the seattle times has a pretty shoddy article about kennewick, bush country, but that fact that it’s poorly written doesn’t make me any less sympathetic to the people portrayed in it. i lived in the tri-cities! with people that said stuff like this!

Character is what they like about George Bush. “He’s honest and forthright,” she said. “My word for Kerry is that he’s a gigolo. He’s got this suave demeanor like he can look you in the eye and lie.”

kerry is a gigolo! kerry is a fucking gigolo! what the hell is that supposed to mean?! honesty and forthrightedness, man, this article is just making people look damned ignorant.

At the Ennis home, traditional values mean that Rick Ennis, a millwright at the Hanford nuclear reservation, is head of the household. And this household is voting for George Bush…

The Ennises are Christians, regularly attending the Cathedral of Joy, a nondenominational church in nearby Richland. Rick Ennis likes Bush’s stands on abortion and gay marriage. He believes in hard work, having no time for people begging on street corners.

no time to beg on street corners, but plenty of time to hate gays and tell women what they should and shouldn’t be doing. oh, the joys of “traditional” households.

Brower pays attention to the headlines. He thinks Iraq should have been invaded sooner. He doesn’t trust Kerry because “Kerry is going to trust the French, the Germans, everybody who doesn’t like us.”…

“Kids today, they don’t work for anything. They have $80 shoes, driving new cars, a cellphone, pager, computers,” said Brower. “What’s a kid doing with that kind of stuff?”

if you had a cellphone, why would you need a pager, especially when your $80 shoes are walking you to your brand new car with a computer in it that just does “bad” stuff all day long. you don’t need that stuff, why do you have it?! here, play with this stick so you can grow up to believe that everything new is anathema to our society, including foreign countries! i don’t care if we invaded iraq already, invade iraq again! put those kids and their fancy gadgets in tikrit so they can do something useful for a change, like killing foreigners!

how bloody infuriating.

hahaha, this shit is hilarious. my brother at critical mass in the city, and mama bernstein. which is which?

i’ve been researching stuff while filling out my absentee ballot for washington state. i’m working on a cheat sheet for washington voters that don’t have the time to read about the issues; i’ll finish this weekend and have it ready for your perusal monday morning so that on tuesday you can head out an informed voter on state issues.

really, i’m just using my huge internet presence to sway the vote so that washington is the way i want it to be. isn’t that what the internet is for?

i’ve finished a cover letter, and need someone to look at it and make sure it’s not too stupid. if you wanna look, drop a comment, please.

goddamnit. i’ve had 10 or so comments today that were all comment-spam. it seems like they’re getting smarter about getting past mt-blacklist, using html-mark up in the comments so that mt-blacklist doesn’t see that this is comment-spam. i might have to take out html in the comments to thwart this.

so the red sox won. it seems a little anti-climactic now that baseball is over for the season and the “curse” is gone. jesus, if i see one more headline with a pun on derek lowe’s name or references to the “curse” i’m gonna poke my friggin’ eye balls out. manny got the mvp, which was far and away an atrocity when curt schilling was pushing balls past those suckas at the plate. but that’s offense-centric ball for you. he certainly didn’t earn the mvp for his defense.

i’ve been slaving away at the computer trying to get a cover letter done, which is, as everyone knows, awfully tiring and tedious and can bring you to the depths of despair every time you look at that blank page. i’ve barely got two sentences done, and then i probably won’t even stick with those when it comes down to re-writing the final draft. boo cover letters!

anyone think of anything good to be for halloween? speaking of, i’m playing a show in kent on saturday. email me for directions.

errol morris, the exceptional documentarian responsible for the thin blue line and the fog of war, has created political switch ads, a set of ads of several people that voted republican in 2000 but are voting for john kerry this year.

there’s a ton of them; downloadable ads, posters, and movies, all on errol morris’ site.

i’ve spent the majority of the day trying to get myself to finish up my resume, but monkey lured me into taking a nap. two hours later, nothing is done. i hate having to start getting back into Real World Stuff.

i distinctly remember, though i guess i can’t prove it unless someone speaks up, saying to someone that if there were any team in the history of baseball that would be able to pull off a 3-0 comeback, it would be this year’s red sox. schilling, ortiz, and damon will go down in the history books as the players that broke the curse. i don’t even believe in the curse, but some people think that garciaparra being traded was the link. manny was pretty much useless, and if i hadn’t seen him fuck up fielding before, i’d say it seemed like he flubbed some balls on purpose out there because he didn’t want to upset his hometown. putting pedro in there in the 7th (with a 5-run lead?!) seemed to be more an exorcising of demons than out of necessity. any other game and you’ll see timlin in earlier, but i guess this was anything BUT any other game. i’m hoping that the team is not too tired for the WS.

i was at the college inn last night, by my lonesome and 35 other raving lunatic un-yankee fans (the red sox fans were few and far between) cheering like we were at the game itself. people were annoying, getting nervous (it’s a fucking blowout!) and booing calls like the game hinged on them (this wasn’t game 6). there was some dude yelling The Dumbest Things Ever all night long, but i was stuck in the hallway listening to it so at least it wasn’t in my ear. i’m pretty happy that the sox won. i’m also pretty happy to be back in seattle.

http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2421595&nav=168XRvNe

jason tipped me off on jon stewart’s appearance on crossfire, where he called that asshole with the bowtie a dick. if the show actually had real debate (notice how bowtie dude never actually gives a valid argument or even simple defense on his show) jon stewart would be crowned, hands-down, the winner. i film has the whole thing, it’s called jon stewart’s brutal exchange with cnn host.

i didn’t pay as much attention to the debates last night as much as i paid attention to the yankees/red sox game. i caught glimpses of the debates and thought it was pretty damn boring, same sound bites, same arguments, same smirks, same nods, same accusations, same everything. the sox lost again, which sucks. i want the bride to come as much as cossette.

i know i’ve probably said this before, but the cosby show could quite possibly the best sit-com ever. i’m noticing, that here in rohnert park rather than anywhere else i’ve watched daytime television, there’s an inordinate number of personal injury lawyer commercials and tech school commercials. this makes me think of vern fonk, who obviously has the personal injury market cornered in seattle.

i washed my car, dropped of some used motor oil, got some groceries and came back home before 1 today. when i got out of the car, “cinnamon” by the long winters was playing in my car. when i got inside, “cinnamon” continued to play on kexp on my computer. crazy.

i just finished writing a letter to the fcc regarding the documentary “stolen honor” that’s going to be shown across the country on sinclair stations. the documentary is being shown on PUBLIC airwaves, free of charge. who owns sinclair? actually the question is who does sinclair own? sinclair owns the largest amount of local stations in the US and have pushed for media consolidation, a big agenda of the bush administration, in order to own more and more television stations. can you say “conflict of interest?” anyways, i’m about to watch “the day after tomorrow” so go on over to freepress.net/sinclair and learn more about yourself, and send a letter to the fcc, call your sinclair affiliate, do something.

DO SOMETHING. me? i’m gonna watch global warming destroy the earth.

well, that curse didn’t help at all, did it? anyways, here’s something i found over at chris’s, spliced from lots of footage from the rnc: repetition.

i just have to make this official: curse on mussina and the yankees! go red sox.

the other night over dinner i asked my dad why he’s voting for bush. arguing ensued for the next 45 minutes or so, and it basically came down to personal matters, my dad got burned by carter when he was in office, and hasn’t voted democrat since. the problem with the vote is that he’s voting completely on intangibles, he’s not as much voting for bush as he is NOT voting for kerry. and that’s all based on intangible things, like he doesn’t “trust” kerry not to raise taxes on the middle class, or he doesn’t “think” that kerry will be a “good leader” for the country. he said some other really, really bad stuff, and it was pretty hard to talk to him about it. i gave up.

but you can’t fault me for trying. that was the first time i’ve ever tried to talk to anyone about why they’re voting for who they are that didn’t readily agree with political views, and it’s the longest conversation i’ve had with my dad since i got back home.

i spent nine hours yesterday cleaning the garage, which was filled with cobwebs and dead spiders and what may or may not be refuse from various insects. i have to go the dump today and throw away boxes and boxes of old shit that’s been in the garage for years. i was sidetracked a few times when i found yearbooks from my 7th grade class and my freshman year of highscool, where everyone said, “Tim, have fun in Washingtown.”

back from los angeles, in deecee. we listened to the debates on the radio, i’ll save any commentary for later, i don’t feel like it’s necessary right now. but ebay is great, i don’t know if this will still be up when you see it, but someone’s selling bush’s wood. the internets is a beautiful thing. more on bush wood. also, check out bush’s swagger turn into anger. talk about “unpresidential” behavior.

UPDATE: i’m just going to keep taking all the links from the daily kos, including this fired up, yet somehow, still composed, tim ryan of ohio’s scathing rebuke of the administration’s bald-faced lies.

another good point that owl and her dad made that we all were waiting for kerry to totally jump on, which he didn’t, was the last question of the debate, asking bush to admit three mistakes. sam rosenfeld is terribly articulate on the matter over at tapped and says everything we were thinking of: kerry blew a big opportunity to say that bush STILL doesn’t think he has made a SINGLE mistake. fucking appointments. THAT was his answer. if there were any other questions that were as blatantly unanswered as that one, they paled in comparison. bush finished very poorly and left the door wide open to hit a homerun on it… but he didn’t.

i’m heading back to northern california right about now, but had to drop these by real quick:

-what barry says, a scary-real propoganda film that imagines american imperialism as the means to an ends: the third world war. that explanation may not do the short film any justice, but you need to watch it anyway.

-chris also posted a good list of reasons to vote for john kerry and not george w. bush. it’s about to get real political around here, and ya’ll muthafuckas better start educating yourself and making a decision on who you’re voting for and you better understand the consequences of your actions or misinformed voting. you know where i stand, you got a beef with it, ask me why and i’ll let you know.

we gotta get the fuck outta here. out.