…and I’ll Cry if I Want To

I’m back from San Fran with a vengeance just in time to see the Phillies blow their home opener in the 9th. And the season of bellyaching over the Phillies on the blog has officially begun. Better get used to it. At least until around May when the Phils find their swagger. But for now [...]

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Hey Hey

Spring is sprung and he is risen. Allelujah. Scroll down as much as you want and you won’t find a giddier mood. And not just because Pluto’s entering retrograde.
The old Brainstorm has been quiet because I’ve been busy as a mofo with work ($), Easter, other work ($$), and now getting ready to go to [...]

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Richardson Endorses Obama

New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson is on CNN as I type endorsing Obama. Richardson, out of the race long enough to grow a beard and for people to possibly forget that we were talking about him getting the number 2 spot on Hillary’s ticket back in the fall, said that he was swayed by Obama’s [...]

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SPRING

Springtime’s here!
Time for NCAA brackets to be filled out, baseball to begin its regular season, pastel colors to be worn, sunny breezes to blow, and, my personal favorite, spring flings to bloom. Hi.
I love love love spring so much that I’m not letting the douchebag McCain/Santorum (!!!!) supporter I just met out [...]

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Iraq: 5 Years In

Today marks the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war. Five years ago today I was in Harvard Yard milling about a protest of the first day of bombing. After, we went to get Chick-Fil-A. Where this grand experiment in unnecessary war would lead, I had no idea. Five years later I’m still [...]

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Obama on Race

Barack Obama, positioned about six blocks due east of me, just gave his much anticipated speech on race and the campaign, tackling Jeremiah Wright, white resentment, and black cynicism all head on.
I wish I was able to creep out of work for a minute to make it over to the Constitution Center to witness it [...]

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John Adams

Last night I watched almost 3 hours of the new HBO mini-series “John Adams,” based on the David McCollough bio. It’s not tv. It’s HBO. The casting is amazing — Paul Giamatti as JA himself and Laura Linney as Abigail. And David Morse IS George Washington. It’s freaky.
I didn’t know much about Adams (and really [...]

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Paddy Wagon

Irish PM Bertie Ahern urged moderation today: “There’s no reason (why) people can’t enjoy themselves and be part of the celebrations without going over the top.”
Ha. Nice try, Bertie. Except that binge drinking is what holds us together. It’s the stitches in the Irish fabric. The nucleotides in the Irish genome. The carrageenan in the [...]

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Cead Mille Failte

This past weekend the streets in Philly were lousy with kids wearing green felt hats and scrawny little green belly shirts, staggering from pub to pub. Save some Bloody Marys at Kimbo’s clothing swap yesterday, I reserved my festivizing for today.
Those who’ve heard me rant will know that I have a complicated relationship with Ireland. [...]

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Business Times

I’m in constant fear lately that we’re on the verge of a depression. People in the know about economics: how does our current predicament (banks going under, gold rising, oil reaching $4/gal, mortgage foreclosures, weak dollar, stocks crashing…) compare to the beginning of the Great Depression?
News of the Bear Stearns bailout yesterday triggered my worry [...]

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Ides of March

Having a blog reminds you — if you even needed reminding — that news doesn’t stop. It’s fucking exhausting. Newspapers, and blogs, I guess, but to a lesser extent, truly are daily miracles. During the last week I was travelling and then just busy, so I didn’t have time to even look at the internet or a [...]

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The Wire: RIP

Another Sunday night, another series — relevant and revealing – comes to an end. It’s not TV. It’s HBO.
This past Friday I was feeling under the weather, plus the actual weather cancelled my plans, so the time was ripe to order HBO and catch up on the entire fifth season of “The Wire” before Sunday night, [...]

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War of Domain Names

The RNC is snatching up domain names aimed at attacking Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Clintonisbad.com, clintonbabbit.com (!?!1!), amateurobama.com, barackisliberal.com, etc., are all either registered by the RNC or appear on its servers. They’re also hedging their bets by buying domain names to protect McCain, like hatemccain.com and mccainamigos.com.
What’s a cyberattacker to do? Take a [...]

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Merchant of Death

I’m utterly fascinated by yesterday’s capture of Viktor Anatoliyevich Bout, Russian arms dealer responsible for weaponizing most of the African continent over the last 15 years. Bout (pronounced “Butt”) was caught in a sting in Thailand, where he was lured by DEA agents posing as FARC operatives trying to buy surface-to-air missiles and attack helicopters. [...]

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PR

Crazy-ass Christian just bested subdued Jillian and drapey Rami to win Project Rungay Season 4. Christian was the frontrunner all season, churning out one well tailored tunic after another. Christian’s runway show was a spectacle and a half, and while I liked Jillian’s knits over Christian’s drama (Rami’s were just too disjointed and ugly-colored — [...]

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Mind Reeling

Last night I inexplicably fell asleep (oh wait — it is explicable: I was fucking tired) before anything congealed, so I woke up to a whole world of complications.
HRC wins both Texas and Ohio?!?! Plus Rhode Island? What? When? How? What?
Some thoughts from the afternoon-after:
1. Are there really this many Hillary fans left? [...]

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lighthouses and other life goals

I’m gonna leave a discussion about last nights primary results to Sweeney – I’m too tired of this election to write about it.  I had planned to write a post if Hillary lost titled “Sweet Relief” but now that relief hasn’t come. Ugh. At least Sweeney gets to feel important now that PA is the largest state [...]

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