Life is good... I've scored not one, but two, separate passes to see Return of the King two separate times before it opens...

The first is next Wednesday. I'll let ya know how fabulous it is...

HELLBOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The trailer is up, yo!

Sturtle started my day off with a nice laugh today...

OMG...
it's finally out!!!!

I know what I'm gonna be reading early next week as soon as it wings it's way across the ocean to me...

Ok... here's the music I'm digging lately...

April March "Triggers"
Aqualung "Still Life"
Basement Jaxx "Kish Kash"
Belle & Sebastian "Dear Catastrophe Waitress"
Ellen Allien "Berlinette"
Fluke "Puppy"
Freeland "Now and Then"
Guther "I Know You"
Jet "Get Born"
Kylie Minogue "Body Language"
Lamb "Between Darkness and Wonder"
Lene Marlin "Another Day"
LFO "Sheath"
Ms John Soda "While Talking"
my favorite "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" and the remix album
Primal Scream "Dirty Hits" and the remix album :)
Richard X "Presents His X-Factor"
Sophie Ellis-Bextor "Shoot From the Hip"
Soviet "We are Eyes, We are Builders"
Stars "Heart"
Suede "Singles"
Zoot Woman "Useless Anyway"

Jesus Christ... when you haven't blogged in quite a while, it's really difficult to decide what you should blog about...

um... i bought a new phone this week... now if i could just figure out how to use the wireless internet features on it...

and, Thursday nite, I met another New Orleans blogger irl... the guy has some damned sexy arms... and he never seems to stop smiling... but that was probably cuz he was talking to me, right?

oh yeah... i pretty much got my heart stomped on by my now ex-boyfriend who I never told you much about... we'll get to that at some point...

WOW! Way to fucking go, Mr Gaiman! A comic book just made the New York Times bestseller lists!

Awwww... Rush Limbaugh is not having a very good day today...

I hate what our country has happened to our country in the last three years. Our current president has turned a huge budget surplus into what will soon be the largest deficit in the history of our country. He's decimated the fourth amendment. He's turned our government over to big business. He's destroyed our economy, but managed to make the wealthy even wealthier. He's gotten us into a war (and be sure it's not the last one he plans to wage) that has the rest of the world looking at us like we've gone insane. And he lies and lies and lies and we let him get away with it because we never get angry enough to rise up and stop him.

I'm not exaggerating any of this. Do some research. Use Google. Read Big Lies, The Great Unraveling, Lies... and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Bushwhacked, Shrub, Dude, Where's My Country?, and/or Thieves in High Places. Get pissed off. Our country is being run by a president who stole an election. He absolutely does not have your best interests at heart. He is THE MAN.

Until recently, I assumed that we were going to have to suffer through another four years of his presidency, because I didn't really think the Democrats would come up with a viable candidate to challenge him in 2004. I was wrong.

I first heard about General Wesley Clark a few weeks ago. I didn't pay a lot of attention. Then I read an advance copy of Michael Moore's book, Dude, Where's My Country. In the last chapter, Moore makes a powerful argument that Clark is the man who can beat Bush. Now, I tend to think that Michael Moore is a bit of a fruitcake. I love his unabashedly liberal views, but I sometimes question the way he makes his arguments. However, he layed out Clark's views on a series of issues and it demanded my attention. Then I went online and researched Clark some more.

I'm damned excited. Clark is a candidate I can and will be extremely proud to cast my vote for next October. He's pro-choice and doesn't waffle in saying so. He's against the Patriot Act II (remember when I was talking about the fourth amendment? this is what destroyed it). He's for gun control. He's for affirmative action. He's against the war (and he's a four star general). He already has a plan for bringing some economic sanity back to our government. He's pro-enviroment. He has a vision for our country that get me damned excited. He's reclaiming the concept of patriotism from the radical right. And hey... he let a blogger interview him.

Anyways, don't take my word for any of this. Get on the Web and do some research. But, I seriously think that Clark is our best chance to beat Bush in 2004. And I think he can. And, most importantly, I think he could be a truly great president.

So, do some research, and if you agree with me, get involved. It's not too early.

And if you're in Louisiana, for god's sake, go next week and vote against Bobby Jindall for governor!

I'm one of the assistant managers mentioned in this journal posting by Neil Gaiman. What sort of scares me is that when my manager asked him to sign the book, he said something to the effect of "Drew in New Orleans? Oh, he'll want it inscribed. He's on my webpage all the time." Eek. How the hell does Neil Gaiman know who I am?

I swear to god I never threatened to stab my manager though... well.. maybe I did...

Big huggies to Jonno for finding and fixing the problem with my blog template. I swear to god i didn't do anything to it... it just decided one day to rearrange itself...

grrr...

It's Labor Day and Southern Decadence has come and gone once more. The protesters were barely a blip in the weekend. The police did a really amazing job of controlling them all weekend and their numbers were far less than they had said they would be.

And as of yesterday, it seems i'm officially dating someone... we were evidently damned cute leaning against a St Ann street midday yesterday. All of our friends were giving us knowing grins and we noticed one guy stopped across the street to photograph us.

Anyway... more on this later... trust that for now, it's very good though...

I feel that I should point out that item #66 on my Amazon Wishlist is currently on sale for $5.29.

The Hotshot is the utterly adorable boyfriend of my utterly adorable friend Clee out in San Francisco. I hate them both for being such an utterly adorable couple.

Ok... I probably actually love them to death...

Anyways, I'm adding him to my bloggy links.

ok... i added comments back in... if no one uses them... they go away soon...

I've noticed something that creeps me out. Every once in a while, my number of friends on Friendster drops.

So.... um, have I become unfriendworthy? Or did they just quit Friendster? And the sad thing is that I can never figure out who's disappeared...

I added new links over on the side to Poppy and Jeff's blogs/journals. And I edited the little pop up box thingie for Mark's. Not that the little pop up thingies work very well when you're using Safari to surf... fix that, Apple!

I stayed home from work feeling sort of icky today... and i'm bored... so... i'm playing with the colors on here today... i'm sick of the brown background and blue links...

One of my favorite New Orleanians and friends/acquaintances has started a livejournal called Dispatches from Tanganyika. We share titles inspired by John Kennedy Toole... although, mine is actually more inspired by his mother, Thelma Ducoing Toole.