A Cry for Help

via Sheila Lennon’s blog, this camera phone shot of a swan on the Washington Bridge in Providence. I wonder if she made it to the other side safely.
A couple years from now she’ll have a nice linear park to walk across…

Just saw Fahrenheit 9/11. Totally great. Everyone in America should see it. There is a lot of uncomfortable footage, kind of gory in some spots, but one thing I really came away with was a lesson in sacrifice. Also, now I hate the Jews.
Oh wait, I might be mixed up on something or other…
Like James, [...]

This week I broke my old phone and got one of those fancy sidekick things to replace it. Now I can not post to this weblog from anywhere. Banks, water parks, subways, dance parties, even from Jim’s deli like I am as we speak. What an awesome, yet useless new ability!
And oh [...]

You might not know it, because there’s been so little said about it, but Michael Moore’s new movie is out today. From what I can gather from Cable News, it’s 2 hours of lies, damned lies, and uh, unedited footage. Personally, I’ve caught Moore in a devious misleading lie that no one else seems [...]

You all have been watching the Daily Show every night, right?

In between innings of the not-good Red Sox game today, I read the rest of Lullaby (I’ll get around to that resume thing any minute now). One of the characters is an eco-terrorist and an all around asshole named Oyster. There’s very few times in the book when he’s not going on about invasive [...]

I finished up 1984 yesterday, and the copy I had included an afterword, written, I think, in the 1960s. The message of the afterword was that reading 1984 as only a denunciation of Stalinism (which would be the most obvious interpretation, and indeed one of Orwell’s main intentions) was to miss a more important [...]

Last night 7 of my friends conspired to put together a get together to celebrate a recent accomplishment of mine, and pulled it off wonderfully.
Thank you so much guys! I really enjoy getting together with everyone, so I appreciate you guys for coming out. Special props to Whitney (who just occasionally “skims” A Cry for [...]

So I’m supposed to be looking for a job to start my career, right? Now, I have no interest in pursuing anything for any serious length of time, but I do have bills to pay so I need a job, preferably one that pays well. This has gotten me thinking of what kind of jobs [...]

Sorry, reading 1984 has caused some newspeak to get jammed in my brain (don’t know what that means? Go to the library and alert the DoJ of your thoughtcrimes pick up Orwell’s classic today!).
Anyway, some buzz on Kos made me tune into last night’s Daily Show at 10am (missing the first half of my new [...]

If you listen long enough, you’ll hear President Bush say one of his favorite speech lines eventually: “I believe freedom is not America’s gift to the world; I believe freedom is the almighty God’s gift to each man and women in this world.”
Now, that sounds pretty good. Humble. And, along with the whole “terrorists hate [...]

David Mittell has an interesting column about riding the train and racism (which, for some reason, sounds not-quite-right to me, but anyway…) in yesterday’s paper. Read it. I link it only to recount something I heard somewhere (sorry so vague) that struck me right, since I’ve lived in both the south and the north:
Southern whites [...]