Politics

Promised Leah I'd wait and go to the polls with her when she gets home from work. It's gonna be a long day.

If anyone out there supports Proposition 8, could you please give me your strongest rational reason for doing so? I'm at a total loss.

How appropriate is it that Sarah Palin cannot correctly pronounce the progressive form of any verb?

If aliens visited us during an election year, I wouldn't blame them one bit if they turned the planet into dust.

Dreamt (or did I?) that one of McCain's homes hasn't aged a day since 1973 and visitors only leave on the receiving end of human sacrifice.

Annoyed by noise that just happens to be made by immigrant workers nearby. So this is what it feels like to be a Republican.

The US is Leo O'Bannon. Russia is Johnny Caspar. Georgia is Bernie Bernbaum. nytimes.com/2008/08/10/world/…

"Cast of 300 Advises Obama on Foreign Policy" is a misleading headline, to say the least. nytimes.com/2008/07/18/us/pol…

Mick Mars is ten years older than Barack Obama.

Our spectacular Portland hosts were two of the 75,000 people at today’s Obama rally, which gave us just the right amount of time to handle a dire laundry situation and give the car some well-deserved love. After digging for quarters for the washer/dryer and replacing some fluids at Oil Can Henry’s (the automotive equivalent of an operating theater), we were ready for a glimpse of Portland before moving on to Seattle in the evening.

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Lake of Fire is an intelligent examination of the abortion debate. Soldiers in the Army of God is redneck crackpots repeating themselves.

Hoping the Dem that gets the nomination takes the other as their running mate. Neither is just right, but they complement each other well.

just got a letter from the Voter Registration Office demanding I verify my qualifications as an elector within 15 days. Dated Dec 6, 2007.

Huckabee jokingly encourages people to prevent other candidates' supporters from voting in the NH primary. I'm not laughing.

The title "Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger" still sounds quite surreal. I wish the title "President George W. Bush" could sound that way, too.

watched 300, whose neocon smokescreen backfires by making you pine for a leader that actually gives a shit about you.

Holy crap, there's a hostage crisis at Hillary Clinton's NH campaign office: thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/…

Happy birthday, Condoleezza Rice!

re-watched the Hell House documentary and realized (somehow for the first time) the strategical origin of Bush's fear-mongering tactics.

On the Web

• NRA’s Secret Graphic Novel Revealed!: Right-wing propaganda just got a serious face-lift.
• The Most Dangerous Roads in the World: Yowza! Just like the title says.

In the Stereo

• Crooked Fingers: Reservoir Songs
• Afghan Whigs: Going to Town
• The Hold Steady: Boys and Girls in America
• Deerhoof: +81
• Dmitri Shostakovich: The Symphonies
• Scott Walker: The Drift
• The Knife: Silent Shout
• The Simpsons: Songs in the Key of Springfield

On the Web

• A Rumsfeld Rememberance: Hilarious manipulation of Donald Rumsfeld press conference footage.
• Mr. City Men: Cute, mute CG characters seamlessly animated into handheld video footage. I defy anyone to watch Mr. Fortune without cracking a smile.
• FontBook: Now in its fourth edition, this massive tome compiles 32,000 type samples on 1,760 pages!

In the Stereo

• Philip Lynott: Solo in Soho
• Celtic Frost: Into the Pandemonium

On the Silver Screen

• The Hamiltons
• The Abandoned… See more →

On the Web

• Web Design Is 95% Typography: Hear, hear!
• When Animals Attack!: Just in time for Halloween, Posterwire unleashes a great collection of classic creature feature posters.
• Mark Gervais: Exemplary vector illustration with bold, rich colors, a polished line, and a keen design sense.
• The Origins of Letterforms: U&lc Magazine constructs hypotheses for the origins of the Roman alphabet“s letterforms, numerals, and punctuation.
• The David Zucker Albright Ad: An unused GOP propaganda video from… See more →

On the Web

• The Fall Guy: An action shot of one of my several failed attempts to mount a tallbike. (Eventually, I succeeded.)
• FreeJack: All of the Flash source files from the current season of the animated Canadian series “Odd Job Jack” are being made available to the public. Wow!
• A Way to Set the Limit of Font Scaling in One Dimension: An excellent demonstration of why non-uniform type scaling is a bad idea.
• Transformers =… See more →

On the Web

• The Worst President in History?: Even with two and a half years still left in his presidency, many historians agree that George W. Bush is well on his way.
• Finland Squirms as Its Latest Export Steps Into Spotlight: A whole lot of fuss over a heavy metal band in monster makeup.
• Randy Glass: Portfolio site of the incredible Wall Street Journal portrait artist.
• Illuminated Books: A collection of illuminated and illustrated books… See more →

On the Web

• Microsoft Designs the iPod Package: This amusing little video demonstrates perfectly why designers typically prefer Apple.
• Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey: An insider’s anthropological documentary examination of the much-maligned musical subculture.
• Dev2.0: Band-sanctioned, kid-friendly versions of Devo classics on Walt Disney Records. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
• Lotte Klaver: A beautiful watercolor sketch blog from Amsterdam.
• Netdisaster: Wreak harmless havoc on the web site of your choice. A neat idea,… See more →

I was chastised by e-mail this morning for having remained mostly silent on the topic of the war on Iraq. Be assured, in the unlikely event I am transformed into a political pundit, I will gladly let fly with a multitude of uninformed opinions right here on this site. Until then, though, check out how HOT I am.

Lightning Bolt’s Wonderful Rainbow refuses to detach itself from my playlist, and has come dangerously close to bullying the rest of the playlist’s discs into silence. I very much like the other music currently in rotation—such as Isis’s Oceanic and Aereogramme’s Sleep and Release—but have thus far permitted Wonderful Rainbow its thoughtless self-indulgence because it is so damn good that its wild cries for attention simply cannot be ignored. The album is no less… See more →