words, words, words
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If I begin to detail myself here, will you understand?
P. I am me
Q. I don't always know exactly who that is
R. I am Quaker
S. I like words and playing with them
T. I like genmaicha tea
U. I like the word napkin more than most others
V. I spend time walking my neighborhood
W. I cook rice often
X. I sleep well most every night
Y. I eat large amounts of fruit and vegetables
Z. I munch, sleep, write, create, cook, bike, watch, walk, listen, hope, learn, drink, live, breathe, touch, know, question, taste, copy, read, stare, carry, talk, dance, finger, try.
raisin@gmail.com
albums:
Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs
Erasure: I Say, I Say, I Say
Depeche Mode: Black Celebration
The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On?
David Bowie: Hunky Dory
George Michael: Listen without Prejudice
George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Yo La Tengo: And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
songs:
Wild is the Wind: Nina Simone
Come Undone: Duran Duran
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini: Rachmaninov
My Funny Valentine: Chet Baker
Feeling Yourself Disintegrate: The Flaming Lips
This Must Be the Place: The Talking Heads
Hyperballad: Bjork
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Thursday, October 16, 2003
Maureen Dowd writes a column today about the curse Bush has tried to lay on us, the fairy tale he wants us to live in. More interesting and disturbing though is a quote she uses: " On Monday, Representative George Nethercutt Jr., a Republican from Washington State who visited Iraq, chimed in to help the White House: 'The story of what we've done in the postwar period is remarkable. It is a better and more important story than losing a couple of soldiers every day.'"
This is why I left the military, because our world sees news and creation of news as more important than the lives lost in the process. Not only is he not concerned about our own soldiers' lives, but fails to mention the Iraqis who are still dying because of our occupation. If this Representative's comments would come along as an official statement with every announcement to families and loved ones of each soldier who died, I think support for the Iraqi occupation would dwindle quickly.
It shocks me though; i don't hardly know how to speak to it. Would this Representative be so callous if it had been his son yesterday or last week who had died and barely been reported on the news? Can he not see that these soldiers have been duped the worst of all? Sure, the whole country has been taken on a ride by the White House, but the soldiers, they're the ones paying for it, with everything they have. yes, if they hadn't volunteered, they wouldn't be there in the first place, so that means they wanted to die, right? No. if they are anything like i was at 17, I wanted to give to my country, wanted to serve the people around me, wanted to be a part, to do my duty, to be something more than self-serving. I had no idea what I was doing, and neither do most of the people in the military. They blindly trust those who lead them, and while it may be not their smartest move, to see their trust dying with them because of lies and ill-conceived notions of the world both angers and exhausts me. to see their death flippantly cast off as if it were nothing is an incomprehensible horror.
10:38 AM
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