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About Me

My past: activism, management, marketing, journalism, music-related shite. My present: employee training for a do-gooder organization. My hope for the future: let love rule.

My Interests

reading, writing, teaching, listening, sleeping, driving, dog-scratching, and ranting about that sleazebucket George W Bush.

I'd like to meet:

you.

Music:

Coral Sea, Gina Villalobos, Buellton, Dandy Warhols, Pixies, Arcade Fire, Death Cab for Cutie, REM, Mogwai, Cranes, Air, Joy Division, Interpol, Magnapop, Failure and Jawbreaker and Knapsack and their various successor bands, and on and on and on...

Movies:

Raising Arizona, Avalon, Office Space, Almost Famous, First Last and Deposit, anything with Wallace n' Gromit

Television:

is largely evil

Books:

Fave writers of fiction: T.C. Boyle, Nick Hornby, and the crew from The Onion. Of nonfiction: Greg Palast, Noam Chomsky, Molly Ivins.

Heroes:

FDR. MLK. Truman. Mandela. Gandhi. Rachel Carson. Jane Adams. Robert Scheer. Bob Mould. Henry Gonzales. Peter Hyoguchi. My dog. Many others. In our lesser moments, sometimes we forget: a great many people emphatically do not suck, at least not on balance.

My Blog

Fun with murder.

Anybody want to help me murder the asshole in the apartment building across the street who thinks the entire neighborhood wants to hear his subwoofers? The cops would probably dismiss it as a ga...
Posted by Dennis on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:44:00 PST

We are looking for a sofa.

We are looking for a sofa. A cool, mid century modern looking sofa. Or at least a sofa that can be outfitted with groovy pillows to conceal its fundamental ungrooviness. Also we have...
Posted by Dennis on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:42:00 PST

MySpace has become Friendster. But worse.

Remember when we all were on Friendster? And then Friendster got really slow, and then they started ruining the fun by cracking down fakester alter egos, and everyone was like "fuck this" and we...
Posted by Dennis on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:14:00 PST

We found a house!

Yes, we found a house! We signed the lease a couple days ago.A really beautiful house, at that. 3 bedroom, 2 story, new everything, fenced yard, huge shade tree, all the accoutrements of s...
Posted by Dennis on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:48:00 PST

We need a dog-friendly house immediately if not sooner.

AAARGH! Marcie and I (and Wally the 35-pound yellow dog) need a place. That's the short version. Here's the long version: Our landlord here at Casa Arriba had originally figured we'd ...
Posted by Dennis on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:58:00 PST

Capital One Max Hassle Card

So I get one of these balance transfer offers in the mail from Capital One, 5.9% forever. I call and do the transfer over the phone, with an actual person, verifying every bit verbally to be sur...
Posted by Dennis on Sun, 20 May 2007 10:48:00 PST

euthanizing a pet

As you may know, I had to put Nikko down. My faithful dog of many years had heart problems, lung problems, and lots of other problems, which had dramatically reduced her quality of life, a...
Posted by Dennis on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 12:20:00 PST

blah.

I'm flat broke.And my biggest decision this week is what date I want my dog euthanized. Some time after I get paid would be good. Or maybe I can just have my (furry) best friend killed on credit...
Posted by Dennis on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:06:00 PST

Gates vs. Rumsfeld

So...Bush replaces Rumsfeld with Gates. Gates...the guy who, according to former colleagues at the CIA, cooked intelligence for the Reagan administration in order to justify secretly and illegal...
Posted by Dennis on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 01:47:00 PST

http://www.loosechangeguide.com/LooseChangeGuide.html

The Loose Change movie circulating the internet, which suggests that there were no airline passengers in the planes that hit the Pentagon and WTC, and that it wasn't a plane that hit the Pentagon at ...
Posted by Dennis on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:06:00 PST