There is so much I admire about the Occupy movement. Without it’s amorphousness, without it’s puritanical simplicity when it comes to specific goals and being leaderless, it may not have had the endurance it has had… Mind you, it’s endurance has encompassed 10 weeks, but it’s impact as a demonstrative movement has surpassed the Tea […]
We’re about a week away from Election Day here in the USA, the first Tuesday following the first Monday of November. It’s an off year, with not as much at stake nationally. There’s an referendum to repeal Ohio’s anti-collective bargaining law, and an anti-choice measure in Mississippi that will define a fertilized egg as a […]
Last night, by order of our mayor, the police swept into Westlake park in Downtown Seattle where the “Occupy Seattle” protest is going strong in support of the Occupy Wall Street in NYC. Thirty people were arrested in a move to enforce our no camping laws. I thought yesterday I would visit these guys today, […]
Ah, what a beautiful day! Unless you’re a gorilla. I went to the Seattle Zoo today (AKA The Woodland Park Zoo) and, of course, I brought the camera along. If I didn’t, going to the zoo by myself would have been kind of weird, but with it, it’s like all of you were coming with […]
I am finishing up my first two days off from work in over a year!! Said like that, it sounds pretty impressive. Well, there hasn’t been a “from work” to be off from in over a year, so it’s just a little word trick. * * * We’re going to start off with a little […]
Doesn’t the very term “Joko History” itself imply narcissism? See, I could name two or three things that have really bugged me over the years as I have observed other bloggers that I am in danger of repeating right now: an inflated opinion of oneself (by using the calendar as a medium for re-posting, I […]
I don’t know why I was feeling so overwrought and nervous. It was just an orientation. It’s not like I was really starting real work yet. Heck, I wasn’t even reporting to what is going to be my regular store. For efficiency’s sake, they combine several stores’ new employees and have them meet at one […]
About a week ago, I reported here that I was not going to die… of starvation. Well, on that same day I got some other news about why I am not going to die…of a heart attack. See, when I went to the street fair last weekend, I stepped up to the Walgreen’s Mobile Health […]
Seeing this event was the main reason I headed down to Seattle’s Capitol Hill District today… Doggies in drag. I knew it would make an awesome video. With a little help from Romanian dance music… And yes, that was our actual congressman awarding the Grand Prize! Way to go, Jim McDermott! Here were the four […]
