Stranded on the infomercial highway...

/sigh

2008-11-10T14:57:46Z

This just in.

Barack Obama is very very very cool. The fact that he is President-Elect is way cooler.

But the man is not Jesus.

So chill. Dig?

Ok. I'm sold.

2008-08-23T09:04:19Z

I have, with the few of you I've spoken to about this, made no bones about my uncertainties concerning Barack Obama.

It's 5am and I haven't gone to bed yet so I'm not gonna go into too great detail here. Suffice it to say that by tapping Joe Biden as VP Obama has made a choice to go with someone who will be an enormous asset as he runs the country, instead of picking someone on the merits of political gamesmanship.

It's the kind of choice I've been waiting for. It confirms the promise of his oratory, which echoes the potential that Bobby Kennedy showed in his brief campaign before being gunned down.

Obama is the real deal. More later when I've had sleep.

or maybe

2008-01-01T03:16:06Z

Here we go again.

2008-01-01T02:14:38Z

not a poem. more self therapy

2007-07-16T15:43:04Z

"You are fucking beautiful.

I have more to say, but not here-
except I love you,
which I'm not afraid to say anywhere."

...

"more to say" (of course)

came later

and (of course)

i refused to hear it.
though
to be fair
she refused
to actually speak the words

(to me at least)

...

"i find you repulsive"

"it was a mistake to ever sleep with you"

"i can't stand being around you anymore"

"you make me sick"

"don't touch me, it makes my skin crawl"

"i don't want you near me"

"i wish you would leave me alone"

"you are so ugly"

...

while slow to recognize
these truths at first

(i totally get it now)

...

and (of course) i feel betrayed

it makes me want to shrivel
and
fucking die

it makes me want to shout warnings from the rooftops
it makes me so..

so fucking sad.

and it makes me wonder
whether you only hang around

because you've nowhere else to go..

and that
makes me even sadder

because if thats it.. if that's all

then it was entirely a lie
and not just the part where you said you wanted me

...

i

am a monster.

i get it.

i tried to force you to love me
(not with my hands)
but
with
my heart

...

i will never make that mistake again.

...

that's
it.

i'm fucking done now

bitch.

From the edge of the deep green sea...

2007-07-07T18:48:07Z

"i think i've reached that point
where giving up and going on
are both the same dead end to me
are both the same old song"
~Robert Smith

...

2006-09-30T14:46:44Z

i regret nothing.

(but damn it hurts.)

yo ho ho. and you smell like an egg.

2006-09-06T15:36:36Z

i'm in richmond taking photos. will post some later.

Yoyos and a bottle of tums.

2006-05-29T08:01:59Z

So I'm still waiting for the new book to be released. Which is bumming me out. Taking its sweet ass time on the account that the publisher is very very small. The third book is coming along.

I'm probably going to close the store soon. Need to get a straight job to support the householde that is reforming. Hopefully all will be well by the end of June. I've got to do some hustling between now and then to make ends meet. Anyone who's looking for a good deal on a laptop, let me know. I've got a nice Sony Vaio for sale. 2.8 ghz pentium 4 with a dvd combo drive, 512k of ram, and a 60gb hard drive I'm trying to get rid of. New battery. Missing two keys that can be ordered from sony. Doesn't really affect anything as you can still push the keys, the just dont have the labels. Is otherwise in great condition with a new aftermarket battery. The same laptop regularly goes for around 700 plus on ebay. Yours for 500 bucks.

I had a job interview for a web designer position. Guy said I have about 80% of what he's looking for. Said he'd give me a call and let me know his decision next week, so fingers crossed. Could be decent enough paying to solve most of my financial tightness of late. And I'd get to work at something I actually enjoy.

Nothing on the girl front at all. Sadly. Not like I'm really looking, but it'd be nice to get laid. Sigh. I'm getting older and probably need to realize I'm not gonna meet anyone on any workable romantic level going to the places I go. Any of the the decent women at the cafe (and surprisingly, there are a few that have perked my interest) are at least 10 years younger than I and just not interested in somebody who isnt a pretty boy with washboard abs. Sad but true. I turned 34 this year, and have been packing that extra 30 lbs too long to get rid of I fear. Doesn't help that I'm losing teeth either. The ravages of hard livin' and miles on miles.

Adira is fantastic. She gets smarter every day. We've started her with a babysitter who spends learning time with her on a daily basis. And she gets more kid to kid interaction than she was before, which is a good thing in my book. I'm truly blessed by her presence in my life, and not really sure how I got along without the extra joy she brings along.

I've started dicking around with some new music projects. We'll see how it goes.

That's all here. Just anted to update for anyone who's paying attention.

Peace love and kermit de frogs.

Zombie Nation; The Necrophilia of Neo-Conservatism

2006-03-26T08:58:59Z

http://doc-cynic.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/26/146438-zombie-nation-the-necrophilia-of-neo-conservatism

I've started an alt over at newsvine to write the way I actually like to. This way, I can keep my reasonable, even handed, journalistic persona shielded from my more raving pissed off liberal bastard side. Hope ya'll enjoy. =)

Another new Newsvine article.

2006-03-17T09:05:30Z

http://beatniqe.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/17/136790-profiles-in-islam-2-of-5-mahmoud-ahmadinejad

This time on the President of Iran. Enjoy.

Profiles in Islam (1 of 5); Pervez Musharraf

2006-03-09T08:00:16Z

Hey all, this is first in a series of five that I'm writing over at News-vine.

You can read it here:
http://beatniqe.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/09/126244-profiles-in-islam-1-of-5-pervez-musharraf

If you like the article, please up mark it by clicking on the number immediately after the start a chat box. A few of us are actively attempting to improve the overall quality of News-vine articles, in the hope that the community will attract a higher class of intelligence.

Thanks. =)

New Newsvine Article.

2006-03-05T04:31:58Z

http://beatniqe.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/04/119351-rotten-in-dakota-a-dishonest-abortion-debate

New Newsvine article.

2006-02-28T13:18:14Z

http://beatniqe.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/28/112441-the-tyranny-of-they-inside-the-port-controversy

newsvine invites

2006-02-22T22:59:24Z

i've go 18 invites left, for anyone who wants em. email me a request to my gmail account, dartagan and i'll get you in =)

My blog.

2006-02-22T18:19:55Z

I've started a newsvine blog. You may view it here:

http://beatniqe.newsvine.com/

Go. See. Drive up my page rank. =)

the candidate

2006-02-08T17:58:29Z

the candidate

2006-01-29T07:13:42Z

the candidate

2006-01-28T06:23:30Z

this makes me want to vomit.

2006-01-22T13:10:24Z

Exposing "Radical" Professors

Please take the time to read this.

2006-01-18T12:16:44Z

I know many of you on my friends list can't stand the sound of politics and feel a deep sense of cynicism about our government.

I am asking you to set that aside.

I know some of you find the subject incomprehensible and utterly boring.

I am asking you to try, out of any respect for me that you may have, to read and think about this subject carefully.

A few days ago, Al Gore (and I know many of you may have preconceived notions of the man, but i'm asking that you PLEASE set them aside and consider the words here alone) gave a speech about Bush's wiretapping. This speech is already being dismissed out of hand by republican sources. Some of you may think that it's no big deal. Or that it really doesn't matter what we do, the government has always been doing these things. This is not reality speaking, it is our cynicism, cynicism inured within you for the sole purpose of eliminating you from the process and equatons of our government. Set it all aside, and simply read the excerpts below:

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"As we begin this new year, the Executive Branch of our government has been caught eavesdropping on huge numbers of American citizens and has brazenly declared that it has the unilateral right to continue without regard to the established law enacted by Congress to prevent such abuses."

"A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government. Our Founding Fathers were adamant that they had established a government of laws and not men. Indeed, they recognized that the structure of government they had enshrined in our Constitution - our system of checks and balances - was designed with a central purpose of ensuring that it would govern through the rule of law. As John Adams said: "The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men."

"Thomas Paine, whose pamphlet, "On Common Sense" ignited the American Revolution, succinctly described America's alternative. Here, he said, we intended to make certain that "the law is king."

"When President Bush failed to convince Congress to give him all the power he wanted when they passed the AUMF, he secretly assumed that power anyway, as if congressional authorization was a useless bother."

"For example, the President has also declared that he has a heretofore unrecognized inherent power to seize and imprison any American citizen that he alone determines to be a threat to our nation, and that, notwithstanding his American citizenship, the person imprisoned has no right to talk with a lawyer-even to argue that the President or his appointees have made a mistake and imprisoned the wrong person."

"The President claims that he can imprison American citizens indefinitely for the rest of their lives without an arrest warrant, without notifying them about what charges have been filed against them, and without informing their families that they have been imprisoned."

"At the same time, the Executive Branch has claimed a previously unrecognized authority to mistreat prisoners in its custody in ways that plainly constitute torture in a pattern that has now been documented in U.S. facilities located in several countries around the world."

"The President has also claimed that he has the authority to kidnap individuals in foreign countries and deliver them for imprisonment and interrogation on our behalf by autocratic regimes in nations that are infamous for the cruelty of their techniques for torture."

"If the President has the inherent authority to eavesdrop, imprison citizens on his own declaration, kidnap and torture, then what can't he do?"

You can get the full speech here:
http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2006/01/17/20060117_001800_flash1g.htm

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The President has broken the law. He is justifying these actions through an assertion that these wiretaps protect the country as he is empowered to do as commander in chief. I'll ask you the following:

Is anyone out there comfortable with the thought of the US Army monitoring your phone conversations?

Not happy with this? Call your congressman. Especially if you have a republican congressman. Make sure whoever is on the other end of the line understands that this is the first time you've ever made a call like this. That you don't usually follow politics. That you could care less bout replicans or democrats. And that you simply cannot understand why Congress is allowing the president to break the law.

If you need the number let me know and i'll get it for you. If you need a phone to make the call, let me know. I'll gladly come to where you are and let you use mine.

It'll make a difference. I promise you.

the candidate

2006-01-14T07:21:15Z

the candidate

2006-01-13T05:53:11Z

the candidate

2006-01-12T04:15:39Z

the candidate

2006-01-08T05:42:15Z