Tonight (i.e., some time between 10pm June 24 and 2:45am June 25), The Partner and I got together with two friends* of ours.
The interesting aspect of it all was our seeming difference; the truth was our similarity.
While some can acknowledge certain realities, others can acknowledge others’.
We edit ourselves to fit “appropriate” paradigms.

Robert Crumb is a social critic through art and illustration.
You can see the individual drawings here.

I’m always a little late to update things, so I only recently (as in, last week) updated to WordPress 2.2 and, as I haven’t really been posting much, I haven’t noticed all the changes in this version yet. I did, however, notice while attempting to post the other day* the in-line post preview was [...]

Earlier today George found someone else’s toy in the backyard — a tennis ball on a piece of rope — and he wouldn’t part with it so I let him bring it inside. Fast forward a couple hours and I come home from getting some rather pricey groceries and I ask The Partner what [...]

Remember how I said I’d be cleaning the office this summer? It’s a really slow process for me, if only because I have so much SHIT, but also because I procrastinate and find other things to keep my attention, like iSketch. I commenced with the desk area the week before last and last [...]

When I get intoxicated, I usually turn into a philosopher and a huge pedagogue. After six shots of hard liquor, I can solve the world’s problems.
The things is: it makes folks uncomfortable. I haven’t found a lot of folks who genuinely like talking politics, even though it impacts their daily lives.
Tonight, [...]

I highly recommend giving the documentary Hip Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes a view. It’s a free view through Google Video. It was produced and written by Byron Hurt and examines misogyny, violence, notions of manhood, and homophobia as re/presented in hip hop.