This is an amazing day in email history for me. For the past 10 months or so, I’ve had at least 500 messages in my gmail inbox. The peak was something around 2,000, but over the past four days, I’ve handled that ish and brought it down from 1,400 to just 99!!! Go me, go me, go me! Now please, for the next few days, nobody email me ok? This is beautiful, and the only thing that can ruin it is human contact.
Archive for August, 2005
At last night’s Drinking Liberally, some folks and I got into a discussion of the loyalty that die hard right-wingers feel toward the Republican Party. It’s like college football. No matter what the policies of the Right are, there are people who just feel loyal to the TEAM.
Continue reading ‘Politics and the Loyalty of Sports’
(16 Aug 2005) The new baratunde.com has been launched and includes a gaggle of cool new features: new audio and video, better blog and podcast integration, more press and completely new pictures thanks to online photo blogging site, flickr. Enjoy!
“Why should anyone be homeless in a place like Boston?” That’s the question my boy Derrick posted on his blog recently. The answer: because the curbs on Beacon Hill need replacing!
Continue reading ‘Back Bay curbs clearly need replacing’
08
Aug
My conversation with a returning US Marine
Categories: BestOf2005 and Social-Political
Tags: Boston.
My life is really hard. A few weeks ago I was sent off to Barcelona to attend a conference for my sometime day job. I endured all day meetings and all night clubbing. Then on the return flight to Boston, I got trapped in the inevitable delay vortex that is the Philadelphia airport. I was livid. Then I met a US Marine returning from an eight month tour of duty in Iraq. Now, I love the Philadelphia Airport.
Continue reading ‘My conversation with a returning US Marine’
Out in San Francisco right now, the night after a Laughing Liberally show / Drinking Liberally party part of the Young Dems Convention out here. We did the “show” at a bar with no lights, no stage and a weak mic. When will I learn???
Continue reading ‘I never learn my lesson about venues!’
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