paid vacation.

i wonder how people that support/supported guantanamo and enhanced interrogation and indefinite military detention rationalize stuff like this...

i suppose it's not a coincidence that i don't know anyone that fits that description, so it's not like i can ask. i would imagine they'd call it something like collateral damage.

and then of course there's title x subtitle d of the national defense authorization act.

it's all just... strange. embarrassing even.

happy new year!

new year's resolution, resolved:

i, chris adell, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that i will faithfully execute the office of permanent president and chair of the party planning committee, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the party; ride or die bitches.

-self-appointed self-aggrandized permanent president and chair of the party planning committee, aka dicktator 4 lyfe.

maybe i'll get you a seat at this table, tell em i'ma need reservations for 20. tired? take a disco nap. cuz we're currently workin pretty hard on a cure for post-party depression, aka ppd. i think we're callin it pre-party planning, aka ppp. also liberally prescribing erry night hype and tipsy til tips is touchin... til we die.



also, i will procrastinate less.

also, i will make half-a-mil off personal sized lazy susans.

also; stay lazy, susans.

plutonomy and primacy.

america is not in decline, depending on how that's defined.

an ode to crunkmas.

rumblings from afar, crunkmas hype hath hit hard
and the season surrenders for the holiday not far
so tremble, all ye who wish to stay sober
for the gods of crunk will not be looked over
from crunkmases past, spirit(s) in crystal and glass
awakening all that is crunk, cocktail, and class

december 29, 2011: crunkmas V. a crunkmess a'cometh!

a home in homs.

i ♥ guerilla warfare. so this one time i tweeted about wanting a benghazi-like stronghold for the rebels in syria, but if there's no international intervention to defend it, i guess it'll just have to be done the old fashioned way. stick and move, brothers... stick and move.

ramita navai.

so my cousin a million times removed ramita navai snuck into syria to get some dirt on the crackdown. it's funny to think that fantasies of conflict zones are in my blood, but who knows. i just saw her interview on anderson cooper about this...

Watch Syria Undercover on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.

she does a lot of awesome journalism, keep poking around.

not mathematics versus poetry.

this article is too good.

a corpse.

through concentric circles you
find i am a bed of flowers and you are nothing to me
but tread carefully through what won't lie still
you are still moving me

caravaggio's canvas captures too little
and these cities are mine
find me your scarves and arms
and scarred guards armed, wary, cast aside

belonging, i am invincible
you are but an accessory
but still my successor surfing upon my wake
you are my home and i, waterfall

i'm here
because we are your friends
and on you i am dependent conclusion
a corpse unchosen, immortal instead

oops errant post.

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tallying in tunis.

the arab spring has sprung it's first sprig, and so far so serene.

i'm heartened and my heart feels full. i'm proud and spirited.

on february 1, 2011, i said:

i think my hope for [the arab spring] is something akin to the turkish model, a vigilant military that will step in to restore liberal democracy if democracy strays towards islamism, but will otherwise stand completely on the sidelines as the guarantor of secularism and individual liberty.

so far al-nahda has said that's the model they'll follow.

but... i'm still cautious.