Anyone want to pay for my bankruptcy lawyer?

[jackshoegazer]

It's been raining a lot here.  We're victims of that midwest flooding you may be hearing so much about on the news.  Madison has escaped relatively unscathed.  A few road-closures and electrical issues, but nothing too bad.  On Sunday, as I drove around town, I had to maneuver through some flooded intersections, praying my taxi would pull a Moses and part the waters until I cleared the two-foot-deep ponds where the road once was.

Ethan and I are awaiting the arrival of our dinner.  Jacquelyn is downtown getting a pedicure with brdgt.  Tomorrow is a day off and it's not supposed to rain so we may go buy Ethan a new adult-sized bicycle.  He seems to have plateaued at 5'10 for the last month.  He looks more and more adult every day.  What happened to the wee baby?  It's the toaster conundrum - you add bread, get back toast - where did the bread go?  In about a month I'll be the proud father of a teenager - where did that baby go?

I'm reading Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine and I have never been so horribly upset by a book before.  I thought Scahill's Blackwater was scary - this is (pardon my language) fucking horrifying.  I've read a lot of the history of the CIA covert programs, but it never really hit home until I read about South America's socialist democracies that we, the United States, crushed with military juntas and installed free-market economies and cut all social programs and regulations.  Seriously, fuck Milton Friedman.

Comments

[elizawrites.livejournal.com]

That is an absolutely sweet picture. I got tears in my eyes.

I got The Shock Doctrine from the library but I could barely start it. Too upset.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

That was a couple days after he was born. He was a big baby, but much tinier than he is now :P

[explodingalice.livejournal.com]

I'll have to check that book out. I'm still going to read yours, btw, I just have procrastinated. I actually hate reading books by computer and so I keep making excuses. :P

Father/son pic is sweet. It's amazing - they're like those little capsules you put into the bathtub that turn into big foam dinosaurs.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I hate reading by computer as well. Maybe you should print it out a chapter at a time or something.

Luckliy I do have some good pictures of Ethan's early years. All of mine burned up in my bio-mom's apartment when I was 3ish.