The Bananaverse

OK, so I just heard on the news there is to be a criminal investigation into who outed the (CIA operative) wife of the US Ambassador who said “I went there and all that crap about Iraq and Niger and yellowcake is a big pile of hooey”. His name is Joseph C Wilson. You can read a bit about him and what all went down hyah. Generally I wouldn’t link to a domestic news site, but this seems reasonable and will bring you up to speed.

You can read the alarming quote in this story, but (NYT, reg required) here’s what it said:

President Bush said he was “absolutely confident that the Justice Department will do a very good job” of investigating the case, signaling that he sees no need for an outside special counsel to take over the inquiry from the Justice Department. Speaking to reporters after meeting business executives in Chicago, Mr. Bush said there were “just too many leaks” in Washington from the executive and legislative branches.

“And if there is a leak out of my administration,” he added, “I want to know who it is. And if the person has violated the law, the person will be taken care of.”

Eeeeeeek! If he promises to “take care of” the person who leaked, what’s he gonna do to someone he DOESN’T like? I mean…it certainly sounds like the leak was encouraged (and don’t tell me that’s crap, if you don’t think that bs is impossible you obviously don’t remember junior high). And to quote Jon Stewart, “If he’s got lawyers looking into this, it must be serious. He didn’t even check to see if it was legal to declare war on Iraq!”

Speaking of Jon Stewart, I think he would be a good boyfriend. Too bad he’s married, and famous, and would not have anything to do with me. But Jon honey, if you decide it’s time to trade in the wife for a cheerleader and a sports car, I still have my uniform. It’s not that I want to lick him or anything, but he’s smart and funny and I like his take on the world. Anyone who delivers stories with headlines like “Taste Of Schism” and “SARS Attacks!!” and the ever popular “F*ck you Justin, I’m in SPACE!” can’t be all bad. Plus he’s self aware enough to cop to his own dorkitude, and that’s always a fantastic thing.

Anyway! Totally derailing myself, I can’t help thinking that Shrub wants to come off as the tough guy. I mean, ‘the person will be taken care of’?? Honestly! What’s he gonna do, make him an offer he can’t refuse? What? On the other hand, he *has* taken about as much vacation time as the Sopranos between seasons. Well. The Sopranos haven’t been gone THAT long.

Enough ranting. I’mma take another shot at bedtime.

So I’m processing credit card slips and I get one where the name on the card is something or other, you know, like, Sparky McBoingboing Sr. and it gets me thinking-what makes you a Sr? Can you just go around saying that’s who you are, or do you not get the title until there is a jr. that you need to be differentiated from? It’s weird. This is what happens when verso skips breakfast, junk like this gets really important.

Yeah.

This is entertaining to me in a buncha ways. My comments are in ()s below:

From Good Will Hunting:
Why shouldn’t I work for the N.S.A.? That’s a tough one, but I’ll give it a shot. Say I’m working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. So I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I’m real happy with myself, ’cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never had a problem with get killed.

(Since nobody will admit an actual number, we don’t know how many Iraqis are dead.)

Now the politicians are sayin’, “Send in the marines to secure the area” ’cause they don’t give a shit. It won’t be their kid over there, gettin’ shot. Just like it wasn’t them when their number was called, ’cause they were pullin’ a tour in the National Guard. It’ll be some guy from Southie takin’ shrapnel in the ass.

(Not just fixed it to pull the tour, but fixed it when he was AWOL, too!)

And he comes home to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, ’cause he’ll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile my buddy from Southie realizes the only reason he was over there was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the skirmish to scare up oil prices so they could turn a quick buck.

(No! How can this be? A whole war over oil? What an insane thing to even consider!)

A cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ain’t helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. And naturally they’re takin’ their sweet time bringin’ the oil back, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain’t too long ’til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So my buddy’s out of work and he can’t afford to drive, so he’s got to walk to the job interviews, which sucks ’cause the schrapnel in his ass is givin’ him chronic hemorroids.

(So he’s talking about going off and fighting, and then coming home to an economy in the tank? What bizarre universe is this?)

And meanwhile he’s starvin’ ’cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they’re servin’ is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what do I think? I’m holdin’ out for somethin’ better. Why not just shoot my buddy, take his job and give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president.

(President? You don’t say!)

Pardon me while I go wash the vitriol off my cranky pants.

So today I was helping Scooter strip the horrendous paint job off the garage door and we were using this stuff, methylethylheckljeckl or whatever it was, and it sucked all the grime and the paint and everything off, and took the door back to the original woodness. It was a really nice door once, and we got to see that again. It made me want to have that stuff for people-smear this goo on your brain, or your heart, or your soul, and get rid of all that crap that has accumulated over the years that doesn’t do you any good. Get back down to the real you, the part that matters, the good part. Most people are so afraid to do that, I think. I probably am, for all the good talking does me, I don’t think I want to do that. I’m so used to all that crap, and I’m not sure I’d even like what is underneath there. I like to think I’d need less goo than most people, but then some days I wonder who I think I’m kidding. Anyway. It’s probably just being all hopped up on Midol that has made me feel like this and zoned me into this other dimension of thought, but it really seems like something that would be a good idea, so I’m going to work on that.

Just got this in my email:

A priest, a rabbi and a minister walk into a bar. The bartender says, “What is this, some kind of a joke?”

hehe….

Talk like a pirate today, me hearties!! Don’t f’rget, ye scurvy knaves! Yarrrr….

ok kids, I would really appreciate some help.

I want to try to make avantgo work on osx. to do so you have to go to www.tomw.org/malsync and do a buncha crap and when I do it I’m hung up on the setting of the port. Please, someone, anyone, help me figure this out! I’d really appreciate it. Then I could post with my Palm which would rock, since I have it with me all the time. Seriously. I could use the help.

I could give a rip about grammar and caps and all that loveliness right now. thanks.

I have to clean the kitchen some more, but I had to get this out of my head:

If Justin Timberlake and BT ever did a record together (JUST them, I know he worked on a Pop remix with Nsync) it would be one of the hottest things in all the Verso Universe and I would be compelled to buy it just moments before my head exploded from the Hotness. And yes, that does need to be capitalized. mmmmmmmmmm. K, back to work with me!

At least we didn’t have to wait long after Warren Zevon’s passing to get the next two: John Ritter and Johnny Cash. I was so sad to hear about both of them, especially since John Ritter was so sudden. Someone on MeFi said they hoped there was an afterlife so that Johnny could be with June again. I hope so too. The Man Comes Around is a record that deserves more attention than it ever gets. It’s just that good. RIAA be damned, go buy a copy. Seriously. It transcends Country and Rock and Rap and is just music that should be heard by everyone possible. It made me very sad to hear about all these people. Warren Zevon had some warning, but it was still sad, and Johnny Cash was planning to make American V starting next week, and John Ritter, I mean, wtf?? It sucks a lot, but I can’t hold it against God that he would want to hear good music and laugh and figured that we got our turn so now he gets one. I hope he enjoys them as much as we did.

I just went back and read my lj post from two years ago. It doesn’t feel like something I wrote to me, it feels different somehow, and I can’t figure out why. I guess because I didn’t feel like myself when I wrote it.

If you are thinking about the dramatically altered New York Skyline this week too, here are some links that may be nice for you to see:

Exhibit 13 by Blue Man Group is a beautiful and moving tribute without being sappy.

Wil put this up on his page all day yesterday. I thought it was very nice as well.

And if you are into disaster porn (since it isn’t in the middle east I can’t call it warnography):

A page of QTVRs from ten days later can be found here.

Another page of various QTVRs (including a link to the one above) can be found here.

But seriously, that Blue Man Group thing is amazing. So here you go.

My September 01 is filled with equal parts joy and sadness, for ten days after, I got on a plane and went to Disneyland to be part of a wedding of two people who could not be more perfectly suited to each other, two people who have been adopted as part of my family, two people whom I could not miss more if they lived deep in Communist China. They got married two weeks after, and it was a wonderful wedding, a wonderful vacation, and a wonderful moment in time for me.

Liplash and Rargirl, I can’t tell you enough how much you mean to me. Now fuck off! (Sorry, but if I get all sentimental then Thunderball will laugh at me and we can’t have that.)

I guess that’s all I have for now. I’ve been sort of thoughtful this week.

I really need to know somebody in a punk rock band. I truly believe that it is only using the rambunctious spirit of punk rock as a medium that one can truly express The Wonder That Is My Hair.

Thank you. That is all.

Wow!

It’s been a wild week up in hyah. So much has happened!

* Verso got employment! Now, it’s only on a temporary basis for now, they said they want to see how I do before I’m full time or whatever, so I have lots to do to make sure they like me.

And now I’m NOT going to miss the bus on Day Three of my newfound employment so I will write more later. I just wanted you all to know that I’m not dead. (:

they don’t know?

four months in advance but nothing now and nobody knows why right now

holiday fireworks start 11/8(but we don’t know what days)
candlelight is dec 6-7
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dec is full on holiday mode
sooner in dec. the better, crowds suck
BUT: shorter operating hours

fireworks show and snow! 9:30 ish
holiday parade (maybe two!)
candlelight procession is neat, but it’s super popular (people line up at 4AM for the show! it’s like a whole day investment)
park maps (main street is awesome for the snow)

lots of the stuff is disneyland, but DCA gets xmased up too
santa is there on main street!!!!

splash mtn set to reopen on the 7th of november
holiday tour: 714.781.4400 probably in november, call ahead (last year about $30)

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