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Video Poetry (Life Edition)

BRIGHT EYES – FIRST DAY OF MY LIFE

This is the first day of my life Swear I was born right in the doorway I went out in the rain, suddenly everything changed They’re spreading blankets on the beach

Yours was the first face that I saw I think I was blind before I [...]

Loving the Obama Kool-aid, so far.

Knowing that many of the Obama faithful (and a number of skeptics) have been disappointed with some of his choices to fill various Cabinet positions, I found this article in Thursday’s Financial Times to be quite astute.

FT.com / Never mind the team: the president does the moves

The campaign poetry is long forgotten. [...]

Poetry Friday

THE BLUE ANGEL

Marlene Dietrich is singing a lament for mechanical love. She leans against a mortarboard tree on a plateau by the seashore.

She’s a life-sized toy, the doll of eternity; her hair is shaped like an abstract hat made out of white steel.

Her face is powdered, whitewashed and immobile like a robot. [...]

Video Poetry (Criminal Edition)

NEW PORNOGRAPHERS – THE LAWS HAVE CHANGED

It was crime at the time but the laws, we changed ‘em Though the hero for hire’s forever the same one

Introducing for the first time Pharaoh on the microphone sing all hail what’ll be revealed today when we peer into the great unknown from the line [...]

Edwards endorses Obama!

Edwards endorses Obama

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards endorsed Sen. Barack Obama on Wednesday at a campaign event in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

“The reason I’m here tonight is because the Democratic voters have made their choice, and so have I,” he told the boisterous crowd.

“There is one man who knows [...]

Poetry Friday

GOSPEL NOBLE TRUTHS

Born in this world        Sit you sit down You got to suffer        Breathe when you breathe Everything changes        Lie Down you lie down You got no soul        Walk where you walk

Try to be gay        Talk when you talk Ignorant happy        Cry when you cry You [...]

‘A More Perfect Union’

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Note those first [...]

We Are The Ones

Tomorrow (Tuesday) is the next major primary, which could ultimately decide which Democratic candidate gets the nomination. It’s do-or-die for Hillary Clinton, because right now Barack Obama what seems to be a commanding lead, if not in delegates, then in the support of the people …

But what is still most important … no [...]

Video Poetry (on the Five & Dime)

PENNYWISE – YESTERDAYS

Up from the ashes and over the hill We knew more then than we ever will Back when the days passed by so slow And now we’ll never know That sense that tomorrow was far away And our dreams they will never fade We never thought the good times could end.

[...]

Changes …

Going through the process that I have been over the past several months, one of the things that I’ve discovered (not that it was much of a surprise), is that I’m rather resistant to change. I hate it.

I’ve also realized that I need to start making some changes in my life if I want [...]