Urban Honking

Despite his fairly indiscriminate love for all things emo, the most beloved of all my ex-husbands left me high and dry for the Coheed & Cambria show last night, grousing, “they’re like retarded emo kids who just started smoking pot and listening to Rush,” and that it’s pretty easy to get famous when your crowd’s […]

This came in the mailbox, today. I was rooting for Carol, even willing to campaign for her, though wavering. Go… Kucinich? (Is he the first vegan presidential candidate, at least?) CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN WITHDRAWS FROM PRESIDENTIAL RACE AND ENDORSES HOWARD DEAN Statement of Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun I want to thank everybody for your kindness […]

Comments as debate rules. Here are some articles supporting the Invasion of Privacy theory RE: CAPPS II, the passenger risk-assessment givin’ it all up at the airport thing. I think the main issue is that, unlike a driver’s license, the NSA is keeping tabs on WHERE you are flying (collected from airlines upon ticket purchase) […]

Last month’s People magazine has, of course, the Reagans on its cover, discussing the HBO protective gov’t brouhaha and delicately mourning the Alzheimer’s that has crippled Ron and martyred Nancy for changing her life to care for him. ANYWAY, while this is sad and all, I’ve been reflecting on the “LEGACY” the Reagan presidency left […]

This is funny.

Today’s “WHAT THE FUCKIN SHIT” award winners: the government is compiling a database of all travelers; extra-compliant subjects will be presented with the ultimate American reward: convenience. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is happy to press forth in blissful ignorance about the treatment of foreign detainees since 9/11.

My mom, apart from being my mom, is also kind of my ongoing sociology experiment–a window into the mind of a 68-year-old, high-school-educated politically conservative woman, who doesn’t use the internet. Her primary news sources are Fox News Network, and the Wyoming Eagle-Tribune. It is through her that I am able to understand a certain […]

There are three inches of snow on the ground in Portland, and the teevee news is acting as though it is a national disaster. An anchor, on location at a truck stop in Troutdale, where thousands of truck drivers are banding together as one against this hellacious tragedy, has just informed us in a breathless, […]

And oh yeah: Here are my Pazz & Jop votes. They are both personal and political. I do not give a fuck, and I think the point system is capitalistic though I gave Ellen 11 points and Nice Nice 9 points based on–nothing really, other than Oscar Wilde throwing me auctioneer shade. My canon is […]

Some best concerts of 2003: * BPitch Control Party at Love Parade: Ellen Allien /MIA/ Sascha Funke / DJ Feadz at WMF in Berlin One reason being: minimal techno sounds like being born after five hours of trance–like being born from the deepest womb of hell. Paul Van Dyk had a float on the Alexanderplatz […]