ok, enough already

now playing: nik everett, "love equals blue"



i sure am tired of being told what a great american ronald reagan was.

i felt a bit of a sense of loss initially when i had heard he died, but that sure didn't take long to evaporate in the face of all the lapses of memory that the endless parade of talking heads in the media have been subjected to.

a couple of quick bursts of history, here and here, for those of us too self-absorbed to have been paying attention at the time....


also took a great deal of guilty pleasure in this post on moby's journal, although i should realistically be terrified...our country is being run by the blues brothers?


"we're on a mission from God...."


i find myself sitting here, thinking about the events of the past few years, and the religiously-driven rhetoric that spews forth from this administration, and i can't help but come back, over and over, to the fact that precious few of jesus' teachings show up in these peoples' agendas. this was evident in the reagan era, and it's evident today.

what would jesus do, indeed? would he invent some carelessly thrown together agenda for going to war and slaughtering people for the betterment of the bank account of some influential friends? would he allow an agenda of greed to expand the divide that separates the haves from the have nots?

as a spiritual person who believes in God, i'm appalled that my elected officials would do these things in jesus' name...acting as a self-appointed representative of God, doing God's alleged will by enforcing it in other nations where we have no right to do so, save for the rights we've assumed for ourselves.

somehow, i have a hard time picturing jesus wearing a robe with pictures of tanks and bombers and a caption reading, "the eagle's pissed off!" on it....although that seems to be a popular notion on the bumper stickers in these parts....

but HEY - latest MSNBC poll shows kerry leading bush by 7 points.

so hopefully, better days are ahead.


the move is official - i gave our landlord notice last night over the phone, and went to drop off her rent check this morning...she met me at the door with a form to sign, and proceeded to tell me that she wanted sixty days' notice, that the lease specified sixty days' notice, that i was forfeiting my right to my security deposit and that she wanted rent for july in addition to that...so i'm thinking there'll be some sparring with her over this situation before we're completely out and all is settled.

i never really gave this much thought - in terms of when we'd be leaving or moving out of her house - but i knew that she'd be the antithesis of maryann ciarlone, my last landlord, who returned my entire deposit, no questions asked...i think she'll end up being more like the landlord before her, who wanted money from us over and above the security deposit that they weren't returning to pay for the padding they put on their itemized list of deductions from the deposit for things like dusting the venetian blinds and such.

moving is a pain in the ass - but this is the last time i plan on doing this for a long, long time.



seriously.