Watching the final presidential debate of the ’08 electoral system, I was reminded again of why we need more than two viable parties in this fucking country. I suppose I should take comfort in the fact that the talking point of change is on the lips of both candidates. Then again, we had Bush, who said he was a ‘uniter, not a divider;’ I’d have forgiven the fact that it’s barely a real word if he’d actually meant the fucking phrase. But I digress, I’ve known for sometime who gets my vote when I head into that voting booth, and even he’s been bumming me out . . .

would you mind if i used you . . . simply as an excuse
to put my life into the order that i’d always wanted it to have
but could never find a reason for doing . . .
until i hit upon the idea of you . . . as an excuse

So a friend tagged me the other day and asked me to participate in the ‘life in song’ meme . . . essentially attempting to provide some form of overview of your life in pieces of lyrics from ten different artists . . .

I love a good challenge, and this bugged me a bit, because at a mere ten, I had to throw out a bunch of good stuff; but I think this will work for now . . .

- finite

Written real fast; but this was fun and it’s been too long since we’ve had anything new on cognoscenti

- finite

There are moments when I love my town; tonight I got to experience one of those moments.

I was walking home from work, it’s just after eleven o’ clock and I’m mostly relieved to have survived another Monday, smoking a cigarette and kicking up my heels a little bit as I head down the road, thinking about nothing much in particular.