November 2006

i came down with stomach flu, just in time for the countdown to the midterm elections .... lord, i've felt like my ass had been take over by the republican spin and fear machine, spraying evil, vile, noxious, malodorous shit everywhere, just spatter-painting the porcelain with liquid corruption, coating the world with a noiseome thin gruel of putrescence and ..... oh, sorry 'bout that ....i'm sure you get the picture ....

it seems like the stomach flu, which laid me out for a week, was a cosmic metaphor for the electoral process in this mid-term election: america got rid of its vile shits in a resounding fashion ..... i lost seven pounds in five days and am still weaker than i'd like to be, but maybe this metaphor won't hold for america and, with the expulsion of so many noxious turds, maybe we'll emerge stronger and healthier and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, while extending universal health care to its citizens .....

it's time to be thankful again ....

do we really have to wait until we're told to be thankful, once a year?

you know me ..... whining is not just a profession: it's an aptitude, a gift, and a skill that i practice every day .... but still ....