scarecrow

family and foes

my least to most favorite things in life
(in particular order)
praying mantis
mom & dad

a beautiful saturday
planting rowan's tree
ended with my angelic
kind, compassionate, floating
unsuspecting mother
sneaking up behind me
with a praying mantis

she knows they are my
single fear in life

yet she still decided to
make me jump out of my skin

i still love her

ever

last friday night
we attended
what i consider
the coolest party i've ever been to
the best part about it
it was brownstone
it wasn't just some random club
or swanky bar we happened upon
in manhattan
it was the celebration
of the brain-child
of one of the most
tasteful
diplomatic
wise
creative
compassionate
generous
honest
friends i know
and that made it
the coolest party i've ever been to

it had four of my favorite ingredients
friends
good music
free drinks
unique space

golden arches

thanks to these...

i got this...

and i love this...
i love this that i drive by everyday
but never see
because i'm too busy
too busy driving
and singing
and texting
mcdonalds is usually the last place
i look for beautiful things
but today
maybe because last night i ate it
i had a heightened awareness
of what beauty
was tucked right outside
my local mcdonalds

so much of my...

i have major obsessions with the following:

by obsessions i mean i have alot of
or always try and convince myself
i need the one i'm looking at

shoes
bags (book & shoulder)
guitar pedals
amps
glasses

(the cool kind you see in movies
that people serve hard liquor in)

underwear (briefs only please)
jackets
lenses

and i love it

it did count ((i think))

so that whole thing about your vote not counting
(assuming you are a republican)
that was my tribute to our educated vote
i felt like i hadn't been pulling my weight
these past few months
hadn't made enough blasphemous claims
about people i've never met
a tribute to all the
un-researched
un-processed
un-validated
un-clarified
right wing propaganda
yay we're christians
and if you delete this or vote for Obama
you're not a christian
e-mails i've received from
family, friends, coworkers, pets, strangers
i wanted to start something
that could be dangerous in the hands
in the minds
of someone who believes everything
they hear about what they want to hear
anything that supports their belief is truth
i feel like our educated vote
is nothing more than tuning into
the radio station
news channel
news paper
that isn't too liberal
or too conservative
to talk about what we don't want to hear
i just wanted to stoop to that level
i wanted to contribute

i feel better

sunday brunch

we didn't invent polka-dots





i love going to my parents
i get that good 'ol raised on the farm feeling

caption needed

did your vote count?

so i heard on the news this morning that
an estimated 8.3 million republican votes were
deemed unqualified and not counted in last night's election.
the associated press released a statement
about it late last night but it conveniently
got buried in light of the democratic celebration coverage.
no coincidence that Obama's campaign donates
regular large donations to top news stations
such as CNN, ABC, NBC.

did your vote count?

no place like home

home of ishkabibles:
the gremlin
tantalizing cheese fries
a chicken cheese-steak
that makes your whole body water