Archive for August, 2004
Моя Машина
The time has come to unload the car I have had for more than 10 years. I remember back in high school when I got it, and later using it to clandestinely speed to Las Vegas for a Creatures show which I never ended up seeing, driving endlessley through all my free time all over [...]
Posted: August 3rd, 2004 under About Me, Family, Home.
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Happy Birthday,
Baby. I’m so glad I found you.
P.S: Anyone need a car?
Posted: August 10th, 2004 under Family.
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Olympic Terrorism
The fever of Olympiana has once again consumed the world. Every few years, the governments of the world, both autocratic and democratic, rally their minions to their flags to support an institution which purports to enshrine values which every human should supposely appreciate: national pride, athleticism, cameraderie, etc.
All the while, we never seem to question [...]
Posted: August 15th, 2004 under Economics, Rants.
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Package Politics
Well Said. I’ve often found it a bit queer that endorsing an individual candidate or issue almost invariably chains one to a whole slew of platforms upon which one is expected to stand and defend without question. Sort of the mild trepidation I felt standing in line to marry my husband and chatting uncomfortably with the sods [...]
Posted: August 18th, 2004 under Americana.
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Oi-lympics
Anyone who knows me well knows I care very little for sports. Aside from occasionally fetishizing the body of a stocky jock, I could not care less about what happened to which team yesterday. Along those lines, I’m also not a fan of the Olympics. I don’t find many differences between your everyday sporting business [...]
Posted: August 20th, 2004 under Economics.
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Aloha
By this (relative) time tomorrow, we’ll be in Maui. I never really expected to go there. Hawai’i was of course a line on the checklist, but it doesn’t seem to hold much a lure for the effort required to go there… Oahu is where we would have been most likely to explore in the end, being [...]
Posted: August 25th, 2004 under Travel.
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Mahalo
Back and exhausted. It’s good I don’t have to work tomortow… O wait…
Lots of good food, lots of wedding fun, lots of scantily clad Polynesian boys, lots of driving, lots of sun… Hey, I take the bad with the good…
I’m sure a full report will be forthcoming, but right now I need sleep.
Posted: August 29th, 2004 under Travel.
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Confronting the Urban Daemon
Two years in San Francisco. Damn.
Over the past two years, my relationship with this City has had its ups and downs. It’s sort of like being adopted by your evil stepmother and trying really hard to love her even though she abuses and enslaves you in your own home.
San Francisco: it has such promise. If [...]
Posted: August 31st, 2004 under Get In My Head, San Francisco, Urbanism.
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