November 2008
26 posts
A pearlescent, nacreous cloud-haze over Santa Fe, walking the hound along the riverbed and minding the spooks, lotsa ghosts hereabouts.
October 2008
74 posts
PPP’s new survey has Obama up 17 points in New Mexico & up 64-36 among NM early voters. Has this swing done swung? http://tinyurl.com/5d47yv
Reading J.K. Galbraith’s “A Short History of Financial Euphoria,” which must be the most painfully funny economics treatise ever written.
Jarring to read Palin’s energy speech, substantive (if highly debatable) rather than winking & demagogic http://tinyurl.com/68ob57
Obama’s playlist vs. McCain’s top 10. Both ♥ Sinatra, but wassup w/ JM’s two ABBA cuts? Still, I’m undecided. http://tinyurl.com/65wkvv
Craving mindless, brain-dead escape from endless loopiing “reality” — Bond movie looks like a good option.
Gov. Palin says she’s reverting to her Anchorage consignment shop wardrobe — a shop called Out of the Closet. Couldn’t make this stuff up.
NY Times buries the lede: “There is no correlation between fraudulent registrations and fraudulent voting.” http://tinyurl.com/59e7wa
Jargon watch: “pre-postmortem” and “precriminations,” often used in proximity to “circular firing squad”
Working on sanding, resealing, and reassembling the back deck. I’m Hal the Builder, so shut up and gimme my flipping tax break already.
Book party tonight for The Wishing Year author Noelle Oxenhandler @ Collected Works, the coolest bookstore in Santa Fe.
Did you think they wouldn’t go after Obama’s ailing granny? Hate comic Rush Limbaugh goes there. http://tinyurl.com/5kow2q
Patriotism shocker: America itself is now anti-American. http://tinyurl.com/63bvfb
Ineffable first line of the latest Mudflats post: “Chris Matthews is like a monkey with a gun..” http://tinyurl.com/5jllhq
Gave a small donation to Elwyn Tinklenberg even though I don’t live in Minn. & he sounds like one of Santa’s elves http://tinyurl.com/6m6nrp
David Brooks has discovered an “emerging megalopolis between Santa Fe and Albuquerque.” It’s next to the Applebees salad bar.
The wife and I enjoyed a few swing-state terrorist fist bumps after early voting this morning.
This isn’t super fresh, but it’s a very useful post about who’s advising Obama on environment and energy: http://tinyurl.com/6bvz39
Bottom line of the NY Times medical records story is that a vote for McCain/Palin is a Nancy Pelosi for President vote.
The photograph Colin Powell talked about this morning http://tinyurl.com/5lyxrv
Devastating, that is.
Amazing that every facet of Palin’s SNL appearance, apart from the good-sport showing up & getting leered at stuff, was devasting put-down.
Tonight’s Sarah Palin/Tina Fey SNL laff riot is reminding me of all the joyless hours Lorne Michaels stole from me that I’ll never get back.
No “tire swinging” entries on Wikipedia or Urban Dictionary sites — yet. http://tinyurl.com/6l5u2l
The great Levi Stubbs, 1936-2008 http://tinyurl.com/69x6ze
Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour (all 77 episodes so far) is pure aural pleasure, a dj/playlist marriage made in heaven.
Cracks now appearing in Joe the Plumber’s backstory.
Trying to think up a funny Joe the Plumber’s crack.
Self-promotion alert: My Environmental Affairs column on McCain’s green record is now online: http://tinyurl.com/48cxja
Really don’t want to watch the debate live tonight. It’s not very enlightening at this point, just nerve-racking. Let the TIVO suffer.
Raining like it’s Seattle in Santa Fe — good thing we got the Jemez firewood stacked and tarp-covered yesterday.
A lot of conservative pundits now saying Obama will win but the mess he’ll inherit means he’s doomed to fail. Not very shining city of them.
Stacking firewood in chilly morning sun, homemade biscuits for breakfast, then into the home office workday. Just another manic Monday.
Neocon freakout: Bill Kristol has lost any semblance of rational consistency and has simply gone batshit insane. http://tinyurl.com/4laxbn
Another rollercoaster week ahead: Dow rebound, or further crashes, or dead cat bounce? Last debate & McCain on Letterman… Ready, set…
Back from a gorgeous 5-hour hike through the off-limits upper section of the Santa Fe River canyon, courtesy of the Watershed Association.
NYTimes: “After the Great Depression, it took 29 years—until 1958—for the market to reach its pre-Depression, inflation-adjusted peak.”
Antonio Gramsci: “The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum a wide variety of morbid symptoms appear.”
It’s blowing my mind that the French writer who just won the Nobel Prize lives part of the time in Albuquerque.
Trying to take a break from posting partisan political stuff. As a result, horrible withdrawal symptoms. Hurry up, Nov. 5th.
Heading to Trader Joe. Used to call it grocery shopping; now call it stocking up on non-perishable goods and survival essentials.
The Espen doctrine is that you can’t live-Twitter every debate, so tonight I’m just listening.
The mostly CGI audience of uncommitted voters looks pretty realistic.
Beautiful fall day in Santa Fe, first snow on the Sangres, leaves at peak color. Too bad the world financial system is going down in flames.
Wow, Tina Brown launches The Daily Beast with a Sean Wilentz column on Obama. That’s just depressing.
Barack Obama (via CNN): “We won’t throw the first punch, but we will throw the last.”
Paul Volcker: “The market has flopped… Everybody is running back to Mother.” http://norris.blogs.nytimes.com/
NY Times business section this morning is like reading war dispatches or disaster coverage. Perfect weather for Swift boating.
Friday night at Mesa Vista: sniffles, sneezes, and nonstop fall flu fun! Huck the dog is eyeing the subprime primates suspiciously.
Extended forecast: severe Ayers, Rezko, and Rev. Wright downpours, more kindergarten sex flurries, black Antichrist Muslim hail likely.