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Most of the time I love The City, and I can't imagine living away from its conveniences.

Sometimes (like right now) the presence of other people makes me feel like I'm going insane. The behavior of motorists in particular may cause me to snap. Minivan lady thinks that its okay to run the red light, just this once, to get into line at another red light. I never say anything clever when this happens (all the time, in my neighborhood), but I do say it loudly. This time I simply uttered the name of the Lord, giving him a new middle name with the initial 'F.' Hopefully the experience for minivan lady was at least memorable.

The snow is still everywhere, great whalesized heaps of it obscuring lines of sight, reducing sidewalk use to single file and changing two-lane streets into one and a third land streets (which are still used as though they are two lanes). My humanism and environmentalism are suffering. Either forceably sterilize everyone or dump all this snow--sooty and salty as it is--into the harbor. Or dump all the cars in the harbor, either way.

Now I'm going to go grocery shopping, with my bike trailer. Wish me luck.

What's your favorite urban plant or animal?

This is the question I ask every person who passes my table when I'm at a zine fair with The Urban Pantheist. cottonmanifesto and I have made urban wildlife trading cards, and most of the time we have a card for their answer. Sometimes they surprise me, and over the course of several events, we've added to our set of trading cards. Now I'm putting it out there to you all: What's your favorite urban plant or animal? Is it on the list below? (Our cards reflect our geographic bias. I would love to create subsets of cards for other geographic areas. Below is the "Northeastern North America set")

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Busiest LiveJournal Day Ever for Me

You all know the Onion.

But do you know the Las Vegas Mercury? ( www.vegasmercury.com )


The most memorable lines from President Bush's second inaugural address:


"Today, freedom's on the march in Iraq. It's a forced march--at gunpoint--but it's marching nonetheless."

"Three years ago, we were at war with a fundamentalist theocracy. Today, we are one."

"Of course honorable people can disagree, but that's all they can do because honorable people aren't in power right now."

"Our hearts go out to those National Guardsmen who, through the cruel lottery of low birth, must actually honor their military commitments."

http://www.lasvegasmercury.com/2005/MERC-Jan-27-Thu-2005/25706616.html

My brother may have written one or more of those, but the fake news doesn't have any bylines.