Archive for June, 2004
Monday, June 7th, 2004
it’s fucking HOT in the office today. la is so cursed that even a day when outside it’s cooler than it has been all week, it’s still 85 degrees in the office. going to see pedro the lion and john vanderslice tonight.
for mac users, i found this could-be-interesting freeware called
oblique strategies. check it.
so stoked on watching season two of the west wing last night (whilst dogsitting db’s dog) that i almost threw down a c-note and bought both of them plus sports night last night. i’m a cheap and wasteful bastard sometimes though. somebody buy me that shit!
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004
been listening to this stuff all week. velvet teen, from santa rosa, ca; everybody else, feat. ex-push kings; and maritime, which got reamed in the pitchfork review by some college boy that likes to use big words.
the velvet teen | naked girl
the velvet teen | caspian can wait
the velvet teen | radiapathy
everybody else | rich girls, poor girls
maritime | a night like this
maritime | sleep around
neil, alexi and miguel came down for the weekend, we ate lots of food, drank copious amounts of alcohol (maker’s, please), and did a little climbing while miguel sat around patiently and read climbing magazines. great weekend, so great, in fact, that i took an extra day away from the blog.
have an optometrist appointment today, looking forward to new glasses, but not the bill that will accompany them. damn you shitty benefits! i’m missing the VSP these days.
there’s an article at the atlantic monthly on the similarities between bush senior and john kerry’s foreign policy. what it boils down to is that kerry needs to get a sound, accessible, and credible solution to iraq that tops gw’s. this morning on some morning show, someone was like, “did the US get bamboozled by ahmed shalabi?” will it be too terribly hard to show something with results and win over republicans with something that looks so familiar to them?
and in response to comments last time: pressure to fail. pressure creates panic, panic creates rash decisions, rash decisions lead to collapse. full-court press in basketball, swiping bags in baseball, blitzing the quarterback in football. we’ve seen how the administration works in high-pressure situations, they can fail in their own right.
AND the saliency in fog of war is all of it’s scariness in hindsight. how close we were to this or that, and the fact that we’re still there….
ANYWAYS. going home.
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