Week Ending 25 May

Fun was the name of the game this week as school ended and summer began with nice weather and a three day weekend too.

Workin' It

This week I found two good job leads late in the week. It was a great way to start a holiday weekend and even if neither one of them pans out, at least they will have given me hope. These days it seems that's a precious commodity.

School

I did really well on the final exam. A quarter of the questions were recycled from previous quizzes and even a couple from the mid-term exam.

Summer Starts THIS Week!

Memorial Day is the tradional start of the summer season in America. It's a time for barbecues and wearing white shoes. As with many other conventions in American society, it has absolutely no basis in reality and is totally a man-made construct. The true start of summer is still about a month away and is marked by the summer solstice.

Great America

The Gay & Lesbian Night at Paramount's Great America marks the begining of Memorial Day Weekend in the Bay Area. The amusement park was mildly amusing and served as an interesting backdrop to meet and mingle with friends long held and brand new alike. A new promoter created a totally different vibe for the event this year. While I think the whole circuit thing is well and truely played out, especially as this event's crowd is concerned, I certainly had a great time. It wasn't better than year's past, but certainly different in several key regards...

Michelle's Visit

My old pal Michelle ventured north for the holiday weekend to have a little fun with a guy she met on the Internet. He lives in San Jose so it was only natural that Michelle would want to come to SF to see me too. We had a really nice lunch and got to hang out for a while before she drove back to LA.

Star Trek Extreme

Tony Alleyne, 50, recently placed his small Leicestershire, England, apartment on the market for the equivalent of $1.7 million, a price he said was realistic because he has spent nearly 10 years crafting the premises as a finely detailed model of the Star Trek starship Enterprise. Included, according to an April report in Australia’s Herald Sun, are a life-size transporter control, a gigantic warp core drive, voice-activated lighting and security, and an infinity mirror. “If you’re going to do something,” he said, “you have to go all the way.” Alleyne said he started the project as therapy when his wife walked out on him.

Star Wars Extreme

The CIA convened an open panel of scientists in January to discuss potential terrorist uses of life-science research, and the panel concluded that, despite the risks, openness in scientific study was absolutely crucial; in April, the CIA suppressed the panel’s conclusions on openness as classified. And in March, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia accepted an award by the Cleveland City Club for his contributions to freedom of speech, which Scalia said he would be glad to accept at the club’s meeting provided no television or radio coverage was allowed.

Star Song Extreme

This weekend marked the annual Eurovision Song contest. Quartknee.com's Entertainment Correspondent was there along with our pal Rob to report on the world's wackiest talent contest...

The Age of Imperialism

The End of a Kingdom
Saudi Arabia's regime is being propped up by the west. Now that the Iraq colony is well on its way to stability, the days are numbered for the House of Saud. Once US and British support dry up for the Kingdom and they move on to other corners of the Empire, Saudi Arabia will shake like the US molded jell-o sculpture that it really is.

American Empire now deemed "legitimate" by the UN
US and Britain got a new UN resolution this week, so... Whew! No more threat of legal action now that the spector of illicit behaviour has been whitewashed with a UN Security council resolution authorizing US forces to "administer" the colonization of Iraq.

American Defections
White House Spokesman Ari Fleisher announced he'll stand down to "spend more time with his family". EPA chief, Christine Todd Whitman said she's standing down to "spend more time with her family". Two other officials from the Shrub's administration also stood down this week. All it seems left because of their families and all claimed no ill will with the Shrub or his lack of any meaningful domestic policy. Personally, I think that people of conscience are jumping ship as they know what is really going on will be revealed once the next election cycle picks up steam and they don't want to be around to a) take the blame, or b) make up more excuses.

Wear Day At?
They STILL haven't found any weapons of mass destruction. Finger's crossed they won't create 'evidence' as the US government is so wont to do in the past.

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