pray for mercy

dear "god",

thanks for all the hurricanes. i've already been to new orleans, so i guess i didn't really need to see it again. are you going to be wiping out all the other places i've visited? should i give folks the heads up? (i'm looking at you, california...)

thanks for two consecutive terms of georgie w. thanks for the death of stanley kubrick and the career of brett ratner. thanks for cancer and bigotry and sports and serial killers and flesh-eating viruses and IKEA and the rent in NYC and my day job and euro-trash and ameri-trash and Emeril Lagasse and burn victims and born victims and unrequited love/hate and for giving us your "only" son so that we could hang him up real pretty. oh, and especially thanks for the years 1976-1999 as well as 2004-2005.

ERASE ME!!!

amen. :-)