As you may have noticed, this site has fizzled into nothingness. The train-ride is over. It was a struggleerbium doped fiber to keep it going, and after much deliberation (in an actual courtroom, with robes and stuff) we all agreed to call it quits.
December
3rd
The Train Has Reached Its Final Destination
November
8th
Yes We Can (?)
The election is over. Thank God. It seemed like we’d never get here. Let’s be honest, though—Obama and Biden aren’t going to instantly cure America and the rest of the world of all the big messes we’re in. It’s taken a while to get to this point, and it will take a long time to reverse the damage. Who knows, maybe the best we can do is to put a big band-aid on planet earth and just hope that everything heals.
At least we can rest assured that Sarah Palin won’t be anywhere near a foreign leader. And we never have to hear about Joe the Plumber, except maybe in another twenty years on a VH1 “Remember the 00’s” special.
You can breathe in the historical heaviness in the air when you walk around town: First Black President. This is a moment to remember. We should be proud that we’ve come this far (I would say “African American,” but all of the black people I know never use that phrase.)
But one thing bothers me: the people I talk to on a daily basis act as if the CHANGE that Mr. Obama talks about is going to happen on its own; as if we can simply plug in a new President and watch the world bloom fresh.
No. Barack would agree with me on this one. He can only do so much. A president is there mostly to inspire us—and he is the champ at that. I can’t wait to watch our next prez address the nation. What a change from W. It’s like Milli Vanilli just left the stage and Miles Davis took over; it’s like you dropped a quarter near the bus-stop, but found a hundred dollar bill around the corner; it’s like… it’s like… you get my point. Barack Obama is a million times better than Bush or McCain. But what I hate is that a lot of liberals think that just because they are liberal, they can do no wrong. They say: “hey, I voted Obama—everything’s going to be just fine.” Then they hop into their hybrid SUV with their Wal-Mart products and drive off to their liberal house on the hill.
If we REALLY want change, we each have to do it. Change is easy to talk about. But are you willing to drive less? Are you willing to use a lot less of the products that are destroying the planet? Are you ready to stop eating crap like Taco Bell and Burger King? Are you ready to stop caring about the Jones’s?
Obama and Biden can only do so much. There are two of them, and three hundred million of us. Can we finally be the change we keep talking about?
Yes we can.
Can’t we?
November
4th
I’ll be back
by Kevin Damore
Tuesdays with Damorey will be back next week… or the week after that. It depends when I finish my move along the west coast until the executive decision is made. As the title implies; let’s enjoy some Ahnold clips. It is election day after all (that does not mean I back anything Republican, though).
October
29th
A Halloween Story
by Dan Cooper
October
27th
Another Sunshiny Day in Obamaland
by Pete Nicely
July 11, 2011
Rick Vasquez remembers how traffic used to be on the 110 Freeway. At one time it seemed like a sea of stalled cars puffing out gray smoke was a necessary torture he had to endure every morning to get from Norwalk to Downtown LA where he worked at Cal Trans.
October
24th
Fellow Voters…
October
23rd
Mad About “Mad Men”
October
23rd
Fly of a Pie
by Myha Do
A frog dictionary would say that a fly is a winged creature that moves through the air under control. But it’s not only this. Flies are crunchy and delicious, somewhat like toasted peanuts to frogs. This delicacy has yet been introduced to humans, and I pray it never will.
October
22nd
Into the Core of Mars (conclusion)
by Dan Cooper
October
21st
Back in Black?
by Kevin Damore
Sometimes I feel old. Sometimes I feel like my youthful infatuations are old. Sometimes I know. Sometimes I don’t. Sometimes I think to myself, “Dear God…”
