Year: 2005

“The guy had a municipal beard.”

(The Hives)++
(The Cirivellos Sisters)++
(Kappa Honda restaurant)++
(The Ford GT)++
(Okonomiyaki)++
(Onigiri with eel)++
(The waitresses at House of Blues Anaheim in general)++
(The Hives again)++
Subaru++
Audi++

(The Lincoln Mark LT)–
(Suzuki America’s Spelling Skills)–
(The mixed flavors of Altoids gum and spicy jerky)–

Altogether this adds up to the positive. Holy crap the Hives are a great live band. Holy CRAP. Haven’t had so much fun at a show in ages. They did a Saints song which made me feel happy in my punk place. Huge thanks to the Cirivello gals for the late-notice invite. Also especially to redmaenad for driving and for introducing me to an incredibly good Japanese restaurant.

Had a great day with zebulon_y at the L.A. auto show. More about that later if I get my car geek on.

The best cheese for this is the German Humpenkäse…

…but a nice Frottagine or some handmade unpasteurized Great Rutting works.

Tonight at D’s a fortyish man was trying to strike up a conversation with a couple of girls who looked about 15. One hopes he was just trying to feel with-it and youthful, but it could have been more sinister. Tamara reported that he was trying to talk music but couldn’t seem to get past 1992 or so “I like the Gin Blossoms!”. When he went to go get a refill the girls buried their heads in their hands and stared at each other with wild eyes of despair.

Tonight for dinner I made a really good soup out of: butternut squash, onion, carrot, lentils, sweet red pepper, ginger, and garam masala. I’m starting to like squash a lot more since I make it into soup rather than trying to eat it on its ownsome.

Is, or is not caffeine a physical addiction? It’s the only “drug” I can’t seem to quit. I can take or leave nicotine and alcohol, but if I don’t get my coffee it’s an ugly scene.

Zeb is gonna be here Saturday night. Who’s partying with us? I SAY WHO?

Okay, I give in, I’ll use the word.

This is, in a word, fascism. A huge military ceremony, locked in and out and down, costing an insane sum paid for by the desperately poor, and “in honor of” the soldiers serving far, far away. Please don’t wave your own flag; we’ll have someone to do that for you. I can feel my will being triumphed from here.

Ring of steel as Bush sworn in

A few square miles of central Washington will be transformed into an armed camp next week as the biggest security operation in the city’s history is mounted for President Bush’s inauguration.

When Mr Bush and his vice-president, Dick Cheney, are sworn in for the second time on the steps of the Capitol building at midday on Thursday, the US government will be at its most vulnerable. Just about every member of the executive, Congress and the supreme court will be in the same place.

To protect them, 6,000 police officers, 2,500 soldiers and hundreds of secret service officers will flood the area around Capitol Hill and Pennsylvania Avenue, the route of the inaugural parade, scanning the expected 750,000-strong crowd of supporters and protesters.
the most secure party ever

Key concepts

Just so we’re all on the same page and on message, here are the talking points and focus bullets for the current discussion:

  • Terrycloth monkey mothers
  • Gluten-free military units
  • The Rapture and pets
  • Open-source gardening: bête noire or shibboleth?
  • Sunsetting jam bands in your enterprise
  • What you don’t know about your child’s neckwear
  • Faith-based gateway drugs
  • Flan safety
  • Dietary Fiber and the Polisario Liberation Front: Four Rules You Need to Know
  • False Omelet Syndrome
  • The Bible Key to “Party of Five” episodes
  • Greek stuff

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