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Tuesday, January 31, 2006
A DAMN good reason to watch the Grammys
If the roomers are true and Sly Stone acutally does appear and perform at the Grammys (why is it Grammys and not Grammies?), it may actually be worth sitting through the twenty-plus minutes of commercials and half-hour of min-numbing acceptance speaches for the first time in a LONG time.
Nothing like coming home for a family crisis to find out someone with your name has been arrested for sex crimes at the university you graduated from. Terrific.
Now, I'm not saying that everything that applies to Italians applies to everyone else...but, I'm not particulary interested in risking it, how about you?
Read this (fairly short) article on an upcoming trial in Uzbekistan carefully. This is EXACTLY what we have to look forward to here in the US. It is only a matter of time before those who oppose our ever more powerful president and his administration are brought up on spying and terrorism charges and executed. Mark my words. Things will change one way or the other. The similarities are frightening.
Yeah, just for posterity and clarification, I want to be immediately cremated, put in a really cool, eclectic urn and I want my friends to party like mad and remember my life as it was, not look at my body as it is (gross) or prop me up in front of a TV and leave me in an upstairs room (grosser!). Geez, I need to get out of Ohio.
Well, it's been a month since I posted...and oh, what a month it has been. More about that later.
For now, feast your mind (thanks to Salon) on what has to be the absolute best example of poetic justice (and instant karma) in the history of the world. Nothing gives me more pleasure than a dumb hick paying for his thoughtlessness and disregard for other living beings.
A liberal who calls Austin, Texas and Europe his homes (a little cheesy, but give me a break, I've moved over ten times in my life). I'm currently exiled in what seems to be the only college town in America to be as conservative as the country in general if not more so. I'm telling you, if this place were any more white and homogenous...it would actually BE milk.