there were a couple I brain-freezed on. Why did he put the #$(@)$( eagles in there? I mean, I got it, but they’re SO 70s.

POP CULTURE IS IMPORTANT PEOPLE DAMMIT

No.

NO NO NO. Also, no. Oh god the COMMENTS.

Just the word “blogophobic” was enough to give me a permanent spasm in my eyelid.

Thanks mendel.

SubJ: ha ha you fat ass gimmick copolymer

What song the Sirens sang o’er stormy waves
So that Odysseus strove in vain and raved
Or blast of horn before old Jericho’s walls
Did crumble ‘fore the righteous trumpet’s calls
And even Aeolus’s box of airy blast
Though roaring and tempestuous, fails at last
Can triumph over Apple’s little pearl?

Away, drunk troubadours and skip’d CDs
Fair iPod is the Muse of MP3s.

Miss Williamsburg Pageant

Teleport them into space.

Bush uses new nickname for senator

LINCOLN, Nebraska (AP) — Sen. Ben Nelson finally has succeeded in getting President Bush to stop calling him by the nickname “Nellie.”

Bush had been referring to the Nebraska Democrat as “Nellie” since 2001.

Nelson disliked the nickname and had asked the president to stop using it.

The president likes to give people nicknames. He has called Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, “Pootie-Poot,” while aide Karen Hughes gets “High Prophet.”

But Bush heeded Nelson’s request to scrap his moniker, and at the recent White House Christmas party, the president referred to Nelson as “Benny.”

“The president had a twinkle in his eye when he called me that,” Nelson said. “He knew what he had done. I said, ‘Thank you, Mr. President.”‘

If it’s bittersweet you like, I’ve got half of that.

Today I marched through the false Spring leaning into an invisible wind. My red shoes, intended to cheer me up, were clean and neatly tied. I wrote a check for brain improvement, drank coffee, fought back waves of fear and horror, and cracked jokes. The following adjectives described me: glib, nuanced, dyspeptic, melancholy, narcissistic, irritable, anxious, fearful, itchy.

There was a madman walking up Dover drive as I arrived for therapy. He stopped to carefully comb his big bristly grey madman’s beard and then went back to humping it up the hill. Later he showed up at D’s and smoked in the corner looking like the wise homeless madman in a movie. However, I think he was just a regular madman.

You can’t be the chorus in your own play, it turns out. You’re stuck with “protagonist”. Stupid rule.

1. http://www.martinlutherking.org/ is an anti King site run by white supremacists
2. King’s speeches in their official repository at Stanford online are only available as PDF’s which you cannot print or fully save to your hard drive because of jacked-up DRM.
3. All the websites about him are horrible. They all have missing parts, or their DNS is blown up, or they are full of typos, or they’re tiresome agitprop for some other cause.
4. James Bevel, the guy who made that wonderful speech I quoted below, has since been Lyndon LaRouche’s running mate and shilled for the Moonies.

Reminds me of King’s remark in one of his sermons about life being a process of building a temple and never quite getting there.