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Quoted For Truth

> O.k. — I know I’m way too old to be worrying about this in one sense, but in the next sense in which many of us will have to worry about this thing, I am so insanely freaked out by the insanity that is “My Super Sweet 16.” What the friggin’ fuck**??????!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??** I’ve only seen it once, but the girl who failed her driver’s test but drove away in a brand new BMW said, “I know my parents spent alot, but I deserved it!” I mean — I kind of want to have kids… and I’m getting up there in years, so it’s got to happen relatively soon, but… Is home schooling the only answer? Dear god — **WE ARE FUCKED!!** I mean, whatever happened to the “Brat Pack?” Remeber when the righteous poor kids and the righteous rich kids… O.k. — “kid”… would get together and realize that the materialistic insanity of youth culture could be transcended by true love (that would, granted, probably end when they both went away to college — but for that brief, shining moment…), and Echo annd the Bunnymen brought on the Dancing Horses for **EVERYONE**? Well alright, then — I’m officially saying it: take me the fuck back!! Shit was BETTER!! **YES — I SAID IT!!** God forgive me. :(

[Ted Leo, September 12th 2005](http://tedleo.com/2/news.php?page=news)

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Blackout

Because its appropriate, just for today:

And there are [blackouts in LA tonight](http://olympics.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-09-12T235956Z_01_YUE273471_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-ENERGY-LOSANGELES-DC.XML),
There’s an evident lack of light tonight,
An increase in desire
You’ll catch me
Hanging out on a wire
[Cutting the voltage to your power lines](http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/12/news/la_blackout/)
And the lights. Go. Out.

-*Blackout*, by Hybrid, off their latest album

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Doing It For The Shortees

Got a lot of little things I wanted to post about, but I figured it’d be easier to glom them all into one gigantic post instead:

– Our vacation to Ithaca went well; [photos are up](http://www.flickr.com/photos/remydwd/archives/date-posted/2005/09/11/).
– As a sort of tangential thing, it’s worth noting that we flew back, into JFK, on September 11th. It definitely does seem to be a light travel day, as JFK was largely empty. Understandable, I guess.
– Big congrats to my very good friend Gillian Daniel and her no-longer fiancee Josh Sarmir, who were married yesterday in a small ceremony. Best wishes to the two of you, and I hope you have many happy years together ahead of you.
– Ted Leo was on KEXP last week and did a bunch of songs, including Sons Of Cain (formerly known as “New Untitled Song”); you can get a much better MP3 of it as a result.
– Another friend of mine, Susan Michael, is organizing a national day of garage sales for donating to victims of Hurricane Katrina. If you’re interested – Susan could definitely use the help in spreading the word beyond my tiny blog – please check out [katrinagaragesale.com](http://katrinagaragesale.com/).

More later if it comes to me.