blaow! how you like me now
was clinton's an 'honorable' discharge?

ABCNEWS.com : ABC News' The Note: First Source for Political News

a few things:
1) the note, linked above, is certainly, at least for my tastes, the most valuable daily political jump-off out there. my gut tells me that the majority of the poltical reporters out there read it every day, and it's a great way to get the backstory to the headlines. if you care, and you should, you should read it. especially those of you in journalism school, but I know that I don't have to tell you that.

2) it's a bit phony for republicans to answer all investigations of bush's guard service with a reference to his honorable discharge after the 'purple heart' band-aids floating around their convention.

3) that's twice that debates here at Wash U have been cancelled the year I show up (clinton pulled out of the '96 debate). sorry if i jinxed it.

4) i'd like to welcome the counter-trey back to the NFL. thank you, joe gibbs. now will the new cornerback rules make the eagles lack of a secondary devastating or meaningless to their defense? answer that question for me, and I'll be able to handicap the NFC east with awesome and terrifying precision.

holy calamity
scream insanity

Cheney Says 'Wrong Choice' Risks Terrorist Attack (washingtonpost.com)

and that's some more arrogant shit right there.

Mirror.co.uk - BUSH 'TOOK COCAINE AT CAMP DAVID'

That's some arrogant shit right there.

The traditional start of the fall season
work dat twerk dat

Clinton calls Kerry from his deathbed.

The fall has officially begun. Now, if you haven't been paying attention, there's an election on. Now, traditionally, people start paying attention and the race begins in earnest.

(Oh, were it that the race began for Earnest, now that he's back from camp, but no, a man can only dream, and this whole country isn't California)

Anyway, word on the street, and the street being the NYT article above, is that Clinton's bridge-builders are driving through the country in an old cop car, talking about getting the band back together. I'm especially excited about getting Carville back in the game. He's got my favorite kind of crazy in him, crazy like a fox, which I guarantee will contrast well with Zell Miller's batshit rabid feral-dog crazy.

Things to remember for fall:

Joe Gibbs is Back
You will be listening to my radio show over the internet, so block out some time accordingly.
Kerry is historically a good closer, and one of the reasons August was so bad for him that no one is mentioning is that he didb't spend any money.
If you're using a sharp knife to get the pit out of an avocado, use the face of the blade, not the tip of the blade, to cut into the pit. Sure, the tip will work, but what if you miss? What then? If you can't figure it out I'll send you pictures of my left hand. That'll wake you up, Bubba.
Be glad you're not in my fantasy football league.

Cheers. And remember, from here on out, it's a sprint, not a marathon.

CBS 2 Chicago: Dave Matthews Band Blamed For Human Waste

This is news? I've been blaming Dave Mathews for his fans for a long time.....

arrived in st louis.

am once again a st loser.
please stay tuned.

email if you need legal advice. I'm going to do a weekly advice column here.

ex-methhead shoeless w/ remote-controlled harley-riding parakeet in central california motel parking lot, morning. 

a brief program note
then back to your regularly scheduled nothing

so, yeah. I've been laying low for a while. I've been (more or less) unemployed in LA packing and planning for my move across the country, beginning about June 12th. I'll be back in Washington, DC, until about the end of July, at which point I'll be moving to St. Louis, MO, to start law school at Washington University. I did my undergrad studies there as well. I've been back in DC for the last week and a half for a friend's wedding.

It's become clear to me that one of the factors driving me to write here was a desire to avoid doing actual work at my day job. Without a day job, this incentive has disappeared. Thus, radio silence.

I asume that once I start studying in the fall, this motivation will return. I assume I'll start using this space as a stress ball again.

Over the summer I'll be helping my mother clean out my grandmother's house. My grandmother is at an assisted living center in Rockville, MD, and will never return to the house, so we're selling it to help pay for her care. While this work this summer will be stressfull and intense in its own way, I don't know if it will drive me to write here. It may. We'll see.

I'm planning to move to St. Louis a few weeks before school starts in part to register young voters or volunteer for John Kerry. Missouri is a swing state, and I'd love to help it swing the right way.

In the fall, though, I should be back, and hope to make the title of this site somewhat appropriate. I'll try to offer hasty, half-baked legal advice, perhaps in a weekly feature column. Other than that, the subtitle may change to: "Selling Out: A punk rocker goes to Law School."

For now, waste your time on the internet somewhere else. I may blog my cross-country trip, but it's far more likely that I'll just enjoy it and force you to buy me a beer if you want to hear my stories.

Go wate your time on the internet somewhere else. And if you want me to FedEx you dead cicadas, holler. I'll see what I can do.

split decision
a cheesehead for halloween

those that know me know that there is little i love more in this world than the washington redskins, and there is little i love less in this world than the bush administration. so it broke my heart to see (via CJR's campaign desk) that i must choose between joe gibbs or john kerry this halloween:

The deciding factor in the presidential election, according to Bloomquist, will be the outcome of the Washington Redskins-Green Bay Packers game two days before voters head to the polls. Eighteen straight pre-election Redskins games have predicted the presidency, Bloomquist writes. If the Redskins win, Bush wins. If they lose or tie, look for the moving van that's headed from Washington D.C. to Crawford, Texas.

i pray for a tie.

e-commerce

oh, and the recoys CD is now available from amazon.com

my own private falluja
just tryin' to disengage

so I'm going to st. louis this fall insetad of new york. I'll be studying law for 3 years and doing my best to, you know, keep it real.

I'm trying to get out of los angeles but that eagles song keeps haunting me and hopefully I will be able to leave at some point.

I have OK GO tour pictures.

I have to schedule a going away party.

new york city
angels to apples

odds are i will make my escape from the hotel california before my room service bill gets to the front desk.

new york is the only place big enough in which to hide. i'll be there before the summer is out. until then i'll be studying subway maps.

affordable justice feature: RPS II
alternately, ninja-hunter-bear



it began as an easy way to settle minor disagreements, like who gets to ride shotgun if shotgun is called by more than one person. it grew into a drunken betting pastime. propelled by force of character, the game rock paper scissors has become an international sensation, to be included in this summers centennial olympic games.



and, if you don't mind my saying so, I'm damn good at it. damn good.



last summer, under a bridge in downtown los angeles, dozens of the best RPS-throwers in the western US converged to determine who might be the best in the land. the winner? an unassuming criminal named "Da Burgla." he entered the tournament a man. he left a legend.



two weekends ago, our friends at a-diction held the second los angeles regional rock paper scissors contest in as many years.



money changed hands all night, but the crowds came to witness the crowning of a new champion. this year, that would not be me. i finished third, but another man stepped up to challenge last years champion in the finals:



the challenger had an exciting, crisp style, but the champion would not be shaken easily.



who would prevail? you'll have to check the whole photo album to find out.

I met my love by the gas works wall
Dreamed a dream by the old canal
Kissed a girl by the factory wall
(Dirty old town, dirty old town...)


happy st. pattys, everyone.

The Irish are backstabbing, gossiping and begrudging, with a tendency to mindless violence. But they're faults that all people have. You can't say the Irish are worse than anyone else. Their faults are few. But the last thing the Irish are is perfectionists. And they're more interested in having a good time than in making millions. Lazy.

Shane MacGowan, from A Drink With Shane MacGowan

i lost my full time job a few weeks ago, and have been scrounging for work and food recently, sitting on my ass to save money and enjoying having the time to cook. so that's where I've been, kind readers. accept my total lack of care with respect to your missing me; the last thing I am is a perfectionist.

i have been keeping it real, however. eventually, I'll put up some pretty pictures of one hell of a party/contest that was held last saturday: RPS II, the second annual LA invitational rock-paper-scissors championship. I finished 3rd and gave out free mohawks -- my persona was "the Barber."

but tonight, anyhow, i raise a pint of black to you. erin go, brah....

you got bored...
honey, that makes two of us.....

i got back from the walkies tour a week ago, but was too exhausted to even think until today. so to everything and everyone that i ignored, sorry. pictures, eventually, on another site.

it's kerry v bush, i guess. no real news there. anyone else find "super tuesday" less than super? hell, i went all the way to new hampshire, but didn't even vote today. back then it mattered, and back then (in the 'before time,' the 'long, long ago') i hadn't seen that urban outfitters t-shirt.

i've gotten into a few journalism schools so far. i might end up in LA, evanston, or college park this fall. no word yet on nyc.

bling.