jamie lawrence-howard • highly absorbent redundant and superfluous verbiage • clogging tubes since 9.1.98
boy have i been lazy.
not really. i helped cook thanksgiving dinner, and more importantly, i ate it, which takes much more time. i also helped put together all of our holiday cards. it’s kirk’s year to design it (we take turns) but i help out. not to mention everyday life stuff.
so i haven’t blogged for many days. my sincere apologies…i’ll get back on the stick.
Continue reading “what i saw”
last few hours of work before the thanksgiving holiday. and what am i thinking about?
fingerprints.
Continue reading “fingerprints”
quick take: another rant on red state/blue state stuff, this one in the form of a concession speech. familiar territory, but worth reading.
and on the subject of familiar territory, for some reason today i started thinking about the comfort of familiar conversations.
Continue reading “inconsequential conversations”
first off, i missed my first day of blogging since i started this mess. i had wanted to keep an unbroken streak for as long as possible, but i worked my butt off around the house yesterday until late into the night. at 12:03, when i had finally sat down for a few minutes to watch u2 on saturday night live, i realized i had missed blogging.
it’s not a catastrophe. but i’m a little disappointed in myself. just a little. and this blogging software doesn’t allow you to cheat and backdate an entry, which i like. dirty little secret of blogging revealed.
but this morning, here i am blogging again. after a nice calm morning of npr, which i’ve decided to rediscover.
Continue reading “random radio musings”
“you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.”
or do you? most times you do, but sometimes the vinegar is necessary. but when?
Continue reading “honey and vinegar”
it’s the best tasting soda in the world. manhattan special espresso coffee soda.
of course, it’s also the reason i’m up all night cleaning the house.
Continue reading “coffee soda”
there’s a long article in this morning’s new york times about gay marriage. it seems that groups such as lambda legal are backing off pushing for gay marriage in the courts so they can try to regain rights taken away in the 11 states that passed anti-marriage amendments during this past election.
again with the pragmatism.
Continue reading “missing the point”
i’m reading “the poisonwood bible” by barbara kingsolver.
i’m a great believer that things and events come to you when they are supposed to, and it’s up to you to figure out why or be open enough to possibilities to let the intended meaning reveal itself, and this book is no exception.
the book was lying on a table of free stuff at work just before the election, and it said to me, “pick me up and read me.” so i picked it up and, after the election when i wanted some distraction, i started to read it. aaaargh.
it’s about a family of fundamental christians. just what i needed, to get my mind off of current events.
Continue reading “the game”
i just have to post this, because it’s so raw and so perfectly right. so here’s a bonus blog for today.
thanks to whoever wrote this because it says exactly what i think and expresses exactly how i feel.
don’t click on “more” if really rough language offends.
Continue reading “extra extra”
random snatches of babbling are driving me nuts.
dialogue heard in passing this morning: “i don’t agree with gay marriage, but it doesn’t matter if i voted for george bush because congress won’t pass the amendment anyway.” i’m paraphrasing, but that’s the gist of it.
this from someone who married someone who is not an american citizen.
Continue reading “intolerant of intolerance”
karl rove was on “meet the press” and various sunday shows yesterday. i didn’t watch any of them, as i’m still on my news fast. getting over the overload.
i did see a clip of him on fox news. i wasn’t watching fox news; some other channel ran the fox news clip. just to clarify.
and, of course, he claimed his mandate from 51% of americans and proclaimed that mr. bush would be hotly pursuing the passage of the anti-gay-marriage constitutional amendment. it’s a priority.
you could have put money on that. but we were getting screwed by the democrats too.
Continue reading “two-sided demonization”
from a wall street journal article headlined “victory suggests rightward move by the electorate”:
“i always thought love would trump hate,” says bush strategist matthew dowd. because it did, mr. bush’s 51%-48% popular vote edge precisely matched mr. dowd’s pre-election forecast, even as national polls pointed toward a much closer race.
yes indeed. love trumped hate. how exactly did love trump hate? let’s see.
Continue reading “love trumps hate”
so much for optimism.
not only did bush win, but he won due partly, or perhaps even mainly, due to the vast turnout generated by the gay marriage bans, all of which passed by huge margins. even in oregon, which has so successfully beat back these amendments for so many years.
Continue reading “(red, white) and (blue)”
this will be quick, as i don’t want to miss the news etc.
but
it’s looking pretty good.
Continue reading “busy busy busy”
it’s all over but the shouting. the packers won yesterday. the quote of the day from the cnn website:
“the packers’ 28-14 victory over the redskins yesterday, which, as you’re sick of hearing by now, means you don’t need to vote tomorrow, because kerry has already won.”
Continue reading “thanks to the packers”
ok…two days to go. and this article on evangelical voting makes sense and is making me feel a bit better.
Continue reading “cautiously optimistic”
this one goes out to the brave hero on the subway who stopped the homeless man from peeing in a bottle.
i’ll get there. it may take a while.
i like my neighborhood in new york city. it’s called inwood. for those of you who have a vision of manhattan as nothing but tall buildings and wide streets, you’d be surprised to see my area of manhattan, which is tall not buildings, but tall trees.
Continue reading “gentrifying yuppie scumbags”
nothing says romance like doing a spreadsheet for the one you love. that’s what i’ve always said.
Continue reading “friday i’m in love”
nervous, jittery, second-guessing, whatever. bob novak has an interview with zogby, the pollster, who is now saying that “the president is more likely to be re-elected because he has reinforced support from his base, including married white women.”
Continue reading “getting nervous”
i made a little joke about this subject this weekend, in conversation. i’ll throw it in somewhere. but, especially on a cold rainy-ish monday, i have to tackle this biggest of subjects sometime. plus, my opinions should be down in black and white, in case someone needs to see it. my will has all the legal stuff, but this is the cool stuff. so here goes.
Continue reading “when i die”