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Monthly Archives October 2004

A Little Explanation of Last Night’s Post

Last night, I posted a semi-description of discovering my mother-in-law quoted in The LA Times. I was shocked because a) she didn’t tell us that she had been interviewed or that the article had been published, b) I found the link via The Note, which I was looking at for the first time ever, [...]

Posted 26 October 2004 lize § uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged:

The Blogger Knows All

I’ve been skimming through The Note and found an article in the LA Times about celebrities going on GOTV trips.Since my mother-in-law is, while not famous (yet), headed out to Florida, I decided to read the article. Well, according to the LA Times, she’s already been.
I’m pretty sure she hasn’t solved the space-time continuum [...]

Posted 25 October 2004 lize § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Back from the Netherworld

It’s time to return to some sort of normal life. But for a life-long Yankees fan to say that life today is normal, well, that would be a lie. There is nothing normal about the residual pain of choking. Your throat is scratched. Your windpipe aches. Swallowing constricts that narrow [...]

Posted 22 October 2004 lize § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged:

It’s Not Just Me

It’s Not Just Me.
My friends at The New York Times seem to be as interested in the Texas Congressional situation as I am. Just want to alert all of you to today’s front page story “Battle for Control of Congress Plays Out in a Redrawn Texas.”
It profiles the change in the West Texas districts [...]

Posted 18 October 2004 lize § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

The Debates, The Yankees, and My Ethical Dilemma

I emailed my friend Brian the rabid Red Sox fan last week to describe my new approach to “watching” both the final debate and the first Yankees-Red Sox game: I sit in front of my computer with Major League Baseball Gameday, Keith Olberman’s MSNBC blog, DailyKos, and the New York Times all open. [...]

Posted 17 October 2004 lize § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

A Picture is Worth…

Here are the maps I mentioned in “Greetings from District 10″ (below)Old Congressional Map (Austin is District 10–compact green district in center)

The New Congressional District Map (Where’s Austin? Did it disappear? El Paso still has District 16, and it’s a smaller city than Austin. What happened? What the fuck happened?)

Posted 15 October 2004 lize § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Greetings from District 10

Chris drove to Houston Wednesday afternoon. Sometime around 4:00, he called, saying, “150 miles and I just got to the end of District 10.” He was in Katy, currently the western outpost of Houston’s suburban sprawl. Texas Congressional District 10 goes from our house or so to Katy. Katy is the [...]

Posted 15 October 2004 lize § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Debate Debate

I am not sure I will be able to watch the final debate tomorrow night. I managed to watch the last one because our friends Andy and Monica were here and I was able to read online what was going on. We were watching about five minutes late, courtesy of Tivo and dog [...]

Posted 12 October 2004 lize § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Super Powers

OK, so there’s been no move to beautify the blog. I know it’s an eyesore and does not deserve to be the conduit to my beautiful hair, but I just haven’t been able to get it together.I am beginning to wonder if the platinum has released my latent super powers. Ever since Leith [...]

Posted 08 October 2004 lize § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Serendipity

Obviously, there was no redesign time this weekend. As for the clamor for photographs, I was trying to get away with no pictures, but I guess one should be forthcoming.A friend sent email earlier referring to “centering” as a new-age cliche. That got me thinking about somenthing my yoga teacher Mary said at [...]

Posted 04 October 2004 lize § uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: