inconceivable

Buttercup: That's the fire swamp! We'll never survive 

Wesley: Nonsense! You're only saying that because no one ever has

good morning america, how are you?*

remembering 2006. new orleans. mardi gras.

7 months after the hurricane i was gutting a house still filled with a family's possessions...destroyed photographs, clothes in the washing machine and food in the refrigerator. While we were emptying the house and knocking down walls the body of a woman was found in a previously unsearched house, next door to where we worked. I had something to say.

FOR SALE: NEEDS "SOME" WORK
MINOR WATER DAMAGE...

*name that tune...(it also happens to be one of the only songs i can play on the guitar)

as is

when I look around
I think this, this is good enough

And I try to laugh

At whatever life brings

 Cause when I look down

I just miss all the good stuff

When I look up 

I just trip over things
-ani di franco

Opposing the death penalty, under any circumstance

"From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored...to develop...rules that would lend more than the mere appearance of fairness to the death penalty endeavor...Rather than continue to coddle the court's delusion that the desired level of fairness has been achieved...I feel...obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed. It is virtually self-evident to me now that no combination of procedural rules or substantive regulations ever can save the death penalty from its inherent constitutional deficiencies..." 
- Justice Harry A. Blackmun, dissent in Callins v. Collins (Feb 1994)

(thanks to LP for the quote)

imaginary conversations

i’m wondering if you read that story too

and if we both might be having the same imaginary conversation

-ben folds “cologne”

the sleepers

Be careful darkness! already what was it touch'd me?

I thought my lover had gone, else darkness and he are

one, I hear the heart-beat, I follow, I fade away. 

walt whitman's "the sleepers"

debatable...

a friend said to me recently

and it is up for debate

(the debate being i disagree)

…

you should be very mad at your heart. it’s dumb

remembering 9/11/01

september 11, 2001 - september 11, 2011

keep america safe & free

a view from a brooklyn rooftop

9pm

9/11/11

Bruxelles graffiti

We must always take sides.  Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. 

-Elie Wiesel 

what am i suppose to do, bitch?

 

A woman asked me for money on the street and when I replied I didn’t have any               (really, i didn’t) she said “well, what am I supposed to do, bitch?”

                               That is a very good question.  I wish I had the answer.

`Curiouser and curiouser!’ cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).

- Lewis Carroll (Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland)