Crapcrapcrapcrapcrap! And happy birthday. Dammit.

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I’ve been given the honor of hosting an Op-Ed piece from a colleague of a colleague. Harold Jaffe: Safeguarding Muslims’ Civil Liberties. Harold Jaffe can also be found in places like www.jaffeantijaffe.com and as the editor of San Diego State University’s Fiction International. I think it’s a great piece of writing, and certainly the message […]

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Well, cool! This guy just bought the house across the street from me. The movie business seems to be following me around (perhaps mocking me for my failed attempt to break into it). Anyway, nice guy. Young, clean-cut, friendly–just the kind of spirit we like to break around here. Mwahahahaha! Seriously, though, I sense he’ll […]

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The Onion is back. Rejoice. (Thanks, Ari!) Two great stories: God Angrily Clarifies ‘Don’t Kill’ Rule and Hijackers Surprised to Find Selves in Hell: ‘We Expected Eternal Paradise For This,’ Say Suicide Bombers.
Night before last, some apparently idealistic youngsters hit this side of town with a can of black spray paint. “An eye for an […]

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My father-in-law is visiting. This is the first time we’ve seen him in just over three years. Julien was almost a year old when he came to visit us in Albuquerque. Then we moved. And he moved, too, from Gallup to Casa Grande, Arizona. So basically, we split further away from each other. In the […]

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Peter Murphy once sang, Death is the surname of sleep / But the surname unknown to us / Sleep is the daily end of life / A small exercise in death / which is its sister / but not every brother and sister / are equally close. “Shy” from the album Deep.
Yesterday morning, I overheard […]

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I apologize for my earlier hysteria. I was a little punch-drunk, but I’m much more level-headed right now, and moreover I fully comprehend the absurdity in my assumption that that second man was a terrorist. Anyway, here’s a quick toast to the level-headed: ZNet.

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I think my house is being cased. I was sitting at my computer this morning, reading my daily reads, when I heard a metal thunk! outside. At first, I thought Ari had returned home. Her dad is visiting from Arizona right now and she took him to work with her this morning. I knew she […]

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Here is a list of some words that I believe are being waaaaaayyyy overused right now. By Bush: “evil-doer” (followed closely by “punish”). In weblogs: “jingoistic.” By all news commentators: “New kind of war.” By Hardball host Chris Matthews: “beachhead.”
Here is a list of some words that I believe are not being used enough […]

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So I was originally just going to post links here today and get all melodramatic and shit and say that “I don’t have anything nice to say.” But the majority of my links were to Middle Eastern sites which now give me a Server Not Found error. Hmmmm. Anyway, here are two that I can […]

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