hot babe passes out

then has a seizure

then the other hot chick explains how The Slop made her nearly die

but before that there was this huge screaming fight regarding a yeast infection

thank you CBS for my favorite reality show

– live draft tomorrow, noon pacific

the ID# is 119151 and the Password is gocubs

click here to sign up – no quitters

martin morgan: How’s your Spanish?

I ask b/c I remember a post where you saw some Spanish eyes on the bus, but the language barrier killed your game. That rang really true to me, and its why I speak 8 languages.

My Spanish sucks. i dont even ask for a pollo burrito at midnight tacos because im chicken.

Suzie: hahaha I left a comment on his blog…

and asked a question [on Kareem’s blog] 😛 and gave you a shout out

…you can thank me later

thank you baby. and i will when i get the chance!

bloopy: so do you think ron paul had the same problem as howard dean with the massive online presence that, for whatever reason, just didn’t translate into delegate votes and ended his campaign with a whimper?. . .

howard dean’s problem was he allowed a few in the media to take his weird scream as a valid reason to discount his entire platform. dean was a fucking quitter. can’t really say that ron paul is a quitter, especially since he hasn’t quit even though he probably should now.

ron paul allowed the media to do the opposite to him that they did to dean, he let them ignore him. he thought that something would happen somewhere down the road (like he would win a caucus or a primary) that would make them suddenly respect him.

what he should have done was get up in Sean Hannity’s grill when the Fox puppethead accused his supporters of spamming the online polls. he should have said, “hey fucker, unless you can PROVE that YOUR polls are bogus, then i demand that you apologize to your viewers who voted for me in those polls. and while you’re at it why dont you apologize to your IT people who you are dissing by saying that they’re shit is game-able.”

instead he smiled and acted to rationally when he should have Demanded respect when thats the last thing that modern media doles out, especially to politicians.

Krista: Who is your favourite Canadian (blogger, celebrity, politician, otherwise…) and why?

Neil Young. never sold out. never gave a shit what anyone ever said or thought. aged beautifully. always remained creative. and whose guitar sound was always gnarly and biting and scorching: before, during, and after that lil thing called grunge.

Aaron: 1st round, 1st pick, fantasy baseball; who is it, and please please please don’t tell me A-Rod cause I will know you are lying, or crazy.

first off, fuck the yankees. secondly, third base is a tough position to pass up in the first round because by the time it gets back to the first picker David Wright, Chipper, Miguel Cabrera and A-Rod will all be gone and as much as I love Aramis Ramirez, my boy, he’s not exactly the type of trade bait that someone like A-Rod is.

which brings us to Hanley Ramirez because Matt Holliday isn’t gonna bat .340 again with 36 dongs while only drawing 63 walks. Who can argue with Hanley’s 29 homers, 51 steals, and .332 average. But any fantasy league worth its salt is also gonna have an Error column and bro had 24 last year which is double among elite SS’s. fuck that. fucking Jimmy Rollins had 1 more homer than Hanley, swiped 41 bases, nearly hit .300 and only had 11 errors. Reyes had 78 steals fewer k’s than both those dudes, and only 12 errors.

so sorry charlie, A-Rod is the top draft pick, especially since you can get a decent shortstop in the 3rd or 4th round if you dont get one in the 2nd round.

speaking of which, the busblog Fantasy Baseball League drafts Sunday at noon, pacific

http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/busblog

lily: what do you think about soul patches?

like many things, pearl jam ruined em.

Dan: Matthew Good @ Massey Hall on May 29th.

Personally, I’m hoping for some sort of blogger meet-up like the last time. You in??

sounds like just around the time i set aside for Summer Vacation. sounds lovely.

Andrew Pike: If you could go back and change your whole life so that all your your writing experience turned into music experience (ie. making you a Musician instead of a Writer) would you? Why/Why not?

(Notes: You would have a similar exposure with music that you have now with writing-perhaps you would be in a band that is fairly popular around LA and/or teaching music, and you would have a small blog on the side, but no time for other journalism.)

i am the blog editor of the LA Times, that is not the same in anyones mind as being in a band that is “fairly popular around LA and/or teaching music” anywhere. the LA Times is one of the most respected papers in the world, the biggest west of the mississip, and our blog roll now includes a technorati top 1000 political blog and a personal blog written by the nba’s leading scorer. and the busblog is nothing to sneeze at, particularly since i DO have time for it.

plus i will be writing for blogs on the LAT very soon if not sooner, so go tell your momma.

if you were to compare it to music, it would be like being in a band that sells a million records Every Day.

yes it’s every young man’s dream to either be a pro athlete or a rock star (and not an editor at a famous media outlet), but except for the very very few, those two glamorous jobs expire about 2-3 years after you start em, and definitely expire once you turn 40 – except for the chosen few who are at the top of the talent pool.

so no, i wouldnt have traded my life in any way one iota. even the most rotten jobs that i had, even the most evil bosses, even the most insulting salaries all prepared me for this – my dream job come true. when you have experienced shitty shit on all levels and it didnt kill you or your spirit you can handle any adversity with a smile. which is what i do a lot here: smile.

if i had been a rock star i would probably be a dick in real life. and a heroin user. and probably married and divorced several times with way too many kids and bills and headaches.

this path that i took involved very few women who were after me for my money or fame, thus i had amazing relationships and i lived a very simple life that involved more busses than bentleys, which is why my credit rating is so good.

Azreal Darkskies (aka Michael): Is it possible to make friends with bugs that live in your apartment, or are we destined to be eternally divided?

bugs dont live in my apartment. i rarely bring food into the apartment. eat in your car as you drive back and forth from work, school, death. bugs go where food is.

LA Scumbag: Should i sell my Obey Obama posters?

They’re really cool…But i need the money.

What do i do and there’s alot of mean people telling me that its wrong to make money off these posters even though assholes are selling them on ebay for 1800 a pop!

wait… are people from an organization / movement / art camp called Obey which is all about thinking for yourself, especially in regards to money/advertising/art/culture seriously trying to tell people that they can’t sell art for big bucks, when indeed they turn around and sell art for big bucks to others?

maybe theyre being sarcastic.

maybe you should Obey yr heart.

i love shep, but if hes seriously bummed, he should print up a shitton more, sign a shitton more, flood the market and give the money to charity.

today is ask tony a question, but if youd rather go and ask kareem one, i’ll understand.

as bart simpson says “i didnt do it, man”

suspected assailant: mother nature

it’s my bro Matt Welch, author of the timely bio on the Senator, and who this morning wrote an excellent analysis of the alleged scandal.

In his piece, which I highly recommend if youd like to know the real deal, which is really more about journalism than sex or politics, Welchy concludes thusly:

There’s no doubt about it — selling yourself as a preternatural straight-talker while simultaneously participating in the hurly-burly of politics requires almost comical and constant hyperbole.

But what of the charges themselves? Those who really care about such things have known since at least 2000, and likely much earlier, that McCain does favors for campaign contributors, and has not always been the most faithful of husbands. I care not at all about the latter; while the former is one of many constant, low-level irritants people like me experience when reading yet another newspaper editorial about what a saint the guy is. The only thing new today is the name and details of a specific woman deemed by McCain’s 2000 campaign as particularly radioactive for whatever reason.

What about the newspapers? Clearly, there is an interesting story-behind-the-story, which The New Republic says it will detail tomorrow, for whatever that’s worth. I think the Post story kicks the Times’ behind, and was certainly worth printing. But their combined impact, I guess, will mostly be limited to people who haven’t heard stuff like this about McCain before. In the scheme of things, knowing that the 2000 campaign got the heebies about a galpal lobbyist is not the biggest issue in the world.

On Top of the Ticket, the LAT’s most popular blog, Andy Malcolm asks the tough question: is the story fair and/or credible.

And they call us a liberal rag?

Meanwhile the Internets are on fire with this story.

= angryjournalist.com aka the coolest new site around

a sample-

Angry Journalist #669:

Fuck half of you whining bitches on this site. Being a Publisher/Editor/Reporter/Web Designer/Advertising Sales Manager I will say, here, what I can’t tell you to your sniveling faces:

1. Get your own article ideas. I see 150 article ideas every time I walk to the store to get the booze I need to deal with you.

2. Since you can’t spell worth shit in your articles, at least spell properly on this site.

3. Having the title Editor means you need to fucking edit properly. I shouldn’t have to proofread for an Editor.

4. Unless you think I run an international drug ring, yeah I think it’s more important I can buy milk than helping you get a 50″ LCD TV.

5. Most importantly, fuck your favorite professor’s ethics lessons. He should have taught you how to read, write, and type. That would have been more ethical.

To the other half of the whiny bitches on this site:

You sound like me. And that makes me very depressed.

Angry Journalist #668:

I’m angry because there’s a culture war going on in the nation’s newsrooms, it’s not progressing fast enough and it’s slowly tearing us apart.

I’m angry because we have such a wonderful, incredible job to do for the people of this country, but we let our egos get in the way. We compete with each other. We hold grudges. We forget that everyone in a newsroom is working on the same team, and we can’t afford this division.

The reporters don’t understand the Internet department and the Internet department doesn’t understand reporters. The worst part — some of them aren’t even trying. These debates are important; no one has the answers yet. Let’s recognize that. Let’s be frank about that. Let’s talk honestly with our newsroom about the pressures of the online media landscape.

Smile at the members of your Internet department today. Just once. Compliment them on something they produced on your site you think they did well. Tell them an idea you have. Take them out to coffee.

And we’ll all be OK.

Angry Journalist #667:

I am angry that people are angry. People – we have the greatest job in the world. We get to write about all the shit that happens in the world. Somebody’s cat gets stuck in a tree – we’re there. A fat kid gets called fat by his third-grade teacher – we’re there. Can I just once get a freakin’ crime story! I am sick of being the bitch of my news station. Its like they give me these shit stories just so they can laugh at me. Those bastards are really going to be laughing once the fat kid in the third-grade is discovered to be a midget Columbian drug lord, who has taken on this persona to smuggle in cocaine through every orifice in his body to infiltrate our school system. HAHAHAHAHAHA! One day I will have a real story…..

Angry Journalist #666:

wash your damn hands when you come out of the bathroom, you grimy, disgusting bastards. like this newsroom isn’t filthy enough.

a. definitely way more a shaq fan, but ultimately more a lakergirl and phil jackson fan. thus i was very happy with last night’s outcome when shaq started his first game as a sun and his first opponent under that circumstance was his former team.

our laker blog was en fuego, getting close to 700 comments during the game thread which is basically just a place for serious laker fans to talk about the game as it happens in the comments.

my take on the game? shaq looked way better in a heat uniform than this unmanly suns shit. also, i miss him as a laker. as nice a fit gasol is, i miss the big fella and im glad that hes back putting dents into the backboard.

in other LA Times blogs and their comments:

Fashion blog, All The Rage got 63 comments on the post about Lindsay Lohan’s latest photo shoot

our newest blog, LA Now, about the city and state got 36 comments in a morning post about Mayor Tony’s ex girlfriend, but less because of the topic and more because when our blogger quoted the former Telemundo newscaster she quoted the woman verbatim in omg Spanish, hilarity shock racism and rebuttal ensue

LA Now contributer and star columnist Steve Lopez responded to the who-ha in an afternoon post saying if you dont like seeing and hearing Spanish in LA, now would be a good time to vamoose. he got 34 comments.

stay tuned today to Top of the Ticket as it has the scoop that Ron Paul isn’t out of the race yet – (ok now you can call him crazy) but Andy Malcolm aint crazy, watch this post get hella comments as the “Paultards” come out of the woodwork

man time flies.

leah has been one of my favorite bloggers for a long time. for how long? how about since she was 15!

was it a little odd for a 90something year old man be so fascinated by a teenage girl’s blog? sorta but not really. leahs design was awesome, she took lots of pictures of tons of different things, and she wrote All the damn time.

and in a bit of bloggy-foreshadowing, even though she lived in the heart of Texas, she was a transplant of Canada.

on one of my trips to sxsw i got to meet ms leah muse, and boy was i surprised. not only was she way prettier in real life – as in flawless and model-ly – but she couldnt have been nicer. as in perhaps she was the nicest, purest, sweetest person ever.

i felt like the devil standing next to her. she didnt drink, she didnt smoke, she didnt do drugs, and she had the sweetest texan accent.

so of course i immediately took her to a little hotel party featuring booze and weed.

since then i have had the great opportunity to hang out with leah and her husband on several occasions. not only is bro just as sweet and softspoken as his wifey, but if i remember clearly i believe he’s a devout Christian, and he leads one of the best new bands that youve never heard of Quiet Company, a band i could not recommend more highly to you and you and you.

together they are the type of couple that gives you hope for the future. and too bad MTV only cares about scandal and trainwrecks or else they would have a reality show about Leah and Taylor as they tour around the nation to make Quiet Company the next big thing.

people who say you shouldnt meet people off the internet are probably the ones who dont actually read the things these “strangers” write on the web. almost everyone ive had the pleasure of meeting have been solid individuals and the reason i wanted to meet them was because i enjoyed reading them for years, if not years and years and years.

oh, and one thing you should know about leah that i didnt know until i met her… you pronounce her name – lay-uh.

leah’s blog + quiet company + first time i met leah

hey bonus video interview of Leah the last time i was out there