"Undermining my electoral viability since 2001."

Boris Yeltsin Express

Dipped into my stash of Czech sunshine today to test for purity, potency, etc. Took some advice from Franko and made it a bicycling adventure, good sweaty times along Scenic drive. It's a gorgeous day, and a great one for sitting up on the ridge and watching the surf break over Houda point.

Anyway, it's a free Zen afternoon and I now know the lay of the land.

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Pre-Apocalyptic Bohemian Adventure

Samuel Taylor, who's giving me the shame. I met Samuel through MFA, where he still writes his political tracts (for, I might add, a larger and more important audience than I rant at here; hi mom). At that early stage he was a fan of my chicken-scratches. Looks like it's my turn to draw some inspiration from him.

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Baby Boomer Tag Team

Neil Young uses Al Gore's movie for music video.

It works pretty well.

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Space Tourism

$35M to walk in space: 20 large for the trip to the International Space Station (via the Ruskies, natch) and 15 bones to step outside.

This is one of the few areas where I think our massive and possible immorally inequitable distribution of wealth might pay off. If this catches on, it should drive innovation and competition to improve space access for the rest of us.

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