Month: December 2005

  • See, even Uncle Ruckus knows what it’s really about.

    (see here for more on King Kong)

  • Leaving on a jet plane

    Well, my girlfriend and I are about to escape NYC for sunny Florida, to spend Christmas and the first couple days of Chanukah with my family. While I am in complete and utter support of the strike and the TWU, I’m also relieved to leave the madness for a little while. I hadn’t heard until…

  • Holy schneikies, there’s a transit strike!

    I tried to stay awake last night for the news on whether there’d be a transit strike here in NYC, but fell asleep at around 1am. After all, if there wasn’t going to be a strike, I’d be getting up and out at the same time as usual this morning. So I missed the announcement,…

  • Thoughts on two very different films

    This post, and the next one I’m about to write, have been lingering for days. I feel like I’m posting all sorts of outdatedness, due to the busyness of life right now. Ah, well. It was (white) beauty killed the (black) beast…? So, Peter Jackson of Lord of the Rings fame has remade King Kong,…

  • Una gran pendeja en Kansas City

    It’s been a long time / I shouldn’t have left you / without a dope blog to … step to? Anyhow. I’ve been brought out of my blogging sabbatical by this article from the Washington Post this morning, which discusses how a Latino student in Kansas City was suspended from school by his principal for…