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<p> <font face="Arial" color="#D0CCFF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Comments
by </span></font><a href="http://rateyourmusic.com/yaccs/"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#D0CCFF">YACCS</font></span></a></p>
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<p> <font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:9pt;">What type of blogger am I? Beyond being committed and passionate about
writing and my friends, I really don't know. I blog and you and two or three
other sympathetic friends pop in to see what I'm up to. What comes next? I don't
know. "Don't follow leaders | Watch the parking meters"? You tell me...:).
- </span></font><a href="http://www.sandhilltech.com/weblog/blogger.html/2002/08/19.html"><span style="font-size:9pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">Mike
Golby</font></span></a><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#9933FF">
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<p><a href="http://www.fatshadow.com/August2002.htm"><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#9933FF">August</font></a><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#9933FF">
24 2002</font><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><font size="1"> 8:36
<font size="1">AM</font></font></font><font color="#9933FF"> </font></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/07/08/60minutes/main13502.shtml"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">
</font></span></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">I
was prisoner of UPS yesterday. Sounds kinda sexy, eh?
I was hoping that my new trackball mouse would show
up. Apparently, when someone says three to ten business
days, what they really mean is ten business days. My
living room is still all </span></font><a href="http://www.dragonflycottage.com/WabiSabi.html"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">wabi sabi</font></span></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">. Every time I heard
the rev of an engine or a car door slam I jumped. </span></font><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">And
then the UPS man came and ... nonono... UPS never showed.
I'll have a wabi sabi weekend and hope for Monday. </font></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"> </p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">It's
cold here. And I like having the windows open. So it
was cold in my apartment. I made
soup with rainbow kale, mushrooms, and red beans. Warmed
me up and it was pretty, all yellow and red and green.
</span></font></p>
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<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">I
was reading a </span></font><a href="http://www.scottlondon.com/insight/scripts/iyer.html"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">Pico
Iyer</font></span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">
article in an old </font><a href="http://www.harpers.org/"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">Harpers</font></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">.
I wish it was on line. But no. He was writing about
Canadian fiction writers and multiculturalism. He mentioned
</font><a href="http://www.booksite.com/texis/scripts/oop/click_ord/showdetail.html?sid=3471&isbn=0679776591&music=&buyable=0"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">Fugitive
Pieces</font></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">
which is one of my favorite books. While I was reading
I thought I should write little blurbs about the books
I read. I've seen </font><a href="http://jessamyn.info/booklist"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">other
</font></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">people
do this. It might be a nice writing exercise. I have
to stew on it for a while. </font></span></p>
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<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">Paul
wrote a </font><a href="http://www.bigfatblog.com/archives/000295.php"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">great
rant</font></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"> yesterday
about this bit on </font><a href="http://slate.msn.com/?id=2069978"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">Slate</font></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">.
I'd actually jumped to it yesterday from </font><a href="http://www.reenhead.com/home.php"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">Reenhead</font></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">.
The idea of the president dyslexicon being associated
with identifying what a verb is made my head spin. I
couldn't even read it. But I read it today and I read
the offending comment Paul riffs on. Paul writes:</font></span></p>
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<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:11pt;">The intermingling comes when people make gross generalizations such
as "the American way of life has made us all fat" when that can't possibly be
true. We don't know, collectively, why we are fat. For some people, it's related
to a health issue; for others, it's eating; for others, it's unknown.</span></font></td>
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<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">I
often say we don't know why people are fat but I like
the use of the word collectively. It's elegant and precise.
</span></font></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">I
got distracted yesterday after I jumped to </span></font><a href="http://www.brunching.com/roshamborun.html"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">this</font></span></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">
from Reenhead. I'd seen it on Tech TV but hadn't bothered
to look for it. It was fun for about five minutes. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">The
United Farm Worker's </span></font><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/08/23/MN237303.DTL%20"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">have
been marching</font></span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">
</font></span><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">to
Sacramento for the last week to </span></font><a href="http://www.ufw.org/1contarb.htm"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">ask
our governor for his signature</font></span></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">
on </span></font><a href="http://www.ufw.org/politics.htm"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">SB
1736</font></span></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">.
Adrienne told me about this a while ago. </span></font></p>
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23 2002</font><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><font size="1"> 8:36
<font size="1">AM</font></font></font><font color="#9933FF"> </font></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/07/08/60minutes/main13502.shtml"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">
</font></span></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Had
some frustration with my new design yesterday. Something
was causing the last post to disappear. I worked on
it for a while in the morning but could not fix it.
I had this problem once before. I think it's something
in the YACCS code. I think I mess it up with the sloppy
cut and paste way I do things. I had to redo the whole
page to get it the way I wanted it. The whole time I'm
beating myself internally with the not good enough stick. I get so frustrated with
my lack of HTML and CSS skills. Every time I do a redesign
I try to learn a little more. The key word in that sentence
is little. It is fixed. But I don't know why. </span></font></p>
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<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Oh
well. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"> </p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">While
I redid it all I cleaned, hauled down recycling, and did laundry. School starts
next week and I want to be ready. I'm neither excited
nor dreading school. It's just a thing to do. I may
get more excited once I'm there. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"> </p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><a href="http://www.visionaryactivism.com/rally.htm"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">Diane
Wilson ended her fast</font></span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">.
She was talking to Caroline yesterday on the radio,
talking about being a loner and how different it was
for her to be involved with other people. I understand.
</font></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"> </p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">I
spend too much time alone. Partly because I'm single
and, with school, I spend much of my time reading and
writing. But I have a shyness that not many people quite
understand. It is true that I will blather, joke and
flirt when I am in public. But I tend to rush to my
apartment and the sanctuary of my solitude. I tell ya
one thing. I'm not going to be alone on September 11.
I'm not going listen to the jingoist media drum thumping. </font></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"> </p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">Fortunately,
it's a school night. But I intend to get out of the
house early, find people </font><a href="http://www.unitedforpeace.org/"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">who
love peace</font></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">, and resist my tendency to watch CNN. </font></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"> </p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">On
this day in history,
August 23, 1927, </font><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/oj/porterf.htm"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">Sacco
& Vansetti</font></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">
were put to death by the state. </font><a href="http://www.amnestyusa.org/abolish/reports/mumia/"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">And
what have we learned</font></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">?
</font></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"> </p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">The
president select </font><a href="http://portland.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=17066&group=webcast"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">was
in Portland yesterday</font></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">
and he'll be in </font><a href="http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/08/141088.php"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">Stockton</font></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">
today. And </font><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/08/23/elec02.bush.protests/index.html"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">there
was</font></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">, and
there will be dissent. </font></span></p>
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22 2002</font><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><font size="1"> 9:02
<font size="1">AM</font></font></font><font color="#9933FF"> </font></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/07/08/60minutes/main13502.shtml"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">
</font></span></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Hanging
out with a ten year old boy changes your view of life.
Especially if he's a very cool </span></font><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">ten</font></span><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> year old like
</span></font><a href="http://www.windchimewalker.com/mitchells5.html"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">Gabe</font></span></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">. (He's
the one in the middle.)</span></font></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"> </p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">We went to the wharf and played in the arcade
and ate a pile o shrimp for lunch. Gabe won so many
tickets at the arcade he's now in the running for a stereo
system. He played a game where he had to get a coin
into a little truck, and the truck dumped all its coins,
plus he got a bonus. The thing just kept spitting out
tickets. I swear we just stood there for twenty minutes
watching the tickets pour out. At one point he handed
some tickets to a little girl standing beside us watching,
she was too shy to take them so he gave them to her
brother. He shared his jackpot. How's that for generous?
I felt so much better about life after spending time
with him.</span></font></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"> </p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Last
night I watched Adam Shapiro & Huwaida Arrafon
on Donahue. </span></font><font color="#9933FF">I</font><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">t
was kinda great because so much of the press has focused
on </span></font><a href="http://www.palsolidarity.org/writings/shapiro_08mar.htm"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">Adam</font></span></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">.
Donahue filmed </span></font><a href="http://www.palsolidarity.org/writings/arraf_08mar.htm"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">Huwaida</font></span></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">
in Ramalla and she did much of the talking on the show.
Since she is a woman and a Palestinian I liked that
she was given preference. I like Adam. He has much
to say and says it well. But he's also gotten quite
a bit of press time. The show deteriorated at the end.
Lots of cross talk. At the point where you can't discern
one voice from another it's time to turn it all off.
Still, I was glad to see these two on TV. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"> </p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">I
feel the need to say a little more about the </span></font><a href="http://baltimorechronicle.com/ol_aug02.html"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">Mc
Dougall letter</font></span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">,
given that I woke up this morning, checked my comments,
and a whole discussion had occurred. I love when that
happens. </font></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"> </p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">It's
the same feeling I had when I was watching the
60 Minutes the other day, or when I read the </font><a href="http://www.kingsolver.com/"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">Barbara
Kingsolver</font></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">
essay in which she uses Fat Brother as a metaphor. </font></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"> </p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">I
agree with what Mc Dougall is saying. It reminded me
of a time long ago when I was at a </font><a href="http://www.cockburnproject.net/frames.html"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">Bruce
Cockburn </font></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">(
another Canadian) and he made a crack about our president,
I think it was Reagan. He said it in such a way that
made it clear that, since we live in a Democracy, if
we don't like the president we have some power to work
for a candidate who we do like and get them elected.
Of, course, none of us listening then would have imagined
the </font><a href="http://www.iknowwhatyoudidlastelection.com/bush-election-2000-lies.htm"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">Florida
debacle</font></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">.
</font></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"> </p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">Well.
Maybe some of us would have. </font></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"> </p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">In
any case, when someone disparages what's going on in
this country I find it difficult to do anything but
agree and sigh. I don't feel the need to remind them
that there is a progressive movement in this country.
One that gets very little media attention. Until Donahue.
And even now. It's like when a person of color says
something about white people, I don't feel the need
to say, "Hey wait, I'm white and I'm not racist."
Being white in America means that I have an amount of
privilege and I need to know that. I benefit from the
system in ways I'm not entirely aware of and I have
my own amount of internalized racism. It requires an
amount of work to look at it all and break it all
down. Concentrically, when I read someone say,
"You Americans..." I don't feel the need to
say, "Hey, I'm not one of the people you're talking
about." </font></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"> </p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">I
know who I am. </font></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"> </p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">I
do feel the need to make a comment about the use of
fat ass as a metaphor. I understand the metaphor. I
just think there are better ways to make the point.
I say something when I hear notions of race, or gender
used as bad metaphors. </font></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"> </p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">I'm
not sure fat people are going to get much help with
waking people up to the inherent bad faith of using
fat as a lazy metaphor for consumption and greed. We're
going to need to be like a piece of sand in the oyster,
never letting it be OK until it stops. </font></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"> </p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">And
since it's the liberal and progressive voices using
the metaphor the role of piece of sand seems doubly
unfair. You just wanna hope for more. </font></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"> </p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">Pattie
and Carl are </font><a href="http://members.shaw.ca/cshock/Episode%20Fifteen.htm"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">constructing
culture</font></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">
at noon (my time). </font><a href="http://cfuv.uvic.ca/"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">Tune
in.</font></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"> </font></span></p>
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21 2002</font><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><font size="1"> 9:07
<font size="1">AM</font></font></font><font color="#9933FF"> </font> <p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/07/08/60minutes/main13502.shtml"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">
</font></span></a> </p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Whadda
think? </span></font></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"> </p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">I
think I long for change. And change happens. But I just
felt like making something in my life new. It may not
have been the best use of my time. My limited design
skills make me cranky. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"> </p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Here
are the site changes. I'm going to post two or three
days (depending on how long I babble) in a row on this
page, most current first. Just like the other bloggers. Heh. A
while ago
I
added a page where I posted a few days at a time, and
then every month I do a month page. So, I'm just eliminating
a page. It may not make sense and probably doesn't matter.
I have reasons. Kooky Tish type reasons. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"> </p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">I
put links to all the other months on the page formally
known as </span></font><a href="http://www.fatshadow.com/rdoor.htm"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">The
Refrigerator Door</font></span></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">.
You can always get to it by clicking on the </span></font><a href="http://www.fatshadow.com/rdoor.htm"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">Here</font></span></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">
below. And the month will always link to the current
month page. Does that make sense? There is a photo of my actual refrigerator door
on the refer door page, taken by Cynthia Cowdrey. And the photo of me
on the porch is there in its xtra cranky form, icy blue
cloud rolling in. </span></font></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"> </p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height:100%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">I'm
in a mood. I am, after all, a </span></font><a href="http://baltimorechronicle.com/ol_aug02.html"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF">fat
assed American</font></span></a><font face="Arial" color="#9933FF"><span style="font-size:12pt;">.
It's strange to agree with so much of what someone says
and still want to tell them to go fuck themselves. </span></font></p>
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