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Yo yo yo,

Where's be my peoples at? Yes, that's right, it's that time of year again--eggnog, mistletoe, feeling miserable, Joe imitating Arnold S and somehow being so bad at it that he is actually funnier and more memorable than the man himself--oh, did I forget to mention: it's also time for the annual Dtek Thurtene Days of X-mas contest.

This year, as I forecasted a year ago: Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Sorry, RED, your Naked Gun keeps getting the shaft.

Why?

Just a couple of links here for posterity...

First, the 99 Percent Declaration.

Second, a short speech by Naomi Klein at OWS a few weeks ago. My favorite bit:

All right, my friends, time to talk food...

i'd been meaning to read Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine for a while and remembered to pick it up when i swung by Elliott Bay Books recently.

i watched a documentary called Collapse on Netflix yesterday, and it really shook me up.

the film is an extended soapbox for Michael Ruppert, a former LAPD officer and investigative reporter, to discuss humanity in relation to energy usage. RED, you will appreciate that Chris Smith (as in American Movie -- which i still haven't seen!) is behind this thing.

Just finished reading Room on a zealous recommendation from my brother Sam. Wondering if any of the rest of you have read it, or might be interested in reading it. Like Hieb with Blue Valentine, Sam's availability to the book might be unusual, due to his personal circumstances. Here is the premise: mother has been abducted, is missing, assumed dead for nine years, in which time she gives birth to our narrator, a boy named Jack, who starts telling the story on the day he turns five.

sammyboo and i saw this and loved it.

it was raw, engaging and maddening. it toed that line of the universal and the intimately personal. (like The Road, do my personal circumstances make me especially available here?...) and somehow they kept the "flashback" approach and a story that could have been painfully old interesting and fresh.

i loved the poetics of the film -- the way it moves, and the way we leave it.

the Grizzly Bear might seem tired to some folks(?), but i enjoyed it of course...

check it out. i'd love to hear anybody else's thoughts.

Ok, my dear friend,
let us begin:

(1)
With absolute fondness, I look at them.
It is as though I were standing up high, looking over
and into a meadow somehow filled with every bit of life,
with all that ever was,
with all that still might be.

(2)
Their glory is not in being something in particular,
but in uniquely being, each of them, everything that is possible.
How much do we struggle the rest of our lives
to regain their receptivity, their adaptability, their wonder?

(3)
Whatever else life is, it is unmistakably beautiful.

(4)