dude. seriously.

the clintons have problems telling the truth.

Netflix Site Interruption Is Robbing The World of My 'Crazy Love' Review

The site has been down all day, so I can't give 'crazy love' the 4 stars it so richly deserves.

thank god for the blog, people.

I might vote for hillary ...

la pequena hillary, that is!

happy easter weekend, peeps!

i (heart) college ball

so, unless you are a) lame b)super lame you know that today is that very very special day... the first Thursday of the NCAA Men's Tourney. Xavier is leading Georgia (finally) so I am in a good enough mood to offer a link round-up of the best college ball stuff on the net.

CBS actually has its streaming video act together this year, the service and their site is definitive.

If you need a taste of haterade, Slate has a round up of the most hate-able teams, this list, IMHO, could start and end with the blech-y blu devils.

Speaking of the whiny Dukies, haven't played a tourney game and they're already crying foul, poor, poor thing.

Dick Vitale loved Juan Dixon, and therefore I love Dick Vitale.

OMG, I picked UNC to take it too!!!! We're, like, made for each other.

and, finally, shame on you if you don't routinely bow before the gift that is Michael Wilbon's Post column.

OMG, the NY sex scandals will NOT STOP

So, now the new, blind gov is now out as a cheater, and its like the madness will never end. This is, of course, great for news media outlets everywhere who would otherwise have to cover boring old Iraq or the fact that US taxpayers are bailing out Wall Street's 5th largest investment bank. I mean, snoozeville, so keep up the screwing around, pols!

trashy america

and

very pale racist ladies attack a news reporter:

(snif)

sick AGAIN, despite the flu shot. so, forgive the absence of posts in the meantime, b/c I feel like death warmed over.

for real, though?

et tu, geraldine?

more wire! young prop joe

This is the most brilliant of several prequels that HBO put out for the last season, NOT A SPOILER:

That sentimental motherfucker just cost us money.

so, The Wire is over, well, its good to know that the spirit of prop Joe and Omar will live on in Slim Charles and Michael, respectively. This end seemed to bring us back to the beginning, letting us know that the story we watched over the previous 65+ hours was simply a glimpse of this ever churning cycle. We watched Carcetti become Royce and Dukie become Bubbles. For the cops and dealers, whose connection seemed irrevocable, we see the wire that bound them snipped. Those most entranced by the connections, McNulty and Lester, over play their hand and are forced to walk away from the street, like Bunny Colvin before them. Also like Bunny, McNulty chooses to "rescue" one of its victims, returning his abductee to Baltimore. Escape from the streets of West Baltimore is more difficult for those born and raised there, we recognize the draw of its brutality in Marlo's last scene, where he appears almost aroused by the violence and his own fearlessness in engaging it.

The Wire was as much about the things that tie us together as those that pull us apart. Its focus last season on the lives of young men was a study in how a close group of friends can be pulled apart by circumstance. We are reminded of this motif when Dukie returns to school to beg off Pryzbylski and when Michael refuses to remember their better days. Similarly, the parallels between McNulty and Kima in Season 3 are turned on their head, as both try to rejoin their families, they lose each other. In many ways McNulty sacrificed his cop family for a real one, just as Chris said farewell to his kids in order to maintain his loyalty to his street family. The same forces that draw you to one group pull you away from another.

I was tempted, as the credits rolled on Sunday night, to start again from episode 1, and I might, I almost want to see the whole arc knowing the end this time. A television show thats worth rewatching the 3rd time, certainly deserves to be mourned.

note to world/self

what is it with women buying unbelievably useless crap? I know dudes buy a lot of garbage too, but really.
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there's a plant

Named 'english baby tears' and then there's just 'baby tears' which to choose? Oh, shit, i just spotted 'chinese baby tears' it was sitting next to 'chocolate soldier.'.

This place is awesome.
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Live Blogging the Phili Flower Show

So here i am, the committed non-gardener (its another one of those things, like speaking spanish, that everyone else in my family seems to do and enjoy) at the largest exhibition of flowers, plants, and gardening stuff. My childhood bff and her family are showing her mom's gorgeous ikebana pottery so i was tempted up by her and her folk's presence- we'll see how i survive amongst booths of sachets, suncatchers and, yes, an Irishman in a bucket (in his defense, he's shilling for boots.

So, i will try to resist shoe shopping and cracking up at overheard gems like 'ireland: its where all the best people EVER were from' while proudly bearing my obama pin (april 22nd, baby.)

Wish me luck.

Oh, and i forgot my camera, unfort, so lets just imagine for now. K?

rules need not apply

So, the show rolls on to Wyoming, Mississippi, North Carolina, and eventually our neighbors to the north, PA. The Clinton camp has been all over the place on which states "matter" for example, Michigan, where Barack wasn't even on the ballot, *counts* as does Florida, where noone but Hill showed up to campaign. However, caucus states like Iowa, Idaho, Kansas, etc. well, they don't, or rather shouldn't, count because they are innately unfair. to working people. who the Clintons can totally relate to. This turnabout should not surprise anyone though, I mean this is the team that prattles on about 'bush tactics' and the 'rove playbook' but then pulls a page directly from it with that awful red phone ad. Not to mention talking out of both sides of her mouth on Obama, I mean is he a suitable running mate? Or a total neophyte unsuited for office? Or a part of the vast right wing conspiracy?

And, of course, they continue to refuse to release their tax returns, her White House records, and the well known hostility towards the press corps. Look, there are reasons people don't like the Clintons, lots of them, and many very similar to reasons people don't like Bush/Cheney. Obama won't and shouldn't take the gloves off with her, but the surrogates should keep pounding away because the idea that a hillary presidency would substantially different than W's is the biggest fairy tale of this campaign.

Late Morning Lynx!

-Charlotte Allen, author of the 'ladies like cute boys and aren't very bright' outlook piece referred to earlier conducted an online chat to discuss her piece.
Conclusion: she is both a lady and not very bright, thereby PROVING HER ORIGINAL HYPOTHESIS. so there.
-no, I don't believe Marie Jon looks like that, I am thinking she just scanned in one of those picture frame fill in sheets.
-and, OMG, there was this massacre that you've never heard of but hillary is VERY VERY concerned about when seeking votes in areas with large polish populations. she IS experienced.
-finally, DC area Obamaniacs read up! What we need to know before we head to PA.

more comfort: 1977 eurovision style

the banjo, the backup singers, say it with me now: "i. am. in. heaven."

this will make you feel better

the pet of the future!!!

you are welcome.

um ... yes we can

so, we didn't shut it down last night. I am at peace with that. I am even ok that OH came out so wrong. why? well, partly because I spent 2 weekends trudging around columbus, and don't feel like I could have done much more. but, mostly because we are still ahead in the delegate count, and I believe that lead will expand w/ victories in WY and M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I shortly. Now, don't get me wrong, PA will be a fight, but I have already recruited my 4 year old niece and she is kind of a super powerful secret weapon.

as to yesterday's results, I think a few factors came into play:
1) the fear factor in full effect i.e. the 3am phone ad had its desired result. I mean, who wants a muslim terrorist that wears funny clothes answering the phone at that hour?
2) some morons believed that this thing was tied up. I think there were a fair number of people who figgered that barack didn't need their vote yesterday, whereas hillary supporters knew they had to get their asses out to the polls.
3) this NAFTA canadian story. this was clearly a rare f@ckup on the part of the Obama campaign- people need to be fired and we need to move on.
4) the new media scrutiny/hillary sympathy, I am hoping this is just a phase b/c voting for a candidate you feel sorry for is pathetic.

so, we roll on, and as bummed as I was last night I know that this thing can and will be shut down sooner or later. let's just roll up our sleeves and get out there, and if you hate the results get off your ass and do something about it.

primary/caucus results unclear, i am riding home in Krazy Kab

So, we have no idea how the OH and TX polls will shake out but i DO know that the lady I'm sharing this cab w/ is unafraid of speaking her mind. To date she has accused the THANK GOD HE'S MUCH FASTER driver of breaking 2 laws (talking on a cell phone w/out benefit of handset & making a left on red). She went pretty 'lady-crazy' on him, with the whole shrieky voice, wenchy manner that befits women of a certain level of frustration and age. Me, well, there is hope that i will get home before 3 am (never would happen w/superslow earlier cabbie) so, i am fi-ine. I guess i have the rather unsafe idea that riding in a cab is a fun/dangerous adventure. To me the fare is totally worth it for the thrills. It IS rainy and probably not the best idea to make hail marys on red, so I have to give her props for being right.



No further screeching at this point, but I am holding out hope that she will be enraged about the fare (hope hope).



Oh wait, no drama on that.



Shit.

I am in the world's slowest cab

This guy is stopping behind everyone taking a left, i may never get to capital hill at this rate! Please please drive faster!!!!! Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrggggghhhhhh!!!!!
Slooooooooowwwwwwwww!!!!
Why are we driving through chinatown!!!!!!!!

As you can tell, i am feeling a little agro about the whole thing.

will not vote with my vagina

So, between Tina Fey's endorsement (let's call it what it was) on Feb 23rd and Post's above the fold story today and the Outlook features on Sunday I feel compelled to announce the following fairly obvious fact to the world.

this one goes out to aggrieved feminists everywhere:

The real world version of gender equality will mean that a female candidate will be judged as a candidate and not as a female. Many, maybe even most, of the women who support Barack Obama are advocating for the candidate they have judged the best qualified and inspiring. The flip side of hillary's 'experience' is that we know her well, and we are able to judge her, not simply as a woman, but as a person, and a politician. No, we're not mindless flush-faced groupies, or anti-feminists, or elitists, we are women with our own minds qualified and able to determine who to vote for.

k?tx.

i mean. c'mon!

so now everyone thinks that hillz is going to sweep tonight and yet still possibly, maybe lose, or win. This is not fun, good news for Obamaniacs like myself, but it may just as easily be a product of the new SNL inspired narrative. I mean, c'mon we so can't bring another limbaugh wet dream to life!!!

Larry King and John McCain Are Pretty Much The Same Age

I'm just sayin'.

OMG I Totally Wasn't

So, I took a couple of days off of blogging in order to regain both my good humor and catch up on sleep. This weekend was a amazing success with over 25,000 doors knocked on just out of the SEIU office. So, today is the day, and I am incredibly anxious to get it over with and get straight to results. Greetings and salutations to all the OH, TX, VT, and RI Obama volunteers out there today getting the people to the polls! Here, in the District, we will be celebrating victory (hope hope) tonight at the hawk and dove and busboys and poets.

A quick word about the recent shift in Obama coverage; evidently, last week's SNL sketch has shamed news outlets into taking a harder line on Barack. As much as I welcome media scrutiny of all candidates, I don't think the criticism of the press as blatantly biased towards one side or another is all that convincing. I firmly believe that the press is just like your fearless blogger was over the past 2 days, i.e. too lazy to tell their own version of events. Instead, they buy into the narrative (bush=dumb gore=boring hilary=shrew obama=lacks) which then acts as a shorthand, allowing them not to so much tell, as to retell, the same hackneyed stories.

202 doors

Knocked on and we're going out to do 46 more .... that should explain the whole no new blog entries thing.

snooze

boy, do i miss last week's training- this poor girl is a little flustered, and easily distracted, but somehow i think we'll muddle through.

the bus is getting warmer and warmer, i feel like a nap but am looking down the barrel of 11 hours of canvas-

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sooo many people at the SEIU

so, we are at the SEIU, site of last week's dreaded auto-dialer controlled phone bank, there are a good coupla hundred people here- i think we are the least 'cited bus out of 4 (thx jason)- evidently, we are receiving 'on the bus' training v soon, i will blog its effectiveness shortly.

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... and more waiting

outside the YMCA waiting to goooo!

listening to motown.

talking 'bout nader.

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same as it ever was: waiting on the bus

So, SOME people were late and threw jason's whole schedule into chaos, he looks a little scared and has threatened to leave us tonight if we're late.

uh oh.

he don't scare me none.

off to 'continental' breakfast @ the Y.

I'm hoping they have donuts on the continent.

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