
1. Save money to…
2. …spend 5 weeks in the Mediterranean.
3. meditate
4. Visit my mom more often.
5. Move to a better apartment.
6. Play my djembe in drum circles at least once a month.
7. Delegate at work.
8. Prevent hangovers.
9. Turn 31 without whining.
10. Eat lots of sushi (and avoid shrimp like the plague).
11. Bring lunch to work at least 3x per week.
12. Take my vitamins.
13. Potlucks, potlucks, potlucks.

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Aug28

wander

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wander

shallow seas and far off suns
perhaps the world has come undone
wandering on to walk off stars
time and senses well past mars
cosmic holiday
in a blue-green bay
laugh and live; frolic and play
then wander on from yesterday

Aug28

Written History

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Written History

I saw a little girl in a vision on a moonlit night
She walked along so innocent, believing in what was right
The beauty of a gentle flower, the grace of God’s blessed powers
People kind and genuine
No thoughts of hate no thoughts of sin

Then the apple fell from the tree
Pandora’s box no mystery
All men accursed, all women weak
That’s the written history

Aug27

A RaNT for the Red States

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A RaNT for the Red States

I’d like to write a letter to the men working for peace over there. To the boys and dads.

I don’t know who you are. You are Iraqi, you are American, you are European. You are men who may never meet. You are men who have been best friends since you laid eyes on eachother. You are men who see hope and trust in the eyes of another. You are men who love to smile and laugh from your guts at things that are funnier than anything you have heard. You are men who long for the arms of your loved ones as they long for you. Your eyes are brown and blue and green. You are not so different, yet you will never understand each other.

This war thing. I’s crazy. You fight for eachother. You fight for freedom. You fight for God and Country.

I don’t know what that means. I want to fight for you. I want to stand up and scream that HOW DARE THE BEST OUR GOVERNMENT CAN DO IS HAVE HALLIBURTON FEED YOU IN A TARP TENT AND TELL YOU THAT WE’RE WINNING?? Hello, foreign policy anyone????

To tell you the truth, I didn’t want this war. I feared the dirty things that war drives people to the torture, the split-second-and-maybe-its-wrong-in-hindsight-life-and-death decisions. The carnage, the mental fracture. IT IS WAR. My generation did not need to be REMINDED of what war REALLY is. We have TV. We have Spielberg. We have Band of Brothers. We do not need to send our brethren through this horrid march to mental anguish and physical torture.

I was mad about it THEN, like in 2000! I did not trust their judgment then. BUT I TELL YOU I AM MAD AS HELL THAT THEY ARE NOT BEING MORE VIGILANT IN PROTECTING THE LIVES OF OUR SOLDIERS AND DEFINING BETTER FOREIGN POLICY!

Hey, you red states —— you wanted this. Is this really what you want? Because, if it’s not, then now is YOUR time to take a damn stand to ensure that this war goes some way that YOU ALL wanted to go. You don’t have “us” to rally against, because we had our shot. The bully pulpit won. Confuckagratulations. Congratufuckenlations.

IF YOU VOTED RED, THEN THIS SHIT IS ALL YOURS. OUR blue HANDS ARE TIED, OUR BACKS ARE UP AGAINST THE WALL AND WE WILL JUST RETREAT INTO OUR SECULAR VODOO SEX CULTS AND LET YOU ALL TAKE THE CASUALITIES OF WAR WHILE WE WALLOW IN THE PROFIT-TAKING OF UNDER-VALUED YOUTH.

SEE YOU ON THE MOUNTAIN, BEE-YATCH. (And God bless our troops! I hope you’re home soon!!)

Aug14

homonyms

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homonyms

A rock is worth more than a man
And I’m doing all that I can
A gun is worth more than a boy
So people we have to employ
The faith of your mother
The strength of your father
The hope and the love and the joy of your daughter
Iraq is a place on earth
And some people were fated by birth

Aug11

War (by Bob Marley)

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War (by Bob Marley)



Bob Marley
War

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior
And another Inferior
Is finally
And permanently
Discredited
And abandoned -
Everywhere is war -
Me say war.

That until there no longer
First class and second class citizens of any nation
Until the colour of a man’s skin
Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes -
Me say war.

That until the basic human rights
Are equally guaranteed to all,
Without regard to race -
Dis a war.

That until that day
The dream of lasting peace,
World citizenship
Rule of international morality
Will remain in but a fleeting illusion to be pursued,
But never attained -
Now everywhere is war – war.

And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes that hold our brothers in Angola,
In Mozambique,
South Africa
Sub-human bondage
Have been toppled,
Utterly destroyed -
Well, everywhere is war -
Me say war.

War in the east,
War in the west,
War up north,
War down south -
War – war -
Rumours of war.
And until that day,
The African continent
Will not know peace,
We Africans will fight – we find it necessary -
And we know we shall win
As we are confident

In the victory
Of good over evil -
Good over evil, yeah!
Good over evil -
Good over evil, yeah!
Good over evil -
Good over evil, yeah! /fadeout/