Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Sunday, October 29, 2006
books and bush
Hold on, that didn't sound right...!
wait, Bush DIDN'T say stay the course over and over and over? I guess the whole WORLD must have mis-heard.
Check out Crooks and Liars it's a great site.
Here's a partial book list for you.
1) Murder in the Heartland by M. William Phelps
2) Fraud by David Rakoff
3) Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
4) Forever Odd by Dean Koontz
5) The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
6) Across a Hundred Mountains by Reyna Grande (thanks to the good people over at La Bloga
7) Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon by Michael E. Veal
8) L.A. Rex by Will Beall
9) Echo Park by Michael Connelly
10) Mother Tongue by Demetria Martinez
I liked everything I read - mostly. The Rakoff book I could have lived without. At times it was funny and sarcastic (which I like) but mostly it annoyed me.
Everyone needs some brain candy to read and you could do A LOT worse than the Koontz book. This particular character is compelling, honest and real. AND he sees dead people. The Fela Kuti book was really good even if you don't know who he was.
LA Rex was hard to read in all its gore and violence, but it had its moments of sheer genius. I loved the newest Harry Bosch book by Michael Connelly. That guy sure can write. I especially liked the Reyna Grande novel. I can't remember the last time I got as emotional over a story. Oh yeah, I remember. 3 words - no 6 words. Luis Alberto Urrea. The Hummingbird's Daughter.
Read, people.
Happy 73rd Birthday (tomorrow) to my dad.
Alessandro Zanardi is testing for F1 in a BMW. Amazing, since he had both legs amputated after a horrific crash in Germany when he was racing Indy cars. Now that's courage and fortitude. He was always one of the approachable ones at all the races. Nice man. Good deal.
wait, Bush DIDN'T say stay the course over and over and over? I guess the whole WORLD must have mis-heard.
Check out Crooks and Liars it's a great site.
Here's a partial book list for you.
1) Murder in the Heartland by M. William Phelps
2) Fraud by David Rakoff
3) Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
4) Forever Odd by Dean Koontz
5) The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
6) Across a Hundred Mountains by Reyna Grande (thanks to the good people over at La Bloga
7) Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon by Michael E. Veal
8) L.A. Rex by Will Beall
9) Echo Park by Michael Connelly
10) Mother Tongue by Demetria Martinez
I liked everything I read - mostly. The Rakoff book I could have lived without. At times it was funny and sarcastic (which I like) but mostly it annoyed me.
Everyone needs some brain candy to read and you could do A LOT worse than the Koontz book. This particular character is compelling, honest and real. AND he sees dead people. The Fela Kuti book was really good even if you don't know who he was.
LA Rex was hard to read in all its gore and violence, but it had its moments of sheer genius. I loved the newest Harry Bosch book by Michael Connelly. That guy sure can write. I especially liked the Reyna Grande novel. I can't remember the last time I got as emotional over a story. Oh yeah, I remember. 3 words - no 6 words. Luis Alberto Urrea. The Hummingbird's Daughter.
Read, people.
Happy 73rd Birthday (tomorrow) to my dad.
Alessandro Zanardi is testing for F1 in a BMW. Amazing, since he had both legs amputated after a horrific crash in Germany when he was racing Indy cars. Now that's courage and fortitude. He was always one of the approachable ones at all the races. Nice man. Good deal.
Saturday, October 14, 2006
no snappy headline comes to mind
wait, after the 4th time??! incredible. father finally catches on about his wife, their son, and those pesky ransom demands.
california (teen) girl questioned by secret service about a myspace picture she had posted of president bush.
questions for Mr T, the consummate eighties pop icon (not MY words...)
i don’t know what to make of this one... “with numerous subtle (and not so subtle) satirical swipes at the bush administration and the republican party” this childrens book will appeal to democrats of ALL ages.
you were right, christina
california (teen) girl questioned by secret service about a myspace picture she had posted of president bush.
questions for Mr T, the consummate eighties pop icon (not MY words...)
i don’t know what to make of this one... “with numerous subtle (and not so subtle) satirical swipes at the bush administration and the republican party” this childrens book will appeal to democrats of ALL ages.
you were right, christina
Sunday, October 8, 2006
sunday! sunday! sunday!
all i can say is YAY!
retiring NOT as world champion. sounds mean, but ask me if i care!
i cut my hair. it's short. and dark. winter is coming.
haven't felt poetically inclined as of late, but tony brown is at Bar 13 this monday, which means i'm going.
Ozomatli is at the Nokia Theater on Tuesday, November 14th. i WILL be there. the thing is they're OPENING for Los Lonely Boys - sheesh, what a turn of events.don't get me wrong LLB are alright, but they're flash in the pan compared to Ozomatli. whatever, i'm just glad to be seeing them again.
retiring NOT as world champion. sounds mean, but ask me if i care!
i cut my hair. it's short. and dark. winter is coming.
haven't felt poetically inclined as of late, but tony brown is at Bar 13 this monday, which means i'm going.
Ozomatli is at the Nokia Theater on Tuesday, November 14th. i WILL be there. the thing is they're OPENING for Los Lonely Boys - sheesh, what a turn of events.don't get me wrong LLB are alright, but they're flash in the pan compared to Ozomatli. whatever, i'm just glad to be seeing them again.
Friday, October 6, 2006
this, that, the other
sometimes The Onion CAN make me laugh out loud.
The Selena stamp and the David Mann (famous motorcycle artist from Easyrider magazine) stamp. not available from your local post office though.
Bruce Potts,a professor of public speaking at the University of New Mexico, and his full face tribal tattoo.
The Hubble detects as many as 16 new planets.
Deliver Us From Evil, Amy Berg's unflinching documentary about a defrocked california priest convicted (and later deported back to his native Ireland) of several counts of child molestation won Best Documentary Film at the L.A. film festival.
Last week, a majority of Democrats in the U.S. Senate, including New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, joined forces with Republicans to vote 80 to 19 to begin construction of an expensive set of Berlin Wall-like barriers across this nation's southern border.
These are the good guys? Police in Russia have conducted raids against Georgian-owned markets, shops and restaurants and cracked down on illegal immigrants. Officials said at least 140 Georgians were deported by plane Friday. A spokesman for the Moscow city education department said police were asking schools for lists of students with Georgian names, whose parents might be in Russia illegally.
Archaeologists working in Mexico City have discovered an Aztec monolith - the most important ruins of the ancient civilization to be found in decades.
The military on MySpace - a link filled article definitely worth reading.
At least five apparently bogus voter registration forms were submitted to the Metro Nashville election commission by a worker with ties to the Republican National Committee, and up to 150 other registrations have been called into question, The Tennessean has learned.
Fuma los puros, toma ese cafecito riquito y ten mucho sexo, pero cuidado con el alcohol! Some Cuban centenarians say cigars, coffee and sex is the secret to living past 100. Cuba, with a population of 11.2 million, has about 3,000 people who have lived for more than a century.
The Selena stamp and the David Mann (famous motorcycle artist from Easyrider magazine) stamp. not available from your local post office though.
Bruce Potts,a professor of public speaking at the University of New Mexico, and his full face tribal tattoo.
The Hubble detects as many as 16 new planets.
Deliver Us From Evil, Amy Berg's unflinching documentary about a defrocked california priest convicted (and later deported back to his native Ireland) of several counts of child molestation won Best Documentary Film at the L.A. film festival.
Last week, a majority of Democrats in the U.S. Senate, including New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, joined forces with Republicans to vote 80 to 19 to begin construction of an expensive set of Berlin Wall-like barriers across this nation's southern border.
These are the good guys? Police in Russia have conducted raids against Georgian-owned markets, shops and restaurants and cracked down on illegal immigrants. Officials said at least 140 Georgians were deported by plane Friday. A spokesman for the Moscow city education department said police were asking schools for lists of students with Georgian names, whose parents might be in Russia illegally.
Archaeologists working in Mexico City have discovered an Aztec monolith - the most important ruins of the ancient civilization to be found in decades.
The military on MySpace - a link filled article definitely worth reading.
At least five apparently bogus voter registration forms were submitted to the Metro Nashville election commission by a worker with ties to the Republican National Committee, and up to 150 other registrations have been called into question, The Tennessean has learned.
Fuma los puros, toma ese cafecito riquito y ten mucho sexo, pero cuidado con el alcohol! Some Cuban centenarians say cigars, coffee and sex is the secret to living past 100. Cuba, with a population of 11.2 million, has about 3,000 people who have lived for more than a century.
Saturday, September 23, 2006
for once there are
too many shows i'd like to see.
Los Lobos on 9/28 at Irving (too bad about the sucky sound)
PJ Harvey at The Supper Club on 10/7
DJ Shadow at Webster Hall on 10/17
Beck at MSG on 10/18 (i don't really want to see him there, but, whatever)
Johnny Pacheco and the Fania All-Stars on 10/20 - also MSG
Mojave 3 on 10/20 & 21 at The Bowery
DJ Spooky at The Apollo on 10/27 & 28
Medeski, Martin & Wood at the Hammerstein on Halloween!
Cut Chemist & Lyrics Born at Webster Hall on 11/10
The Reverend Horton Heat (yay!) at Southpaw on 11/11
WHEW!
also,this is the only link for you today, but you NEED to click it and watch the video on how easy - i said EASY it is to hack into the Diebold voting machine to steal votes.
my vacation was only a week ago, but it feels like a lightyear away already.
i'm planning a 4 day getaway to New Mexico in March though. is march like...soon?
Los Lobos on 9/28 at Irving (too bad about the sucky sound)
PJ Harvey at The Supper Club on 10/7
DJ Shadow at Webster Hall on 10/17
Beck at MSG on 10/18 (i don't really want to see him there, but, whatever)
Johnny Pacheco and the Fania All-Stars on 10/20 - also MSG
Mojave 3 on 10/20 & 21 at The Bowery
DJ Spooky at The Apollo on 10/27 & 28
Medeski, Martin & Wood at the Hammerstein on Halloween!
Cut Chemist & Lyrics Born at Webster Hall on 11/10
The Reverend Horton Heat (yay!) at Southpaw on 11/11
WHEW!
also,this is the only link for you today, but you NEED to click it and watch the video on how easy - i said EASY it is to hack into the Diebold voting machine to steal votes.
my vacation was only a week ago, but it feels like a lightyear away already.
i'm planning a 4 day getaway to New Mexico in March though. is march like...soon?
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
books first, then news
books first:
1) A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes : stories from Latin America – edited by Thomas Colchie
2) The Bird Artist - Howard Norman
3) Smoke and Mirrors: the war on drugs & the politics of failure – Dan Baum
4) Dark Alliance: the CIA, the contras, and the crack cocaine explosion – Gary Webb
5) Desperados: Latin drug lords, U.S. lawmen, and the war america can’t win – Elaine Shannon
6) Drug Lord: the life and death of a mexican kingpin: a true story – Terrence Poppa
7) The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless – Ahmet Zappa
all by John Harvey:
8) Flesh & Blood
9) Lonely Hearts
10)In a True Light
11)Rough Treatment
prostitution made legal in russia? - the mayor thinks it will deter men from committing acts of extremist racial violence. so spend more time screwing, less time punching? interesting theory. the best part (by far) is that the mayor - Igor Shpektor – promises the women state protection and a full pension. yay!
remember Afghanistan? - things are more intense than is being reported at home. look at the link – NOT a national source.
wyclef jean thinks a little weed would do the president some good. as if that's all it would take! i never liked the man. still don’t.
researchers are thinking that Neanderthals may have lived longer than previously thought. hmm, i’d swear there are still some out there dragging their knuckles on the ground...
In a devastating one-two-three punch, the Uribe government in Colombia announced that it intends to partially-privatize the state-
owned oil company Ecopetrol and then declared its intentions to slash corporate income taxes while simultaneously increasing the Value Added Tax (VAT) on food basics such as rice, potatoes and chicken.
Greg Palast and television producer Matt Pascarella were charged, by Homeland Security, with the ’...unauthorized filming of a “critical national security structure” in Louisiana.’ they videotaped the thousands of Katrina evacuees still held behind a barbed wire in a trailer park encampment a hundred miles from New Orleans. okaaaay.
1) A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes : stories from Latin America – edited by Thomas Colchie
2) The Bird Artist - Howard Norman
3) Smoke and Mirrors: the war on drugs & the politics of failure – Dan Baum
4) Dark Alliance: the CIA, the contras, and the crack cocaine explosion – Gary Webb
5) Desperados: Latin drug lords, U.S. lawmen, and the war america can’t win – Elaine Shannon
6) Drug Lord: the life and death of a mexican kingpin: a true story – Terrence Poppa
7) The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless – Ahmet Zappa
all by John Harvey:
8) Flesh & Blood
9) Lonely Hearts
10)In a True Light
11)Rough Treatment
prostitution made legal in russia? - the mayor thinks it will deter men from committing acts of extremist racial violence. so spend more time screwing, less time punching? interesting theory. the best part (by far) is that the mayor - Igor Shpektor – promises the women state protection and a full pension. yay!
remember Afghanistan? - things are more intense than is being reported at home. look at the link – NOT a national source.
wyclef jean thinks a little weed would do the president some good. as if that's all it would take! i never liked the man. still don’t.
researchers are thinking that Neanderthals may have lived longer than previously thought. hmm, i’d swear there are still some out there dragging their knuckles on the ground...
In a devastating one-two-three punch, the Uribe government in Colombia announced that it intends to partially-privatize the state-
owned oil company Ecopetrol and then declared its intentions to slash corporate income taxes while simultaneously increasing the Value Added Tax (VAT) on food basics such as rice, potatoes and chicken.
Greg Palast and television producer Matt Pascarella were charged, by Homeland Security, with the ’...unauthorized filming of a “critical national security structure” in Louisiana.’ they videotaped the thousands of Katrina evacuees still held behind a barbed wire in a trailer park encampment a hundred miles from New Orleans. okaaaay.
Friday, September 1, 2006
books and weather
my vacation has begun and just LOOK at the weather forecast... rain, rain and MORE rain. great.
here are some books – i know i haven’t been as diligent as i ought to be, but if the sun doesn’t come out between now and the 15th, the list will be extensive, people...
1) Death of a Nationalist – Rebecca Pawel
2) the curious incident of the dog in the night-time – Mark Haddon
3) If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things – Jon McGregor
4) Will@epicquest.com: (a medicated memoir) – Tom Grimes
5) The Skin of the Sky - Elena Poniatowska
6) Harvest of Empire - Juan Gonzalez
7) A Fan’s Notes: A Fictional Memoir - Frederick Exley
8) Flesh and Blood – John Harvey
9) The Night Gardener – George Pelecanos
10) The Ties that Bind – Kent Haruf
here are some books – i know i haven’t been as diligent as i ought to be, but if the sun doesn’t come out between now and the 15th, the list will be extensive, people...
1) Death of a Nationalist – Rebecca Pawel
2) the curious incident of the dog in the night-time – Mark Haddon
3) If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things – Jon McGregor
4) Will@epicquest.com: (a medicated memoir) – Tom Grimes
5) The Skin of the Sky - Elena Poniatowska
6) Harvest of Empire - Juan Gonzalez
7) A Fan’s Notes: A Fictional Memoir - Frederick Exley
8) Flesh and Blood – John Harvey
9) The Night Gardener – George Pelecanos
10) The Ties that Bind – Kent Haruf
Sunday, August 20, 2006
news links
hmm, so this is the legitimate way to cheat in formula 1. interesting.
dead climber found after the ice melted. 17 years later.
gives a new meaning to the words lady KILLERS doesn't it?
Our Lady of Guadalupe spotted in a piece of chocolate.
Don Vito Margera arrested on alleged sexual assault of a minor.
out of gas in Baghdad. yup, the country with the most oil has no fuel.
Jimmy Carter speaks about the US, Israel, Cuba, and george bush's "radical and unpressured departure from the basic policies of all previous administrations including those of both Republican and Democratic presidents"
“what the U.S. government is doing in Nicaragua would be illegal if a foreign government tried to do it in the U.S.” what, we have too much free time on our hands?
Japan imposes suspension of exported U.S. rice that has not been approved for human consumption.
official language debate in Ukraine
the few, the proud the rapists?
did i mention that my vacation starts soon? i'm down to 9 days...
dead climber found after the ice melted. 17 years later.
gives a new meaning to the words lady KILLERS doesn't it?
Our Lady of Guadalupe spotted in a piece of chocolate.
Don Vito Margera arrested on alleged sexual assault of a minor.
out of gas in Baghdad. yup, the country with the most oil has no fuel.
Jimmy Carter speaks about the US, Israel, Cuba, and george bush's "radical and unpressured departure from the basic policies of all previous administrations including those of both Republican and Democratic presidents"
“what the U.S. government is doing in Nicaragua would be illegal if a foreign government tried to do it in the U.S.” what, we have too much free time on our hands?
Japan imposes suspension of exported U.S. rice that has not been approved for human consumption.
official language debate in Ukraine
the few, the proud the rapists?
did i mention that my vacation starts soon? i'm down to 9 days...
Saturday, August 12, 2006
Luis Urrea and Charles Bowden
sometimes i tend to obsess over a particular author or theme – i’ve read more books on Vietnam than most people – both non-fiction and fiction for instance. lately though, i’ve gotten my hands on most of the books by Luis Alberto Urrea and Charles Bowden.
the list goes something like this:
Luis Alberto Urrea:
1) Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border
2) The Devil’s Highway: A True Story
3) By the Lake of Sleeping Children
4) In Search of Snow: A Novel
5) Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life
6) Six Kinds of Sky
7) The Hummingbird’s Daughter
The Hummingbird’s Daughter is why i started this list really. it’s probably one of the most beautiful books i’ve ever read. Urrea’s writing grabs you by the arm and puts you in your most favorite chair and the next thing you know it’s thursday and you’re starving. i felt like everything i had to do while reading this book (like shower, go to work, walk the dog, etc.) was a major inconvenience and i was more than mildly exasperated by them all. does anyone else get like this? it doesn’t have to be about books mind you, it could be about oh i don’t know – watching the westminster dog show on TV or new music. anything.
OK. as for Charles Bowden. he’s a journalist with the heart of a poet. for real. he writes non-fiction accounts on topics people generally don’t want to hear about, let alone learn more of. but once you start reading, you just get hooked and by the end of one of his books you’ve learned, by osmosis really, things about the extinction of bats in the southwest and the mexican/american drug trade and people’s lives that you’d never heard of before like (Lionel) Bruno Jordan from El Paso, Texas and his family. all true, but told with a feeling almost of desperation that these things, people, places not be erased or worse, never known about in the first place. do yourself a favor and pick up a few of these books. you won’t be sorry, i promise. and if you don’t already have a library card, GET ONE, because books are expensive! the cool thing about using the library is that if your branch doesn’t have what you’re looking for, chances are another one does and you can request it delivered to your branch. amazing, no?!
Charles Bowden:
1) Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family
2) A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior
3) Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America
4) Trust Me: Charles Keating and the Missing Millions
5) Blue Desert
6) Desierto: Memories of the Future
and his first book (re-visited)
7) Killing the Hidden Waters
the list goes something like this:
Luis Alberto Urrea:
1) Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border
2) The Devil’s Highway: A True Story
3) By the Lake of Sleeping Children
4) In Search of Snow: A Novel
5) Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life
6) Six Kinds of Sky
7) The Hummingbird’s Daughter
The Hummingbird’s Daughter is why i started this list really. it’s probably one of the most beautiful books i’ve ever read. Urrea’s writing grabs you by the arm and puts you in your most favorite chair and the next thing you know it’s thursday and you’re starving. i felt like everything i had to do while reading this book (like shower, go to work, walk the dog, etc.) was a major inconvenience and i was more than mildly exasperated by them all. does anyone else get like this? it doesn’t have to be about books mind you, it could be about oh i don’t know – watching the westminster dog show on TV or new music. anything.
OK. as for Charles Bowden. he’s a journalist with the heart of a poet. for real. he writes non-fiction accounts on topics people generally don’t want to hear about, let alone learn more of. but once you start reading, you just get hooked and by the end of one of his books you’ve learned, by osmosis really, things about the extinction of bats in the southwest and the mexican/american drug trade and people’s lives that you’d never heard of before like (Lionel) Bruno Jordan from El Paso, Texas and his family. all true, but told with a feeling almost of desperation that these things, people, places not be erased or worse, never known about in the first place. do yourself a favor and pick up a few of these books. you won’t be sorry, i promise. and if you don’t already have a library card, GET ONE, because books are expensive! the cool thing about using the library is that if your branch doesn’t have what you’re looking for, chances are another one does and you can request it delivered to your branch. amazing, no?!
Charles Bowden:
1) Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family
2) A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior
3) Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America
4) Trust Me: Charles Keating and the Missing Millions
5) Blue Desert
6) Desierto: Memories of the Future
and his first book (re-visited)
7) Killing the Hidden Waters
Saturday, August 5, 2006
i'm all over the map today... plus books
pitbulls are getting a makeover - the new 'it' dog is born!
fries free to be french again - and i'll have syrup with my FRENCH toast please!
edvard munch - more than just The Scream.
the thefts from the State Hermitage Museum have been solved.
michael medved on mel gibson and michael moore (?)
The UK and California are to work together on reducing greenhouse gases and promoting low carbon technologies. does this mean that the govenator will be selling his hummers?!
neal boortz on the ‘incompetents and ‘worthless’ making the human...oops, i mean the minimum wage
books for the last while...
1) américo paredes - Between Two Worlds
2) américo paredes - "With His Pistol In His Hand": A Border Ballad and Its Hero
3) delia poey - Out of the Mirrored Garden: New Fiction by Latin American Women
4) oscar lewis - The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family
5) oscar lewis - A Death in the Sanchez Family
6) brendan halpin - Donorboy
7) denis johnson - The Name of the World
8) denis johnson - Already Dead: a California Gothic
9) luis alberto urrea - The Hummingbird's Daughter
10) richard perez - The Loser's Club
fries free to be french again - and i'll have syrup with my FRENCH toast please!
edvard munch - more than just The Scream.
the thefts from the State Hermitage Museum have been solved.
michael medved on mel gibson and michael moore (?)
The UK and California are to work together on reducing greenhouse gases and promoting low carbon technologies. does this mean that the govenator will be selling his hummers?!
neal boortz on the ‘incompetents and ‘worthless’ making the human...oops, i mean the minimum wage
books for the last while...
1) américo paredes - Between Two Worlds
2) américo paredes - "With His Pistol In His Hand": A Border Ballad and Its Hero
3) delia poey - Out of the Mirrored Garden: New Fiction by Latin American Women
4) oscar lewis - The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family
5) oscar lewis - A Death in the Sanchez Family
6) brendan halpin - Donorboy
7) denis johnson - The Name of the World
8) denis johnson - Already Dead: a California Gothic
9) luis alberto urrea - The Hummingbird's Daughter
10) richard perez - The Loser's Club
Sunday, July 30, 2006
this amused me
Mel Gibson - drunk and anti-semitic in california...
i'm on vacation from august 30th to september 15th. the countdown starts tomorrow - a little early, i realize, but i need something good to look forward to.
does anyone know about life in new mexico? i may want to live there. i've never lived in the southwest and i hear it's a dry heat... ;)
i'm on vacation from august 30th to september 15th. the countdown starts tomorrow - a little early, i realize, but i need something good to look forward to.
does anyone know about life in new mexico? i may want to live there. i've never lived in the southwest and i hear it's a dry heat... ;)
Saturday, July 29, 2006
there is no good news
the bill that would make it a crime to take a pregnant girl across state lines for an abortion without her parents' knowledge passed in the Senate.
Gonzales lobbies Congress for torture shield - the War Crimes Act of 1996 (which was passed by the republicans, no less) criminalizes violations of the Geneva Conventions governing conduct in war and threatens the death penalty if U.S.-held detainees die in custody from abusive treatment. well, this may just come back and bite the current administration, and our military troops, by the way, in the ass. it's making the Bush administration nervous that officials and troops involved in handling detainee matters might be accused of committing war crimes, and prosecuted at some point in U.S. courts. reaaaallly??! (said like fezzy from ron & fez, of course)
will durst on the G8 summit, talking with your mouth full and an un-welcomed neck massage.
republican pete mcloskey sees the need for a democratic majority in the US house of representatives in 2007. we'll see...
exxon/mobil reports a 10.36 BILLION dollar profit this quarter. it's second best quarter EVER! woohoo. how much does it cost to fill your tank now? almost as much...
i won't even get into the whole middle east disaster - it's paralyzing.
it's no wonder i read a lot.
Gonzales lobbies Congress for torture shield - the War Crimes Act of 1996 (which was passed by the republicans, no less) criminalizes violations of the Geneva Conventions governing conduct in war and threatens the death penalty if U.S.-held detainees die in custody from abusive treatment. well, this may just come back and bite the current administration, and our military troops, by the way, in the ass. it's making the Bush administration nervous that officials and troops involved in handling detainee matters might be accused of committing war crimes, and prosecuted at some point in U.S. courts. reaaaallly??! (said like fezzy from ron & fez, of course)
will durst on the G8 summit, talking with your mouth full and an un-welcomed neck massage.
republican pete mcloskey sees the need for a democratic majority in the US house of representatives in 2007. we'll see...
exxon/mobil reports a 10.36 BILLION dollar profit this quarter. it's second best quarter EVER! woohoo. how much does it cost to fill your tank now? almost as much...
i won't even get into the whole middle east disaster - it's paralyzing.
it's no wonder i read a lot.
Saturday, July 22, 2006
stuff i forgot to mention
talk about cashing in on christianity... by the way, the shoes leave 'follow jesus' footprints in the wearer's wake
this is by nicholas roerich, a russian painter everyone should know about. it's called a bridge to glory. he spent part of his life in russia, where he was born, part in america, and some in india. there's a museum on west 107th street that's pretty cool.
look at more of his paintings here
go see manu chao in prospect park as part of the celebrate brooklyn series
Friday, July 21, 2006
random particles of interest
i watched this documentary last night and i’m still unsure how i feel about it. the premise is: a texas man crosses the border into Mexico to find Mexican wives for lonely white
guys. he’s got an as on the highway and everything - if you’ve got 3 grand, he’ll find you a woman. they follow him around while he conducts his ‘bidness’ – the whole process from getting the men to Mexico, placing a personal ad in the local paper, to scheduling appointments with various women. his spanish is so-so but none of the men i saw spoke a word of anything but english. at one point, ‘cowboy cupid’- (which is how he sees himself) his real name is ivan thompson, compares women to horses – his commentary is supposed to induce laughter, not derision, but i didn’t find it all too funny. he found himself a Mexican wife, got divorced a year later because ‘she pissed me off’ and the RE-married her 2 years later because he said he really cared about her. they divorced again because she wanted to ‘learn english.’ he said ‘she got a car, a cell phone and then became the boss of me, the house, the kids, (which were HERS, i might add) and even the farm.’ he divorced her the 2nd time because she all of the sudden became ‘americanized.’ he sure as shit couldn’t have his woman thinking and doing for herself now, could he? oy vey, this movie pissed me off. but sometimes he was really likable. i dunno. i hope someone else has seen it or will see it and tell me how they feel about it.
i just need about 35 million more dollars so i can charter a flight to the moon and walk around all weight-less and stuff...
slide trumpeter and bandleader Steven Bernstein’s take on Prince's Darling Nikki
pelican bay prisoner Donny Johnson just had an art show at a gallery in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. his postcard sized paintings are created not with paints, because he's not allowed to have them, but with M&M's.
thanks,christina
guys. he’s got an as on the highway and everything - if you’ve got 3 grand, he’ll find you a woman. they follow him around while he conducts his ‘bidness’ – the whole process from getting the men to Mexico, placing a personal ad in the local paper, to scheduling appointments with various women. his spanish is so-so but none of the men i saw spoke a word of anything but english. at one point, ‘cowboy cupid’- (which is how he sees himself) his real name is ivan thompson, compares women to horses – his commentary is supposed to induce laughter, not derision, but i didn’t find it all too funny. he found himself a Mexican wife, got divorced a year later because ‘she pissed me off’ and the RE-married her 2 years later because he said he really cared about her. they divorced again because she wanted to ‘learn english.’ he said ‘she got a car, a cell phone and then became the boss of me, the house, the kids, (which were HERS, i might add) and even the farm.’ he divorced her the 2nd time because she all of the sudden became ‘americanized.’ he sure as shit couldn’t have his woman thinking and doing for herself now, could he? oy vey, this movie pissed me off. but sometimes he was really likable. i dunno. i hope someone else has seen it or will see it and tell me how they feel about it.
i just need about 35 million more dollars so i can charter a flight to the moon and walk around all weight-less and stuff...
slide trumpeter and bandleader Steven Bernstein’s take on Prince's Darling Nikki
pelican bay prisoner Donny Johnson just had an art show at a gallery in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. his postcard sized paintings are created not with paints, because he's not allowed to have them, but with M&M's.
thanks,christina
Sunday, July 16, 2006
friday's show and links
friday night at irving plaza was the Ozomatli show -
i won’t even get into how awful the opening band was, but i will say this: they did a song about palestine called blood in the streets. there, enough said.
OZOMATLI however, were fantastic. they opened with Chango which got the crowd – who until that point had been a typical NYC crowd – unmoving and detached – shaking its collective ass. between some new stuff that sounded pretty good to me they did dos cosas ciertas, como ves, cumbia de los muertos, ya viene el sol (one of my favorites), cuando canto - which made me indescribably happy, and my theme song déjame en paz (leave me in peace, just so you know). they ended with la misma cancion as per usual and the jumping into the crowd for the end samba. michelle got some good mini-video from her phone.
anyhow, i had a great time even though the sound could have been better – why does the sound always suck at irving? and man it was HOT in there. coming outside felt like being in air conditioning and it was 80 degrees out!! i wish i could’ve gone to the Philly show last night. oh well. and now it’ll be a really long time before they come back again...
here’s some news...
the new christian religion – tastes great or less filling?
hate groups in the military– quel surprise!!
juan pablo montoya - to jump to ganassi’s nascar team
and spoon-face wins in france. - blah blah blah...
i won’t even get into how awful the opening band was, but i will say this: they did a song about palestine called blood in the streets. there, enough said.
OZOMATLI however, were fantastic. they opened with Chango which got the crowd – who until that point had been a typical NYC crowd – unmoving and detached – shaking its collective ass. between some new stuff that sounded pretty good to me they did dos cosas ciertas, como ves, cumbia de los muertos, ya viene el sol (one of my favorites), cuando canto - which made me indescribably happy, and my theme song déjame en paz (leave me in peace, just so you know). they ended with la misma cancion as per usual and the jumping into the crowd for the end samba. michelle got some good mini-video from her phone.
anyhow, i had a great time even though the sound could have been better – why does the sound always suck at irving? and man it was HOT in there. coming outside felt like being in air conditioning and it was 80 degrees out!! i wish i could’ve gone to the Philly show last night. oh well. and now it’ll be a really long time before they come back again...
here’s some news...
the new christian religion – tastes great or less filling?
hate groups in the military– quel surprise!!
juan pablo montoya - to jump to ganassi’s nascar team
and spoon-face wins in france. - blah blah blah...
Monday, July 3, 2006
links a-plenty
villeneuve thinking about jumping the pond to nascar says that it won't feel like a step down because it's like... totally different. um, yeah, TOTALLY.
and i'm only mentioning in passing that spoon-face schumacher won at Indy.
pedrosa takes the win at Donington with rossi finishing 2nd despite starting 12th with a broken bone and colin edwards, after taking a big spill last week finishes 6th. nice.
cali bikers ride to hollister
despite the town's decision to forgo the annual run to celebrate (why?) marlon brando's movie The Wild One. the town said it was too much of a hassle.
my favorite article title of the day goes to the LA Times for this one If only gay sex caused global warming!
the Cannabis Club - all you need is a doctor's note gotta love san francisco!
election in mexico too close to call so BOTH candidates claim victory.
Ozomatli count down: T minus 10 days...wheeee
and i'm only mentioning in passing that spoon-face schumacher won at Indy.
pedrosa takes the win at Donington with rossi finishing 2nd despite starting 12th with a broken bone and colin edwards, after taking a big spill last week finishes 6th. nice.
cali bikers ride to hollister
despite the town's decision to forgo the annual run to celebrate (why?) marlon brando's movie The Wild One. the town said it was too much of a hassle.
my favorite article title of the day goes to the LA Times for this one If only gay sex caused global warming!
the Cannabis Club - all you need is a doctor's note gotta love san francisco!
election in mexico too close to call so BOTH candidates claim victory.
Ozomatli count down: T minus 10 days...wheeee
Saturday, July 1, 2006
books, racing and random links
4 DAYS OFF – in a row!!
here’s the latest book list:
1) ernesto galarza’s Barrio Boy
2) mario t. garcía’s Ruben Salazar: Border Correspondent
3) americo paredes’s With his Pistol in his Hand
4) rodolfo acuña’s Occupied America: A History of Chicanos
5) danielle trussoni’s Falling Through the Earth: a memoir
6) eyal press’s Absolute Convictions” my father, a city, and the conflict that divided america
7) murray forman and mark anthony neal’s That’s the Joint! The Hip-Hop Studies Reader
8) james t. murray and karla l. murray’s Broken Windows: Graffiti NYC
9) jill jonnes’s South Bronx Rising: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City
10) kenneth cain’s Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures: A True Story from Hell on Earth
david coulthard on american fans
scary moment for colin edwards who looked set to win the Dutch GP, but good for nicky hayden (even though he overshot the last corner).
I'm not sure it will be possible to ride without painkillers for 30 laps so says rossi
who is racing in donington tomorrow despite a broken bone in his wrist. it seems there are a bunch of walking wounded this week.
viva la pink taco restaurant in scottsdale,arizona and the daily show for always staying on top on the latest breaking stories... and speaking of the daily show - did you catch the stephen hawking segment? no? well, here it is
>stephen hawking - total horndog?
here’s the latest book list:
1) ernesto galarza’s Barrio Boy
2) mario t. garcía’s Ruben Salazar: Border Correspondent
3) americo paredes’s With his Pistol in his Hand
4) rodolfo acuña’s Occupied America: A History of Chicanos
5) danielle trussoni’s Falling Through the Earth: a memoir
6) eyal press’s Absolute Convictions” my father, a city, and the conflict that divided america
7) murray forman and mark anthony neal’s That’s the Joint! The Hip-Hop Studies Reader
8) james t. murray and karla l. murray’s Broken Windows: Graffiti NYC
9) jill jonnes’s South Bronx Rising: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City
10) kenneth cain’s Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures: A True Story from Hell on Earth
david coulthard on american fans
scary moment for colin edwards who looked set to win the Dutch GP, but good for nicky hayden (even though he overshot the last corner).
I'm not sure it will be possible to ride without painkillers for 30 laps so says rossi
who is racing in donington tomorrow despite a broken bone in his wrist. it seems there are a bunch of walking wounded this week.
viva la pink taco restaurant in scottsdale,arizona and the daily show for always staying on top on the latest breaking stories... and speaking of the daily show - did you catch the stephen hawking segment? no? well, here it is
>stephen hawking - total horndog?
Saturday, June 17, 2006
F1 update and other racing news
remember the indianapolis formula 1 debacle last year?
no? well, read this and you'll be up to speed (so to speak)
and just one year later... federal judge rules on fan law suit.
Honda says there will be no repeat of last years tire problems what with all the testing they've done at Indy already
an axl rose spotting? at silverstone racetrack - as a guest of mercedes benz, yet.
and for those MotoGP fans - valentino rossi rode one hell of a race at Mugello as he and 4 other guys battled one another for the win.
rally racing coming to ireland?
and i couldn't pass up the opportunity to include an article on the World Cup that made mention of the marvelous Maradona
on a personal note: today is my son's 21st birthday.
and as Vizzini in the Princess Bride repeats: INCONCEIVABLE
no? well, read this and you'll be up to speed (so to speak)
and just one year later... federal judge rules on fan law suit.
Honda says there will be no repeat of last years tire problems what with all the testing they've done at Indy already
an axl rose spotting? at silverstone racetrack - as a guest of mercedes benz, yet.
and for those MotoGP fans - valentino rossi rode one hell of a race at Mugello as he and 4 other guys battled one another for the win.
rally racing coming to ireland?
and i couldn't pass up the opportunity to include an article on the World Cup that made mention of the marvelous Maradona
on a personal note: today is my son's 21st birthday.
and as Vizzini in the Princess Bride repeats: INCONCEIVABLE
Monday, June 12, 2006
books, dogs and whatnot
i’ve been taking petra the wonder wimp to this dog park melissa found for the last couple of weeks and she LOVES it! sometimes there are 15 or more dogs running crazy there – she sure loves to run. we spent about an hour and a half hanging out and i thought that she’d be real tired when we got back home – but NOPE. she was still a little feisty. later on though, she finally gave in and collapsed into a coma. it’s great watching her play. there was a little white pomeranian who petra thought was her own personal plaything. she tried picking him up by his little harness so he could go wherever she went. the woman who brought the dog, stitch is his name, didn’t seem to mind and actually thought it was funny. also funny – knowing the all the dog’s names, but not their owners.
i forgot to mention that i got my Ozomatli tickets for july. am i excited?
HELL YEAH!!
ok. here’s the long-awaited (yeah, right) booklist:
1) Scott Bradfield’s Dream of the Wolf
2) Cherokee Paul McDonald’s Into the Green
3) Edna OBrien’s Mother Ireland
4) Janice Galloway’s The Trick is to Keep Breathing
5) Bino Relauyo’s The Umbrella Country
6) Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s Inland Ice and Other Stories
7) Neil Gaiman’s Angels & Visitations
8) Don Winslow’s The Power of the Dog
9) Lori Lansen’s The Girls
10) Colson Whitehead’s Apex Hides the Hurt
11) Juan Ramirez’s A Patriot After All: The Story of a Chicano Vietnam Vet
12) Juan Felipe Herrera’s Mayan Drifter: Chicano poet in the lowlands of America
13) Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway: A True Story
14) Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus: the story behind who changed the Bible and why
i forgot to mention that i got my Ozomatli tickets for july. am i excited?
HELL YEAH!!
ok. here’s the long-awaited (yeah, right) booklist:
1) Scott Bradfield’s Dream of the Wolf
2) Cherokee Paul McDonald’s Into the Green
3) Edna OBrien’s Mother Ireland
4) Janice Galloway’s The Trick is to Keep Breathing
5) Bino Relauyo’s The Umbrella Country
6) Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s Inland Ice and Other Stories
7) Neil Gaiman’s Angels & Visitations
8) Don Winslow’s The Power of the Dog
9) Lori Lansen’s The Girls
10) Colson Whitehead’s Apex Hides the Hurt
11) Juan Ramirez’s A Patriot After All: The Story of a Chicano Vietnam Vet
12) Juan Felipe Herrera’s Mayan Drifter: Chicano poet in the lowlands of America
13) Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway: A True Story
14) Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus: the story behind who changed the Bible and why
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