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Thursday, July 15, 2004Banana Phone! Kill your parents! We love you, Cleveland! posted by Nate on 12:50 AM link Monday, July 12, 2004Like 1995 Michael Jordan, I'm Back. Back from vacation, that is: I did not hit .202 for the AA Southern League Birmingham Barons. Vegas was great. Not only did I thoroughly enjoy Sin City, but I visited my childhood buddy Chip The Gainfully Employed Final Fantasy MMORPG Game Master in San Diego. Chip and I have known each other for twenty-plus years, and it was just like the nostalgic old times I've written about on swankypimp.com. He showed me his re-release He-Man action figures and everything. That is not a euphemism. Herbal refreshments and Disco Stu, my high school buddy / avant garde David Byrne fan from L.A., were also involved. The trip also gave me some valuable perspective. Though I occasionally bitch about the Great Lakes area's humidity and the violent thunderstorm and tornado weather that accompany it, it beats the heck out of the Mojave Desert's relentless sun. (The UV rating in Vegas was 8 of 10-- fifteen minutes outside without sun tan lotion before you burn.) I rented a convertible to drive to California, and after just a few hours in the desert sun-- despite SPF 60 sunscreen-- my scalp was red as W.C. Fields' gin-blossomed nose and had more blisters than the soles of a first-time marathon runner's feet. Upon returning, the sticky 80 degree weather never felt so good. While I was gone, a lot of not-important stuff happened, like Dick Cheney's Senate Floor potty mouth and John "Rolled Up Shirt Sleeves Which Symbolize I Will Fight For the Working Class" Kerrey playing a Kennedyesque game of touch football with his veep candidate. I'm a bit concerned that John Edwards will pull some votes from the moderate crowd that sees Fahrenheit 911 and decides that, in a game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, Vice Prez Cheney -> Halliburton -> Iraq War -> (Underpants Gnomes) -> Profit. Seeing how evenly divided the country is about about these things, it only takes a small percentage of moderate voters of Florida or Pennsylvania to turn the election. Incidentally, Christopher Hitchens, the English Socialist and no conservative by any standard, offers this criticism of Moore's film. Other things that happened during my hiatus: Ditka vs. God. God, but it's close. I'm no sci-fi junkie, but Orson Scott Card is cool. I like tigers. James Joyce was a Perv, and oh yes. posted by Nate on 12:24 AM link
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