Monday, May 31, 2010

While remembering those who have served honorably...

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...let's not forget to include soldiers with Gulf War Syndrome. Earlier this year, the VA finally recognized it as a real and pernicious...

Gratitude and sorrow:

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Between continued failed attempts to contain BP's spill, the Israeli military's immoral and stupid attack on the ship bringing aid s...
Sunday, May 30, 2010

Where's my parade?

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This past week, I finished another chapter of final draft, had another pitch accepted and explained Twitter to both my parents.
Saturday, May 29, 2010

Strange but perhaps fitting symmetry...

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...that birth and death each result in lack of sleep.
Friday, May 28, 2010

In fairness:

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Bumbershoot has amended its original and asinine plan re graphic design artists and the festival's logo. (See my May 24th entry.) Update...

And now, perhaps the most diametrically opposite links ever:

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1) The Wall Street Journal's meticulously detailed account of the staggering ineptitude of BP and the Department of Interior's Miner...

Let's wrap this fucker:

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If you haven't already, contact your U.S. Senators and urge them to repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell when the full Senate votes on it...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

My new Seattle Weekly feature on the Inside Out Jazz Awards is online and on stands now:

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Really enjoyed writing this one! David Pierre-Louis, owner of Lucid Lounge and the event's organizer, is wholly invigorating. All procee...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

State Department, I'm on it:

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Monday, May 24, 2010

Today's "what the hell?" moments:

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1) Bumbershoot, one of the best and most kaleidoscopic arts festivals in the nation, apparently sees no contradiction in profoundly disrespe...
Sunday, May 23, 2010

Fell asleep uncharacteristically early tonight and...

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...awoke later with horrific nightmares. No way to understand how relentless and all-encompassing grief is until you're in it.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali's new book, Nomad:

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Compelling review of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's new book, Nomad , and an examination of the corrosive and misogynist effects of Islam--or any rel...
Saturday, May 22, 2010

Just received a small but fun accolade from Smith Magazine:

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Sort of the literary equivalent of a Frango: http://www.smithmag.net/sixwordbook/2010/05/21/broke-my-toe-watching-american-idol%E2%80%94the-...

Friends; calzones; Woody Allen before he was openly pervy:

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Capped off a stressful and sad week with dinner last night at Via Tribunali. Companion and I cracked each other up, ran into a writer friend...
Thursday, May 20, 2010

A fun little jaunt:

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Cab driver this afternoon, unprompted: "The Greeks! All they do is talk! And ruin the world's economy!" Then I told him my nat...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Xander 1998-2010

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Had to euthanize my beloved bunny, Xander, at 4:30 p.m. today. In the last day and a half, he'd lost use of one of his hind legs and it ...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

So, there's that:

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The world's economy is built on quicksand and the weather has tenor-like mood swings, but at least the Napolean Dynamite craze has final...

My father and large swaths of my extended family on both sides...

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...grew up without the right to free speech. It's rarely far from my mind that half the things I write would land me in jail in vast chu...
Monday, May 17, 2010

Environmentalism or laziness?

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My newest piece for KOMO4.com's Capitol Hill blog is up: http://capitolhill.komonews.com/content/environmentalism-or-laziness-0
Sunday, May 16, 2010

So:

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This week will make seven and a half months and it makes no more sense now than it did the second week of October. The worst of the shock ha...