Starbody

My relationship with the online world is one of love and hate. There are so many things I love about it … inspiring people, beautiful images, amazing communities of creativity. And then so many things I hate … the idea that there is such an increasing loss of real world connectivity. The potential to miss [...]

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A message from Alan posted on the Low messageboards at Chairkickers.com:
dear friends,
the following is a lot of sentences starting with ‚Äúi‚Äù. i‚Äôve heard this is bad form and it tends to paint a very egocentric picture of the writer. good thing i‚Äôm a musician…
low has to cancel the shows we have booked in may [...]

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“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we,” he said. “They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
spoken by George W. Bush at a White House ceremony yesterday.

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i’ve posted this before, but it’s so damn good.
The War Prayer
by Mark Twain
[1904]
It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing [...]

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“We don’t do politics in the Department of Homeland Security.”
– Tom Ridge

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“Strength and wisdom do not have to be opposing values.”
- Bill Clinton at the DNC

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i have a weakness for children’s books, specifically clever, well illustrated books. one of my favorites is The Stinky Cheese Man & Other Stories featuring twisted fairytales like The REALLY Ugly Duckling who grows in to a really, ugly duck. so you can imagine my delight when i stumbled across this gem at the bookstore.Don’t [...]

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the Federal Marriage Amendment has been struck down in the Senate today. although this issue continues to be a way to rouse the conservative voters into action, today all that mattered was the outcome. in other news, John McCain is my favorite Republican.

“The constitutional amendment we are debating today strikes me as antithetical in [...]

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New Hampshire Gazette lists a Chickenhawk database to be reckoned with. Vote for your Chickenhawk today. i just like saying the word Chickenhawk.
Chickenhawk.

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feeling a bit blah lately and sometimes it takes a good dose of enjoyjment at others expense to change that. poor chuck was uttering these words “HOLY SHIT, I DELETED MY BLOG.”

Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck!
My help ticket:
Subject: Oh dear god just shoot me now: I DELETED MY BLOG
it’s not that i’m glad he deleted his blog. but it [...]

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at last i have finished reading John Steinbeck’s East of Eden. i am typically a very quick reader, but some books i like to take the time to savour ever word, turn each sentence over in my mind while reading. i find this book to be profound and reassuring each time i read it. i [...]

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Salon.com features an article titled“Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President” by Jessica Kowal, about the parellels and constrasts between the Vietnam War and the War in Iraq (a.k.a. The War On Terror).
Public opinion is also being shaped by growing doubts about the Bush administration’s honesty, much as the Johnson and Nixon administrations were undermined politically [...]

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neither did i, until reading an article on Salon.com titled Dirty business.
A coal slurry impoundment is a reservoir of thick liquid waste from coal processing that is constructed by damming the mouth of a valley with rock and earth. To residents living near these impoundments, they are disasters waiting to happen. The EPA called the [...]

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“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me”
-excerpt from The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock by T.S. Eliot, 1917
Visit Salon.com for a downloadable MP3 of T.S. Eliot reading his well known poem.
“Listen to this eloquent rendition of “The Love Song of J. [...]

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The War Prayer
by Mark Twain
[1904]
It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down [...]

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“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” ~Groucho Marx

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