• I meet Elizabeth Moss
October 31st, 2008 § Leave a Comment
• The Other Side Of Copy
October 29th, 2008 § Leave a Comment
Don Draper gets the fun advertisment work. Selling the truly epic product, convincing the public that the product is truly epic. He gets to tinker with the product, hold it in his hand, and be as vague as he wants to be.
I bring this up because these past few weeks, I ventured back into the tricky thicket known as copy writing. Copy writing for books I’ve only been told about, not even seen. For books we don’t even have layouts for yet. For books about subjects I’ve never known were topics worth ink, paper, and binding.
These are books proposed by people who do not have the time or want to write them. Those aforementioned days drove me truly insane, if I wasn’t already from this dadgum election.
• McCain/Palin/Co. Are Scared, Really Scared, And I Can Prove It:
October 29th, 2008 § Leave a Comment
They’re running Robocalls in Arizona. McCain’s home state. I hate to be happy before anything’s won, but this is too good.
• The Post Election Plan
October 28th, 2008 § Leave a Comment
I’ll post some thoughts on November 5th, but from 11/6 to 11/13 and hopefully beyond that date, you won’t be seeing much of me online. I’ve planned a technological detox program (aside from when I’m at work, where I won’t be using NetNewsWire anymore) for myself, as I think I well need it. Maybe need it now, well, of course I need it now. But only 1 Week Left! Gotta push through.
• Best Birthday Ever
October 28th, 2008 § Leave a Comment
So we’re hitting an odd lull in election news at the moment.
So, I’d like to mention some of the amazing things my closest folks have gotten me:
A sofa, to be found at some point.
A ticket to Speed-the-plow, this Thursday night.
Illustrated edition of A People’s History of American Empire by Howard Zinn, with Mike Konopacki & Paul Buhle.
Art & Sole: Contemporary Sneaker Art & Design, a title about kicks.
Everyday Drinking, by Kingsley Amis, introduction by Christopher Hitchens.
The Flask/Deck-of-Cards combo.
In-N-Out Burger shirt.
Talking Michael Scott (Steve Carrell from The Office) greeting card.
And a bunch of stuff a bit too lewd and illegal to detail here.
I love my friends and family.
• Drudge Policy
October 27th, 2008 § Leave a Comment
In terms of freaking out over every crazy posting, I could live or die on what Matt Drudge posts. But, I’m not going to. I’ll wait to see if this WBEZ recording that he’s hyping and pushing as a silver bullet, is enough to garner press into the CNN branch of the media. That’s sort of the breaking ground for what America is hearing, I think. Right now, CNN is talking voter purging, which is much much more important IMHO.
Oh, and freaking Mad Men was epic tonight.
• Regarding Sports
October 26th, 2008 § Leave a Comment
My world series alliegance really is not placed in either team. I’d like Tampa Bay to win to give Nate Silver some props for having predicted they’d have a smash season. I’d like Philly to win for Gruber and the rest of Philly nation who have supported the team more than the TB “fans” have, who hasn’t seen a game there in the regular season and spied the empty fields of seats at the Trop.
A recent blog post by Will Leitch over at NY Mag spoke to why the Knicks may be a decent team this year. This scares me. What if the Knicks become a team I have to root for, because I’ve still yet to see them win one? 9-year-old Henry is still hurting from the Reggie Miller game. From the finger roll. From watching Jeff Van Gundy have worse rings under his eyes than Ashley Todd.
The Yankees, we’ll see what they do in the post season. I want to see the rotation solidify. A big name arm will probably be signed. Who knows.
And I want Curt Shilling to die while campaigning for McCain, which I assume he is, as he did for W. in ’04.
The New York Football Giants. I’ve followed them this whole season. It’s weird. I’m not buying an Eli jersey any time soon, but this is the first time I’ve ever tracked a team throughout a season.
• As the world turns [me twenty-four years old] …
October 26th, 2008 § Leave a Comment
… let’s focus on the election. I can come to grips with getting slightly older in a week and a half when this big scrum is over.
Before I get to the post I was working on, here’s a great link from Chuck Todd: Chuck Todd: African-American Turnout Putting Deep Red States In Play (VIDEO). BAM!
Here’s Fox News doing some not so subtle race polticking:
Coming into the 2nd to last Sunday before Election day, if you’re as down in the numbers as McLame is, you want a campaign narrative you control. Not one that’s basically saying your campaign and your vice president are all in it for themselves, and that she’s probably got a graphic designer drawing up a Palin 2012 logo.
David Frum is going all Chicken Little, talking up the potential for McCain Palin 08 to take down the entire Republican Party. Wait, I thought Dubya already did that?
The two-faciest cockknob in Washington, Joe Lieberman, is trying to talk his way back into the Obama camp’s good graces now that the Repubs are on the run.
Bill “The Weekly Non-Existent-Standard” Kristol, big time Palin cheerleader, is pissed at the McCain/RNC coalition for their mishandling of Palin. Who’d have thought that the Republicans would be the ones with party unity concerns.
Nate Silver is everywhere, now having written a big piece on the long shot McCain has to pull off to win, for the NY Post of all people.
Arizona, his home state, is not a lock anymore for McCain.
Even CNN is echo chambering the McCain and Palin camps Tension Story:
Sarah Palin is losing it even more than usual, as she’s referring to Barney Frank as “Uncle Barney Frank.”
Brian Williams making the McCain camp own their hoax promoting.
Watch out Jewish Voters, The RNC says: Obama will bring the 2nd Holocaust!
At least someone thinks John McCain is going to win. Hint: It’s John McCain!
In Non Political News:
Amy Poehler and Will Arnett welcomed Archie Arnett into the world last night.
Two A-Holes Go To Sterling Cooper on SNL last night, featuring sweet sweet cameos.
More videos from last night’s Don Draper hosted SNL.
The New York Times explains how meaningless Facebook Event RSVP Statuses are:
I would learn, when I asked some people who didn’t show up the next day, that “definitely attending” on Facebook means “maybe” and “maybe attending” means “likely not.”
And finally, just in time for nobody to be able to afford an HDTV: this spring, MSNBC to finally go HD.
• It’s the Home Stretch, strewn with B-Faced Liars, Rogue Mavericks, and New Jersey, Oh My!
October 25th, 2008 § 1 Comment
Kids, if the NY Times says it isn’t over for McCain, it isn’t over (yet). You will vote on November 4th. You will vote on November 4th. I’m required to tell you this as a paranoid democrat afraid of losing. That we’re only worrying about turnout, rigging, and complacency at this point, that’s staggering.
So, you know how Sarah Silverman and others are encouraging people to visit their elders and convince them to vote Obama? Well, my mother has already, but she’s been unsuccessful so far in trying to convince some family to smarten up already. Luckily for me, I don’t need to try or care, as they’re all in NJ or NY. NY is a given in it’s Obama support, and according to Nate Silver, so is New Jersey. Which is kind of funny to me, the only republicans I know are in both of these states, and neither vote R. That being said, if McCain/Palin wins, I’m contemplating never talking to a couple of family members again. My dad’s side of the family has an Obama DELEGATE in it, why can’t the other side of the aisle be as modern?. If Obama wins, though, I’m wearing my Vote Obama/Biden on Nov. 4 shirt to Thanksgiving.
I guess nobody listens to Joe Lieberman anymore, if they did, I bet this quip of his would be getting more play:
Maybe that’s in response to the NY Times article about the undisclosed health of the candidates, but either way, it makes Joey Biden’s mouth-footer pale in comparison.
As of right now, Obama has a 9pt lead in Pollster’s poll of polls, and a 7.9pt lead in the clearly right leaning, Washington Times linking, RealClearPolitics’ aggregate. These numbers are before Obama got some good news in the recent 1pm Gallup update, as he’s now at 9, 8, and 7, depending on which of their metrics you use, which, respectively, are a +1, +1, and +2, when compared to yesterday for Obama.
When it comes to the Electoral College, which Hodgman told us at the event at B&N Union Square last week is in the shitty town of Electoral, Obama’s got the leads in both RCP & Pollster‘s electoral maps at 306 to 157, leaving 75 electoral college points out as tossup for the moment. Those states being Florida, Missouri, Indiana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Montana, and Nevada. How those states are the tossup states, that’s hysterical at a week and a half out of election day. Further adding to the snowball’s chance in hell meme, is that Nate Silver’s odds of victory pie chart look like a very full Mr. Pac-Man right now, 94.9% to 5.1%. Insane.
Then the circus that the election has become just warps further and further with stories like:
(HuffPo) The Sarah Palin Insurgency!
(HuffPo) Joe the PO’d Brother of John the GOP Nominee, calls 911 because … he’s stuck in traffic.
(TNR) Recent McCain advisor voted early, and he voted Barack. Why? Sarah Palin.
(Politico) Palin allies report rising campaign tension.
And because you knew I’d have something to say about it, here’s a run through of Ashley B-Faced Todd’s stupid bullshit.
Let’s watch the perp walk for Ashley the Liar, who stands to be Joe the Plumber’s BFF when she gets out of this pickle.
For some great breakdown of Ashley and how Drudge pushed this story harder than Frank Lucas pushed that white, check Jeffrey Feldman’s article on Huffington Post out. But even the rest of the media is having some fun ripping the right wing for their coverage, as CNN’s Rick Sanchez murks Fox News, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Newsday, over their shitty coverage of the most disturbed batshit crazy woman in Pittsburgh, now-former phone bank operator, Ashley Todd. And guess what? She’s now being thrown under the bus and distanced from by the lowest of the low: her own College Republicans. Who did Rick leave out? Oh, how about the McCain campaign for pushing this load of horse shit. Ashley Todd, whose Twitter feed where she laughed about lying to PA homes while phone banking for McCain is now on lockdown, is now quoted by CBS as being “upset with the media for blowing this into a political firestorm.” Well, that’s what happens when they let the short bus kids play with flame throwers, the media has to cover the engulfed wreckage. I wouldn’t have learned about their site if not for the URL that CNN credited for the backwards B faced Todd, but Sarah Palin’s supporters refer to themselves as an Army. They are aaaaass-holes. The site runner is even going so far as to predicting that Obama will be killed on his first day in the White House.
Also:
AlJazeera is the first actual news source that brings the mic to the racist dumbass Palin rally supporters, one of whom said, “he thinks us white people are trash.” Ignorance mixed with pride is dangerous as fuck.
In other news:
As reported on their news page, and here linked to by Andrew Sullivan at his The Atlantic blog, Apple Inc. has taken a stand and put $100,000 on No on Prop 8.
Emily Nussbaum on how last weekend’s Mad Men was a game changer in terms of the entire series.
Funny clip from Colbert, talking about KO’s rant style.
