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(to the tune of public enemy's 'black steel in the hour of chaos'... or, alternatively, tricky's version, 'black steel')

i got a letter from the president the other day
opened it, read it, it said he was a sucker.
something about listening in when i called my friend
we may have spoken about the crisis with al qaeda then
but back then i had faith in the man
i mean, a brother like me, with faith in this president?
he's kinda flighty and way aristocratic
and a philistine to boot, so i'm amazed that i ever did.

9/11 took the wind out of me
sitting in darkness n' smoking packs of cigarettes
and then i drank and drank and got shitty
just waiting for when those fucking bastards would hit again
and then we went to afghanistan
put a hurting on those bitches that call themsleves the taliban
but then shit got fubar, imagine that
we shifted focus and now we're invading iraq

just then it occured to me
that this was total misappropriation of authority
but there was nothing i could even do
but sit and watch it go down on the TV tube

1940-2005

thank you, sir.

(multiple choice)

1. a tiny dog squatting on a sidewalk, shaking pitifully. struggling to squeeze out blood-stained shit nuggets in the fresh morning snow.

2. the gastineau girls on the e! network. that awful mother and her whining about looking unnatural in an OK! magazine red carpet photo shoot. it's the collagen lips and the botox, the pulled back face... it will take all the revlon in paris to reverse the damage. 14:57... 14:58...

3. bush apologists & yellmonger 'conservatives'.

4. the snow the dog shat upon.

5. sleeping inside of a cardboard box and on top of a grate where steam from the subway billows out.

"...because they're stupid, that's why."

this clip featuring newsweek's howard fineman on imus in the morning is worth watching... provides a bit of perspective into the whole selling of the iraq war. and while it's just one data point, imagine for a moment who said what in the oval as they came to this conclusion...

the snow in l.a. is fake. now you know.

shot this last week at the grove in los angeles. sprawling outdoor mall. tons of christmas stuff up. santa and the reindeer swoop down on their sleigh twice nightly when it 'snows'.

the 'snow' at the grove is some sort of uberpowder that, when you apply water to it, turns into a fluffy synthetic flurry substance. they blanket the acres of outdoor mall with the stuff and kids frolick in it. there were rumors that johnny moseley was going to come and do one of his dinner rolls in the quad. but that was just some hollywood bullshit.

the snow on the candyland house pic is not born of that synthetic material. maybe the plastic used to make this snow is the same plastic they use to make the lips and boobs for beverly hills wives and aspiring wannabees. now there's a rumor to spread around the grove.