if you are feeling like you've seen this before

the sort of tactics our PRESIDENT is running with.

if you are wondering about CONSERVATIVES and how they were made.

you should watch THIS VIDEO .

it will really give you the goods. especially if you were too young to notice. like me. in some regards.

thanks to elise ficarra for sending us the link.

also...

thanks to the NFL for granting my wishes yesterday.

time for the 4th annual poet's superbowl party! woo!

go watch the video. go ahead. you won't be able to stop.

NFL

this is what i want today:

the Colts & the Bears to win.



& then i don't much care who wins the superbowl.
so long as they are in it.

yr carbon footprint?

i woke up at 3 am thinking that i need to post this!

yr carbon footprint has a direct effect on CLIMATE.

you will need to have yr most recent electricity bill & an honest estimate of how many miles you drive a month & how much mpg yr car gets. IF you are a driver!

also, make sure you choose yr country! you know how us USers can't measure things the same way as everyone else.

our carbon footprint was angelic. which surprised me. but, we keep the thermo at 65 [& we have to since SF is the new Brooklyn] & turn lights off when we don't need them.

i hope yrs is as good.

also, we finally viewed Al Gore's _An Inconvenient Truth _& it actually was informative & terrifying.

there is also a rumor that PG & E will plant a tree for you if you give them a little extra money. i will try & find out if this is true. maybe you already know that it is.

AND

one more thing about the environment.... if you are suffering from CHOICE FATIGUE at the market.... try & buy the foods w/ the least amount of packaging.

for more helpful info try THIS SITE. there is also a book by this group that has been the inspiration for OUR emergency green lifestyle that is super helpful.

let me know how it goes!

in the mail

from KSM.

thank you!

catch-up

this is revealing, but...

maggie & i are seriously worried that chloe is to be killed tonight on 24.

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i pre-ordered logan ryan smith's the singers today. you can too... here you go. i'm very much looking forward to it.


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i feel better but the Poods is still sick. he had to go to the doc this am & get some fluids. has an upset tummy. poor little Poods.


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i think we will actually be attending all the millions of readings this weekend. after a long hiatus.


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are there any other non-joggers or haven't jogged in over a year joggers out there who want to start?
i miss running & i won't do it alone. i know me. i'm a chicken.

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i was tagged again. by susana

but i have the flu & can't think of anything that is unknown about me.

?

if anything...

i think you know too much about me.


like i have the flu, i have a blind poodle named percy who also has a virus right now, & i'm maggie's [known on the east coast as MAGGIE Z, which, kind of bothers me because it doesn't really suit the maggie i know... to be called : yo, MAGGIE Z, what up? i mean... but it is still funny, i guess, to think of that part of her that IS MAGGIE Z. ] o, and yeah, i'm maggie's ladyfriend.

five things you don't know about me.

1. while you do know from alli warren that i am from the same valley as alli warren, suzanne stein, & judith goldman... what you may not know is that i spent 3 years in a place called the Antelope Valley. not three straight years, though, & maybe it was actually 5, but the point is... it is a place of death & meth & i'm very happy to have escaped relatively unharmed with my wits. as did my entire family & most of my friends.

2. i am terribly shy & like to pretend that nobody knows who i am so i don't have to make small talk with people i don't know very well. this doesn't work very well, however.... because there are plenty of people that i've met many times & am still shy with & instead of coming off as shy... well... i think maybe i come off as a bitch instead. but really, best case scenario, maybe awkward. i am hoping i can pull off awkward.

of course... after a couple of beers i can make small talk a little too well.

3. i am really disgusted by most microbes. i'd just rather not know what they look like magnified.

4. i'm a poet.

5. i'm Scottish, but the last name is actually French, thus the chips, but the sweaters are Scottish, and that is my Clan, but this is all over 300 years ago because we landed in CT back in the 1690s & despite a brief stint in canada after fighting for King George III, we have been set in the country ever since.

i think maybe everyone knew all that already. except maybe 3 & 4. heh.

okay. i would like to hear from

1. that canadian that was bugging me about my blog a few months ago
2. elise ficarra
3. bruce andrews
4. andrea rexilius
5. julie reid

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& tell me...
do you think we should send another 21500 troops to Iraq like Mr. Bush proposed tonight?
&
do you think congress will pay for it?

do you think they should?

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i'm reading don quixote. i am laughing a lot.

all three of us are squatting at elise's bc she is in europe & she said we could.

we LOVE IT.