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John

About Me

"If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.""Who are you and how did you get in here?" "I'm a locksmith, and I'm a locksmith."

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Myself. My cat. My fish (RIP...sniff...). Buddy Holly. Orson Welles. Meister Eckhart. Jacques Tati. Pronk.

My Blog

A plea to CT-04 Democrats

There's a primary today. It's a nuisance, top to bottom, pitting a candidate who has been vetted every which way and fervently supported by every legitimate body in the district and state against a p...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:24:00 GMT

I can has cheezcandidate? Or sometimes the satire writes itself.

Anybody notice the McCain campaign stop the other day where he was touring a supermarket to show how the man who claimed to know nothing about the economy (until he claimed he didn't claim that) was s...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:35:00 GMT

Why I’m the new kid in Obamaville

So here I am, writing my first post on the site, and I'll be honest about this, it's because the guy I supported from day one never got the traction he needed to get the job. That being said, I don't...
Posted by on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:58:00 GMT

Decline and/or Fall, or Life Imitates Baseball, Groupthink Division.

Earlier this fine Connecticut summer day, I was more or less forced to hear some bloviating windbag on sports talk radio expressing the holier-than-someone thought du jour: to wit, how wonderful it ...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:25:00 GMT

Minor League Bronchitis Notes

So there's not a whole heck of a lot else to do when laid up with bronchitis and unable to read more than a few minutes at a pop without one's head and general physical equilibrium starting to feel li...
Posted by on Sat, 05 May 2007 18:18:00 GMT

The Imus Mess: Shoot One To Divert Attention From The Rest?

I don't like the man. He's not amusing. He sucks up to anyone who ever got more than three votes for dog catcher or has ever written a book that got a good review in the New York Times. He said som...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:44:00 GMT

Social Action as Personal Aesthetic, or Hypocrites I Have Known (Left Edition)

So I'm on the train today, and a young woman wearing the requisite left-hipster uniform--dyed black hair, Doc Martens, black stockings, 50s curtains print dress, nose ring, iPod buds stapled to ears, ...
Posted by on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:37:00 GMT

Local Morons (third in an occasional series, or maybe fourth)

So here I am, driving down one of the narrowish side streets in West Hollywood, probably too narrow to have cars parked on both sides, at least if you're an idiot. Anyway, we're all doing reasonably ...
Posted by on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:33:00 GMT

Ripped From The Headlines

This just in (actual real honest-to-goodness headline):  Bush Experiences Dizziness After Golfing In California HeatPity it's the elder Bush, or one might be inclined to quote Dorothy Parker upon...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:26:00 GMT

No Experience Necessary

From the Everybody's A Pundit Department: As the two-year long 2008 Presidential Silly Season gets underway, the vast panoply of opinions as to who will or won't run, who is or isn't "qualified" to be...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 01:18:00 GMT