Too ridiculously happy and tired to say anymore. Nice work, Nation!
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yes we can. YES. WE. CAN.
I just finished writing a shitty rough draft of my paper, as Anne Lamott would have advised me to do, and then I stalked around the Internets for a while and got myself crazy nervous about the election. Just think! At this time tomorrow, we will (hopefully?) know who our next president is! HOW FREAKED OUT AND NERVOUS AND EXCITED ARE YOU?!!
I can’t promise that there will be any liveblogging on my end, and Kathleen will probably be really busy doing actual campaign stuff, but know that I will be, er, liveblogging in spirit? Really that means I will be drinking lots of wine and crying lot of tears (no matter who wins) and will not have access to my computer.
Let’s look at pictures of Barry and be happy:
And you know the drill, kids: don’t forget to vote!
See you on the flip side.
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whatever happened to good ol’ ralph?
I hate that I am posting so many article links without much commentary, but this is a pretty busy couple of days for me. Posting quick excerpts and links is a way for me to feel like I’m still involving myself and this blog in some sort of discussion, because obviously there are a LOT of things to be discussed right now.
MSNBC’S First Read had a blurb in its afternoon political roundup today that I found pretty compelling:
At a rally at the University of Maryland, Independent Party candidate Ralph Nader criticized the way the media covers the presidential race, citing the fact that Joe the Plumber has gotten more political coverage than the Nader-Gonzalez tandem.
Of course you could make a lot of points on either side of the question of Ralph v. Joe, but it’s a question worth thinking about. Read a little more here.
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mccain for president, says ken layne.
My friends, you must read this. Ken Layne is my favorite Wonkette boyfriend and he is a genius:
This first decade of the 21st Century has not been very good for America. We have been terrorized at home, humiliated in war, humbled by Asia, surpassed by Europe, invaded by Mexico and laughed at by Canada.
We are also so much sicker and sadder and poorer than we were eight years ago.
The question, on November 4, is this: Are we man enough, as a nation, to admit things are just going to keep getting worse? Can we finally grimace into our national mirror and admit that we need someone to finish the job? Then let’s make John McCain, and then Sarah Palin, our president(s). Let’s do this right!
Experts say the United States is like a bus full of enraged cows teetering on the edge of a sea cliff, with swarms of bloodthirsty sharks circling the waters below. Tragically, the frightened and confused livestock are unable to tilt the bus over the cliff by themselves.
We can’t afford to prolong the misery. We can’t afford to elect some pie-in-the-sky character who appeals to our better instincts. We can’t afford to put aside ignorance and poverty.
We need to be pushed over that ledge.
John McCain for pre — okay I can’t even type that line, but you get the point.
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walk me down your broken line.
I believe I’ve mentioned this before, but when I’m bored doing work, I tend to spend a lot of time and money on iTunes. I was just suckered into buying like 300 Joshua Radin songs. I really, really love him. If you haven’t heard the song “The Fear You Won’t Fall,” you should probably find it and buy it right now. There’s not a good video of it online, and I refuse to not do it justice.
As a part of my Joshua binge, I Wikipedia-ed him and discovered that he and Zach Braff are good friends. Apparently Zach is kind of the reason he’s famous, because he got one of his songs to be on Scrubs. Isn’t that adorable? Sort of a Ben Affleck/Matt Damon-type story. Here’s a little photo of Joshua:
Another fun and adorable fact is that Joshua Radin played his song “Today” at Ellen and Portia de Rossi’s wedding. Apparently they turned down George Michael and Justine Timberlake and chose Joshua instead. Not to knock Joshua, but I don’t feel like that’s much of a competition when we’re talking about a wedding. “SexyBack” is not really my dream wedding song.
While I’m rambling, how much do you love Ellen? She is GREAT. I love how unabashedly awkward she is. The other day I was doing my laundry and watching her show, and I was literally glued to the television while holding my laundry basket because she was doing a skit where she went out with Paris Hilton and it was just HI-larious. Anyway.
So Joshua Radin. Love him. Here’s the newest song I’m playing on repeat. And the video was directed by Zach Braff:
Also, THE ELECTION IS TWO DAYS AWAY HOLY SHIIIIIIIT!!!
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here’s to sweatin’ to the oldies.
Number of times I engaged in a political debate with my sister in the past 24 hours: 3
Number of fun-size Snickers bars currently in my belly: 300
Number of days (PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE) until Barack Obama is elected as our next president: 4
Number of beers I plan to drink tonight: 17
Number of days until Halloween: 0!!!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN, MY LITTLE GHOULS AND GOBLINS!
This evening I will be celebrating by dressing up as the one, the only, Richard Simmons. Think afro, tiny neon shorts, and tall white socks. I will obviously be having sex tonight.
So crack open a ice cold Bud Light and a bag of candy corn, pull something wacky out of your costume box (you have one too, right?), and do the Monster Mash.
Make it a good one!
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aaand i’ve hit a new low.
The first thing I did after getting my computer back from the Apple Store (which gets my two emphatic thumbs up for EXCELLENT customer service, by the way) was download all of the songs that I’d been aching to download in the past week. Buying random songs on iTunes is my crack, except it’s cheaper and less destructive. Here’s what I typically download: random songs that I hear on TV shows and in commercials that I love; songs that my friends recommend to me; songs that iTunes recommends to me; and any of the top ten songs on iTunes that I think I might like. If it wasn’t for Top Songs on my iTunes Store homepage, I wouldn’t have even known that Beyonce had a new song.
Taylor Swift is always in the Top Songs list. Now, I like country music (I know, calm down), so I’ve known about this fetus for a while, but bitch is getting FAMOUS. I mean she has had like 300 hit singles and she’s only 11:
Now even though I faithfully download most of her songs, I’m starting to get a little irked by the oh-so-subtle monotony of the themes. Let’s take a look at the titles to some of her hit songs. There are the I’ve-had-my-heart-broken-more-times-than-Dawson-Leery songs: “Teardrops On My Guitar,” “Should’ve Said No,” and “You’re Not Sorry.” Then there’s the I’m-capable-of-intense-loving-relationships-even-though-I’m-a-preteen section with songs like “Fearless,” “Love Story,” “Tim McGraw,” “Our Song,” and “I’m Only Me When I’m With You.” And I’m probably forgetting some from each category.
That’s an old-souled 11-year-old. (Okay she’s actually 18). The girl is talented, and ignoring the fact that she has had more meaningful relationships in two years than I will probably ever have, I think she needs to branch out with her themes a little bit. Maybe write about calculus. Or the prom. Or the agony of having braces in your senior picture. Maybe — just maybe — I’ll refuse to by her next love/heartbreak song out of protest. Until then, I will be rocking out to her latest single, “You’re Not Sorry,” and weeping silently because I’m a TAYLOR SWIFT FAN.
In my slight defense, I totally bought a lot of old Paul Simon songs tonight. That’s slightly less embarrassing, no?
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welcome to the real world. kinda.
Reason number four million and one that I am totally and completely in love with my friends (and cry face):
Seriously. I am in love with these people.
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six words to change the world. 