i think i have an unhealthy relationship with my computer. when its not workin im unhealthy. turned out i was only sneezing cuz of the dust at buzznet and all i needed was a new ethernet cable. all i needed was a cable?

as dumb as i feel imagine if you were the president of the usa despite having a daily briefing a month before 9/11 telling you that 9/11 is being planned.

and then imagine sending people to war based on wmds and there were no wmds.

then imagine the scandals in congress, senators saying that theyre doctors and know that a brain dead woman is actually alive and her last wishes shouldnt be carried out by her loving husband, the leaks to the press that someones husband is in the cia, the gay hooker being snuck into the white house press corps, the biggest deficit ever, the highest gas prices ever that make two bucks a gallon seem like the greatest fucking deal of the week, and now jack abramoff and now spying on your own people under the bs that youre looking for terrorists.

how can george bush not want to put the barrel in his mouth and squeeze?

and kicking out cindy sheehan is one thing but kicking out a woman with a support the troops tshirt shows you how jittery shit is over there and i can understand. my life was in shambles over one cord, imagine what 100,000 iraqi lives and hamas getting elected does to a big fucking faker who has fucked up on everything that hes ever done ever.

only thing he ever did was get elected and he couldnt tell you how that happened either.

a real life vonnegut character – the crazy loser who ends up with great fortune and opportunity and something happens.

but the question is, are the people who support this loser also losers since theyre seriously backing an imbecile simply because he calls himself a republican.

i feel like an idiot that my cable was all that needed to be fixed. i wonder what people who keep voting for bush feel like.

Big shake to the land that’s falling down

Dear Tony,

Are you going to smoke marijuana when you go to Amsterdam?

signed,

Jack Abramoff and the people from GOP.com who sold an ad through Pajamas Media that ended up on the Instapundit’s blog and not Little Green Footballs.

dear jack,

love the hat.

im not sure if youre aware of it or not but Los Angeles magazine wrote an article about the PJers and it’s politically incorrect relationship with charles johnsons lgf – a site that generates extremist comments to say the least.

Advertisers want hits, too, but they don’t want to be associated with extremists.

In theory Pajamas knows this. Briefly this fall it listed L.A. blogger Luke Ford as a member and then thought better of it, professing shock that on one of his sites Ford was blogging about porn. This was curious, because porn is the single thing Ford knows anything about, and about porn this obsessed blogger knows a great deal. His notoriety has nurtured his online popularity. But bumping Ford was a no-brainer for any site wanting to make money with mainstream advertisers.

Doesn’t the presence of Footballs make it harder to attract ads to the site? When asked that question, the otherwise loquacious Simon pulls up short. “I have no comment on that. You should ask Charles,” he said. Johnson has not returned phone calls.

Meanwhile many wonder about that $3.5 million. What’s it being spent on? And what does the main backer want for his investment? Aubrey Chernick, a software designer who recently sold the firm he founded, Candle Corporation, to IBM, heads the group financing Pajamas. Now Chernick runs a company called NC4, which according to its Web site consults with the U.S. government on “crisis management readiness.” According to testimony gathered by the September 11 Commission (and posted online), NC4 is deeply involved in preparing for potential terrorist attacks on Los Angeles and New York City. Such information, along with Chernick’s listing in 2000 as a trustee for AIPAC, the powerful pro-Israel lobby, has given obsessive folks with too much time on their hands—aka bloggers—plenty to ruminate over. (Chernick declined requests for an interview.)

Chernick’s involvement, along with the tilt among Pajamas’ members in favor of the war in Iraq, has led to intense and cryptic speculation. Some bloggers mutter that Pajamas is a government operation.

Let’s be real. Pajamas’ coups (its team coverage of the recent Iraqi election, assembled by a group of Iraqi bloggers, was first-rate) belong to Simon & Co., as do the problems to date. But let’s be real about something else, too. Given that the Bush administration funded journalists like Armstrong Williams to promote its policies, planted fake journalists to ask supportive questions at press conferences, bankrolled pro-administration newspapers in Iraq, and fabricated how Pat Tillman died to sell the war—the question isn’t whether the administration will turn its media-manipulation efforts to blogs. It’s when.

– Los Angeles Magazine 2/06

so jack i think it means that even the big tent of the gop home of falwell, robertson, david duke, pat buccannon, nixon, frist, rove, drudge, o’reilly, hannitty, and jeff gannon is wide enough for prof. reynolds and michelle malkin but not lgf

and thats gotta make a guy feel weird too.

especially since the ad is really just a way for the gop to jingle the tip jar during tax return season. so either theyre saying that they dont want to be affiliated with the lizards over there – think thats what they call themselves and they dont want their money,

or theyre saying they have enough problems, thanks anyway.

i wonder if thats why charles doesnt have a bio on pajamas media yet.

bro i’ll write your bio.

cheap.

but dude, if you opened up your comments i would have been able to let your readers know why there was so much traffic there today and why the page was loading slow.

today i had an idea that i think i might experiment with next month. shut down the email and only communicate with people through the comments.

now that would be transparent.

jessica alba does this on purpose + alecias single again fellas + fil facts

meaning im either a very committed blogger, or im sick, or i love you, or this is a cry of help.

my life isnt the same when my computer is broke. i have a great pal who fixes my shit when it goes down and i try to pay hhim but he wont accept my money. whats fucked up about that is typically when you pay someone they sorta have to help you out asap.

and even though hes my bro i dont think he understands the extent to which my life is disturbed when i dont have hi speed access. so last night when i called him and he didnt call back and yesterday when i called him and he didnt call back and today when i called him and he didnt call back i was jonesing like a crackhead not just because ive got one last bunch of books to get out but because this is black history month and because, well, i like to blog.

now whats interesting is im writing a secret book. im also sorta cleaning up my house so its perfect that my computer is broken because now i can work on those things.

but it wasnt that long ago that i gave up smoking weed, you cant really ask a brotha to give up weed and blogging at the same time.

thankfullly when i got the gig at buzznet mc brown got me an ibook so tonight after i dropped off my pc i popped open my laptop and drove slowly around eagle rock looking for someone with wifi, i found it, took care of some business, and then someone pulled up behind me and i drove off.

so here i am in hollywood listening to howard on sirius. its 11pm and the replay is on. actually its the wrapup show. howard just bought robin a mercedes. thats what you do when you are a good guy, and just got paid a half billion for five years.

why is sirius stock still under $6? why does the caged bird sing? why am i involved in a law suit and my life is in the balance and i cant invest my savings in siri right now as id like to? i guess i could, i just dont want to take the risk and put it all on black.

without dsl ive been watching a lot of tv. i watched the flava flav show. not bad. weird.

i watched the lisa loeb show. liked it! watched the boybander named ashley show – eh. watched keith oberman obliterate bill oreilly yesterday. watched the daily show, colbert. i even watched Good Day LA this morning with jillian barberie and i know shes a little hyper but why is that woman still single?

i miss big brother. i miss survivor. im always pissed on wednesday nights when Lost isnt on.

i guess i got nothing more to say other than everyone who ordered signed copies of Stiff should have gotten an invoice today. if you havent gotten your invoice yet, and if you arent Dan or rabbit + crow and havent gotten your paid copy yet email me.

and for those of you who dont know, we are Beta testing video on Buzznet, so if you have a Buzznet account try out the video. upload your stuff, check out other peoples stuff and enjoy the new technology. its not perfect yet, but we would rather have our users take advantage of this free upgrade to our community than just a few of us. so play with it, email us with improvements that youd like to see and help us get better.

me and marc brown had shwarmas today at the secret shwarma place and it kicked serious ass.

krista (pictured) + kiddo + amy + my fave video

but i cant really tell my bosses that im “working from home” if my computer is fubar and im blogging in the middle of the night from internet cafes.

we’re about to go to lunch so let me answer some questions posed to me in the comments.

Q. what book are you reading?

A. the only book im reading right now is the Bible. i know, weird. but my new years resolution was to read at least one chapter of the Bible each sunday, and since each chapter of the bible is barely two pages its a pretty easy one to accomplish.

this sunday i read the first part of the Noah story and it blew my mind. there were two reasons why God wanted to flood the earth. do you remember what those reasons were? i hadnt. they were violence and corruption. it wasnt sex. it wasnt same sex marriages. it wasnt tyrants. it wasnt wmds. it was violence and corruption. quite interesting.

the week before i had read the passage where Avenged Sevenfold got their name. lots of great metal names in the bible.

also last week i saw a part where you could sorta (weakly) explain dinosaurs biblically. basically there were giants who the daughters and sons of adam and eve were getting it on with. my belief is, in a bizarre way those giants could be like how we view The Others in Lost. people on the other side of the island who you sorta hang with but not so much. except in the bible’s case, to breed with.

so these giants probably had giant animals roaming on their side of messipotamia. those were later called dinosaurs.

like i said its sorta a weak explaination, but there it is.

q. which bukowski books should i read?

a. the classics are ham on rye, post office, and women. but matt dillon is about to come out with the film version of Factotum, probably my favorite bukowski novel. however Notes of a Dirty Old Man, Tales of Ordinary Madness, and pretty much anything pre 1990 are great.

q. i live in canada, im a cute young woman, and i want to have hot sex with you. is that ok?

a. when i come to canada again, and if youre wearing a plaid skirt, thigh highs, and a cat collar, then yes we can discuss your generous offer(s) further. i feel like our countries should come together. and just because the president of this country isnt helping things, i feel like i should take up the slack.

q. who’s your favorite blogger?

a. my favorite blogger is raymi, but the blog i read the most is flagrants, although not so much now that she has made her text size so damn small. is there a firefox plugin that will automaticall up the text size for just one blog?

q. what do you think about people who are jealous about you going to Holland on Holland.com’s dime?

a. i think those people have a right to be jealous. i’d be jealous. but i dont think theyre looking at the big picture. blogging is soooooo new, instead of trying to give advertisers, or in this case, governments a hard time for trying something new, you should embrace the fact that bloggers are being respected. and you should encourage us to kick ass so that these sorts of opportunities will continue and spread.

not that long ago i was paid to allow my content to be distributed through an RSS reader. last year i was dropped, im speculating, because my political views didnt jibe with the conservative corporation that owned the RSS reader and was paying me some good money.

instead of flaming them and being all pissed off and telling people how bad this company sucked, i kept my mouth shut because big picture the program was good for bloggers and the bloggers who took my place are better off that theres Any program as opposed to no program. plus its just money so who really gives a fuck.

q. what do you think about the fact that the Smashing Pumpkins arent going to reunite at Coachella?

a. Coachella adds bands all the time, and they sell out quick. i have two thoughts. one, the pumpkins were great a long time ago. they werent so great during their last two records. Zwan was cool and Corgan is a genius. but theyre a volital sensitive band. if Coachella sells out without SP and theyre later a suprise band then great. but if they were announced, then Coachella sold out, and then the band broke up before the show then everyone would be pissed.

therefore im glad they werent announced. i do hope they reunite at Coachella, cuz i will be there. but i hope they rock and leave the synths at home.

happy birthday kira!