Which hand do you use?

While taking a shower yesterday I poured shampoo into my left hand before smearing it into my hair. For a second I didn't know what to do with it. I hadn't realized before that moment that since day one I had been holding the shampoo bottle in my left hand and pouring the shampoo into the palm of my right hand. I stood there for a second while my brain adjusted itself to the new configuration. My body had been so conditioned to applying shampoo to my scalp with my right hand that when I attempted to do it with my left it was like I was performing the task backwards. I got through it but a shower is supposed to be a serene activity not one of such shock.

Irresponsible journalism

Here is the current headline on Drudgreport: "WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN MCCLELLAN CALLS AIR AMERICA SKIT 'VERY INAPPROPRIATE AND OVER THE LINE'"

Here is the exchange from McClellan's press briefing from today that this headline is lifted from: "Q: If I could get your comment on another matter, somewhat off the news. Yesterday on the radio network Air America, there was a skit that went like this -- an announcer said, "A spoiled child is telling us our Social Security isn't safe anymore so he's going to fix it for us, well here's your answer you ungrateful" -- and there was then an audio sound of four gunshots. "Just try it, you little bastard," the announcer continued. And there was the audio of a gun being cocked. Do you have any comment on that?

MR. McCLELLAN: I haven't heard anything about it until you must mentioned it, but it sounds very inappropriate and over the line to me from the way you described it."

That's it, I'm through with Drudge. I like to go there because he does link to interesting stories but this is jut plain lying.

I dreamed I went home during lunch

Actually I did. Coming back to work is the dreamy part. I shot outta here about 7 minutes after four. Swung by Qdoba, grabbed me a beef burrito and jetted over to my home for a quiet 35 minutes of chomping. For my lunch entertainment I watched a section of my Bill Hicks DVD (the part about wanting his rock stars dead). My after lunch entertainment was a quick game of NCAA March Madness on the ole Xbox. Usually I lay down and close my eyes for a fifteen minutes when I go home for lunch but today I desired some video game action. I'll sleep when I'm on vacation in about eight days.

He's so open to other cultures

You know, I've seen teenage Japanese girls do this and it's cute. With these two it's...uhhhh...not so cute.

Livin', Lovin', Writin' Poetry

Here's a nice little article on the new book by Donald Hall.

Hot diggity!

I just got back from the the Evening Muse (a great little club we should all frequent more often). What musician did I see tonight? I'm glad you asked. I saw Dave Alvin play an acoustic show. Well, not entirely acoustic. His sideman was playing a Fender Stratocaster for most of the night. Now and then he would sit down and play a lap steel. I don't want to stoop to hyperbole but it was like seeing Neil Young, Bob Dylan or Paul Kelly in a small room. It couldn't have been better. Here's a picture of Dave. See, he's smiling and having a good time and so was I. Where in the hell were you?

Another trip to the Cafe Wha?

I've been thinking about this quote all day and all I can think of is either Tom Delay as completely flipped his top or he must have done some seriously unethical shit to get this bombastic about judges. I don't recall ever hearing about a politician so specifically singling out a Supreme Court Justice before. Maybe it happened in the past. Lots of things went of 100 years ago that don't take place these-a-days. If you haven't read it allow me to quote it hear:

"Asked if he would include any Supreme Court justices among those he considers activist and isolated, DeLay singled out Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who was named to the court by President Ronald Reagan. "Absolutely," DeLay replied. "We've got Justice Kennedy writing decisions based upon international law, not the Constitution of the United States. That's just outrageous. And not only that, but he said in session that he does his own research on the Internet? That is just incredibly outrageous.""

I took this from the Illustrated Daily Scribble site. He did a good cartoon about the internet portion of this quote. I saw that too and wondered about it. Does this guy even remotely know what he is talking about? I almost expect him to call it "the internets." I do see where he is coming from though. No decent American would use the same tool to do legal research that can also be used to download pictures of Jesse Helms fucking sheep. That would be ludicrous. I keep hoping these nutjobs keep going over the deep end so that eventually even their supporters are going to open the paper one day and say, "What the fuck? Lesbians stole your soul? Who elected these goobers?"

No one has said this better yet

From Freeman Dyson's 'New York Review of Books' review of "Armageddon: The Battle for Germany" by Max Hastings: "The history of World War II teaches us several lesson that are still valid today. First is the immense importance of the Geneva Conventions on humane treatment of prisoners in mitigating the human costs of war...It is not possible to calculate the numbers of lives saved in the West and lost in the East (European fronts). The numbers certainly amount to hundreds of thousands in the West and millions in the East. Americans who are trying today to weaken or evade the Geneva rules are acting shortsightedly as well as immorally."

Once again may god continue to bless George W. Bush.

Them two poets

I've been reading this guy's poetry and essays for years now. It's good to see he has a new book out. It's funny I saw someone mention Jane Kenyon on the likes column of their blog today and now I see this story about her husband, Donald Hall. Funny how stuff like that works.

So normal it hurts

"Mr. Hughes told about an exchange in which Speer said that architecture was certainly one way to unite a people, but that if the Nazis had had television, there would have been no stopping them.

Mr. Crumb, finishing his plate of baked chicken, beamed. "Oh, that's great," he said. "It's true.""