I'm back. I'm sure the zero people who are reading this were probably wondering what happened. Too drawn into the general suckiness of my job to post anything so to make up for it, here's a few quick takes on things….

1)The American Taliban- I am so loving this story. Too much to say, too many comments to make. Just remember, folks, there are worse things for your kids to do than drugs. To think, the guy could of done what most mis-directed upper-middle class kids do- massive bong hits, blue unicorn acid, finding the meaning of life in a Pink Floyd song- but no, he had to put himself in some situation where he wound up in some god-forsaken cave in a god-forsaken. Guess kids today don't have much to do now that Jerry's dead.

2)And too all those right-wing blowhards out there railing about the kids parents and turning it into an excuse to make fun of Marin and Californians- fuck off. When Timothy McVeigh blew up the Murrah building, did any of them criticize poor white-trash and their dumb-ass redneck parents? Sometimes people are just misguided and dumb, no matter who or what the parents do.

3)So, affter previously railing about how any band that does the half-time show at a football game instantly looses all their credibility due to the inevitable lameness of it all, I find out that my beloved U2, a band whose posters filled almost every spot in my bedroom, is playing the halftime show at the Superbowl. I guess I have to take it all back now. I know they're not American, but have they ever seen a halftime show at a football game? Think I'll just be my usual overly drunk self so I won't realize what's going on. The horror, the horror.

4)For some reason, I find myself more and more listening to Howard Stern in the mornings (see above mention of crappy, soul-sucking job) and he had a pretty good point about something. He was talking about the photos in Vanity Fair of Tom Cruise. Howard's point, which I thought was pretty damn funny, was that if you just sued every damn tabloid in the world for spreading rumors about your sexuality, you shouldn't be posing bare-chested and hairless in a magazine spread. Tom doesn't just look like he's doing male porn, but male kiddy porn.

5) Don't have e-mail access at work, so I have to wait until I get home to check my e-mail. For some reason, I thought that this would be a big deal and that I'd be missing a lot by being out of the e-mail loop. Turns out all I'm missing is spam. I'd say at least 25% percent of my e-mail is spam mail. And that doesn't even include the shit that goes directly to the Bulk Mail folder that Hotmail so convienantly to their service after they sold all of their customers addresses (thanks Bill). Didn't I mention that there's a very special place in hell for spam mailers? I'm pretty sure they get skinned alive, doused with flammable gas, then burned alive while being forced to listen to every Celine Dion CD ever made. Maybe get attacked by some ravenous ferrets at the same time too. How much did you get for your soul?

6)Speaking of which, got this lovely spam mail the other day "incest porn." Is there anybody who is actually into that? Have they run out of bestiality porn to show? And how do you know that they're really family members? And are they hot?

7)Found this event in the Bay Guardian and I'm so excited I can't believe it. This Saturday (Saturday, Dec. 8) "the People's Resistance Against U.S. Terrorism, Black August Organizing Committee, Justice for Palestinians, the Barrio Defense Committee, and others are having a community speak-out on the war on terrorism, featuring Mumia Abu-Jamal's new attorney Eliot Grossman and others. " Have they missed anybody? What about the People's Front of Judea, will they be there? Get a life people.

8)Flipping through the channels's during and VH-1 was showing some Shania Twain special. Wouldn't you know it, but she was dueting with Elton John. Is there anybody else Elton hasn't done a duet with? If I call him up, will he sing a duet with me? (Uh, I mean singing, not anything else -not that there's anything wrong with it). I'm trying to think of what would be the funniest duet I could picture Elton doing a duet with, but after he sang with Eminmen, I can't come up with much of anything. Except for maybe Ozzy. Yeah, Ozzy. Now that would be something.

7) Apropos of nothing, I really can't stand that band Godsmack. I think it's because my favorite station, KSJO seems to know exactly the moment that I turn them on and decide to play one of their songs. Don't know which one's because they all sound the fucking same.

8)I think tonight there's a big election in the City. During the last, extremely boring and apathetic inducing election, the candidates for City Attorney came in pretty close in the votes so they're having a run-off. Now, I understand the reasoning behind run-offs, but maybe they should make a rule that there should only be run-offs for positions that people care about. Not that the City Attorney position isn't important or anything. I mean, there in charge of, umm, well, umm, I don't know exactly, but it's important. So important that more money has to be wasted in a run-off in this election, between two people nobody really cares about in a position nobody knows anything about. Whatever.