Sunday, June 24, 2007

every day is like sunday


a sunday list:

* saw 'black book' this weekend, the latest from paul verhoeven, the arthouse auteur-turned-hollywood hack who has returned to his roots and made a quite interesting dutch popcorn movie about a bunch of double-crossing nazis and resistance fighters in wwII holland. lots of naked boobies and shooting!

* sweltered in the palm springs heat, with the highest temp experienced somewhere around 114 degrees. made a foray out to the community pool and was slapped upside the head with more community than we bargained for when a fellow complex dweller decided to put on his 'swinger' moves, but from a safe distance, thank you, lord.

* it's been a long time since i dreaded mondays, but that monday-fear is like the herpes -- just when you think you're rid of it, it pops up again to surprise you!

* am reading "imperial life in the emerald city," which chronicles a year in the life of baghdad's green zone (specifically, the first year of iraq occupation). i think my eyes were bugging out of my head (see pic above) at 10 minute intervals as the author revealed yet another completely avoidable (yet completely inevitable) mistake made by the folks entrusted to keep it together there in the days and weeks after the invasion. case in point: only applicants loyal to the bush administration were allowed to take civilian reconstruction jobs (of the highly-paid variety, anyway), so that's how a home-schooled, 21 year old recent grad of an evangelical university was given control (along with five other similarly qualified individuals) of $13 billion in reconstruction monies.

also, one interview question many were asked: "do you oppose roe v. wade?" if you answered 'yes,' congratulations -- you were completely qualified to travel to iraq and waste billions of taxpayer dollars being completely inept!

good night, and good luck.

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