tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-125447912011-04-21T18:42:03.227-07:00Something matters to Everyone. For me, that Something is The Media. They persuade and reflect the public they serve. I am both the voice and the voiceless. At this address, the Human voice in my head has much to say and likes the way it sounds from behind these walls of free speech.eyebrow esquirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17410828929687909102noreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12544791.post-1130452769895821892005-10-27T14:42:00.000-07:002005-10-27T15:39:29.920-07:00

The fact of my anti-social personality is no more proven true than in the process of this post. I debate this purpose with the silent voice hammering adjectives and verbs and subject-matter points in my head. But, putting them on screen is a conversation I must have alone with an imaginary audience much smarter than I and fully capable of smelling bullshit in a flower shop. Between sentences

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Uncanny reading lately about scientific discoveries, past and present. Even men in Ancient Egypt were scared of getting their girlfriends pregnant. Ramen did not invent the noodle. Tolkien's "Lord of the Ring" series could really be Hobbit folklore. Pre-historic white meat in South America learned to fly just as quickly as birds in North American and Asia. Contraception, noodles, Hobbits,

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So, God creates Man on the 6th day. Millions of years later, after a 40-day flood to rid the earth of its sinners, we still argue if God really did all this or if we walked away from our crazy, Godless monkey ancestors. Hurrican Katrina nearly sinks New Orleans, obviously not a man-made catastrophe, that is, unless you believe those wack-job scientists who say global warming has heated the

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Senate Democrats slept peacefully uneasy last night. President Bush's USSC Chief Justice nominee, John Roberts, put on the robes of a new era this morning, but the historic truth of Roberts' judicial and constitutional legacy was overcast by a new Supreme Court nominee - one that has never worn a judge's robe before.President Bush's nominee is relatively unknown by anyone outside of the legal

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Your fascination with extremes - Wall Street in the 1980s, Silicon Valley in the 1990s - seems to be a consistent theme in your work. Why?Probably because I grew up in New Orleans, which is the complete opposite of these worlds. New Orleans is a stable, unchanging world. -Michael Lewis in Robert Boynton's book, The New New Journalism, pg. 252.Creative Nonfiction, like Lewis's Moneyball, and

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I don't know whether to pack the car and roadtrip to New Orleans or curl up into the fetal position and cry myself into a month-long hybernation. We are in the shade of the three-day, Labor Day weekend and the shadowing reminder that Mother Nature and Life, both, go on.Unemployed and without reason to celebrate. Alive and without fear of homelessness. I take stock in humility. We should all

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I remember my father's two-year transition into the world of respectability. He was promoted from beat-cop to detective. He quit smoking and drinking and bought some new suits. He did it for the family. We needed the money and he wanted to be at home when my brother and I were awake instead of out protecting the midnight streets while we slept. And, he did it to give my brother and I options.

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then Why have visions of sugarplums and flying brooms? Our children's' gods work full-time jobs to pay their mortgages. They come home tired, outspokenly upset that their children sit in front of the television or computer, secretly relieved; relieved because the evening's Amber Alert will always be someone else's child. The good news: a "real" person will win the title of being America's newest

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The desk, a left-over dinosaur from a small-town police station recently re-modeled, grazes in front of a window behind smoke-stained blinds that are never opened. Even if the blinds were to be opened, the sun would have hurdle a fishing-tackle box printer and and a desklight/bookshelf easily mistaken for a canoe. Even if it the sun could get through all this, it would never be able to distract

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At what point does complacency turn to paranoia? thinking on the events of 7/7; looking out from under the cloud of smoke hovering where two towers once stood, i see a concrete and gray world. everything seems hard and solid except what's no longer visible - hope.Nine days after the London terror attacks, Harry Potter returns to top bestseller lists. Christmas in July for kids around the globe.

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it's been a struggle to maintain this/these blogs as i had hoped. no longer. today, i take the professional pressure and hang it on my wall beside the Hunter S. Thompson commemorative issue of Rolling Stone; the responsibility, i place in my wallet to walk with me as i leave my privacy in my bedroom.in the era that will be known for its marketing to an alienated and divided public, i sat in

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In the 72 hours since Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement, what hasn't been said, re-stated, and regurgitated? Editorialists, poli-pundits, and novelists have all printed their two-cent speculations about the future Congressional battle to name O'Connor's replacement. The Chief Justice's noble, yet fragile appearance at President Bush's inauguration in January ignited a fire-storm of

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Scout found by volunteers after 4 days: "The 11-year-old boy missing for four days in rugged terrain of northeast Utah was found today -- cold and thirsty, but alive -- by two volunteer searchers on horseback. 'A little dehydrated, a little weak, but other than that, he's currently in very good health,' Summit County Sheriff David Edmunds told reporters."This is not the last of this story. Read

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The most brilliant take on the King of Pop: " Alas, it's not my own but my old friend Greg Tate wrote this for Newsday. It's easy for us to distance ourselves from MJ as a freak and pretend that he has nothing to do with ourselves, our values, or our little sisters who used to scratch 'I love Michael Jackson' in chalk on the driveway. The truth, however, is that he's as American as a Chevy ad so

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Jackson jury ends third day without verdict: "SANTA MARIA, Calif. (Reuters) - The jury in Michael Jackson's child molestation trial on Wednesday completed a third full day without reaching a verdict as aides to the pop star urged supporters to be patient."Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, is as American as McDonald's. Most of us grew up watching his career mature like the boys and girls on our

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High school politics: All you need to know.: "It's amazing how high school social rules can go on to dictate political rhetoric."Maybe those Republic of Texas guys aren't so crazy afterall.I remember the cliques - the jocks, the band-nerds, the punks, the thugs, and the nerds. I knew everyone of them. I talked to them in the hallways. Life was just that way at my small high school. We seperated

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Spelling bee morphs into media darling: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. National Spelling Bee, that ultimate anxiety fest for brainy schoolkids, has morphed into a media darling, inspiring a novel, a documentary, a feature film and a Broadway musical."I remember spelling bees - I remember hating them. I remember standing in front of my middle school English teacher, my friends, and the girl I

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Cheerleaders to remain Bootylicious: "News 8 Austin reports that Rep. Al Edwards (D-Can't Handle It) Bill to ban sexually suggestive high school routines has dead ended in the Senate. Sen. Florence Shapiro, R-Plano, said her education committee has more important things to consider. Rep...."Hurdle Cleared

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The headline: Texas House to Cheerleaders: Don't Shake It by CNN.We take our football very seriously in Texas. It's more like a religion than an extracurricular activity. Under those Friday Night Lights, high school heros are made. Sometimes, it's a kick-off return for a touchdown, sometimes it's a fumble recovery, and sometimes it's just a completed pass for a first down; in a small town, each

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Dome Improvement: "Pop quiz: What's behind the surprising rise in IQ? (Hint: Stop reading the great authors and start playing Grand Theft Auto.) By Steven Johnson from Wired magazine."This may very well be largest second step in the history of ambitious short people - the first was more symbolic of a child trying to walk in a pair of his father's boots for the first time. It was in this Mother

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100 people who are qualified to carry the "Bad Mothafucka" wallet besides Pulp Fiction's Jules Winfield.The Lizard King compiles a lengthy list of superhumans. I do not agree with all of them, but some (Mr. Miyagi, TMNT's Raphael, and R2D2) made me cringe in jealousy and blush with admiration for the King. But, the King did not include some of my boyhood (and adulthood) heroes.I've come up with

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When other little boys played with remote-controled cars and Nintendo, I sat in my room and wrote love letters that would never get delivered. My sense of romanticism was full of the juice even before I could produce it. I used to idolize the perfect relationship - sans arguments. Now, I require them.The only way to really get to know someone is by finding that something that they are really

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this is day one of a new experiment.

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