Wednesday, November 12, 2008
If you weren’t excited by today’s houlios post concerning upcoming events in the world of artistic expression, maybe this will turn your crank. Seventeen years, a hundred different release dates, fake reviews, real reviews, pessimism, hope, and a big ball of WTF, all simmering together for only a few more days.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
From the man himself: HBO has given the production order. They will be filming the pilot episode of A GAME OF THRONES. It’s just the pilot so far. They’ll need to see that before they decide whether to proceed with a full season’s episodes. So let’s all hope the pilot will kick serious ass. It [...]
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Quoting Yoda at me is a sure-fire way to piss me off. The first time this happened was when DDB asked me to do something. I said I would try. “Do or do not,” he said, “there is no try.” This was annoying enough to have made it into one of my more popular stories, [...]
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
It’s important to keep the nutjobs around. Sometimes in their nuttery, you find a nugget that makes you think for a minute. Our resident nutjob for the day is Katherine Kersten: In this electoral climate, anyone with a “D” after his name – even a potty-mouthed comedian – could be competitive in a race for [...]
Monday, November 10, 2008
The geeks @ 538 remain pretty optimistic about Franken coming up roses: The long story short is as follows: if Al Franken in fact wins anywhere near 52.5% of the undercounted ballots, it is quite likely that he will prevail, even given what I would consider to be fairly pessimistic assumptions about the number of [...]
Monday, November 10, 2008
Monica was looking cute this morning, and I snapped this pic:
Saturday, November 8, 2008
You might have seen the recent map of what the electoral results would have looked like if only people ages 18-29 voted. If not, here it is (click either map for the full size version): This made me curious to see what the election would look like if only the oldest voters, age 65+, had [...]
For those interested, Transportation for America is collecting signatures for a petition to the president-elect regarding the funding of transit projects in the new administration. So if you are supportive of increased funding on transit and infrastructure you might want to check it out.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
(from shanusmagnus) I fully intended to stop talking politics as soon as I reasonably could. I figured the political shit I posted would drop by 90% post-election, but this is special. I find myself working, for the first time in a decade, in a super conservative atmospere, surrounding by Republicans. In the cafeteria, Fox News [...]
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Sorry I’ve been gone. Let’s step back a minute and describe what’s happened since June: I moved out of LA, went to Clarion, drove from Seattle to MN, found an apartment in MN, flew to LA with my dad and moved our shit back to MN, moved in, tried to get a job doing anything [...]