I try new style

Me big man. Three jobs. Many words. Many commas. Few dollars. Make tired. Want blog. Need rest. Compromise: posts spare now. No think. No talk about self. No talk right. Easy words. Like caveman.

This make me mad. What Clinton do for me? Nothing. Barack jump shark. Not own man. Too savvy. No heart.

New Man Crush

Move over Brando

Dimitar Berbatov

Would put it inside of him

Here's why

I'm a pro writer now.

I have, as I've mentioned, Job Two now. I am the Campus and Federal Politics reporter for the Oregon Daily Emerald. My first two stories were published Friday. Here they are: a meeting recap and a a story about basketball.

Unexciting.

These stories are dry. They're the kind of stories that were being run when I first got the job, except worse because I was really confused at the time and because my writer's voice conflicts with the editor's voice. There's no tension, no real human interest. I want to fix that. Campus and Federal Politics are meaningless if your vision is only as wide as the boardroom. I need to talk to people who are being affected by campus politics. Then maybe people will read my stories.

Facts and falsehoods of November 6, 2008

Facts

• cold
  
• I also have a cold
• New job--two articles I wrote coming out today
• autumn is the prettiest season in Oregon

Falsehoods

• I got more than enough sleep last night
• cigarettes are good for a cold
• cigarettes are also good for a cod, which is what my hands wanted me to type

Truths and falsehoods about November 4, 2008 or "soccer seemingly trumps politics"

Facts:

• I got my absentee ballot in the mail fourteen hours before it was due.
• It would have cost me $239 to get it back to Hawaii on time.
• Now I can assign a dollar figure to how much my vote actually means to me
• That figure is $52.42.
• Not $239.
  
• So I didn't vote.
• Nevertheless, I was pretty relieved that Barack Obama was elected.

Falsehoods:

• Barack Obama will solve all or at least more than two of the nation's fundamental problems: poster child complex, national debt, negative interventionist tendencies, the imminent failure of the Social Security system, environmental negligence, corporate power, technocratic identity, the popularity of The Eagles.
• This call at the end of a game between two teams I don't even like was excellent and not so terrible that it ruined an otherwise excellent day.
  

Facts and Falsehoods about November 3, 2008

Falsehoods first this time

• I am voting tomorrow
• I don't want to vote tomorrow
  
• This isn't the most important election since 1968, so it doesn't matter that I can't vote
• Whatever I did with the whole mailing my absentee ballot application thing, it sure worked

Facts

• Voting is the most important thing you can possibly do next to actually running for office
• Which means that I have not met the most important responsibility I have ever had
• That's pretty much it.

Facts and falsehoods about Halloween weekend

Facts

• I visited Corvallis, Ore.
• Corvallis, Ore., is a nice town
• But, I wouldn't want to live there
• I partied with the second worst person in all of Oregon
  
• (after Bill Sizemore)
• Is Bill Sizemore Shaun Sizemore's uncle?
• ??
• The truck stop in Coburg, Ore., is one of my favorite places
• There, you can buy a gun
• Or a sword
• They also have restrooms
• and phones at every table
• They love the Ducks
• I love the Ducks less
• A party with free beer = Christina's toilet getting plugged
• Nobody knows who Tom Joad is
• My favorite experience: stumbling to Mike and Glen's house at three in the morning dead drunk while listening to "Pyramid Song" by Radiohead and smoking a Marb. 27. It was a misty, spooky night and it felt like the apocalypse. It turned out that the soccer match I was going there to watch was a rerun. I didn't leave their couch until two the next afternoon.
  

Falsehoods

• The homeless have their own cigarettes
• I did a lot of coursework
• Spending eleven hours straight on a friend's couch is good for your back.
• I'm happy with the way my life is going
• Those three guys who got hospitalized weren't starting anything
• That sounds ominous, don't it.