Tense in DC

Things here are generally tense. It's not that no one is going outside, hell, i walked by a riot the other day and even stopped to watch a bit. the rioters don't seem to want to hurt anyone. Half of them seem like they really want food, the other seem like they just want to break stuff, which I can sympathize with.  What's more disturbing is the sense you get that things, at any moment, could flip and get real bad.  People seem reigned to it; they pause at the riots, or maybe get upset, but there's this quality of wit until the shit REALLY hits the fan!

Sunny ain't Sunny anymore!

I'm not going to pretend I was Sunny's biggest fan.  Too much hip hop if you ask me.  But he was one of the nicest guys in DC.  He used to spin records most nights at a bar where I've been know to have a few too manny.  Anyway, the local news here ran an interview with his wife...

F'ing Farmers

I was just trying to buy some fruit at a farmer's market this weekend and some Jethro took a swipe at me with a pitchfork.  I thought the food riots were over, but all of a sudden this guy is screaming that some locals took some of his apples and he's stuffing everything into the back of his truck.  Someone in the crowd actually threw a rock through his window and it seemed for a moment we were about to have a repeat of last weekend.  A bunch of cops showed up, but the guy was along gone, as were most of the people involved.  Nothing nearly as violent happened, but to me, things feel worse than they did during the riots.  More danger, more potential energy in the air.

John McCain Shuts it Down?

So if John McCain wins the election, what’s he going to do when he has a few problems to face at the same time. Remember when Katrina hit, Bush was also working on a Supreme Court appointment and soaring gas prices. You can’t just shut something down when things get too complicated.

Food Riot Interview

This guy seems to know his stuff. So I'll let him speak for himself. There are seven parts, but I'm not going to post them all, just the most frightening one. Follow the link back to YouTube to see the rest. Pretty interesting.

Ghost Goose Chase

Looking for ghost videos on YouTube is extremely frustrating. Most of the time I end up watching dumb things from kids that are jokes or crude fakes. Even a god fake would be worth my time. Instead I get some car going down the road and then a zombie pops up. Man it’s tiring.

Why is no one talking about this?

I have a friend who was at this. He said a few people got really hurt when the cops charged them. Not sure, but i haven't heard much about this on the news. Just some people on the bus talking about it.

Ghost Follow Up

Didn’t expect to hear anything back, but a guy who says he made the Drag movie (see Sept. 18th post, Ghost in the Movie) returned my e-mail and insists that he didn’t put the sound effect in there and doesn’t know where it could have come from. I’d love to find a better way of looking into this than just google searches?

3 Men and a Little Ghost

I was instantly reminded of the child ghost in Three Men and a Baby. So I did a little searching and found the video. When I was a kid, we were convinced this was a ghost but I can’t understand that now. It seems so obviously a cardboard standee. See for yourself.

A Ghost in the Movie

I’ve been google searching ghosts a bit and found this video on YouTube. I can’t take credit for this b/c someone else seems to have notices but at about 4:15 into the movie, it sounds like a woman having an orgasm. Maybe the filmmakers put it in, but why would they?

Exter-Net

Is there anyone else out there who really wishes sometimes they could go inside the internet? Or pull the internet in around them, make it real in our world. I hate to be base or to seem like a pop culture critic, but it's getting kind of sexy in cyber space. sure, you still have the anybody can post attitude which keeps youtube looking more like the real world than a beer commercial ever will, but because of the way thumbnails work to drive up view count, again, we have the loudest and sexiest people rising to the top.  Perhaps it's better to think of these free-form social networking and information sharing sites and not a reflection of America's body, but a reflection of american fantasy.  At least on YouTube the truth is out there, but, as with the real world, the desired facts rise to the top and become, somehow, more real than the rest.

September 12th, we're still stuck on the 11th

Wasn't going to post anything today, out of sheer disgust with all the patriotic shenanigans that have been associated with 911 since, well, 912. It makes me feel like 912 never happened at all. Like we've decided collectively to stay frozen in time, never bothering to move past or look back, at how we came to or what we've done since our agreed-upon moment. But I did run across this video, which I think is about the best comment on our post 911 policies. It reminds me of when Dennis Kucinich proposed a cabinet-level minister of peace and everyone lost it they thought it was so funny.

The LHC

I'm still trying to figure out how anyone can be scared of this thing.  Imagine if we spent all our money and time on trying to figure out the universe.  But look at the news everyday.  What are we spending our money on?  Wars, fast food, sweet sixteen parties, huge smear campaigns agains public servants. To steal a political phrase, this is one of the first times in a long time I've been proud to be a human.