My Not-So-Secret Obsession With a Foreigner
So some of you know my affinity for crap rock from the '70s... Well I seem to have a special affinity for the song Hot-Blooded by Foreigner.
It was the song I sang at Arlene's Grocery PMK (AKA the world championship of karaoke)
I made up this song while temping at Mailboxes Etc:
Making Copies! Check it and see!
Thus far I've made - one hundred and three!
Today I wrote the following email:
To: Di
From: Michael
Subject: Hot-Blooded!
Check it and see!
Are we driving - down to DC?
Come Di, what time should we leave?
I'm hot-blooded! Hot-blooded!
Of course we're now taking the bus down to DC - no car.
mike sold out at - 10:43
1.22.2004
Still Got It!
Walter Cronkite said (tongue-in-cheek): "Never before in the history of this nation, has a president of the United States taken such a firm stand, as he did tonight, against... gonorrhea."
From Boldface Names
mike sold out at - 14:28
1.21.2004
Shiver Me Voters!
So many of you are wondering, why did Howard Dean get really pumped up and red-faced and say "we're going to take back the white house! YARRRRRRRRRGH!"
It is clearly to woo over the ever important Pirate Vote. Did you know that privateering is the fastest growing sector of the economy? That there will be more pirates in the U.S. than all white people by the year 2050?
This was well thought-out, long-term political strategy that will only serve to pay off big in future elections. In future debates, candidates will race to beat the other to be the first to utter "YARRRRGH!" in public addresses. A jolly roger in every school! A talking parrot in every classroom! A gang plank in every home! YARRRRRGHGHGHG!
mike sold out at - 14:03
1.20.2004
Homoeroticism in the White House?
You really just need to read this. It speaks for itself
mike sold out at - 15:29
The Grits-Picante Axis
While I still really like Dean and will continue to work for the local organization, Dino's proposition of an Edwards-Richardson ticket is the surest way to beat Bush. Edwards has been looking better and better over the past few months and he's the only candidate who really talks about class as a factor in American life as part of his stump speech.
mike sold out at - 14:13
1.18.2004
Happy MLK Day Everyone!
The Onion: I'll Have You Know I Have Several Black Friendsters
mike sold out at - 00:55
1.17.2004
Damn You Sink!
Our sink in the apartment is completely clogged and I've tried everything- draining the trap, snaking the pipes, disassembling the pipes, plunging the sink, pouring boiling water in the sink- everything. I don't want to use liquid plumber, because last time we did that, instead of clearing the clog, it made a hole in the pipes under the sink. I am at the end of my amateur plumbing rope. rrrrrrr.
mike sold out at - 13:11
I figured Vermin Supreme would have gotten a better showing than 69 votes in the DC Primary.
mike sold out at - 00:00
1.13.2004
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass) shared with reporters what he described as a "private moment" with Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) as he campaigned Saturday in Iowa with the Democratic presidential candidate:
Kennedy: John, did you ever think when you were a young man that you would grow up to be a hero in Vietnam, get elected to the United States Senate and be a candidate for the presidency of the United States, a winning candidate?
Kerry: No- boy, am I lucky. When you were young, did you ever think that you would grow up to be the uncle-in-law of an Austrian-bodybuilder Republican governor of the state of Cauli-fooor-nia?
Kennedy: No, but aren't I lucky?
From WPost
mike sold out at - 14:03
1.12.2004
I'm not alone here:
39% See Bias in Campaign Reporting
and some other required Word Up reading: you should read a bit about this fellow Grover Norquist who has compared federal taxes to the "morality of the Holocaust" on a Fresh Air interview.
mike sold out at - 00:13
1.10.2004
Schnikies!
I just got a ride back to Brooklyn with a cabbie who not only knew the way back to Greenpoint, he grew up in Greenpoint and lived in the house next door to me! He told me a bunch of stories how Greenpoint used to have the highest number of bars per square mile in the city. Crazy world.
Also it is 3 degrees out. Damn.
mike sold out at - 02:20
1.07.2004
Going to Jail
I had the opportunity yesterday to visit Br0nx Criminal C0urt, including the holding cells, which was cool. One of the judges had hung in his chambers a poster of common gang signs in NYC. In all, though, it may be one of the most depressing buildings in the city.
In other news, this from a reporter hosting a webchat on washingtonpost.com:
It's quite interesting that Iraq's "Currently Accurate, Complete and Final Disclosure" of December 2002 - some 12,000 or so pages on compact disk - has not been made public. I have the portion of it relating to nuclear programs, which alone is seven volumes and 2,000 pages.
Iraq's declarations do often name names and companies that supplied its programs. It's much to simple to say this or that company "sold them WMD"; in general, the sales were of dual use materials that could be used for weapons or for legitimate work, but which should have been closely watched.
Some of them were American. Many others were in Europe and the FSU. Stay tuned.
yes... stay tuned indeed. this will be very interesting when it breaks.
mike sold out at - 14:28
1.05.2004
Nerdy Interlude
Just what I've been saying: Bill Richardson for Veep. The one category they don't discuss here that is relevant is "Picante," in which he scores a 2 out of 3, for being from Nuevo Mexico.
Wait... there's a new Mexico?
mike sold out at - 22:24
1.04.2004
A Blast from the Past
From the Freedm@n-Schn@pp family archives, comes: "Letters My Sister Wrote to the Tooth Fairy"
In this one, she announces a pending trip and some pecuniary difficulties:
Here she expresses frustration with the tooth fairy's forgetfulness:
And my personal favorite (n.b. the "GEMS Conference" referenced here is a local career fair in Reston for girls in elementary school):
