Aug 19 2008
Don’t know how long this will stay online before corrected, but in an article about VP picks, there’s a rather glaring one about Bush-ass-sniffer Joe Lieberman. Here’s an actual screen cap I took (h/t Americablog):
Aug 16 2008
Anyone wanna venture and guess what the “DLC - New Dem Bash” is like? How does one shill and capitulate at a bash, anyways?
If I get really bored, perhaps I’ll stop in and “honor Bank America” on my way to that super-electrifying brunch with Vernon Jordan. I wonder how he likes his eggs?
Happy hour honoring Steny Hoyer? Get a few in me and let ‘er rip about how he did such a wonderful job caving in on FISA? S-a-weeeeet!
Smell the thunder!
Aug 15 2008
Ahh…. I just finished my first semester of grad school, emerging relatively unscathed. So now the big challenge is to make plans for Denver… which speakers and events to cover, figure out who I’m going to interview, how I’m going to cover the protests, and what parties I can crash. There’s really a ridiculous amount of stuff going on, so it’s hard to figure out what to do. Odum at GMD and I are sharing the same credential, so we’re divying up who gets to cover who. We already have that sorted out more or less, but Ill wait until I’m there to let y’all know.
When we’re not in there, we’ll be at the Big Tent covering things from there.
I’m hoping to do some podcasts as well. I’ll be posting things here and on Green Mountain Daily, most of it with no overlap.
So, in the event that any of my readers will be in town that week, please drop me a note at the contact page, perhaps we can meet up.
Aug 14 2008
Here’s the kind of ad you should see on tv, that the GOP would have no problem putting on, but Dems can’t seem to get in touch with their “inner asshole” and put out there. Pass it on:
Aug 14 2008
I know, I’m venturing into limited-interest territory here again, it’s a follow up to my post last month on notorious German actor Klaus Kinski, who was known for his intense, maniacal outbursts on movie sets. I found a recent article on a German website that does indeed explain Kinski’s eccentric behavior:
The Karl Bonhoeffer Nerve Clinic in the city’s Reinickendorf district, once known as the “State Insane and Idiot Asylum of Dalldorf,” released some 100,000 old patient records this week, according the Berlin daily Berliner Morgenpost on Tuesday.
Kinski’s records stem from a time when the clinic was called the Wittenauer Heilstätten, and have been in the clinic archive since September 5, 1950 under the name Klaus Nakschinski, Kinski’s birthname. According to German daily Bild, the first page of the file reads “Preliminary diagnosis: Schizophrenia. Conclusion: Psychopathy.”
Granted, a lot has changed in what we know about mental health since then, but there are many classic symptoms in Kisnki’s behavior that would most certainly point towards schizophrenia.
Here’s a clip from his notorious “Jesus Christ: Savior” tour. He had just come off of the success of Aguirre: The Wrath of God, and expected crowds to treat him like Jesus, in his monologue that was a portrayal of Jesus as a deranged lunatic. It wasn’t exactly received so well (as you can see below), and turned out to be quite the disaster.
Aug 12 2008
As the media still twists and turns trying to figure out how John Edwards fucking someone who wasn’t his wife somehow hurts Obama, aside from the fact that we dodged a bullet (as the GOP woulda sat on this until October, no doubt), it’s funny how the media has no problem disparaging his gal’s batshit insane New Age beliefs, but seriously, someone wanna ’splain to me how they’re any different from all the Godidiocy politicians on both sides of the aisle spew forth on a regular basis? Am I missing something here? Talking about how a woman dying of cancer “doesn’t give off good energy” is funny but going on and on about how “God has blessed this nation” or some other drivel is perfectly acceptable? Hmmm.
Aug 11 2008
It’s Church Signs that Won’t Make you Want to Go to Church (h/t to Brattlerouser). Love that first one… how ironic.
Aug 10 2008
Well, this one caught me off guard. R&B legend Isaac Hayes passed away today, at the age of 65. AS the linked to article explains, he was much more than just the guy who wrote the theme from the blaxploitation classic Shaft:
He penned soul classics like “Hold On I’m Comin’” for Sam & Dave, helped usher in the era of disco and was a goldmine for countless hip-hop and R&B artists who used his illustrious arrangements as the focal point for their songs decades later.
“Isaac Hayes embodies everything that’s soul music,” Collin Stanback, an A&R executive at Stax, told The Associated Press on Sunday. “When you think of soul music you think of Isaac Hayes — the expression … the sound and the creativity that goes along with it.”
His influence also extended beyond music. His trademarked bald head, full beard and muscular frame, often adorned with a multitude of gold chains, made him a fashion trendsetter at a time when most of his contemporaries were sporting blowout Afros. He was also a symbol of black pride, and an activist for civil rights.
I’ve always dug Isaac Hayes, and I’m bummed that he’s no longer with us. So, what else, but the live version of Shaft from the Wattstax concert from ‘73, introduced by Jesse Jackson with a fro:
But I’d be remiss if I failed to mention his 1974 film, Truck Turner, in which he plays a smooth talking bounty hunter. Classic blaxploitaion with everything you’d expect: jive-ass music, horrible acting, lotsa action and Lt. Uhura looking pretty hot as a madam, too. I really wish I could get the guy who did the voice-over for these trailers to record my answering machine message - how cool would that be?
The music world lost another great today.
Aug 08 2008
Hell month is well underway, and if FBC were a child, I’d be hauled away for neglect… if I were a priest, there’d be ruined lives and lawsuits… you get the point.
Anyways, in continuing with the theme that never goes away, that being “the GOP’s perpetual dumbing down of America”, I gotta point you to the latest Krugman… it’s a real gem:
Now, I don’t mean that G.O.P. politicians are, on average, any dumber than their Democratic counterparts. And I certainly don’t mean to question the often frightening smarts of Republican political operatives.
What I mean, instead, is that know-nothingism — the insistence that there are simple, brute-force, instant-gratification answers to every problem, and that there’s something effeminate and weak about anyone who suggests otherwise — has become the core of Republican policy and political strategy. The party’s de facto slogan has become: “Real men don’t think things through.”
It’s one of those things that has one pulling one’s own hair out and running over random pedestrians in the street — it’s really that frustrating. It’s taking advantage of the low-information voter, or rather the low-information citizen, because even if they don’t vote, they still tend to have those stupid opinions that they bombard you with at the family barbecue (jeez, ya’ think I’m just a little worried about the upcoming wedding? My family is full of ‘em.)
It’s really the fruit of the conservative political strategy of the last few decades… foster mistrust in anyone who uses big words, is obviously educated (I say “obviously” as a lot of these GOP’ers went to Ivy League and such, but do their best to hide it and come across as a dumb hick), likes food that isn’t bland, fried in lard, or may have a funny name… you get the point. For your ponderance, I leave you with another quote fromthe article, by GOP hack-extraordinaire, Peggy Noonan:
Let’s also not forget that for years President Bush was the center of a cult of personality that lionized him as a real-world Forrest Gump, a simple man who prevails through his gut instincts and moral superiority. “Mr. Bush is the triumph of the seemingly average American man,” declared Peggy Noonan, writing in The Wall Street Journal in 2004. “He’s not an intellectual. Intellectuals start all the trouble in the world.”
The scary thing is that I wonder if there is indeed some truth to Bush being like the “average American man”. Sigh.
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