Year: 2007
Insert A Trite Metaphor for a Corral #22
Posted on January 10, 2007 in Roundup
To Surge or Not to Surge. That is the Question.
Now Which Day Was It?
Posted on January 10, 2007 in Milestones Partnership
I am not sure of the exact date (the 18th?) but I am coming close to the 20th anniversary of my meeting my best friend, my wife. Kind of funny in a way because I was more interested in the woman she was with and, at the last moment, offered to drive her home to impress this other person. The end result was that I asked Lynn out for a date (or I should say I stuttered a request for a date) and….well, you know the rest.
Another funny thing: we made a solemn vow to not have sex for six months when we met. By April of 1987, we were cohabitating.
This partner of mine has stuck with me through my worst scourges of my illness, nights when I held the pillow to my head and screamed. She was with me the morning I woke up and said to her “I am sick” and resolved to seek out psychiatric help. She stuck with me when I went off on a crazy trip to the Balkans to cover the war and she has listened to my every lunatic tale of life with the disease. Though there were moments when it was hard to stay faithful, I did, and as the years passed, the task became easier and easier.
Sometimes she has suffered the scourges of the jealous and the insane, but she has held my hand close. The shallow cannot begin to fathom her depth and commitment. This has been the love of my life.
War and Pieces of the Mind
Posted on January 9, 2007 in Occupation of Iraq PTSD
An antisocial character evolved out of a sociopathic war and the price was at least one family.
Systole and Dystole
Posted on January 9, 2007 in Life as Metaphor Reflections
From my seat in the restaurant, tail lights pressed into the darkness where their cause was taken up by headlights which came back at me. Just that steady round: no swings or episodes, no grand opera moments. Just the systole and dystole of a heart thumping to the movement of traffic. For now, my disease seems to be under control.
Goodbye 2006 with all your manias and depressions, your stalkers and your angry weirdos.
Insert A Trite Metaphor for A Corral #21
Posted on January 9, 2007 in Roundup
The White House confirmed that it was in serious political trouble on the matter of sending 3500 units to Iraq by bombing Somalia.
National Delurking Week
Posted on January 8, 2007 in Festivals The InterNet
Anyone can take part simply by leaving comments on the blogs that you regularly read!
Insert Trite Metaphor About a Corral #20
Posted on January 8, 2007 in Roundup
A day of murmuring “big stories”.
The Wrong Actress
Posted on January 7, 2007 in Film
Jennifer Hudson should not be up for Best Supporting Actress in Dreamgirls. It was her show. She should be nominated for Best Actress and [[Beyonce Knowles]] relegated to the Best Supporting Actress nod. Call it a matter of time onscreen and import to the story. Ignore the screen credits.
This isn’t the first time that such a major booboo has been wrought by the awards-blacksmiths. Dr. [[Haing S. Ngor]] portrayed the war-tormented reporter [[Dith Pran]], appearing onscreen for nearly all of the 141 minutes. He acted in English, French, and Khmer. Yet the best actor nod went to [[Sam Waterson]]. Ngor won the Best Supporting Actor award the same year that [[F. Murray Abraham]] won for Amadeus. Were Hollywood voters saying that Ngor wasn’t good enough to compete with the big boys?
Insert A Trite Metaphor for a Corral #19
Posted on January 7, 2007 in Roundup
The sky seems to be the place to go.
Take PH off the Air at KSFO
Posted on January 7, 2007 in Courage & Activism Hatred Media
Where there’s a wrong, there’s a wrong.
Insert A Trite Metaphor for a Corral #18
Posted on January 6, 2007 in Roundup
Let’s see what gifts of the Magi have come today
The Dark Has A Fierce Voice
Posted on January 6, 2007 in Weather
The dark has a fierce voice that rumbles the rafters and makes the windows whine.
