Vision? Nary!

I believe McCain will start a league of super villains in order to facilitate the emergence of a strong-or-"super” man.

The villains are already there. He will just have to convince them to join a formal league. Sadly this will be like herding evil cats.

Also, he will go by his nickname “Lex.”

The Obama Plan is different. It involves a strong Klieg searchlight that will shine a representation of a bat in the night sky.

Sadly, this plan will not work at all in the daylight business hours, when most organized villainy occurs- a logistical oversight the McCain campaign will jump all over.

I planted a eucalyptus tree a few years ago to attract koala bears. The tree is getting larger now and I look out the window frequently waiting for the inevitable arrival of a koala.
I know what you’re saying, “what are you going to do with that koala bear?”
People are so suspicious these days, always looking for an ulterior motive, a perversion, a vindication of their twisted world view that danger lurks in the heart of every man.

I admit, like most young people in the northwest, I was raised a satanist though I no longer practice the faith in any active way. I am lapsed. But I still do hold to the golden rule: “Do unto others as they have done unto you.” Just in case. It can’t hurt to hedge one’s bets.

I will run that koala bear for public office. He will be as qualified as any other candidate; and will also satisfy a certain demographic that has just been waiting to vote koala. The koala vote. An unsatisfied demographic historically, marginalized.
Further, the koala will be difficult for his opponents to speak against without opening themselves to charges that they are anti-koala. It is difficult to throw dirt at the koala. People don’t like it.
They don’t care what you say about human rights activists but if you diss a koala most Americans draw the line. Ultimately, opponents will try to appear more like the koala but in this they will fail and appear foolish. They will try to eat eucalyptus leaves only to find the phenolic and terpene compounds therein are toxic to all but koala and some opossums.
To not let the koala in the debates will be a horrible tactical mistake. Do not underestimate the love of the people for the koala.
Make this country safe for the koala. Rally! Donate! Fight!
Plant a eucalyptus tree in your yard to show solidarity.

Potato Tomato
I eat a lot of potatoes, and why not? This is, after all, the international year of the potato. The potato, like the tomato, of which it often appears in song, comes in a variety of colors.
I find the best way to prepare potatoes is to slice them (usually using gold potatoes), steam them, and mix them when cooked with salsa and nutritional yeast. Serve with cabbage salad with oil free honey mustard dressing. I can eat this every day.

Ginsberg Speaks
Allen Ginsberg told me once I had a cherubic beard. Thirteen years later I still can’t grow a proper beard. …I think Allen cursed me.

So you ask, what the hell is a cherub anyway?

“According to the editors of the Jewish Encyclopedia, Early Israelite tradition conceived of the cherubim as guardians of the Garden of Eden, being devoid of human feelings, and holding a duty both to represent the gods and to guard sanctuaries from intruders, in a comparable way to an account found on Tablet 9 of the inscriptions found at Nimrud. In this view, cherubim, like the shedu, were probably originally depictions of storm deities, especially the storm winds.”

- wikipedia

This is a neon sign. Semiotics is actually the study of the significance of this particular sign; however, the language has become so complex describing this phenomenon that even those who study Semiotics now fail to recognize this fact. This tragedy is the basis of post-post-modernism.
Also the Post breakfast cereal post-post-modernist crunch.

I read “The Time Machine” and I know how it’s going down. I much prefer TTM to Revelations for end-time literature. How come no one hands out H.G. Wells door-to-door?

Attila The Stockbroker:

Even before the ‘credit crunch’ (what a spin doctor euphemism! ‘Tarquin, how do we deal with this one? I know, Giles, let’s make the international crisis of capitalism sound like a new breakfast cereal!) there was a growing groundswell of popular anger against ‘fat cats’, the every growing gap between rich and poor, and above all the blatant profiteering of the privatised utility companies, the most glaring example of what happens when services essential to all are turned into cash cows for a few. Now this groundswell has turned into a tidal wave.

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Documentary about original media hoaxter Alan Abel.

Republicans inspire charity:

I, Doug Stanhope, am offering you, Bristol Palin, the sum of 25,000 dollars so that you can abort your child and move out of that draconian home. I have also set up a PayPal link so that others around the world can help increase this amount to ease the burden of starting out on your own at such an early age.
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Even if you cannot take my offer, I will still use my money or money donated through this page to pay for at least one abortion for a disadvantaged teenage girl each year for the rest of my life in the name of your mother. And in my will, I shall have a good portion of my estate turned into the Sarah J Palin Abortion Fund that will help girls from all walks of life from destroying their lives and our natural resources by having children.

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“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
-Thomas Mann

[via Will Shetterly]

One thing that stands out about Seattle is the lack of children. Fewer than one in five Seattle households have kids. Seattle has a lower percentage of children under 15 than nearly every other big American city, and it’s way below the national average.

- KUOW

NoNameJane Benefit show - (6:00 PM - 10:00 PM) Fri. Sept. 26

Door opens at 6. Features Black Top Demon; Highlight Bomb, Circle Drive; Militias Mischief; Powerbomb the Wolf; Hosted by NoNameJane.

Location: Hoquiam, WA, 706 Simpson Ave.

In the dark times, will there be singing?
Yes, there will be singing. About the dark times.
-Bertold Brecht

via http://twitter.com/richXXIII

There is nothing funny about cancer, except those things about cancer that happen to be funny.

He’s tired of getting calls from a collection outfit every day for some person he never heard of. So, he asks his myspace friends to help.

1 866 747 4324.​

Try to settl​e your accou​nt.​

Tell them you have no phone​,​ you forgo​t accou​nt numbe​r - this is all easie​r with an accen​t that makes​ you sound​ like you dont under​stand​ the langu​age.​

Just make sure you tell them you want to pay in full.​ Tell them to send a cab. Be inven​tive.​

That’​ll keep em on the line forev​er.​

And alway​s close​ with “​I’​ll be here all week!​’​

Doug Stanhope website.

After midnight, slogging through the rain in the University District of Seattle – looking for an open restaurant. Even in the University District most things are closed. There are people on the street – wannabe tough guys, frat boys on the prowl – amid darkened storefronts. Noticeably, many of the storefronts display various Buddhist or Hindu statues and baubles. Perhaps the frat boys are seeking inner peace after midnight. Perhaps not.

There is an open Chinese restaurant, clearly open, as a large neon sign proclaims, “open.” There is a Thai restaurant that may be open because there are two people sitting in the window and it is well lit, but it is otherwise empty and deserted, and one could just as easily assume that these are employees and they are in fact, despite the illumination, closed. Who wants to ask?

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