Talk about bananas

01Feb07

I received a bulletin on myspace from one of my friends regarding a giant banana potentially floating over Texas for a month,  in a part of the atmosphere where it affects no air traffic and is engineered to hover only above Texas.
http://www.geostationarybananaovertexas.com/en.html
I get it.  I admire the ambition and the imagination.  I understand why these [...]

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Missing San Diego

01Feb07

The grey sky looms low, clouds roll, winds blow.
I stand solo in the frigid air, bare feet freezing on the concrete below me. 
I cross my arms and shiver; I am not accustomed to winter despite once living in Virginia.
And now I have returned, my indian summer’s spurned.  The sun-kissed glow is slowly ceding to pallid form.
I hold [...]

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bureaucracy = inaction at it’s most inactive and I HATE IT!

01Feb07

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!
That is the sound of frustration captured on a keyboard.
*throws hands up in the air*
Who is the father of the BASTARD State Department?  I want to talk with him about his offspring’s predilection for confusing, thwarting, and baffling any citizen’s attempt for communication and his offspring’s monolithic propensity.
In other words, I CAN’T CONTACT THE BASTARD.
All [...]

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