GBCW: i should be doing something right now.

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday November 27, 2008 · 11:08 AM PST

2008/11/27 · 11:08

It's been a really long few years. It started with finding my housemate and best friend in our living room, dead. He was 31. Almost exactly a year later, my other best friend passed, but I wasn't there. He was 26. And then, exactly a year ago this Sunday, I lost another close friend. He passed around midnight on his 21st birthday. I don't know why I'm telling you all this, I guess I just gotta get it off my chest, and if someone ever looks this profile, I want them to know what happened.

sparkz

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday November 05, 2008 · 7:45 AM PST

2008/11/05 · 07:45

All I can say is that I'm pissed.

But I am not pissed at the couple million people in this state who were too dumb to see through the lies that were being spewed at them every commercial break. I can't be pissed at these people.

You know why?

Poll

24 votes Show Results

I live in Cali and I...

24 votes Vote Now!

I live in Cali and I...

did all that I could to prevent Prop. 8

16 votes

didn't think it would pass until it was probably too late.

5 votes

don't believe in equality.

3 votes

What you need to know about prop. 8

sparkz

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday October 09, 2008 · 7:03 PM PDT

2008/10/09 · 19:03

Donate.

This is going to be short. I haven't written about prop. 8, because I was hoping I wouldn't have to. I thought that here in Cali, we could handle our own ignorant bigots. I was wrong.

But that's not the point of this diary. The point of this diary is to tell you about Vinny.

sparkz

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday August 21, 2008 · 11:38 PM PDT

2008/08/21 · 23:38

Strangely enough, I find myself saying that phrase at least once a day. I'll be cruising along, enjoying the sunshine, trying to keep my cadence up... and then all of a sudden:

Please don't kill me.

sparkz

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday May 16, 2008 · 9:57 AM PDT

2008/05/16 · 09:57

I am watching MSNBC's coverage of Obama and he's at a townhall meeting. I was struck by a conversation he had with a farming family that was upset with the way larger companies have come into their area and bought up all of the land, driving up their costs.

But what amazed me wasn't the way he answered the question... it was the way he asked questions of the family. "How much of this consolidation affects other farmers and your area?" "What does that do to land prices?" "What have you been able to do about health care?"

And it struck me...

sparkz

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Monday March 31, 2008 · 11:43 AM PDT

2008/03/31 · 11:43

The year was 1998. I was in Italy... Firenze to be exact. We were walking to a field where the game (broadcast live from France) was being played. There were thousands upon thousands of Italians, and I felt a million violin strings of tension. We had been bested by our enemies, the Brazilians, in the previous World Cup, coming so close as to taste the victory until R. Baggio rocked a ball off the crossbar to lose the game in shootouts.

But this time was different. Italy looked ever stronger, more poetic and involved than they had in the past. You see, to understand Italian soccer, you must first visit Italy and understand the people themselves. This is not like baseball, not the commercialized and overplayed passion of football americana. Calcio is an art as intrinsic to their culture as Michaelangelo. It isn't about point spreads or one on one matchups or averages, it's about human emotion.

We watched in dismay after opportunities were lost, as the game remained nil-nil until the end of 90 minutes. And then we entered into what all Italians must see as the deepest level of Dante's inferno: the shootout.

sparkz

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday March 25, 2008 · 11:50 AM PDT

2008/03/25 · 11:50

My goodness gracious me. I never expected that it would even come to this. Pushing a sure thing into doubt, making McCain look better with every day we pass. Well, ok, maybe allowing him more time in the stasis chamber to slow his aging...

The main problem is that we are confronted with two good choices for our nominee, two different paths to victory. One wishes to take us the way we have always gone, using convention to push swing states and hold the big ones steadfast. It has worked in the past, in fact, it worked with the only democratic president during my lifetime.

The other road to victory is a little more mysterious. It involves reliance on a whole lot of factors that people haven't considered before. Primarily, the goodness and intelligence of the American people. It doesn't involve ads that offer ominous audio and dubious video. And in doing so, it tacitly assumes that people will not fall for those tactics. By leaving out large corporate donors, it relies on the generosity of a larger population.

sparkz

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday February 27, 2008 · 10:34 AM PST

2008/02/27 · 10:34

RE: The recent bullshit McCain has been spouting about "surrendering in Iraq."

Sir, you are a fuckhead. After eight years of Bush, I am still astounded by the audacity of your talk. You speak a hard game on lobbyists, yet you are in bed with them, literally and figuratively. You talk of experience in foreign policy, yet is it obvious to the vast majority of this country that you have been wrong on the single greatest foreign policy disaster of my generation.

Yet you want to push your flawed line of logic like shit with a broom. Until this whole fucking election stinks. Well, let me enlighten you right here and now.

YOU WILL LOSE.

sparkz

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday February 07, 2008 · 10:54 AM PST

2008/02/07 · 10:54

It happened a couple weeks ago. I was watching an Obama event on MSNBC and they were cutting back and forth with a McCain event. And it was at that moment I realized with too much clarity what this is all about.

Obama was talking about Medicare and other social programs, and how they are going to be a challenge as the number of old people in the country grows. But looking at the crowd, you wouldn't know the number of old people was growing. It was a myriad of youthful and multicultural faces.

sparkz

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Monday January 14, 2008 · 9:56 AM PST

2008/01/14 · 09:56

holy crap. my eyes are bleeding. i can't believe the arrows being flung, and i couldn't help being caught in the crossfire.

the fact is, i've been brought back to my childhood, watching my parents argue over dinner plans to the point where they forgot what they were actually arguing about.

Poll

24 votes Show Results

when was the last time you hugged someone?

24 votes Vote Now!

when was the last time you hugged someone?

today

14 votes

within the past few days

6 votes

this month

3 votes

wow, i think i just realized why i'm being so negative. i need a hug.

1 vote

buy wine and change the world. (edit)

sparkz

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Tuesday October 23, 2007 · 1:03 PM PDT

2007/10/23 · 13:03

A little while ago, I wrote a largely ignored diary about my friend Jake. You can read the full story here:

http://www.dailykos.com/...

Basically, Jake started a political consulting company with a friend and it did really well during the last election cycle. Unfortunately, Jake left the company when he found out his friend (the "owner") was donating corporate money to Mitt Romney. Yah, I was pretty fucking proud of him, too.

sparkz

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday September 28, 2007 · 2:04 PM PDT

2007/09/28 · 14:04

"Feds raid pot-laced-candy factory"

i just heard the story on msnbc. they mentioned the word "medical" once, and never even said that the place was located in california, a state where the vast majority supports medicinal marijuana.

but it's just a pot-laced candy factory, what's the big deal about that? (insert stoner joke here)

Poll

126 votes Show Results

what is your opinion on marijuana law?

126 votes Vote Now!

what is your opinion on marijuana law?

regulate and tax like alcohol and tobacco

68 votes

legalize it, don't criticize it

38 votes

allow only medicinal prescriptions

14 votes

keep the way it is right now

2 votes

throw all stoners in jail. forever.

4 votes

Newer
Older

RSS

GBCW: i should be doing something right now.

there's a fly in my ice cream.

What you need to know about prop. 8

please don't kill me.

blogging a compassionate man...

A recent history of Italian Football.

it's the dichotomy, stupid.

John McCain, YOU WILL LOSE.

convalescent.

i don't want to hear about it anymore...

buy wine and change the world. (edit)

****** idiots.