Head Dress Tattoo blog

I wrote the following last night around 2:00 am:
I know exactly what Hunter S. Thompson was thinking on July 13, 1957 (coincidentally, when my father was only four months old and my mother wasn’t even born yet). That is because I have Thompson’s two-volume collection of correspondence, the first volume of which is entitled The [...]

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Apparently Bush is rushing to secure his spot as (possibly) the worst president in American history. As reported in a New York Times article (entitled “Senate Votes to Expand Spy Powers” on 2/13/08) about two weeks ago, the U.S. Senate approved a bill that would drastically and permanently increase our government’s spying abilities. On its [...]

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On August 28, 2008, my favorite book will become a movie. Well, to call it my favorite book might not be the best word choice, since others ring in my head and heart more frequently and loudly. Chuck Palahniuk’s Choke was recommended to me in the summer of 2005 by a random acquaintance on MySpace. [...]

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I just watched I’m Not There, the 2007 film where six different actors play variations or segments of Bob Dylan’s life. It made me more interested in Dylan than his music alone ever did…but then again, I’ve never put much effort into listening to it. Ironically, Cate Blanchett not only had more speaking lines than [...]

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