kaos

Sun - June 4, 2006

commitment

and what could be more chaotic?

okay so i popped the question and ran said yes and i guess sometime near the end of '07 or the start of '08 she'll be getting a new last name and we'll be hauling rowan and a babysitter off to someplace sunny for a week...

woo hoo!

Posted at 11:39 PM

Tue - February 22, 2005

full moon in san francisco

not necessarily the best time to travel

missed the connector to oakland due to late arrival in dallas...full moon or the curse of busch country...and ended up at san francisco international with a cab voucher and a very friendly cabbie who informed us that his car uses compressed natural gas..."and that's good because then we won't have to fight for oil"...so now we're sitting at a small one-pump filling station in san francisco, watching the cabbie fill it up with cng , and then zip we're on our way to the bay bridge heading to oakland airport to pick up our rental (non cng unfortunately i'm sure) and our luggage...then it's six days in the bay area with troy and kimberly and orwell. woo hoo!

Posted at 11:29 PM

Tue - February 1, 2005

time for a new blogging program?

is it?

well...wewell...wwell...well..well.wellwelwew

Posted at 07:20 PM

Wed - January 5, 2005

follow the money

is your tsunami donation getting to the people who really need it? fraser helps you sort it out...

Channel Four TV has reported how poor Tsunami victims - effectively seafaring villagers on the coastland in Thailand - had not received aid because rich tourists were being given preferential treatment. This is even more unacceptable given that western governments are already making efforts to help citizens in their own areas leaving poor people with little or no assistance.

In this instance, it would be best to support organisations like Medecins San Frontieres who make a point of going into all areas and ensure everyone receives fair and equal treatment.

http://www.msf.org/donations/index.cfm

As a main coordinator of the relief effort there and many other places in the world, the International Committee of the Red Cross/Red Crescent is also a very good recipient for such a donation.

http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList2/Help_the_ICRC?OpenDocument
up!

Posted at 02:38 PM

Wed - December 22, 2004

back online

whew...what a week

okay...so we are moved to roslindale, and finally back online with comcast after foolishly attempting to go with rcn...admittedly, it may have been the tail end of the mercury retrograde that foiled it all...we even had trouble getting going with comcast...but the difference between comcast tech support and rcn tech support is night and day...let's just say that was the deal breaker...both of the install guys were cool...now if only we could get the phone to work...

Posted at 02:45 PM

Thu - November 4, 2004

Are You Sure The Election Was Real?

food for thought from lorenzo hagerty ...building strong bodies 23 ways

Maybe the reason I'm questioning whether the recent election was real is
that (in order to keep some semblance of sanity) I've restricted my
television news input to a single program. Yes, the only TV news I trust is
Jon Stewart's fake news on The Daily Show.

What I like best about that show is the fact that the news, as presented by
Stewart and his team of highly trained investigative reporters, seems so
real. When he shows those funny clips of Bush saying something that he
later denies ever having said, I actually believe he caught Bush lying. But
then Jon laughs and says it's just fake news.

With input like that, you can see how it would be natural for me to think
that the 2004 presidential "election" was not an election at all, but was a
pre-scripted event. Before I explain what I mean by this, let me make it
absolutely clear that this is a fake news story. No one could possibly
believe it is true because that would involve one of those insane
conspiracy theories, and intelligent people are forbidden by natural law
from believing anything that smacks of a conspiracy, because we all know
that conspiracies don't really exist. Just because the facts happen to fit
this story doesn't mean it's real. So relax and enjoy my little fantasy.

Many years ago, I was a political activist engaged in the issue of the live
POWs we left behind in Viet Nam. As those of you who were also involved
know, the issue had almost gained enough momentum to get national attention
when Kerry and McCain buried it in their disgraceful Senate committee
hearings. At the time, many Viet Nam veterans and their families concluded
that neither Kerry or McCain could ever be trusted again. It had become
obvious that they must be reporting to some higher authority than the US
Constitution.

Flash forward to 2003. A hick governor from a small state is all of a
sudden whipping up a major anti-war movement and has figured out how to
leverage the Internet to overpower the other contenders for the top spot on
the Democratic ticket. At the same time, the dark forces in our government
hadn't noticed the digital revolution until it was too late, and now
pictures of Americans torturing Iraqi citizens flooded the Net. For a
moment there, it began to look like the Capitalist Elite were losing
control of the political situation.

Suddenly, as if a switch had been thrown in the back corner of a dark
cellar somewhere, the Corporate-Controlled Media, as if in lock-step,
turned on Howard Dean and practically anointed John Kerry. Something struck
me about that as being just a bit too well-orchestrated to have happened so
quickly and smoothly. Then I recalled that over a year before the first
primary, several party insiders told me that Kerry, without any doubt, was
going to be the Democratic Party candidate in 2004. Apparently, as early as
January 2001 the fix was in for Kerry. At least that is the story I heard.

NOW REMEMBER, this is a fake story. So it's OK to suspend your disbelief
for a while, just for the fun of it.

Now comes the good part. We hold an election, and our two candidates, the
two very best men our nation has to offer, just happen to be very rich
white men from powerful establishment families. They both just happen (this
is surely a coincidence) to be alumni of the same elite Eastern university
and to have been in the same super-secret, dark-edged society where they
swore blood oaths to one another, oaths they are unwilling to disclose to
the American public. While all of this is actual fact, let's be honest
here. Maybe this secret society oath they swore was nothing more sinister
than, "I'll be your friend if you'll be mine." Maybe they won't disclose
their secret pledge simply because it sounds too goofy. That's a
possibility too, but it doesn't really change the story much.

The Big Day finally arrives, and the Capitalist Elite aren't worried at
all. After all, it's going to be a Skull n Bones victory one way or the
other. However, Bonesmen follow their own code of honor, one that includes
the tenet, "If you broke it, you've got to fix it." So, as a matter of
honor, Bush has no choice but to serve another four years in a desperate
attempt to straighten out the mess he's made of the world. And Kerry does
his part by running an inept campaign to help Bush win. For example, Kerry
completely ignored the immense amount of energy available from the anti-war
movement. It was quite convenient for his fellow Bonesman, however, that
Kerry almost single-handedly neutered the rapidly growing band of anti-war
activists that Howard Dean had courted.

Still, We the People wanted change so desperately that we were even willing
to accept Kerry as a stop-gap measure. Now Kerry was in real trouble. How
could he let Bush remain in power if he got too many votes? Granted, he was
the Corporate Elite's backup man, but they were far better off with the
more simple-minded Bush to push around. Kerry knew that the Democrats would
be thinking about the 2000 election, the one that was stolen through the
massive vote fraud conducted by officials of the state of Florida. So,
taking his cue from Karl Rove's Big Lie propaganda machine, late on
election night Kerry sent young John Edwards out to announce that the fight
wasn't over until every last vote was counted. Considering the fact that a
significant amount of voting fraud had already been reported, the nation
went to bed feeling secure in the knowledge that this time the Democrats
wouldn't fold, and that the election would be fair. No one would have to go
out and riot in the streets the next morning. Everyone relaxed.

What a shock it was then to awaken to the news that the Bush people had
already declared Bush the winner, and that John Kerry was about to make a
concession speech. HUH? Did they really count every vote like they
promised? What about the 250,000 votes in Ohio that still hadn't been
counted? That was almost twice the size of the current margin in Ohio.
There didn't even need to be a recount or a court fight. All Kerry had to
do was to simply wait until all the votes were counted. Isn't that what
Edwards had promised just a few hours earlier? Instead, Kerry simply
folded, gave up, quit.

OK, now remember, things couldn't have actually happened this way. It's
simply an interesting series of coincidences that make the facts fit this
story so well. If you try, I'm sure you can come up with even better
stories about what just happened. But please, don't tell me that the recent
election was real. No story should be that sad.

Other opinions by Lorenzo Hagerty
can be found at:
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Email: hagerty@matrixmasters.com

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Posted at 11:27 PM

Sun - October 31, 2004

eminem moshes against bush

calling a liar a liar

it's a shiver fest, a goose bump pump...eminem shouts to get out the vote...

Posted at 08:05 PM

Thu - October 21, 2004

dnc over rnc

next stop mass vs. tex?

so the sox took the yanks...huh...and boston/dnc over new york/rnc...huh...we'll see how mythinc the series is going to be tomorrow...and if it's texas...well...go mass!

Posted at 12:24 AM

Thu - September 16, 2004

slimy grit

what's up with this?

why are 95% of the google hits for "slimy grit" porn sites?

Posted at 01:41 AM

Wed - September 8, 2004

the final fate of all black magicians

good advices from uncle aleister

This (incidently) is the final fate of all black magicians, to be torn piecemeal, for lack of the love which grows by giving itself to the beloved, again and again, until its "I" is continuous with existence itself. "Whoso loveth his life shall lose it" is the corresponding scriptural phrase.

page 155, Moonchild , published 1929, written 1917.

Posted at 03:51 PM

Wed - August 25, 2004

blog rules

you know you are getting a life when you hardly have time to blog.

yep.

Posted at 10:02 PM

Thu - August 5, 2004

the thinking president

i've been wondering where all these shit heads come from!

SAVE THE UNBORN FAECES!
July 20 -- NEWSWEEK reports that George W. Bush, appearing before a right-to-life rally in Tampa, Florida, on June 17, stated: "We must always remember that all human beings begin life as a faeces. A faeces is a living being in the eyes of God, who has endowed that faeces with all of the rights and God-given blessings of any other human being." Bush repeated his error at least a dozen times, before realizing that he had used the word 'faeces" when he meant to say "foetus." ...
UP!

Posted at 10:32 PM

23 skidoo

an interesting origin theory

seems that when the flat iron building, at 20 stories the worlds first skyscraper, was first built at 23rd street and 5th avenue in nyc crowds of men would gather around to watch the effect of wind zephyrs at the buildings entrance...upon women's dresses! the crowds became a nuisance so police were dispatched daily to disperse the crowds, being assigned with the phrase "23 skidoo". works for me...

Posted at 02:43 PM

Thu - June 10, 2004

yardsale

it's that time of year!

so then, it's time to plug in nick cave and help ran make this yard sale thing happen. i'll bee back soon, providing i survive this process. perhaps it's time for the yoga of beer?

Posted at 02:00 PM

Tue - June 8, 2004

plumbing

is it evil to find humor in the misfortune of another?

so we've had a stopped drain in the bathroom sink for a week now, and the t bros guy came by to clean it up...i wasn't home at the time, but randi said that when he opened up the trap and saw what was clogging the drain he immediately lost whatever he had eaten for breakfast. was the drain really that nasty? or had the plumber been out for a few rounds too many the night before?

Posted at 06:15 PM