so here i sit. entirely bloated
and feeling totally crappy from the incredible amounts of food my mom dished out
for dinner. seems kind of lame to put on a spread large enough to feed an army
for the sake of two people. but it was good anyway. it was one of those rare
california christmas days when it actually rains. go figure. spoke with my
brother, who after finally giving up the mota has taken to the guitar and his
brand new ps2. there's something in my mom's genes i believe that won't let
either one of us grow up. spent some time with the dog on what is sadly going to
be his last christmas. i wish for my mom's sake he's just bump off quietly in
the night ... but he seems bound and determined to make it painful on her.
another example of god showing no mercy. oops. sorry. no bitterness on your day.
my apologies.
it's been an odd month so to
speak since i posted anything here. too many shows. too many other commitments.
not enough time to really expend some effort in this direction. i've seen way
too many shows this month. been beaten up twice ... once by mistake, once in a
vain attempt to get a pick from static-x. which i did by the way! go me! so not
only am i sitting here stuffed, i'm sitting here nursing my sadly bruised rib.
after the last stint of five consecutive nights of shows, i'm pretty fed up with
the whole late night head banging routine. spent three nights in a metal daze
followed by some blues and a jazz show. i find i'm still drawn though, and am
somewhat relieved that the local venues i haunt aren't really sponsoring anybody
i have to see for the next two months.
i guess we even caught saddam
this month. hooray. i've had some oddly mixed feelings about all that. i'm glad
we caught him and all, and it's great that he's been removed from all
possibility of hurting others again, but i'm still a little disturbed by our
actions. not the war, or that we invaded their country, not that at all. it's
stupid, but i can't help but think that perhaps we've missed an opportunity to
show the world that we are decent civilized human beings in this country and we
try to raise the bar for humanity in all directions. wrong. i know i've pissed
off just about everyone I've talked to about this but, i really don't think we
should have treated saddam the way we did when he was captured. it's that whole
rise above thing. i would have thought it would have been enough to show him
once in a still photo maybe or some other way to prove we had him, without
showing him being degraded and humiliated in those videos that have aired
endlessly since his capture. and i you think i'm wrong ... ask yourself what you
would say if that happened to someone you knew, or to a citizen of this country,
or god forbid yourself. not that he doesn't deserve worse treatment than that
... but we missed a moment to shine and show people we're better than that. oh
well. then tonight in what seemed to be an almost embarrassing display of
american low-brow vulgarity, we have the wwe in baghdad, celebrating christmas,
beating up santa claus, drinking beer and wrestling. i don't know ... but it
seemed kind of impolite to be celebrating christmas so loudly and obviously in a
country who's religion is somewhat offended by the idea, i'm all for giving the
troops some entertainment, etc., but what happened to bob hope ... oh yeah ...
he died ... evidently along with a good portion of our class as a country.
enough about that though. it is
christmas .. and while i'm far from being a christian ... i can still wish all
of you a merry christmas and to all a good night!
