Hustler of Culture
After a morning that resembles getting struck by a meteroite, I have departed for the Thanksgiving holiday. Please enjoy yourselves and your time with family, friends and loved ones.
In keeping with my promise for National Blog Posting Month, I’ll continue to post once a day. But no promises that’ll be anything great.
See ya Monday, everyone!
1. Only 2/3 of my costume has arrived by mail. As of tonight, I’m Dr. Gregory House without a cane.
2. I was so sick this weekend that I missed my friend Mace’s party.
3. 2006 has not been the best year and I’m really just waiting for it to come to and end so I can start over.
I’ve been working my ass off the last few days trying to finish an essay on Grey’s Anatomy that this company will be featuring in a book sometime in the future. Tonight begins Yom Kippur which means much fasting, thinking and atonement. More Tuesday….
So we’ve been here before but…
Total Flag Count: 234.
Last Flag: On top of the post office, San Pablo, CA.
The Closing Song: (mp3)
“Washington’s Day” by The Hooters
“Did you think I could ever forget
The night by the Arlington Flame?
In the silence I heard it
Through streets so deserted
You whispered and called me by name.
Did you think I could ever forget
That powerful look in your eye?
Where Lincoln stood strong there
You held me so long there that night
On the fourth of July.”
Happy birthday, America. I love you even when you disappoint the hell out of me.
Good night.
Below is the last stanza of Francis Scott Key’s poem “The Star Spangled Banner.” It seems to be both celebrating war and pleading for peace. What an American sentiment that is and how appropriate for where we are now as a nation.
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
(via The Writer’s Almanac).
Happy May Day!
Suzan and I are going away for the weekend. Happy New Year and see you in 2006 everyboby!
Hannukah officially began at sun up yesterday with this article on Jewish hipsterism. It’s never been kooler to be kosher (via my friend Leslie).
Lordamighty, is it Bastille Day already?