Drinks avec Peter

The illing Peter has agreed to cash in for some drinks, courtesy of me. See mob for continuing coverage.

Chicago Public Library Desk Vandals

Even funnier than Rush Limbaugh's drug problem.

The McLaughlin Group

Topic #1: What of ThElizabeth?
Stir the cryptic message via Friendster.
Brief update: drive pretty, new house nice until
ceiling collapsed, new job weird, romantic
relationship over, shows rocking hard (Interpol,
Walkmen, etc), school not attended yet, Wisco
friends and others loved and missed greatly.
No more romance? Has Portland shrunk the heart?

Topic #2: What, no Port Washington?
Looking straight ahead, I have skipped out on my loosely planned trip to Port Washington and have instead decided to clean up and organize. This means that a visit to Port Washington is now a bit farther back on the calendar, say the 17th or 24th. Hang on grandparents.

Topic #3: The Kills, Rock?
Yes, quite nicely they did rock.

Topic #4: Junk drawer.
I think the Rush Limbaugh thing is hi-larious. Not only is he a pompous, liberal-media-conspiracy believing, pseudo-race blamer but he is also a pill-popping brain-fuck...allegedly. No, scratch that, FOR SURE. At least he still has three hours on the radio.

I made the mistake of watching Sorority Life. I cannot stress MISTAKE with any greater force. That show is an abortion of a television show. Those girls are beyond insane. Even worse, the constant batting about of the banshee whine "She has no respect for me". There was not this much discussion of the appropriate amount of respect due any single person or entity in Scarface or in Godfather. Maybe both put together. Fuck, it made me what to fall out of my chair.

Good lord. I read a great article in The New Yorker. It starts off with a strange pace but it finds the right steps in the second paragraph. Worth reading, just sharing.

Predictions:
I win 1st place.

I can go all night, a series of short engagements

Pictures of me:
It is day #5 of the great moblog/camera phone experiment and my life feels somewhat more focused. Although I am a little disappointed in the untech-ness of many of the friendlies.

Work:
It is what it is--work. I've been getting to do some different things at work but I am still planning to escape. I need to find A) a job, B) a city to live in, C) an apartment, or D) a girlfriend with some extra money.

Little Rock, Arkansas:
I'm leaving to go south for a week to visit my dad's "brother"--Grover Evans. I think this trip will be a nice break from the bullshit of work and the monotony of the Madison checkerboard. If I get excited, drunk, or possibly engaged I might just move there for the hell of it. Some of the highlights: Auburn/Arkansas football game, mansion tour, Clinton library, and southern hospitality.

Stupid people and assigning blame:
I once more saw the famously illogical "don't blame me, I voted for Nader" bumper sticker in town. I take this moment to explicitly blame everyone who voted for Nader for where we are. Vanity candidates are totally useless, unless you just filmed "Cribs" or an episode of "The Fabulous Life...". Stop it.

Politics is junk:
I don't care about any of the Democrats anymore I just don't want Bush. I don't want Bush's stupid face, his outrageous ignorance of the customs of civil society, his angry white men and the skeletons in their closets, his war, his sinking ship of an economy, his rule of law, his butchery of the English language, his massacre of international goodwill, his clear-cutting of the forests--for their sake, his administration's outing of CIA operatives, and his whole fucking "enemy combatant" status.

Fuck all this reading about Bush. I think I'm going to work on my resume.
And I just might vote for Clark...or Kerry, really anyone but Lieberman.