Well, spent a long weekend in LA, at least it felt longer than it was. I have not been home for a weekend in too long, and I do miss SF. Luckily I am at LAX now on my way home finally. Since I had some extra time, I was reading through the Sunday LA Times and in the Book Review, saw a review for “The Future Dictionary of America” (McSweeney’s Books, 2004) which piqued my interest since I like words and such.

Two words they highlighted I particularly liked. Spunctual which means what it sounds like it should mean (“excited, on time, and excited to be on time”), and puritangential (“a form of argument used to obfuscate an important issue by diverting attention to an irrelevant one”). Art Speigelman (of Maus fame) coined the second one, and there are segments by Diane Ackerman and Kurt Vonnegut in the book as well, so I think I may add that to my wish list.

I also need to look up the word egaltarian which I’ve been meaning to look up since I see it all the time although I suspect it means something along the lines of something with a focus towards sociopolitical betterment/ideals.

so tired of this bs…

I love live music, but don’t see enough of it in DJ-riddled SF. However last night my friend Julie and I saw a band called the Invisibles and Mixed Signals at the Rickshaw Stop and they were pretty fresh. Even got some German lyrics in there of which I only understood “du bist…”

Oh well, so much for High School German class with the Frau!

Cool new t-shirt on unamerican.com and also a new blog I found with some interesting insights: fearbush.com

On my way out of SFO heading to DFW the fog was perfectly rolling in so that it reminded me of Bespin from Empire Strikes Back. I heard at some point that George Lucas was inspired by San Francisco for Bespin, but just took that as urban legend. The cranes in Oakland definitely look like the original Death Star which I believed but now I do believe that SF might have been an inspiration for Bespin. Go Lando Go!

People have commented pretty positively on my Wax Bush shirt so here’s where you can get it, just click on the logo above…

Library dream – not sure why I was there, but somehow was there overnight and stayed up around the fourth floor. Went to use the bathroom but there was only a women’s bathroom on the 4th floor so I went down stairs to the 1st floor – somehow the mayor’s office is also on the 1st floor of the library. Didn’t see a men’s bathroom but saw another guy sleeping in the auditorium so I went back up to the 4th floor and suddenly there were a bunch of people there. I talked to them and that was that.

Stan’s wedding dream – we were gettting lined up for the wedding and somehow there is confusion about where to line up etc. I only had my undershirt on for some reason and nobody seemed to notice. Stan kept asking me for thoughts on how to arrange people and he didn’t want people to be so far away from where the audience was gathered. There were no chairs like there were in the real wedding so we made a big line/tunnel where Denise came down in between us and walked up to the ‘altar’ to get married. There were lots of inconsistencies now that I think back to it but that’s all I remember

So this week I went to the dentist (a pretty cool guy) and got my first dental checkup in a while which included getting two fillings replaced and a cleaning. They are using some nice high tech stuff nowadays and I love practitioners who work with the latest gear.

Speaking of medical advances, here’s a great link to send an email/fax to your representative in congress to support legalizing marijuana

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Just happened to read today’s quote which is from the 14th Dalai Lama:

It seems that often when problems arise, our outlook becomes narrow.

Seems so appropriate considering all the crazy stuff going on in the world.

I like that term, Person’s of Mass Destructions, aka suicide bombers. I just read Thomas Friedman’s column which I like to keep up with for world affairs, and there was one passage in particular that caught my eye:

“They are mainly imported cookie-cutter killers, created by a combination of Arab mass media, certain extremist elements in Muslim culture, and some very shrewd recruiting by Al Qaeda and its ilk. When young, angry, futureless, sexually repressed people are taught that death is a permanent vacation of guilt-free pleasure, and they see it glorified in countless videos, all you need is a willing truck driver to ferry them over the border from Syria, Jordan, Turkey or Saudi Arabia and presto