http://revision99.com HARSHING YOUR MELLOW SINCE 2004. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:52:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here we all are so many years down the road, all those burned up dreams and daydreams and nightmares past my blurred windows, pale faces entreating us. What was behind that door? I never tried the knob, did you? We live in Dallas and Las Vegas and Seattle and Minneapolis, but ... http://revision99.com/2008/11/19/looking-sharp/ It's Veteran's Day, and I never know what to say about the veterans. I don't support the troops, at least not in the fetishistic way most of us seem to. I don't wish them harm -- I wish them home. Back to work, back to school, back to wives and husbands, ... http://revision99.com/2008/11/11/a-veterans-day-proposal/ I've been posting in this space for four years now. Sometime last month was the anniversary. I meant to make a big deal of it, but, like all the other years, I forgot. I suppose it's actually not such a big deal, anyway. I must be a lonely guy, to do this ... http://revision99.com/2008/11/10/movin-on-down-the-road/ People are standing in line to vote in Los Angeles. Here in the most nonchalant of states, there is a sense of history in the air, and the coolest kids in school are doing their dorky civic duty. Never mind that California is the bluest of the blue states, the House ... http://revision99.com/2008/11/04/big-day-2008/ The ground turkey had been pebble-gray right after it was cooked. She didn't know anything about browning meat, thought the only important thing was to kill the e coli bacteria. Two days later, having been served at a couple of meals and returned to the refrigerator, the meat was white. That stuff ... http://revision99.com/2008/10/22/salad/ I feel ragged and depressed today. As I type this my friend who got fired yesterday is cleaning out her office. All morning people have been dropping by to commiserate and pay respects. Everyone wants to keep in touch, everyone wishes her the best. She has dragged the industrial-sized trash can ... http://revision99.com/2008/10/15/main-street-next-day/ I've tried and tried to get my brain around the "economic crisis" we are in. I've read the straight news and dipped into the financial news. Literally all network news programs on television cover it as the lead story every night. My eyes glaze over with the concepts: recapitalization, credit default ... http://revision99.com/2008/10/14/main-street/ UPDATE: The simple version of what I'm saying in this post is that regardless of  Obama/Biden's big lead in the polls, not everybody who says they are going to vote Democratic will be allowed to vote. So the outcome might surprise us. _______________________________________ John McCain looks like a loser in this election, ... http://revision99.com/2008/10/09/dont-get-too-comfortable/ Sarah Palin is a dangerous woman. As you can see from the map (which appears today at pollster.com), she won't be Vice President this time, because McCain won't win. But the wingnut Right has found their new George Bush, and you can be sure we'll see her again. Maybe she'll ... http://revision99.com/2008/10/07/sarah-palin-just-the-start/ Yesterday this blog disappeared for a while. Unbeknownst to me, my web host had locked my account. I didn't try to look at the blog or post anything on it for most of the day, and by the time I realized something was wrong, the billing department was closed for the ... http://revision99.com/2008/10/03/im-back/