mushin no shin

So I’m wrapping up my holiday, back to work tomorrow. Of course we’ll party again tomorrow night for new years, so we aren’t entirely back to reality, but we’re winding down.
Anyway I’m sort of annoyed because I’m going to have to drink nothing but the good vodka tonight — I’m out of the cheap [...]

There aren’t too many professions whose lips are more permanently affixed to the teat of government than those of lawyers and royal estate agents — so it is rather amusing to see one of each going on about the evils of government. But my appreciation of the irony aside, the toxic stench of burning strawmen [...]

Weeeee, that one was a doozy, eh? Maybe I should stick to wine tonight. I did get a fancy new bottle opener from my sister for Christmas that needs breaking in.
Meanwhile, back in sobriety, lets catch up on a few fragments.
Heehee, this just showed up at Netflix:

Jonathan, the following movies were chosen based on your [...]

Well I suppose we should continue the series wrapped around movies I’ve watched this vacation while drunk. So Wednesday at the Belcourt I saw Margot at the The Wedding, and tonight On Demand delivered Bewitched.
The combination leaves me thinking about the time that I too was in love with an actress named Nicole.
Simpkiss, as it [...]

Allright, so I’m drunk blogging again. Shut up, I’m on vacation.
Anyway I just watched The Pursuit of Happiness. Great film, but what’s bugging me is I’m seem to remember some mumblings about it being a good pro-conservative-values film.
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Are you fucking kidding me?
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First of course being, “hard-work-triumphs” is not a value exclusive to conservatism, no matter [...]

the poet? laughing, hardly.
words like jazz; the river’s water
rampaging through his submerged hands
he captures by cupping
very little
oh certainly he assuredly
plays with placement and pronunciation,
enunciation; still an actor though at core,
a vaudeville comic skilled
in serving satire
in surreal sincerity;
loving language, and — its sensuality
But poetry?
Not me.
Not, at least, in that which I
know how to let you see.

Interesting compilation of presidential candidates responses to the International Campaign for Tibet. Richardson’s response was excellent of course, though to be fair every response — of those who have responded — is acceptable. Really it’s a no-brainer, it’s the sort of thing you just don’t answer unless you have the right answer.
So naturally, silence from [...]

Awesome.
Lakota Sioux Indians Declare Sovereign Nation Status
see also: USA Today.
An interesting footnote is that Russell Means was in the running for the Libertarian Party’s presidential nod back in 1988. Sadly he lost to a xenophobe with a womb control fetish named Ron Paul.

Sigh. Internet Explorer will be the death of me.
The proper CSS rule should be display:table-row. Firefox like this a lot better and expands the TR without the mangling. But IE for Windows will throw an error, because — unlike its MacIE cousin — it doesn’t support table-row.
A few more things I learned, though I suppose [...]