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i gotta joke!
question:
whatya do when you’re at the dog park and a guy wearing a michael vick jersey walks in with a pit bull?
answer:
you take your dachshund and go home!
i guess it’s not that funny, but it’s true.
played some live music over at the director of the university writing program’s house last night. this [...]

no this is not the onion. this is from the seattle times. thank you, nader. i can now die a happy man. how did you ever find this?
Saturday, July 16, 2005 – Page updated at 12:00 AM
By Jennifer Sullivan
Seattle Times staff reporter
ENUMCLAW — Authorities are reviewing hundreds of hours of videotapes [...]

she’s been on the trail for several weeks. she has had very little off the cuff interaction with the press (by very little i mean, like, none). she made a comment in her first interview that alaska’s physical proximity to russia gave her foreign policy experience. this comment raised eyebrows, got [...]

our entire economy is in danger.
so says jr. bush, three months before he leaves the flaming bag of dog shit called america on the front stoop of either john mccain or barack obama.
whatever party you’re for, you’ve got to feel empathy for the poor s.o.b. who inherits this calamity.
it’s kind of [...]

i wrote a poem for lefty today. i think it’s a haiku …
i love you even
when you smell like a shit pile
in the tub right now
speaking of really excellent poetry (were we?), has everyone checked out my friend chicago mel’s blog?
you can find it over there -> in the blog roll. [...]

this was a bad week. not a bad week like i had poison ivy really bad or we had a hurricane. nothing that bad. just more of your traditionally standard fare shit week. loss of focus, overwhelming fatigue, frustration, self-pity, loneliness … the good ole blues.
a blues list:
1. i saw [...]

dr. carl freedman, marxist, shared with us recently a story about george will, the famous conservative columnist, who has for years been warning this nation about a crucial problem in how its particular version of capitalism functions. not a free market system in any sense of the word, american capitalism – mr. will contends [...]

while cheering on the collapse of capitalism today, i stumbled upon this of clip of the stern show’s own sal the stockbroker and richard christy on cnn; a performative homosexual act on live bourgeois television seemed to suit the spirit of the times. this is also a keen variation on the ole live microphone baba [...]

well, nobody said it was easy trying to make it out of the midwest.
david foster wallace died tonight after he decided to tie a rope around his neck and jump.
david taught at illinois state university when i was there, but i didn’t know that at the time. i was smoking a lot of thai [...]

before …

after …

much better, eh?
now to paint the bedrooms. but at least i can have people over now, since i won’t have to hand them a shovel and point them towards the backyard when nature calls.
indoor plumbing … so 19th century. christ, the romans had indoor plumbing. here i am [...]