Archive for October, 2008
Guess which presidential candidate said the following:
“We can’t spend the next four years as we have much of the last eight.”
John McCain.
Way to rip yet ANOTHER principal campaign slogans out from under your opponent, John. Tell us more about your big stand up for CHANGE in America!
It’s been 10 days since Circuit Theory “broke up” and played their last show.
It’s been 4 days since I witnessed a woman crossing the street get struck by a speeding car, who never stopped. Kinda having a hard time getting that out of my head.
Thursday will mark one month since my grandmother’s death.
I’ve been thinking lately about people in my past. I’ve been thinking about how we can have people play such integral roles in our lives; to be friends and/or lovers with someone for whatever amount of time and then just separate like a split cell to go in totally different directions, never looking back. It’s kind of amazing that we work like that, y’know? We can walk past someone in the mall that we went to high school with and not even nod. We can live within a mile of an old flame and never acknowledge each others existence.
I look back a lot. I mean A LOT. And I’m left wondering if others are looking back, too, thinking about me, and we both continue on figuring the other is not interested in catching up. Or is it that I am broken in some way because of how I am not able to just not look back?
It does depends on the situation, though. There are some that I never think about that I might be expected to. But not many.
So what if we were struck by a car? What if our lives ended without re-connecting with those who were so important to us in the past? It may not make much of a difference but unless we make efforts, we risk never being able to say “Thank you. You were good to me.” or “I’m sorry.”
I have two important videos for you to watch. First is my favorite moment of last night’s McCain appearance on Letterman.
The second video, and perhaps the most important of the two, is Penn Jillette rambling on for awhile (a necessary evil to make his point clear) before getting to his point, reminding ALL OF US that despite how wrong one of these politicians are, they aren’t acting with malicious intent. Please share this video if you agree with it.
This type of thing literally scares the hell out of me.
Below is a video of the McCain-Palin supporters as they lined up outside Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA just yesterday
Before there was cozbaldwin.com, there was redrival.com/coz
(That’s some of the text that was on the “news” page. NOT the blog. The rest of the page’s design is unavailable in the web archives.)
Some other flashbacks:
http://web.archive.org/web/20030420150004/http://cozbaldwin.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/20020602044755/http://www.cozbaldwin.com/
A brief tribute to John after his passing based on the design above:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020924125638/http://cozbaldwin.com/
So, Barack Obama will be in Abington tomorrow. And me, being the working man that I am, cannot be there… even though it’s only a few minutes down the road. Is it reasonable to leave work for such an important non-life-threatening reason? But then, how important is it? I mean…. I’ve already made up my mind that I’m voting for him. It’s not like seeing him speak and possibly being in the lined up crowd to shake his hand will do anything but make me like him more. On the other hand, this may be the only chance in my lifetime to see in person the first guy to really give me hope for this country; perhaps get the opportunity to take 5 seconds of his time to tell him that as he passes through. All that aside, he’s going to be remembered forever. As long as there is a country known as The United States of America, he will be known as one of those stand-out people, regardless of whether he wins or not (and goddammit, he’d better!!!).
Hmmph.
Anyhow, I can’t wait for these debates tonight. When I think about it, I imagine midway through the thing when Sarah Palin’s trying to non-answer a question again and the moderator just not allowing it anymore, pressuring her into answering it, and watching her just break down in tears running off the stage. Ohhh, I know it could probably never happen, but I can still hope. Did you see her Facebook page, by the way? VERY funny.
