the perfect date night
11:22 PM
1) Sister-in-law volunteers out of the blue to babysit your 3 children.
2) Lovely wife puts the 3 magic ingredients of Negroni in a bucket of ice after fetching eggplant and chicken from local Sezhuan restaurant.
3) Sipping ruby cocktail under backyard summer rays.
4) Kissing leads to something much naughtier than you do out of doors.
5) You do that voodoo that you do so well.
6) Lovely, perfect wife picks best movie you've seen in ages: funny + smart + sexy = Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.
7) MP3 player on way to pick up kids: Margaret Cho, The Cult.
June 12, 2006
we're #10!
06:48 PM
Normally, this is not a position to trumpet, but what the hell. I guess that makes Portland better educated than all but 9 U.S. cities...
June 11, 2006
i [heart] my neighborhood
10:34 PM
As I held the grocery store door open with my left hand, I heard cheering and then beheld a pack of bicyclists turn from the highly trafficked 39th Ave onto Hawthorne Boulevard.
But there was only one thing missing. Their clothes.
Mostly men, but about a quarter women, cycled leisurely down the two laned haven of free thinkers. A few held signs (uh, can't remember what they said) and I remember a young gent with a plush boa constrictor around his waist.
As they passed on their merry way, an onlooking couple entered the store with me. "Well, you don't see that every day..."
June 01, 2006
rampant voter fraud in 2004 ohio = republican coup d'etat
10:47 PM
"Indeed, the extent of the GOP's effort to rig the vote shocked even the most experienced observers of American elections. 'Ohio was as dirty an election as America has ever seen,' Lou Harris, the father of modern political polling, told me. 'You look at the turnout and votes in individual precincts, compared to the historic patterns in those counties, and you can tell where the discrepancies are. They stand out like a sore thumb.'''
This deeply disturbing research lays out indisputable evidence that the 2004 election was stolen. No U.S. president in history had ever succeeded in stealing consecutive elections until W.
That terrible sinking feeling on that fateful November 2006 evening wasn't the pain of defeat. It was a potentially fatal blow to American democracy.
