on Friday, as Alek and i were driving back to his place, a memory suddenly surfaced, something i hadn’t thought about for a long time. i had been thinking about leaving, since i was flying back east the next morning.
“you know,” i said, “i don’t know what made me think of this, but during the […]
the last few entries have been terribly depressing. i apologize for that.
well, stoke the fires of self-righteousness, people, because i am about to get on my WTF soapbox. last night was my first night of my schedule diet - that is, i am going to sleep and getting up at the same time every day. […]
so, the election.
right after they called it for Obama, i typed this email to my friend Al:
“you know, every time i think of the 2004 presidential election, i think of you, and how passionate you were and how much you invested in it and how devastated and disappointed you were when Bush was re-elected.
i hope […]
i promised more on the election, so this is about that, albeit somewhat indirectly. the joy that many of my friends and aquaintances experienced last Tuesday night was tempered somewhat by the passage of Prop 8 in California. it’s sad and bittersweet that, on a night where it felt like so much […]
which is what i wrote to Malcolm tonight, my American-Canadian-South African friend. i hope you’ll consider staying now, my love.
well, hell has officially frozen over, because i am about to give mad props to, believe it or not, Paris Hilton:
in one fell swoop, Paris Hilton has gone from a general waste of space to earning my grudging respect, a respect along the lines of Pam Anderson and Dolly Parton (i.e., fully […]
west center city somewhere, originally uploaded by m. ravian.
Yeah, I’m from the illest part of the Western Hemisphere
So if you into sight seein don’t visit there
It’s somewhere between Jersey and Delaware
Philly never scared and them niggaz ain’t timid there
Them young triggers lose lives by the minute there
It might start but the fight never finish there
They […]
i wrote this on July 31st, 2004:
“i had read an article on Barack Obama in the Times a couple days before his Tuesday night speech. the twist of events that will lead to his almost inevitable win in the Senate was fascinating, as was his background: son of a white American mother and a […]
you know, it just figures, the ONE time in my lifetime that the Pennsylvania presidential primary actually matters in the scheme of the election, of course i am not living in Pennsylvania.
“Guess what!” my mom says on the phone to me yesterday. “Barack Obama went to church on Eighth Street in Lebanon today!”
gah. it hurts […]
“at this point, he needs a virgin mary on toast miracle.”
-my dad, on the state of the Bush administration