Sunday, September 18, 2005
Thursday, September 08, 2005
michael moore...
Friday, September 2, 2005
Dear Mr. Bush:
Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.
Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with?
Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!
I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?
And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!
On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there, done that.
There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.
No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this!
You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.
Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
www.MichaelMoore.com <http://www.michaelmoore.com>
P.S. That annoying mother, Cindy Sheehan, is no longer at your ranch. She and dozens of other relatives of the Iraqi War dead are now driving across the country, stopping in many cities along the way. Maybe you can catch up with them <http://www.bringthemhomenowtour.org/userdata_display.php?modin=50> before they get to DC on September 21st.
Dear Mr. Bush:
Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.
Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with?
Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!
I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?
And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!
On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there, done that.
There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.
No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this!
You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.
Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
www.MichaelMoore.com <http://www.michaelmoore.com>
P.S. That annoying mother, Cindy Sheehan, is no longer at your ranch. She and dozens of other relatives of the Iraqi War dead are now driving across the country, stopping in many cities along the way. Maybe you can catch up with them <http://www.bringthemhomenowtour.org/userdata_display.php?modin=50> before they get to DC on September 21st.
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
portland/san fran/vegas trip
crazy ass week and a half long trip....
portland: amazing city, would love to live there, hope i get a job there, but the san fran market is looking better. its like they built a city right in the middle of an amazing evergreen forest. peep the pics at my flickr jawn:
http://flickr.com/photos/55869668@N00/?saved=1
san fran: amazing city as always..the job search went better there..this one spot, bite offers 5 paid vacay weeks a year! amazing... peep some new san fran pics and word to stink n mecs:
lastly vegas: awesome bachelor party. word to all my friends and family who came and especially to a-weeze for putting it together! pics of the squizad:
portland: amazing city, would love to live there, hope i get a job there, but the san fran market is looking better. its like they built a city right in the middle of an amazing evergreen forest. peep the pics at my flickr jawn:
http://flickr.com/photos/55869668@N00/?saved=1
san fran: amazing city as always..the job search went better there..this one spot, bite offers 5 paid vacay weeks a year! amazing... peep some new san fran pics and word to stink n mecs:
lastly vegas: awesome bachelor party. word to all my friends and family who came and especially to a-weeze for putting it together! pics of the squizad:
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
nervous
i'm nervous as FUCK! I have 9 interviews scheduled beginning this Friday for a week in San FRan and Portland! Shout to Stink and Mec for letting us crash their next week when we visit Frisco....so nervous...one of my interviews is even at this lady's house for brunch on Sunday with her family! Mel's coming too....so nervous....
unwind time in vegas should be all that though afterwards!!!
late.
unwind time in vegas should be all that though afterwards!!!
late.
Thursday, August 18, 2005
Thanks to Grant for pointing this awesome Mark Morford column out about the death of the american city and cookie cutter chain stores/restaurant-lined strip malls all across the country...
Bring out yer dead - plague is already here....
Bring out yer dead - plague is already here....
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Monday, August 15, 2005
Tizzle?
word, Tim T's coming back to Philly? That sucks...right as I'm bouncing...I was hoping for the BBR reunion!
Sunday, August 14, 2005
sunday
it's hot as balls in my apartment today...seriously, i highly recommend NOT ever living in a third floor apartment....heat truly does rise and it seems like all the heat in philadelphia got together and decided to rise into my apartment for a cocktail party...even in our room with the AC, it's burning...i think the heat this weekend picked up some kryptonite and is using it against my AC....
on another note, mel's mom stopped by and brought us som tum and bbq chicken and sticky rice and thai bef jerky and then some bubble tea and coconut rice too...saved us...
might meet my cousins jill and pablo for a quick drink tonight, they're in town....entourage is on though...
bj dissed me twice now to go looking for tuxes. punk.
saw wedding crashers yesterday...pure comedy...fucking hilarious..vince vaughn really is king of this shit and will farrel tears it up too with a quick roll on the ground so damn funny cameo...
i suck at pool.
good bye.
oh, flickr is a dope site.
on another note, mel's mom stopped by and brought us som tum and bbq chicken and sticky rice and thai bef jerky and then some bubble tea and coconut rice too...saved us...
might meet my cousins jill and pablo for a quick drink tonight, they're in town....entourage is on though...
bj dissed me twice now to go looking for tuxes. punk.
saw wedding crashers yesterday...pure comedy...fucking hilarious..vince vaughn really is king of this shit and will farrel tears it up too with a quick roll on the ground so damn funny cameo...
i suck at pool.
good bye.
oh, flickr is a dope site.
Thursday, August 11, 2005
alex
look at my cousin alex, he's the fucking man, chillin with wes craven and reese witherspoon in LA..getting flown around the county for 96.5...
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
wow...
my friend and client, dave robinson from philly's recycling office, was fired effective immediately and is being indicted for misuse of $13,000 of the city's money to throw a retirement party for his boss. thing is, this was in 2000 when he first started the new job and his boss told him to do it... furthermore, he's a good guy and i'm all choked up today... man...the inquirer wrote a good article but the daily painted him like such a dick...
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/12343625.htm
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/local/12345282.htm
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/12343625.htm
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/local/12345282.htm
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
fri-mon backwards
mon: Called out yesterday. went bowling with rich and mel. broke 100 2 games, scrubed it up the first game, though. looked through mel's shower stuff. ate at casino deli in the Neast. had the most blazing cabbage soup with short ribs...some challah bread...amazing pickles. scrumptious..been going to that spot since i was like 2.
sun: mel's shower. dropped off, picked up. lots of gifts cramping my sardine can ass apartment. saw coldplay. one of the dopest performances ever, they really are brilliant.
sat: started drinking at 1. stopped at about 1. fat tuesday slurpie jawns, the dive, phils game, genos, o vietnamese hoagies and 1/2 a sausage and peppers. phils crushed the brewers. played pool.
fri: i dont remember. oh not much. dropped car off, cost $311 for wheel cylinders (takes brake fluid to rear brakes) and then passed inspection. wanna buy a 96' ford contour? also went to bj's corner bar, drank some buds, went to the house where mel is house sitting. watched curb your enthusiasm on comcast on demand, 3 episodes. i love larry david, he's fucking hilarious.
more later. p!
sun: mel's shower. dropped off, picked up. lots of gifts cramping my sardine can ass apartment. saw coldplay. one of the dopest performances ever, they really are brilliant.
sat: started drinking at 1. stopped at about 1. fat tuesday slurpie jawns, the dive, phils game, genos, o vietnamese hoagies and 1/2 a sausage and peppers. phils crushed the brewers. played pool.
fri: i dont remember. oh not much. dropped car off, cost $311 for wheel cylinders (takes brake fluid to rear brakes) and then passed inspection. wanna buy a 96' ford contour? also went to bj's corner bar, drank some buds, went to the house where mel is house sitting. watched curb your enthusiasm on comcast on demand, 3 episodes. i love larry david, he's fucking hilarious.
more later. p!
Friday, August 05, 2005
friday!
fuck yeah, it's friday. no plans tonight except drop car off to get inspected, which im dreading. need to have it inspected to sell it though... maybe phils game tomorrow w. tim and bean and bernard... sunday is coldplay! hells yeah...
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
work
it was announced today that south korean scientists cloned a dog.
crazy shit... picked up a plaque today for the PR I did for the north philly aztecs football team. good kids.
rockin the radio80s station on itunes all day today...really good shit..playing all the old new wave bangers and lots of bangers i never heard yet..
p!
crazy shit... picked up a plaque today for the PR I did for the north philly aztecs football team. good kids.
rockin the radio80s station on itunes all day today...really good shit..playing all the old new wave bangers and lots of bangers i never heard yet..
p!
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
heuvos
my huevos are mucho caliente. leftovers for dinner. bored again, online. mel is housesitting. we might crash at their house tonight. AC blasting, hbo on demand...might catch up on the wire or curb your enthusiasm...need to fix my brakes...word to bj for offering his assistance tomorrow night. word to tommy gunns for the gift certificates for supplying bj with grub to help me, but word to me for doing pr to get the gift certs. word to word. late.
budakkan
good dinner last night at budakkan for melenie's bday...sake, sing-ha beer, lychee martinis, wasabi mashed, scallops with pineapple, duck and portabella potstickers, sea bass, good veggies and more...with a nice chocolate sorbet with a sparkler in it for dessert. good meal. $150 all together, though..but you gotta ball to have fun..
i'm writing this to myself, i know....at work though, so it's good self expression. bj, i need your help with putting brakes on my car....how the fuck am i gonna sell it with no AC and no inspection? sheesh...
our PR presentation today at work went well.
i need breakfast. lunch today at reading terms with tommy gunns dude. collect some luchini and gift certificates. use $ to pay for car inspection. peace.
i'm writing this to myself, i know....at work though, so it's good self expression. bj, i need your help with putting brakes on my car....how the fuck am i gonna sell it with no AC and no inspection? sheesh...
our PR presentation today at work went well.
i need breakfast. lunch today at reading terms with tommy gunns dude. collect some luchini and gift certificates. use $ to pay for car inspection. peace.
Monday, August 01, 2005
post 1
So here's my first blogpost.
I used to have a journal in college called Paul's Boutique. This will be quite similar. I'm getting married and moving, so this will be a cool way for people to keep up with me...
testing 1,2...
al gore's new Current TV is up and running. i might try to catch some at lunch. www.current.tv is the site.
all i can think about is moving. so excited to bounce to the left coast. portland, oregon, it's looking like.
i made some good thai food yesterday. som tum and bitter melon soup.
its mel's bday today. 27. happy bday! i wrote her the dopest poem, titled "The Empress" and printed on nice paper and framed it. also dinner tonight.
bored at work. again.
later. maybe after lunch.
I used to have a journal in college called Paul's Boutique. This will be quite similar. I'm getting married and moving, so this will be a cool way for people to keep up with me...
testing 1,2...
al gore's new Current TV is up and running. i might try to catch some at lunch. www.current.tv is the site.
all i can think about is moving. so excited to bounce to the left coast. portland, oregon, it's looking like.
i made some good thai food yesterday. som tum and bitter melon soup.
its mel's bday today. 27. happy bday! i wrote her the dopest poem, titled "The Empress" and printed on nice paper and framed it. also dinner tonight.
bored at work. again.
later. maybe after lunch.
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