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jbill

Gore-Obama '08 - You heard it here first

About Me

“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’ ” - from God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

My Interests

Too hot days. Swimming. Showers. Beaches. Waterballoons. Lakes. Water in general. Foul smelling health food drinks. Poetic justice. Backyardginans. Cherries. Other berries except for raspberries. Toothpaste. Vacuum cleaners. Yardwork. Socialism. Congressional oversight. Habeas corpus. Baking stones. Found furniture. Chicken stock.

I'd like to meet:

Ignatius J. Reilly

Music:

Nasty, booger-nose funk.

Movies:

I have hang up about films with a gerund in the title. I saw 'Boxing Helena' when it came out. That was a good title for sick film. It got right to the point yet you were always like, nah, no way, it's got to mean something else. Then I saw 'Chasing Amy' which was an incredibly lame film among a spate of gerund-film titles with 'Helena' envy. These gerund-film titles, likethe films themselves, are vague, cutesy and always smell a little like crap.Not to put too fine a point on it: http://orion.math.iastate.edu/burkardt/movieplay/movie_gerun d.htmlOkay, 'Raising Arizona' also gets a pass for originality and pure awesomeness, film-wise. And 'Being There', which is precisely about the open question of the present continuous vagueness of Being, more like 'Waiting for Godot 'than 'Going Cocoanuts'.

Television:

A Moment of Zen:

Books:

Messiah, by Gore Vidal - A mortician preaches a message that Death is okay, even preferable to Life, and the world embraces both the man and the message with dark, funny and anti-religious results.

Heroes:

All persons, living or dead, in any way involved in the development of contemporary panties.The bra people can go fuck themselves.

My Blog

Grownup Table

I. A Conversation at the Grownup Table, as Imagined at the Kids' TableMOM: Pass the wine, please. I want to become crazy.DAD: O.K.GRANDMOTHER: Did you see the politics? It made me angry.DAD: Me, too. ...
Posted by jbill on Sat, 05 May 2007 09:06:00 PST

Fun with Factoids

Fox News viewers supported George Bush over John Kerry by 88 percent to 7 percent. No demographic segment, other than Republicans, was as united in supporting Bush. Conservatives, white evangelical Ch...
Posted by jbill on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:32:00 PST

Happy Birthday Iraq War! (My How You Have Grown)

Happy Fourth Birthday, Iraq War! .. google_ad_section_start --> Guess who's almost old enough to be blown up at an Iraqi kindergarten? That's right, it's our little Iraq War  he's turning...
Posted by jbill on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:08:00 PST

Coalition of US Aid Recipients

So then I got curious about how rest of the Coalition of the Willing was holding together.  34 countries originally provided troops to Operation Iraqi Freedom:AS of August 2006, there were 21 non...
Posted by jbill on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:10:00 PST

So Long, Havarti. Good Cheer, Lemon Curd.

The Coalition of the Willing is crumbling along with my breakfast options.  Lurking among the nooks of weakness and crannies of betrayal in my Freedom Muffin, perculating in my cup of Freedom Bre...
Posted by jbill on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:32:00 PST