1. there's this kind of shot called "a master," it's the one that tells the audience where people/objects are located in space. paul greengrass knows how to use them. no really, he does.

2. i was staying up late at night burning with uncertainty as to whether james bond could kick the ass of the guy from "the diving bell and the butterfly." thank god, our long national nightmare is over.

3. i will be quitting my regular career to build a high-end resort in the middle of the bolivian desert. the selling point will be that the entire outer architecture of the building will consist of highly flammable fuel cells. who wants to invest?

...here is ed bacon, rector of all saints pasadena episcopal church - a man of the cloth - giving a simple christian interpretation of the injustice of proposition 8...

...is voting for barack obama.

growing up in puerto rico in the early seventies, this child was taught about the united states of america: not the usa of nixon, kissinger, cambodia, and chile, but an idea of equality and democracy - a nation of tolerance, freedom and opportunity.

the wounded and somewhat jaded adult knows damn well that our political system is far from democratic - that it takes money and compromise to become president and that it is quite possible that the next occupant of the oval office will be just another in a long line of party apparatchiks toeing the line of big business, realpolitik and the increasingly shameless pursuit of power for its own sake.

the child understands intuitively that to vote into office a biracial man named "barack hussein obama" - a man who has taken "the audacity of hope" as his slogan, appeals to the better angels of his constituency's reason and honor as opposed to their primal fears, and advocates that we revisit the decisions of the past administration not with a renewed appetite for conflict, but with a commitment to diplomacy and discussion - is to bring closer to reality the idea of the united states with which he grew up.


in case my views on the bush administration or the fate of this country are in question, i am reprinting below the complete text of a two-part blog i posted in 2005 - nothing has changed since...

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a few years ago, i realized that i could take the guesswork out of life - and save myself precious seconds out of every day - by wearing the same outfit* - black t-shirt, doc martens or tredairs (the ones with "good" and "evil" embroidered on the toes) and blue jeans - as often as possible.

in recognition of my time-saving ways, the crew of "the middleman" declared "dress like javi day" during the filming of our last episode...even my shoes were replicated with varying degrees of success!







* no, not the EXACT same outfit - i have many black t-shirts and jeans. time saving is one thing, smelling up the place is quite another.