my glorious emergence from retirement

It's been awhile since I've had the opportunity to post some of my important musings on life. Mainly my sabbatical was in due to the tree sitters' forced descent from Memorial Grove in Berkeley. I struggled for several months to find meaning in my suddenly empty life, not content with the occasional anti-Prop 8 demonstration at Sather Gate or "lie-in"s in solidarity with Sudanese famine victims that the Cal Campus has to offer, but eventually, time does heal all wounds, and I was able to make some sense of life's cruel changes and move on. The rise of the Tea Party has also brought some focus back into my meaningless existence, as they are always providing fodder for my comedic cannon.

So now I'm thinking I need a venue to get back in touch with my creative side (and, of course, my wide audience base) and start touching up my writing. I'd appreciate feedback, but do keep in my that they will be in rough form. And I'm incredibly oversensitive with a propensity towards tears unlike anyone else's in the world. And a propensity for hyperbole, clearly, but you get the picture. And I overuse exclamation points and other manners of punctuation unabashedly, so you can skip that. And sometimes I use emoticons, I don't care what anyone thinks about that - they're a guilty pleasure who are here to stay in my life. And I realize this has an audience base of one.

I'm planning to address a bunch of topics here: my love for posting random news stories, my opinions on these stories... my opinions on pretty much anything, great moments in hip hop history, the constant wonder of the world, the constant letdown of the world, birth, death, sex, nightblindedness, adding -ness or -ability to words to create new words, my cat, clothing, nudity, celebrities who do incredibly dumb or incredibly noble things, friends, my daily activities no matter how mundane, and (most importantly) trying to improve my writing.

Before I head off to Whole Foods (which, I know, I know, of COURSE I find incredibly overpriced and pretentious, but since I don't know this town yet, I'm unable to think of a viable alternative for purchasing fish that is guaranteed to make me not beg for death around 4am tonight) I just thought I'd share this little gem for the moment:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/hottopics/detail?entry_id=70552

A snuggie for your face!