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Johnny on the Border

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About Me

I've been a lot of things in my thirty-eight years, and I guess they all led me to exactly this spot, at exactly this moment.

Fair enough. Let's get on with it then.

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My Interests

Seeing This Guy Elected President:

General Interests, cont'd.

Reckless Horsepower

Great Literature

Fine Guitars

Things Better Left Unsaid

(Not necessarily in that order)

I'd like to meet:

My Maker. We've got a thing or two to discuss.

Music:

Georgia Satellites. Dylan. Cash. Rolling Stones. Prince. Bowie. Reckless Kelly. Ramones. Many others.

Movies:

Cool Hand Luke. Revolver. Blade Runner. When We Were Kings. Dog Day Afternoon. High Plains Drifter. Team America World Police. Desperado. Dr Strangelove.

Documentaries, Tragedy not Comedy, Depp, DeNiro, Tarentino, Pacino, Bruce Lee, Westerns, Samurai.

Television:

CSPAN
Fights of all sorts
AZ Cardinals Football

Books:

Notes from Underground. Don Quixote. Walden. Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Gore Vidal, Nietzche, Shakespeare, Foucault, others, but most importantly The Constitution of the United States of America.

Heroes:

Muhammad Ali. Thomas Jefferson. Pablo Picasso. Daffy Duck. Andy Warhol. Bruce Lee. Keith Richards.

My Blog

Congress Finally Does Something

We are a nation of laws, with all persons equal under those laws.  Even though this Republic has more than a few problems, that's our anchor.  That's what makes us different from places...
Posted by Johnny on the Border on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:43:00 PST

Her Sign is Nicer than Mine Would Be

You know, I was thinking the other day about the Bush campaigns and their "free speech zones" hidden behind chain-link fences and tarps (and all this time I thought the USA was a free speech...
Posted by Johnny on the Border on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:37:00 PST

You Dont Have to Go Home, but You Cant Stay Here

Regular readers around here will remember a post from a little while ago talking about the Iraqi leadership basically saying, "Thanks for coming; the party's over; please leave now." I may have mentio...
Posted by Johnny on the Border on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:14:00 PST

One of the Good Guys

You know, I've been thinking about it and over the years I've been offered quite a few potentially lucrative jobs.  Sort of makes me wonder about the people I've somehow become associated with - ...
Posted by Johnny on the Border on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:10:00 PST

Unsure (As Usual)

I'm seriously thinking about abandoning this blog.  Seems I don't usually have a lot of nice things to say; instead I fill it with wrath and cynicism without even really working out what's g...
Posted by Johnny on the Border on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:53:00 PST

Lives, Fortune, and Sacred Honor

Here's the rest of that Declaration of Independence thing, with a few notes of my own thrown in for good measure: Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity ...
Posted by Johnny on the Border on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:01:00 PST

Screw It. Weve Got Fireworks and Beer.

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separa...
Posted by Johnny on the Border on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:05:00 PST

Its a Party, and Everyones Invited

Let's briefly return to politics on this fine Wednesday afternoon.  It's a couple of days before we celebrate our independence after all, so it seems an appropriate time to look at some recent "e...
Posted by Johnny on the Border on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:36:00 PST

Random Thoughts

Well, it's officially July now.  Summertime.  Barbeques and swimming pools.  Good times. My attention span is completely shot to hell though, so that's about all I've got to say on the ...
Posted by Johnny on the Border on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:43:00 PST

Woke Up Drunk from the Night Before

So here's what I understand. I'm a bit past my prime.  If this were a dogfight, I'd be the old dog.  There's gray in my beard, and I'm growing hair in places I never expected to grow hair. I...
Posted by Johnny on the Border on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:57:00 PST