Because I got a little giddy seeing this headline:

Plane Registered to Pat Robertson Crashes

instead of sitting here is trying to deal with the jungle that has become my yard.

It’s just a postage stamp of a yard, maybe 10′ by 20′. When I first moved in a few years ago there were plans to grow things. But I have a black thumb. Since I managed to find one of the few apartments with a private yard in the city, yardless friends volunteered to grow things for me. Promises, promises.

Last year I spent a week cutting back the blackberries and morning glories that has taken over. It was kind of a battle to the death for the two invasive plants. Each one had staked out territory on opposite ends of the fence and it was a race to see which would become the dominant bush. By the time I started hacking away, a small oak tree in the middle had become the first casualty in the plant wars.

Today I was going to go start the de-greening process. The grass is almost waist high and the blackberries seem to be winning this year. But it started to pour rain. I guess my diplomatic pruning skills will have to wait.

On the Right, Bustah Blackberry coming in at 5 feet tall and 7 feet wide.

On the Left, the scrappy, scraggly Morning Glory goes for the divide and conquer defense by sending shoots off to both the left and right. At the far right of the picture is the body of the dead little oak tree- now covered in vines.

Blogger is acting up. Wouldn’t it be nice to have one day free of computer related problems?

In the mean time:
1) The White Stripes-I Just Don’t Know What To Do WIth Myself
2) THe Sundays: I Feel
3) Giant Sand: Mountain of Love
4) They Might Be Giants: Chess Piece Face
5) Le Tigre: Punker Plus
6) James Brown: Cold Sweat
7) Stevie Wonder: You and I
8) The Spinanes: Entire
9) The New Pornographers: MAss ROmantic
10) Death Cab for Cutie: Death of an Interior Decorator

If you’re in the mood to have your heart broken over the 2004 election again- go check out Robert Kennedy Jr.’s much anticipated piece in Rolling Stone.

And then, after you’ve had a cocktail or two to numb the pain, what do we do to fix this?

I’m big on the power of voting. One of my favorite things I ever did was voter registrations in poor suburbs of Atlanta. But with registration challenges and missing votes- how does an individual know if their vote was counted? What do we do to make the system better?

From the LA Times

If the Japanese government gets its way, educators will soon add another course to the standard curriculum of reading, writing and arithmetic: teaching students to show love for their country.

The proposal to make education more patriotic signals the determination of conservatives here to combat what they see as a self-obsessed youth culture, characterized by rampant school bullying and juvenile crime, that they say is eroding the nation’s vaunted social order.

So last week Little Flower got the big fat virtual cookie. This week you only get one line from one song. But here’s a hint or 2- the band is Australian and this song is an 80’s standard.

My possessions are causing me suspicion
but there’s no proof.

Fantastic article at Alternet about Cheney, Oil, Putin and the creation of a new cold war.

Click the title for the link. Safari hates Blogger.

I’m locked out of my email- again. All I get is MSN’s cheesy- account temporarily unavailable. I feel so cut off, disconnected. How will I communicate?

Oh yeah- I write a blog. Dope.

Anyone else get locked out of their email regularly? Should I be worried that the NSA has blocked my account so they can go see what terrorist themed junk-mail I get?

A girl can dream, well fantasize really, about a John Stewart- Stephen Colbert team in 2008. Ok- the fantasy doesn’t actually have me waiting till 2008 for a tag team of Stewart-Colbert, and they aren’t taking over the White House as much as they are taking over my bedroom in the uhm, daydream.

But if I want to publicly declare my love for the 2 ballsy boys- I can now do it with a campaign tee.