Month: October 2008

I'vechecked out of the election, but I did see this video, which made me laugh. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM0C5wPoL94&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&fs=1] It's a response to this video, which made me want to throw up. If you haven't seen the original "don't vote" condescension from the Gods of Hollywood, then the response video may not make you laugh as hard ... Read more

Hello.I'm kind of too distracted to blog much, and I have no interest in politics, so I'm posting more novel chapters. Hope you don't mind. It won't be all novel all the time, I promise. But your comments on my book are wildly helpful, and I'm addicted to them. I'm going back to the original ... Read more

Okay,this is the last piece of the original Chapter Three. I really recommend reading the whole thing all the way through as one piece, because many of the questions you're asking get answered in due course. If it feels choppy and incomplete, I think that may have something to do with the fact that the ... Read more

Ivoted last week. Now I’m done. I remember election night in 1994, living in DC and calling my brother across the country and gloating as the Republicans came storming out of nowhere to recapture Congress. It was such a delight to watch all the supposedly objective news anchors aghast with horror as America threw the ... Read more

Precursorto the actual chapter: My wife, someone who's actually spent a good deal of time working as a physical therapist in Los Angeles' medical facilities, pointed out after reading the last chapter that the UCLA Medical Center would be directly visible from where Vikki and Lisa crashed, and the idea that they'd head to Westwood ... Read more

Irecently discovered a very cool new music album, produced by a very old friend. It's called Science for Girls, and, despite the title, it's not an educational children's CD. Instead, it's a collection of songs written and produced by Darren Solomon, a New York-based musician who spent a good deal of time touring with ... Read more

Bigotry. What is it? Well, it’s bad. I know that. People refer to conservatives as bigots on a regular basis, and they’re not being especially kind when they do it. It seems we on the Right fit the dictionary definition of those with “stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs ... Read more

“Hehurt me! I can’t believe he hurt me!” Yeah, well, believe it, Lisa Meyer thought, as Vikki blubbered in the passenger seat of the Dennis family’s brand new Jeep. Vikki was still cradling her arm, which seemed, at various times, to be hurting in different places. Drama queen, Lisa thought. Lisa had no patience for ... Read more

Onceupon a time, there were two friends: Scary Pumpkin and Funny the Marble. They were a good pair of buddies. They played football together. And they also were really good at football. They both got touchdowns a lot. Once there was a time when they got tackled ten times. It was scary. The bully is ... Read more

ColinPowell’s endorsement of Barack Obama has me scratching my head in the same way Oliver Stone’s new movie W. does. In both cases, I have to ask myself: who are these people trying to influence? In the case of Powell, I think the endorsement is certainly a blow to McCain, as it adds stature and ... Read more