Zoe loves stickers.Zoe loves to say “No-o-o!”Zoe loves to eat peas.She loves to sit on the counter while I cook.She loves to dance.She loves balloons. But nothing seems to have fascinated my daughter as much as the Sarah Palin issue of Time Magazine. God help me.
Allen Lulu
A Loving History of Animation
For weeks now I have “kept unread” an article from Electronic Cerebrectomy on my Google Reader.Rather than just keep it there I thought, since I have watched the video at least four times, that it should be preserved on my own site as well.If you have an affection for 2D Continue Reading
New Obama Commercial! (?)
If the Obama team doesn’t use this (or something like it) then I give up. Should be run on every network, during every sporting, on every kind of program, in event in every battleground state. Every day.
More thoughts on Palin and the new political ideology of crassism
This is the new ideology. Why vet someone when the propaganda and speechwriting can be played for the truth?Never mind that they steal music.Never mind that they had no permission to use the image of that middle school.Never mind that no one has heard her speak beyond the empty rhetoric.Never Continue Reading
Will Palin ever Meet The Press?
I had a scary dream the other night. Scary because it didn’t seem all that far fetched.It’s the evening of the Vice Presidential debate. Joe Biden has been practicing all month to tone down his “bully” and still seem effective.Sarah Palin has run out of invective and rhetoric. And she Continue Reading
Obama’s Headquarters in LA
I received an email the other day from the Obama camp that the HQ in LA was finally opening. I didn’t RSVP, though, because I wasn’t exactly sure I would be able to go. I mean, I knew I COULD go, the question is whether or not I would just Continue Reading
This is why Republicans win.
Thanks to Jon Stewart, a five minute primer on just how the GOP will beat Obama. (Hint: you have to have zero integrity)
Sarah Palin and the definition of the new conservative ideology
Alan Wolfe has a great piece in The New Republic. You should read it.If you don’t wanna read it, here’s an excerpt. “And that is not all. In rushing to Sarah Palin’s defense, the leaders of the Christian right have made it abundantly clear how they define a Christian. We Continue Reading
listening Post: Aerosmith – Rocks
Continuing the quarter century journey with the Toxic Twins, et al. Aerosmith – Rocks -1976 (Buy it) Tasty.Big.Sonic.Rocks is better than Toys in the Attic and that’s really saying something. In many ways this album is the progenitor of 80s glam metal. It’s all there. The big, epic soaring ballads Continue Reading
listening Post: Aerosmith – Toys in the Attic
This is a first for the Listening Post series in that I have no real relationship with this band at all. I mean, sure I know the “hits” and they’ve been a part of the general tapestry of my musical life since I was a little boy but the “Toxic Continue Reading