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For the past few months, I've been working with a new nonprofit organization aimed at helping to reduce the amount of wasted gasoline -- and subsequent CO2 emissions -- by encouraging people to keep their tires filled with air. If a car's tires are properly inflated, it will save half a gallon of gas at each fill up. I haven't driven a car in years yet even I know that gas prices are insane these days. Who wouldn't want an easy -- and free! -- way to save gas and thus, money... and thus from the thus, reduce their negative impact on the environment.
continue reading "I'm 4GreenTires -- and U Can Be, 2!" »
I enjoy John Cusack whenever I see him as "John Cusack"... Admittedly, I enjoy him as characters in his movies as well. But John Cusack as John Cusack is intelligent, witty, and charmingly slouchy without the distraction and farce of scripted romantic comedy.
Today, on Huffington Post, John Cusack as John Cusack introduced me to the new book,
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism through a 17 minute discussion with the author,
Naomi Klein.
continue reading "John Cusack Has Bad Posture" »
I was deliriously happy to discover another book by Russell during my time in the States:
A Thread of Grace. This book tells the interweaving (fictional) story of people in Italy - Jews & Catholics, Italians and foreigners (including an SS deserter) - during the final stages of World War II as communities pulled together to save the lives on Jewish refugees and to try to save themselves from the horrors they've witnessed and the horrorific rumors they couldn't bear to believe. I'm reading this book now at a time when I am struggling for a reason to keep going, when somedays there isn't one moment of happiness in the entire day. The book hasn't helped my depression one bit. But it has made me respect my despair and my suffering. And it has given me a little hope, if not for myself, for the world and all its horrors today.
continue reading "A Thread of Grace... and perhaps a moment of faith" »
"George Bush is a lousy president! He has failed the country miserably!" "Why do you say that?" "He should have bombed the &$*#%! out of Iraq 3 years ago. Sure, people would have bitched for a while about killing all...
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I went to the
SFMOMA today with Allison to see the "Picasso and American Art" exhibit. So did everyone else... The first Tuesday of the month has free entry so you only had to pay $2.50 to enter the special exhibit which examines how Picasso influenced American artists including Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jackson Pollock. I'm sure the exhibit was fascinating except for the fact that I was busy trying not to scream or curl up in a ball in response to the crowds.
continue reading "I Heart Picasso; I Don't Heart People" »
I wanted to write something today.
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Earlier, I decided to pop in a taped copy of episode 2 of the SciFi Channel's Battlestar Galactica miniseries which turned out to be a bad move on my part because I thought the series was only two episodes but it's longer and I don't have the rest and Edward James Olmos just confessed to Mary McDonnell that Earth is "only a legend" and the sweet recognizance girl was revealed to be a Cylon and now I have to track down the rest of the series to know what happens next and I want to know now now NOW!... Whew. Okay. Where was I?
Oh yes, my fear mechanism. And I'm not just talking about my fear that I will never live in a galaxy when genius narcissistic scientists are both smokin' sexy and gullible enough to fall in live with crazy
writers Cylons.
continue reading "Fear Mechanism Still Active" »
A few months ago I decided that - considering how consumed & invested I am with US politics and I don't even live there - perhaps I should get a handle on the upcoming Mexican presidential elections. Of course, as any good student of history would tell you, to understand the current state of affairs one must go to the past. So I got 3 heavy volumes on Mexican history and dug in. I believe I made it into the first 3 chapters of each book which puts me about 1850. Ask me about the elections of 1844 and I just might have the answer. Ask me a question about this Sunday's election and all I can tell you is that one of the guys looks a bit like Victor Garber but without the big ear.
continue reading "These People" »
So I could be from the same state as Bruce Springsteen. Watching the
clip of him singing "Bring 'Em Home" on Conan O'Brien makes me proud to be an American. Are you scared of the day when we can't voice our dissent against the government? I know I am.
continue reading "Tonight, I Wish I Was a Jersey Girl" »
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