June 2004

Joe crawford is…

• Joe crawford is a freelance web developer and designer who lives in San Diego.
• Joe crawford is a forcefully OS-agnostic web developer and designer.
• Joe crawford is mellowing.
• Joe crawford is down to Michigan.
• Joe crawford is visiting Cincinnati Oct.
• Joe crawford is a Web developer.
• Joe crawford is 18th.
• Joe crawford is like Keith Bogans… “Very similar – in his ability level to defend.
• Joe crawford is running for Congress.
• Joe crawford is hurt again.
• Joe crawford is a Detroit kid who originally committed to Michigan.
• Joe crawford is an experienced teacher.
• Joe crawford is a respiratory-therapist-turned-web-journeyman in San Diego.
• Joe crawford is reported to make a decision on Monday between Kentucky and Michigan.
• Joe crawford is a confirmed bachelor.
• Joe crawford is going to Kentucky.
• Joe crawford is a Shire resident and started his Real Estate career at Bundeena initally in Sales.
• Joe crawford is an explosive.
• Joe crawford is a web designer and developer.
• Joe crawford is a web designer and developer.
• Joe crawford is expected to return as the pitching coach and Terry McGriff is expected to be back as bench coach.
• Joe crawford is the man behind San Diego Bloggers.
• Joe crawford is still down to Michigan and Kentucky.
• Joe crawford is regarded as one.
• Joe crawford is another exceptional player.
• Joe crawford is assistant vice-president of engineering at Digex Inc.
• Joe crawford is a roleplayer of scant talent but prodigious output.
• Joe crawford is still very much alive and looking forward to his retirement in June of this year.
• Joe crawford is a great example.
• Joe crawford is taking his time with the recruiting process the second time around.
• Joe crawford is not currently listed on any rankings by Rivals100.
• Joe crawford is way past his adolescent years.
• Joe crawford is still punching the time clock.
• Joe crawford is in receipt of a birthday card weighing one pound.
• Joe crawford is the “new face of evil” in the Exorcist prequel right.
• Joe crawford is GONNA BE OUR FIRST EVER JOE ON THE UK BASKETBAW TEAM.
• Joe crawford is a Cat.

Onward.
I’ve been having a bit of a rough time lately. I have some habits in my interpersonal relationships that are not very good. I have some passive-aggressive tendencies that take real skill to work on. I also have a tendency to self-criticism that verges on the toxic. I’m working this out in therapy, which I’m in again after a long (many months) absence.

I also have a cold right now—nasal drip and backache. Ugh.

Lessee. What else. Working on San Diego Blog has been a blast. If I could, I’d make that my fulltime job.

The other day I was offered $75 to put an ad on artlung.com for six months. I almost did it. There’s revenue in them thar hills. But linking for the sake of garnering pagerank is nothing I want to get involved in. And Artlung.com is not for ads to other sites. That’s what I’m doing with my other sites, or at least trying to to. Care to advertise on San Diego Blog? Contact me.

Leah is well, looking for work. Interviewing like a madwoman. We have her kids this week; that should be fun. I’m appreciating lately that I’m cultivating some parenting skills. I have a ways to go. Hmm. It feels like I’ve written that before.

Strangely, nobody has inquired about my comics except my ex-wife. I really would like to sell the things.

It’s Saturday night. Today hung out in Simi Valley with Leah and the kids. Strange to be so close to the Reagan stuff—the 118 freeway is even called “Ronald Reagan Freeway.”

Am I even making any sense? I think I should probably get to bed. Hit the hay.

Oh, I’m reading Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom right now. It’s pretty good.

And that, dear reader, is all the news that fits for tonight. I hope to write with a more chipper air when this cold is through. But for now, yellow-tinged mucous!

Onward y’all.

Reagan / Television /
Truth is messy, it’s paradoxical.

Reagan was a great leader, he didn’t pay attention, he was all flash, he made bold proclamations, he cheated on his wife, he made for great television, he reached out to Gorbachev, he financed Islamists, he brought us out of malaise, he raised taxes, he was against big government, he promoted the untenable and impossible Star Wars, he won reelection, he liked jellybeans, he fell asleep at cabinet meetings, he joked about bombing Russia, by all accounts he was a genial man.

Let’s quote a song featuring Reagan that they don’t play on the 80s hits stations. The Beatnig’s “Television”...

TELEVISION One nation, under one God
has turned into one nation
under the influence
of one drug.
Television
And one man
who is the master of this medium,
our president, Ronald Reagan
Television,
the drug of the nation,
breeding ignorance,
feeding radiation
TV! Is the reason
why less than
ten percent of our nation
reads books daily
Why most people think
Central America means Kansas,
Communism means unamerican,
and apartheid is
a new headache remedy.
Where the Cosby show is watched
by rich whites
and Dynasty is watched by everybody
TV! Is the stomping ground
for political candidates,
where bears in
the woods are chased
by Grecian formula’d
bald eagles.
Where all you need
to do to get elected
is make monkey movies
(Just ask Clint and Ronnle)
and where straight teeth
in your mouth are more important
than the words
that come out of it,
TV! Is the place where
self-cancelling phrases
like Pop-Art
Fresh-Frozen,
and Military-intelligence
have become standard.
TV! Is the place where
words are redefined
like “Contra”
to “Freedom Fighter”,
and Sandinista
to Repressive Regime,
TV! Is where the pursuit
of happiness has become
the pursuit of trivia
where toothpaste and cars
have becomc sex objects
and where Sesame Street
is more real than Hill Street!


Have a great weekend y’all!

Quote of the Moment

“The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.”

Word of the day: contrariwise
See: contrariwise

1. From a contrasting point of view.
2. In the opposite way or reverse order.
3. In a perverse manner.

Question of the Day
Q: How did you learn all about web design?

A: I set out to work in the movie business, but I missed and hit the web.

(unrelated: this is the 1776th post on artlung blog)

Locals Only
Local Blog Jamboree is a roundup of some local bloggers and what they’re talking about. Entertaining stuff. You may also notice that San Diego Blog is getting an extreme makeover, still in progress.

What’s changed? Well, we have added upcoming.org events, San Diego Bloggers badge wearers, and other local blog directories. Atom support, RSS support, an RSS feed for comments, links for adding SDB to my yahoo, kinja, and bloglines. And oh yeah, the whole blog has been upgraded from b2 to wordpress.

And have I mentioned how proud I am of the San Diego Bloggers Map? Well, I am.

Not like me
I’m listening to James Taylor’s song Fire And Rain and I’m kind of liking it. I’m usually not a fan. Jackson Browne and James Taylor are just too earnest for their own good.

You may not realize that there are myths about this song, debunked by Snopes.

Poster from a few weeks ago
For 2004 city college language day I made a poster, and now I’ve finally gotten around to putting it online.

San Diego Blogger Map
A rough PHP and MySQL and CSS toy: San Diego Bloggers, Plotted