From Rain to Insane to Truth Again
Eddie Rabbitt once sang: Well the midnight headlight find you on a rainy night / steep grade up ahead slow me down makin no time…
Former term limit supporting Rep. George Nethercutt before he was a 5 term congressman who then ran for the Senate, lost, and then became a lobbyist. And — that’s pretty much it.
“Maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom to shake things up like Newt Gingrich wants to do,” – Pat Robertson
Can’t waste a day when the night brings a hearse
Make a move and plead the fifth ’cause ya can’t plead the first
Can’t waste a day when the night brings a hearse
So now I’m rollin’ down Rodeo wit a shotgun
These people ain’t seen a brown skin man
Since their grandparents bought one
– Zack de la Rocha
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Hypothetically Journalism
When a photographer waits at a window until it is smashed, was not the window smashed for the photographer? Strive to wait by no window.
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Runnin’ Down a Drain
friday traffic in seattle.
I-5 is gridlocked
I-90’s stalled
SR 522 is stoopid
99 is stupider still
the 520 bridge is dead and bloated
but its corpse floats quite well
the I-405 is crawling
the viaduct crumbles as its falling
why not take the 203 to the 202?
because Twin Peaks was real
and there’s got to be a reason
why
we can’t afford schools or their cancer-filled lunches
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Kingmakers Lament
seattle.
outraged over the lack of
any Sonics
seattle.
blissfully complicit
over the lack of any
AUMF knowledge
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Just Past the Larval Stage
and then God said
let Republic, Washington ask Sarah Palin to their high school graduation
and she did ‘except’
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In Which I Re-Examine The Deeper Meaning of Art Based Upon Our Cultural Identity Forced Upon Us by Eating Gluten
warhol tried to tell us something about something with canned tomato soup. i think i’m trying to tell us something about something by purposefully using a decidedly crappy photo of a ubiquitous can of Safeway Brand Fire Roasted Tomatoes covered meaninglessly by one useless flip phone that is casting a lifeless shadow on a painfully out-of-place ¢5 Cedis bill from Ghana which itself is being partially covered by an ancient iPod that is at this very moment playing Nirvana’s Incesticide album in the background as i hunt for truck driving jobs 2 or more hours away from my normal internet connection which is located not all that far from Seattle which should tie some of this together for you even as the sun is shining today because this too will be endlessly over-hyped by local news as some sort of rare event.
gluten.
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The Vigilant Lens 