mushin no shin

Marsha Blackburn, William Jenkins, John Duncan, & Zach Wamp vote against states’ rights.
Jim Cooper, Harold Ford, Bart Gordon, Lincoln Davis, & John Tanner vote against individual rights.
Marsha Blackburn, William Jenkins, John Duncan, & Zach Wamp vote against smaller government.
Jim Cooper, Harold Ford, Bart Gordon, Lincoln Davis, & John Tanner vote against medical privacy.
In related news, [...]

It started out as a normal week. Fuck.
Wednesday: dentist. Numb ’til 8:30 or so. Put off regular karate class to Thursday makeup.
Thursday, 3:30 AM: wake-up in order to get to work by 5:00 AM
Thursday, 5:00 AM: arrive at work, time to take the new Google Checkout service live on our site. Fix a stupid bug [...]

(meme courtesy of amy)
one word
no explanations
no exceptions
so sayeth the bulletin lord

Yourself:
healing
Your crush:
developing
Your Father:
forgiven
Your Favorite Item:
memory
Your dream last night:
forgotten
Your Favourite Drink:
vodka
Your Dream Home:
soon
The Room You Are In:
dark
Your fear:
conversation
Where you Want to be in Ten Years?
happy
Who you were with 2 nights ago?
fictional
What You’re Not:
simple
Your Best Friend:
distant
One of Your Wish List Items:
immaterial
Your Gender:
male
The Last Thing You did:
pondered
What You [...]

Shuffle play just picked out this weekend’s perfect theme song:
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl,
year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here.
(Although just getting a “hello” would put a huge smile on my [...]

Dude, I was totally going to post the Killing Joke song Eighties to augment this entry, but I just realized that I must have lost or sold my “Laugh? I Nearly Bought One!” disc some point. I suppose I’ll have to pick up another copy now.
Anyway that song wasn’t the point. No, this is about [...]

Just got back from the “Bindlestiff Family Cirkus and Magic Hat Summer Variety Show Tour” — allright, where do I begin…
OK — start with a circus, slice the budget to nil, lose the animals, fit it into a tiny art-theater space, and let the whole thing be performed by six people. Then make it all [...]

Senate one vote away from officially outlawing freedom.

It’s the waiting that’s so hard,
or so they say, but it makes sense –
when we Know but want to question anyhow;
the sane approach I’m sure, but sanity?
Not our suit.
Can we explain
what we don’t understand?
When all we know is wind,
but we’ve no doubt that wind uplifts?
No, we can but feel,
and though feeling brings the fear we [...]

So it seems my new name is:

(disclaimer: I have no idea if I’ve even got this right-side up)
At least, that’s what the Khenpos have named me. The ISO-8859-1 transliteration is “Pema Chojor”, and it means “Lotus who keeps the blessings of the spiritual”. Noooo, that’s not going to encourage my god complex at all… : [...]

Anarchist Cheerleader Elected