on my way to portland

and i got a fooking runny nose. god damn it anyway.
you know where to get kleenexes once yr inside the gate?
fucking nowhere!
fuck!

edit: also th lady next to me is reading 'i can has cheezburger'

burn america burn!

edit: also she's wearing sock and sandals.
black socks!

has been releases book, won't shut mouth

shatner's losing all my respect.

sincerely, has been is a hilarious and wonderful album. airplane 2? c'mon!but he makes the most outlandish arrogant statements, and he's fucking william shatner! who does he think he is, patrick stewart?!

first he's trashing takei and homosexuals at large on conan, then apparently on his website complaining (in a video!) that he was not invited to the wedding. pretty crass, as most of the cast have revealed in interviews that they all collectively hate him and politely pretented not to talk behind his back for decades while they all worked together. he's also bitching to CNN that he's not in the new movie (which takes place when they're all young, i believe), and when i went to his website to check out the infamous video, it turns out he's plugging a book. stirring up boring-ass, star trek drama to keep his name in people's minds to prop up book sales.

oh, and greenspan concedes his free-market BULLSHIT was wrong
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/business/economy/24panel.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

picture yourself... in a boat. on - a river...

omglolbbq

because you know it's true:

chimpanzee that-Portland's Monkey News!

http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2008/10/20/monkey_on_a_segway

unread message: you've got chlamydia lol :>)

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/10/21/std.e-cards/

eugene jarecki on daily show

the 'why we fight' author has a new book about the danger of destroying what's left of our society from within by trying to protect it from all conceivable threats.

he reminds us that the "forces that decide whether or not we go to war" don't care who is in the White House -- a wake-up call I don't need until after Nov 4

anyway - good interview on dailyshow.com frontpage. anyone have the book yet?

HEY DAVE

what's yr address so i can ship my crap there?

because disenfranchising foreclosure victims is the height of patriotism

An agreement announced today by Obama for America, the Republican National Committee, the Democratic National Committee, the Michigan Republican Party, the Michigan Democratic Party, the Macomb County Republican Party, the Macomb County Democratic Party, and plaintiffs Duane Maletski, Sharon Lopez, and Frances M. Zick protects the voting rights of foreclosure victims. The settlement acknowledges the existence of an illegal scheme by the Republicans to use mortgage foreclosure lists to deny foreclosure victims their right to vote. This settlement has the force of law behind it and ensures that Republicans cannot disenfranchise families facing foreclosure.

these men are fag-loving christless communists and probably mohammedans

blingee of this photo to follow, naturally.
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god damn it.

Build your own Blingee

ok, you got me to blingee

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100,000 people see obama in st louis

here's st louis:

here's kc:

this is kc. pat and james and kim and i are in this crowd, a short distance in front of the gigantic american flag. i can't estimate how many people were there; a fucking ton is as close as i can gauge though i don't think it was near 100k.
the speech wasn't too different than the stump speech he's been giving for a while now, but i have to say that hearing him at an event like this, surrounded with thousands of other like-minded people was honestly a pretty intense and incredible experience. we didn't even catch a glimpse of the man himself; we just stared at a speaker. it was crowd crowd crowd as far as the eye could see.
really cool.


edit: initial estimates for turnout at the kc rally is around 75k+.

edit: here's another shot from kc. even having been there i had no idea how massive this was.

I met the Walrus

Obama in KC today

anyone else going? kim james and i are trying to get there around 2. i think dj is coming too.

Halloween party?

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Hey, I made a blinger.

Any good Halloween parties going down in Kansas City this year?
I don't know where to go now that Joel and Katie live in...uh...fuckin'....you know, Ohio or whatever.

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.

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real live zoidberg not so cute

everyone make a blingee! quick!

wait, now she's just smearing his qualifications

Palin at a rally the morning after joe the plumber's big night...

"We want to cut taxes because we think like Joe or Jane the plumber thinks," she said. "Our opponents want to raise taxes because they think like that other Joe, that six-term senator from Delaware whom I'm running against," she said of Joe Biden, the Democratic vice presidential candidate.

rim-shot!

since when is pointing out you opponent's experience in government supposed to take them down a notch? answer: when your own lack of experience is so clearly sinking the ticket that it's comical.

i hate this guy.

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i tried to watch the last debate

but every time mccain speaks it makes me want to tear at my own flesh with my teeth.
am i missing anything?

technology and music

dave brought up the impact of technology on music, which reminded me of the reactable. i've only ever heard of bjork actually using one in a non-academic setting, but god-damn could i think of some berserk shit to do with this.

oh, chimpanzee that; MONKEY NEWS!

Karl Pilkington's got a head like a fucking orange!

music is good-at times mystical, but i can't get out of bed these days without my dose of the ricky gervais show - 5 series of podcasts and a bucket of recordings of the XFM radio show broadcast in the UK. anyone else hooked on stories about Ricky's early days in a glam band, The Office and Extras co-creator Stephen Merchant's nerdy romantic enterprises, or bald Manc twat Karl Pilkington's philosophies about ridding the world of "useless" animals?

Exhibit A)
Karl on jellyfish:
"they're 97% water. just give em another 3% and make em water."

because you fuckers need to respect acid house

edit: because you fuckers need to respect detroit acid house.

Pete and Pete

Jake, please tell me you have this show on DVD and will loan it to us. I've been looking for it at the library but no dice.

not even the horrible sound of children laughing

can spoil this track from snowflake midnight by mercury rev.
dave is right and who knew? th rev should've been a dance act all along.

BMG beach breakfast

10 free BMG discs arrived the other day like so many winter fruits and nuts...

the selection is abysmal of course, but there are re-releases of stuff like Daydream Nation and Straight Outta Compton, and jazz classics from Count Basie and Herbie and Astrud Gilberto

this morning I had some Beach Boys hits with breakfast. I am just as guilty as anyone of trying to shrug off the earlier pop stuff, but Help Me Rhonda, Be True to Your School, and about a half dozen other oldies reminded me how long before Pet Sounds Brian Wilson was able to inject space-aged chords into doo-wop forms.

plus motherfucking California Girls

palin gets booed at a hockey game

take that, you awful bitch.

the new mercury rev

is so much better than it has any right to be.
i mean, shouldn't the trajectory indicated by the last couple of albums have them most of the way into steely dan territory by now?

yakety sax rules

there's a sweet passion of the christ one too, but you have to sign in to watch it...
and there's a 9/11 one, but i'm still sort of kind of a Decent Human Being so i won't post that one...

usually I can't think of a costume, but there is much to fear...

I think this might be my costume in a few weeks. Add a gunshot wound or slit wrists and I'm a suicide/zombie McCain supporter. Jake, shall I make one for you if you want to get bloodied on the 31st?

deerhoof fucking destroys all other bands in the universe

and don't tell me I'm wrong.

at wonder ballroom the other night they eclipsed all my other favorite shows from this year. !!!, Battles, Built to Spill and Death Cab all played flawless sets, but Deerhoof has a combined level of precision and energy none of them really matched. at least this week, they did. I have enjoyed them live before, but ed rodriguez fills them out again and all the material from apple-o to today sounded so perfect. i don't know how many shows they've played with him, but he really gelled fast.

listening to tracks from the new one today and falling in love for the fourth of fifth time with them. what do yall think of the hoof?

skipped watching the debate

and watched chris rock on hbo.
+1 for me i think.
what did i miss?

there's a new mercury rev

how badly will it disappoint me?

hawhaw

i cannot wait for tomorrow night

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biden is going to crush her.
it'll be a bloodbath.

dear science,

seems like the album to beat this fall.
i wasn't that into their first two, but this one is tits.

apple threatens to shut down itunes music store

i'd be sweating it if i weren't a horrible thief.