Job Description

People want to be cool.



It's my job to show 'em how.

From the Culture War front:



PORTLAND -- Multnomah County will issue same-sex couples marriage licenses at 10 a.m. Wednesday.



&



Nyack Mayor John Shields will join the New Paltz mayor, Jason West, in issuing the licenses. West vowed to go ahead with up to two dozen same-sex weddings this weekend, despite being charged with 19 criminal counts and possibly facing jail time for marrying gay couples.

[Howard] Stern has been a vocal Bush supporter in the past, but over the last few days he's been ranting on the air about Clear Channel's deep financial ties to the White House and claiming that he's become the target of a conspiracy since he began trashing the president in recent weeks.



...Stern -- after reading a copy of Al Franken's book "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" -- told listeners: "If you read this book, you will never vote for George W. Bush ... I think this guy is a religious fanatic and a Jesus freak, and he is just hell bent on getting some sort of bizzaro agenda through."

03.01.04



Gone are the "Days of Marijuana"

of colors gone wrong with warmth and texture

and perfectly interlocking intertwining sounds despite



Paranoia is now a product of

The realities of our government and our religions

Noise harsher and sites much more grotesque



The cat geriatric now

Howling for food when fed

Dragging its shit every where



Judgment honed like dissertation data

America over-romanticized like pre-masturbatory pornography

The maxing of credit limits becomes

The last great act of patriotism



Yet for a simple tweak of art

Joy is there for harvest

One last salve for the spirit before we die again

01.12.04



Thirty-eight things to say

Like

Mexico sure is fun

or

Happiness is a fallacy



I don't know who lived in more places

McKenzie or Big Dave Wave

at one brief point, they lived together

with Aaron



Perfect phrases of the English language

Are as elusive as large fish that

Always somehow manage to get away



You will hit me on the head forever



You are playing something related to the dulcimer

01.09.04



Culture Gurus

Are masters of sellout philosophies

Fulfillment of potentials

Can't trust it



The subtle & the mundane

How individuals impact groups

How guitars make you air

Thinking

meticulously the documented



Planning a grand escape

Diligently they schemed (no lie, homey)



That is not how you play guitars and drums

How come nobody's freaking on Kid Rock?



Isn't there a Constitutional amendment in the works here too:



Flag Desecration at Superbowl

"Let's make a constitutional amendment against presidents that lie."



Al Sharpton, 02.29.04

"That someone was sitting with a finger poised on a sanitizing switch suggests in itself that we are to have a new wave of heavy-duty censorship in America and all caused by the exposure of one breast -- Janet Jackson's on the halftime show of this year's Super Bowl. That single unveiling seems to be fostering a climate of suppression and fear the likes of which no hard-core porno film was ever able to engender. "



Tom Shales, Washington Post 03.01.04

I'm starting to become emboldened again.



[ween's "puffy cloud"]