-Not my idea, by the way, but (or maybe therefore) worth chewin over: Part of the reason politics are so crazy in America is because during the New Deal, Roosevelt made all manner of government institutions, willy-nilly. That's fine and whatever, it's not like I'm on a tax-and-spend rant here because that would be stupid. But these agencies aren't anywhere in the Constitution! There are basically not any rules about how they are supposed to operate and they kind of do whatever they want. Presidents can change them but they are also kind of entrenched. The Presidential election is important but not as important as we think, given that this is true.
-A store can run out of a certain DVD. When we were in Circuit City (we'd already tried Target), the clerk told us that they sell "The Wire" over the Internet now. He might have been making a clever joke, but that was also the truth apparently. Why do you have a store in real life if you only sell things on the Internet? It's making more and more sense now that we live next to a fledgling apartment complex called ClermontGreene.com.
-On the other hand, Circuit City is very well stocked, carrying every conceivable episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond," one disc of "The Unit" (they probably started with three but a couple people confused it with "The Wire"), and on the New Releases rack, "New Adventures of Old Christine." I'm not going to hate on Julia Louis Dreyfus, who's actually funny (and weirdly hot nowadays), but in a better world Circuit City's DVD section would only have "The Wire" Season 4 and the Raymond fans (aka "Everybody") would be the ones who have to have the Internet.
-A graffiti artist who calls himself (or herself?) "Kunt" keeps tagging our neighborhood. Because of the misspelling it can't just be a dirty word. So someone out there is calling themselves a bad name anonymously and at the same time letting everyone know how they feel about themselves. I bet Kunt has a blog, since it's kind of the same idea.
-I fell asleep reading a book at around 8 p.m. and woke up at around 2:00 a.m. I tried the usual tricks of eating, drinking water, etc., but might be bound for dawn here.
-It's unclear whether the discontinued practice of giving money to homeless people is geographical, biographical. In DC it was just easy to give a few dollars here and there. In Tacoma the homeless people were so obvious about the voracity of their drug addictions that it seemed even more futile than usual to give them anything other than cigarettes, which is what they usually would ask for anyway (which says something geographical I think). In New York there may just be too many, or maybe the weird signage that actually admonishes against giving to panhandlers is working on me. But I kind of doubt that's it.
-With time, it gets easier, not harder, to make big mistakes.
-I miss Water and Vegetables. Puffy Shoe, where are you?
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