Month: February 2003 (Page 1 of 6)

As Arthur suggested, I made my feelings known to Q106, the Madison country station with Darryl Worley’s “Have You Forgotten?” now in heavy rotation.

If by chance you also want to tell them what you think, their phone number is 608-321-1063, and their feedback e-mail is mark.grantin@q106.com.

The cost of one bullet

Hey, maybe we can move on to Jacques Chirac next. Those uppity French need to be taken down a peg or two.

Here we go again

“Have You Forgotten?”
-by Darryl Worley

I hear people saying we don’t need this war
I say there’s some things worth fighting for
What about our freedom and this piece of ground
We didn’t get to keep ’em by backing down
They say we don’t realize the mess we’re getting in
Before you start your preaching let me ask you this my friend

Have you forgotten all the people killed?
Some went down like heroes in that Pennsylvania field
Have you forgotten about our Pentagon?
All the loved ones that we lost and those left to carry on
Don’t you tell me not to worry about bin Laden
Have you forgotten?

It’s official: I fucking give up.

At John’s urging, I’ve added a new little feature to the comments here. When you’re making a comment, there’s now a checkbox at the bottom that says “notify me when a comment is added to this post.” What that does is e-mail you in the future when comments are added, so you can “subscribe” to discussions you’re interested in following. I think it works, but try it out and see.

Two reasons I wish I still owned a Mac: Watson and Konfabulator.

As if there wasn’t enough to be sad about these days, Fred Rogers died today at 74. The emperor of “so uncool he’s cool” will be missed.

I feel I need to clarify the previous item. I made it into a joke. But when I first read Winer’s comment, I was so spitting mad I couldn’t see straight. The simple fact is, I hate what this country has become, literally in the blink of an eye. I hate it. What I love is the idea that there’s still some hope to get it back.

This one is priceless

Dave Winer says we can finance the war with Iraq by taking their oil. Great idea! Why didn’t I think of that? Hey Dave, can we invade Belgium next? I’d love some good chocolate.

Sad Pop Culture Moment of the Week

Watching Lindsay Wagner hawking air beds on an infomercial. She was the Bionic Woman, for god’s sake.

As part of a bet/promise with my friend Nicole, I watched “Gilmore Girls” last night for the first time. (See how I’m willing to admit embarrassing stuff for your entertainment?) I can’t say it wasn’t entertaining and funny at times. But the rapid-fire, mannered, David-Mamet-with-ovaries dialogue, which seemed cute and funny at first, soon made me want to shoot out the TV like a late-model Elvis. Plus, during one earnest cell phone conversation between galpals about pregnancy, I think I actually began to grow a uterus. And I have all the internal organs I need, thank you.