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I’ve got good news and bad news. First the bad news: I didn’t get the newspaper job. And sorely disappointed I was too. The local gazette decided to go with another candidate, one with more newspaper experience, one with more savvy, one with an actual modicum of talent. They hired Shempbot. Drat! I’ll never forgive that bilious little bucket of bolts, or so says the voice of Dr. Smith I keep hearing in my head.
Last night I had the privilege of co-hosting a local radio broadcast. My brother hosts a blues show on Saturday nights with another fellow, who happened to be out of town this weekend. My brother asked me if I would like to fill in, and of course I jumped at the chance.
I have been caught up in an invasion and I am in imminent danger of being overrun. The enemy has thrown his forces against me en masse, and by myself there is little I can do about it. I’ve armed myself as best I could, and put up a valiant defense against overwhelming odds. But now all I can do is pray and wait for help to arrive. My room is besieged by ants.
I stopped by my blog today to see if the plants were still alive. (They weren’t.) I’ve been preoccupied with other things like working on my novel (I have about 70 new pages with words and punctuation and everything!) tracking down the local drunken inflatable snowman, learning to type with my other nine fingers, and making toy spacemen (How else will I know how big to make the spaceship?)
There is a voice inside my mind that sings Calabi-Yau Shapes and plucks the strings of space and time and peaks the curiosity of apes
Today is February 2nd, and you know what that means. Tonight President Bush pops out of his hole to deliver the State of the Union address. If he sees his shadow, it means eighteen more months of war in Iraq. And while Mr. Bush will no doubt do his best tap dance and try to reassure us that everything is double-plus good (as long as we fund his "Let Freedom Ring" world tour) he will also strive to make it clear the world is full of evil in the form of terrorists, homos and Democrats. How very double-plus ungood. But how are things, really? To find out, let’s take a quick tour of the headlines.
