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Stolen car not even parked right... curb my wheels!

2009-12-02T19:12:42Z

Stolen car not even parked right... curb my wheels!, originally uploaded by EgoMagickian.

Ahh yes

2009-11-29T06:36:15Z

Ahh yes, originally uploaded by EgoMagickian.

Found the section I need to get me through the rest of the family visit

I'm in health hell

2009-11-29T06:35:55Z

I'm in health hell, originally uploaded by EgoMagickian.

Raley's, Sacramento, where Cheez-Its are a "specialty cookie"

Forever Young and Lobster Salad rolls

2009-11-25T05:00:12Z

Forever Young and Lobster Salad rolls, originally uploaded by EgoMagickian.

Queer Carebears

2009-11-24T05:21:42Z

Queer Carebears, originally uploaded by EgoMagickian.

Castro, SF

Queer Care Bears

2009-11-20T19:24:03Z

Aww :)

2009-11-18T09:00:21Z

Castro Theatre

2009-10-31T03:46:32Z

Castro Theatre, originally uploaded by EgoMagickian.

DAvid of the now

2009-10-30T07:45:43Z

DAvid of the now, originally uploaded by EgoMagickian.

Coach of the now

2009-10-30T06:31:14Z

Coach of the now, originally uploaded by EgoMagickian.

Boyfriend karaoke of the now

2009-10-30T06:25:04Z

Boyfriend karaoke of the now, originally uploaded by EgoMagickian.

Oh really?

2009-10-30T05:59:08Z

Oh really?, originally uploaded by EgoMagickian.

For Raymond #2

2009-10-30T05:57:54Z

For Raymond #2, originally uploaded by EgoMagickian.

Posse of the now

2009-10-30T05:22:45Z

Posse of the now, originally uploaded by EgoMagickian.

For Raymond ;)

2009-10-30T05:10:24Z

For Raymond ;), originally uploaded by EgoMagickian.

View of the now

2009-10-30T04:27:06Z

View of the now, originally uploaded by EgoMagickian.

Reply to an Orange County business

2009-10-21T20:48:38Z

The sales email I received:

On Oct 19, 2009, at 2:22 PM, XXXXXXX wrote:

The following info was submitted:

Name: XXXXX
Phone: XXXXXX
Email: XXXXX@thebodytalkcenteroc.com
Message: Hello

Would you be interested in learning BodyTalk its the fastest growing health care modality in the world right now.

Call or email me for details of the next class we are having in November

My reply:

Hello,

Both the county and the city in which you are located voted to strip me of my equal right to enter into civil marriage with the person of my choosing. At this time, I cannot begin to consider spending money in your area.

I request that you not respond to me, but instead use the time and energy you would have spent replying to write to your local papers and tell others in your community how their politics have impacted your business and strained relations with your colleagues in less regressive/oppressive areas of the state.

I'll be posting this exchange on my personal blog (without your personal info) to encourage others to continue standing up for equality.

Best,
Josh

Customer service 101

2009-10-12T19:45:24Z

Customer service 101, originally uploaded by EgoMagickian.

He says it's done; I'm not convinced

2009-10-09T01:48:00Z

He says it's done; I'm not convinced, originally uploaded by EgoMagickian.

Hair sanctuary of the now

2009-10-08T07:23:38Z

Hair sanctuary of the now, originally uploaded by EgoMagickian.

Hair genius of the now

2009-10-08T07:22:48Z

Hair genius of the now, originally uploaded by EgoMagickian.

Omg wut kind of party is this?

2009-10-08T07:22:43Z

Omg wut kind of party is this?, originally uploaded by EgoMagickian.

Talking > silence

2009-10-02T23:08:15Z

Talking > silence, originally uploaded by EgoMagickian.

I like this ad a lot.

Nicht so gut

2009-10-01T23:58:21Z

Nicht so gut, originally uploaded by EgoMagickian.

Almost has a chalky or powdery aspect to its texture.

"Looking at America today, it all feels so very past tense to me."

2009-09-30T20:28:17Z

The beginning of the article at http://www.counterpunch.com/green09182009.html

I really don’t know what to say anymore, about a country in which proposing a new and better version of corporate-plunder masquerading as national healthcare gets you burned in effigy for being a socialist stooge by gun-toting angry mobs.

I really don’t know what to say anymore, about a country in which the same people who hate you for being a socialist simultaneously hate you for being a fascist.

I really don’t know what to say anymore, about a country in which angry mobs of supposed anti-socialist demonstrators scream at their congressional representatives to “keep your government hands off my Medicare”.

I really don’t know what to say anymore, about a country in which claims that the government is going to start killing off seniors are taken seriously by tens of millions of people.

I really don’t know what to say anymore, about a country in which people are all worked up about government czars, but sat silently while the Bush administration destroyed the Bill of Rights and used a thousand signing statements to write Congress out of the Constitution.

I really don’t know what to say anymore, about a country in which deficits have all of a sudden become the source of enormous anger among people who said nothing about them previously, as the tax cuts for the wealthy, off-budget wars based on lies, and unfunded prescription drug Big Pharma giveaway transmogrified the biggest surplus in American history into the biggest deficit ever.

I really don’t know what to say anymore, about a country in which politicians can rant incessantly about other peoples’ sexual morality, get caught screwing prostitutes, and then still be reelected to the highest ranks of government by trashing the president.

I could go on and on, but what would be the point? The positions of so many Americans on so many policy questions are truly inane – yes, for sure. I wish that was all that concerned me. But it all goes so much deeper than that.

The entire premise of a self-ruling democracy rests on some reasonable degree of rationality and some reasonable degree of an ability to discriminate between real information and falsehoods. Today’s American democracy seems to lack these qualities in increasingly abundant amounts.
And yet it goes deeper than that still. The entire premise of a society – any society, democracy or not – is that it possesses a certain degree of shared community, a ‘we-ness’ that transcends narrower tribalisms and self-interest in critical ways and at critical moments. That too has unraveled of late. Think of the nice white men with shotguns blocking the exit from flooded New Orleans during the worst moments of Hurricane Katrina.

Looking at America today, it all feels so very past tense to me.