No NYE festivities for this boy tonight — the cold/flu thing’s in full effect.

Have a grand fucking night and happy happy to all.

I just watched a video of Saddam being hanged — bad quality camera phone footage. I noticed that unlike the earliest reports had said, he was not hooded and certainly didn’t seem afraid so far as I could tell from the shitty resolution.

Did get a closeup of his face afterward. His neck broke at an odd angle and he was staring straight up, eyes open.

Why do I watch these things? Because I hate the sanitizing of brutal news and actions. I think one of the reasons that capital punishment remains popular here is because people are so insulated from the realities of death and execution in general.

Anyway, about that juxtaposition: I caught the video on a site with Google Ads. Directly above the video frame was one which read:

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Browse through our wide selection and find exactly what you’re looking for!

I didn’t.

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Waiting for the Ambien to work before I sleep…

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Famous Last Words at the New Year’s Eve Party

I should drive home but
I think I’ll wait a bit
until I’m sleepy —
I don’t want to miss anything.

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Dear Mr. President Scott “Zod” Woods:

I think you should have a virtual press conference here on LJ so that all of the aspiring journalists and interested parties could hear your thoughts on the future of slam, PSI, and other things poetic.

You know — post a request for questions and then take what you get.

Naturally, I wouldn’t expect that this crowd would ask you any SERIOUS questions…in fact, I’m actively discouraging it right here and now for the record. Your snarkiness is what I’d like to hear, especially as it relates to things like the prop rule and the group piece rule and why slam isn’t a required activity in all public schools and what you plan to do about it, dammit.

This is, of course, just a request from an unworthy constituent and therefore meaningless unless I am living in Florida in an election year, at which point it becomes a mutable and tension fraught exercise in the nature of reality and the integrity of our democracy — but I digress.

Your most humble servant,
Tony “pain in the ass” B