Correspondent:: "Rich Clark, aka Left Reverend Egg Plant, ULC, CotSG"
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 23:47:52 -0400
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Cardinal Vertigo wrote:
I'll be happy. I'll get drunk again cuz it'll be my birthday and the
friggin' election will be done with.
Rich
Correspondent:: BabaNoodleRaman@snork.cx
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 10:37:03 -0600
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In <7zl7d.4538$Rf1.3874@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com>, Cardinal Vertigo
wrote:
>So I've got the state ethics commission leaving messages on my answering
>machine. Why my machine? Because the PAC's official phone also happens
>to be my home phone line. Why doesn't our PAC even have its own phone
>number? Because we have no fucking funding; it always comes back to
>that. But anyway, the state ethics commission is leaving messages on my
>machine all the time and freaking out my roommate who probably already
>thinks I'm about two steps away from either bugging the Watergate or
>leading the workers in bloody revolution. They keep calling because
>there were some reports that should have been filed back in 2002 but
>weren't. Now, there's no such thing as "failing to file"; there's only
>"filing late." And there's no penalty whatsoever for filing late, so
>nobody cares about it except for the guy whose phone happens to be
>ringing all the damn time. Ben said he'd get all the filing up to date
>before the changeover, but I know he doesn't want to mess with those
>shitty forms any more than I do. Today I finally said, okay, fuck it,
>there are a thousand other things I need to be doing right now that
>would all be a thousand times more productive but I am so sick of the
>ethics commission calling me every fucking day that I am dealing with
>their goddamned forms once and for all. Unfortunately nobody capable of
>dealing with it was in the office during the only time I had to screw
>with it today, so I just gave up, printed the forms again, filled the
>fuckers out, and mailed them in. During the time I spent screwing around
>with this, I could have been organizing volunteers, or contacting
>potential sites for last-minute registration drives, or pricing printers
>for the voter guides, or even going down to the war room and stuffing
>fucking envelopes. I need to quit smoking again because it's absolutely
>killing my appetite and I'm not eating enough, but since I don't eat
>much I only have the energy to get done what I have to get done every
>day if I'm fueled by a haze of adrenaline and nicotine, and I'm way too
>stressed to mess with trying to quit again right now. It's given me a
>newfound empathy for speed freaks. I have more respect for speed freaks
>than for you alt.slack pussies, though. You make me sick. You all babble
>on about how bad you want Bush out of office or post your funny link
>about how Bush is dumb and then you go sit in your goddamn cubicles
>thinking you've done your good deed for the day so you spend the rest of
>the day surfing cement ape porn before returning home to plant your fat
>asses in front of the Obscure Sci-fi Theater marathon you Tivo'd last
>month, while we waste away our youth burning ourselves out for
>Kerry-Edwards even though we all voted for Dean in the primaries. FUCK
>YOU ASSHOLES.
Fuck you back, I donated a quarter-ton of money at:
http://www.billionairesforbush.com
They rock and wear really good suits. Top hats and everything.
Ahhh-ummm ...