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very interesting article in the new yorker about a schism in the evangelical movement.
essentially, the hard religious right and their implied and acknowledged marriage to the republican party has led to an image of the ‘average’ evangelical as ‘i hate abortion doctors and the gays and i love the bush administration so so much but [...]

i am revising my archives. i am okay with this. i want my blog, my entire blog, to be something i can point people at and say ‘read this’ and not feel ashamed at how horrible it is.
there’s a certain honesty in not changing things, that is simply not what i’m looking for. [...]

barack obama says yes we can.
john mccain has other ideas.

apple products that should or will exist in 3-5 years, in approximate order of probable release.
isaac - an ipod touch the size of the newton, with macbook specs under the hood, for a more usable portable computer. runs full os-x, not the iphone edition. widescreen or portrait, with multitouch thumb navigation, virtual keyboard, [...]

i just spent basically all day reading sandwich girl’s livejournal from her year working infrastructure at mcmurdo station in antartica. flew in for the summer science season, stuck about through the winter keeping the station running. so, dark for months. internet but no incoming or outgoing planes. 100ish people. if [...]

mgk linked to this article which refutes the claim that barack obama doesn’t have any political experience under his belt.

worked 12 hours today. projectionist training commenced. after I did my usual thursday work(close box till, change the marquee outside, change the showtimes inside) I followed Nathaniel up to the booth and watched him break down Ice Age into cans. (film comes on 20 minute reels, which come in cans: ice age [...]

(revised on 5.10.08 @ 11:54 pm)
good - portland international film festival
bad - not at the KOIN
good - broadway made room for piff by giving us Lord of the Rings! and Mothman(which i/scott wanna see)
we didn’t get piff, so i didn’t get to watch bits of dozens of foreign films. but we did get fellowship [...]