Dan: Two part question: a) Can O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh be stopped/shutted (not a word?) the f up? b) Is it because I’m canadian that I wish Jon Stewart would run for congress and then President? Or are there Americans down there that share my sentiment?
what exactly do you want o’reilly and rush to stop doing? if you want jon stewart to run for congress then that probably means you lean left. and if thats the case then theres no better argument for liberalism than the things that come out of o’reilly and rush’s mouths. the o’reilly/limbaugh act has helped catapult msnbc from otherwise obscurity to the #2 prime time cable news network. cnn is #3. with rush and limbaugh theres no worst person in the world, thus no keith o or rachel. if you hate the gop enough to wish that a comedian like stewart would run for congress then you should pray for the health of the factor and rush – and hope that their shows get sent through every medium possible. not only do they make obama seem even smarter and more reasonable in comparison, but they make us all seem smarter and more reasonable.
sass: I have to miss my call back audition slot for a MuchMusic VJ position because I will be in Hong Kong. What should I do to convince them to see me a week later when I’m back in Toronto? or y’know HIRE ME already?
write them a letter on that leopard print stationary of yrs. tell them some people only come around once an eon. and this week shes in hong kong, but next week she will omg be in toronto canada usa jr. sign it, kiss it, and spritz some of that joy on there. on the back of the envelope put your name, their address, and the date you wanna audition and the time. put the envelope in a fed ex box and send it to them.
Scott T. Sterling: What are you feelings about Wolfmother “Phase II”? These new details just emerged from their label Modular:
“Watch this space for some exciting news from Wolfmother early next week!
Singer Andrew Stockdale has been busy writing the next Wolfmother album and will head into the studio with producer Alan Moulder over the next few weeks. The latest version of the band incarnate is performing this weekend at the MTV Music Video Awards in Australia. The performance will be recorded & telecast worldwide via a new MTV initiative called World Stage to 160+ countries on Friday April 17.”
Scott T. Sterling: 2. Are you feeling any better yet?
i amd doing better. in part because you are letting me know that whiteboy afro 70s rock is coming back from down under. oh and look at this scott t sterling, its an audience bootleg video from this weekends vmas in austrailia:
yes the force is strong with him. hopefully he can rid himself of all that carrottop business going on with his hair.
Christian: Chicago vs Vancouver. First round in the NHL playoffs. Predictions?
of all the canadian hockey teams that remain, the canucks are my favorite. and i dont say that just because my second most wild encounter happened there. with that said, the hawks will own the nucks. the last time they played chicago fell apart but that was the regular season. the playoffs start tonight in a way because this game secures home ice and if the hawks get it its over.
Sarah: If you weren’t raised in a religious household, how did you come to love the Lord as much as you do?
my mom thnks it was a religious household but we didnt say grace at dinner unless it was a holiday, we didnt go to church unless it was a holiday and we didnt sacrifice lambs and spread their blood on the posts of the house unless, you guessed it, it was a holiday. which believe it or not might be the reason why i have the relationship to the Lord that i do today – it wasnt forced.
Rock Baby: Do you think Patience is hotter with Blonde or Brown hair?
because Patience’s beauty comes from within shes hot regardless whats dyed into her locks. but i will say, when i first saw her in austin with blonde hair i was all “oh no now movie stars are into the Grates” cuz i thought she was some starlet. when she turned out to be Patience then that was sorta weird at first because she was previous more of an everygirl, but now shes bigger and deffer. but she should be. rock needs her help.
there was a time when i would rock a collage. and my truest really loves doing them. but me, i love my magazines waaaay too much to chop em up for some arts and crafts project and all that would end up being is a collection of models id wanna get drunk with and cars id wanna wreck. so mostly the cast of the hills and bmws and rolls.
Sharp: I did a post under 1000 words filled with lots of pictures, and I thought of your photo essays while I did it. What can I improve?
i say this as a poetry major. run as fast from poems as possible. theres only a tiny amount of people who can get away with poetry these days and all of those people hate themselves privately. great subject, good pics, but id even say go for performance art before you go the way of the romantics. more photo essays definatly though.
Unsilent Majority: You’re well-traveled sir. What Should I do in Washington D.C. when I go there in May? And I don’t mean give me a museum map.
because of the high density of african americans in our nations capital may i recommend any of these fine soul food establishments: Oohs and Ahhs or the Hitching Post. If you’re veggie/vegan, may i suggest Soul Vegetarian Exodus.
David: Is the big east really the best conference in college b-ball or is it just that the media
as a member of the media, i can say that we are never to blame for anything, particularly perceptions. and seeing as a state school just beat the big east champs, i guess the real fans will have to look toward the big west to fill their basketball jones.
League ID#: 189773 League Name: busblog3 Password: blogger Custom League URL: http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/busblogthree Season Type: Full Draft Type: Live Draft Draft Time: Sun Mar 29 12:00pm PDT [ Add to My Calendar ] Max Teams: 16 Scoring Type: Head-to-Head Player Universe: All baseball New Players Become Available: As soon as Yahoo! adds them Max Moves: No maximum Max Trades: No maximum Trade Reject Time: 2 Trade End Date: August 16, 2009 Waiver Time: 2 days Can’t Cut List Provider: None Trade Review: Commissioner Post Draft Players: Follow Waiver Rules Max Acquisitions per Week: No maximum Min Innings Pitched: 25 Weekly Deadline: Daily – Tomorrow Start Scoring on: Week 1 Playoffs: Week 23, 24 and 25 (6 teams) Roster Positions: C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, IF, LF, CF, RF, OF, Util, SP, SP, SP, RP, RP, P, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN, DL, DL Stat Categories: GP, R, H, HR, RBI, SB, CS, BB, K, E, AVG, OBP, SLG, IP, W, L, CG, SHO, SV, HR, BB, K, HLD, ERA, WHIP, K/9, BSV
the tonight in rock list over at LAist is sooooo long
heres just an excerpt
Prince @ Conga Room (Sold-Out; Show at 9:30 PM) Prince @ Nokia Theatre (Sold-Out; Show at 7 PM) Prince @ Club Nokia (Sold-Out; Show at 12 AM) Tom Morello Justice Tour w/ The Nightwatchman, Slash, Shooter Jennings, Serj Tankian, Wayne Kramer, Boots Riley, Corey Taylor @ Henry Fonda Music Box Suicidal Tendencies, Biohazard, The Prodigal Son @ Hollywood Palladium J.J. Cale, Pieta Brown @ McCabe’s Guitar Shop (Sold-Out) Z Berg (of the Like), Michael Runion, Blake Mills @ Home Restaurant (Free! At the new Home on Riverside) The Grates, The Gibbs, Top Critter @ Silver Lake Lounge The One AM Radio, Amateurs @ Space 15 Twenty AIDS Wolf, White Mice, Bipolar Bear, Okie Dokie @ The Smell The Underground Rairload to Candyland, Bobot Adrenaline, Holding on to Sound, Vlad and the Impalers @ Juanita’s Restaurant & Bar Ninja Academy @ Old Towne Pub New Found Glory, Bayside, Set Your Goals @ Avalon Shwayze @ The Roxy Elton John, Billy Joel @ Honda Center Psycroptic, Decrepit Birth, Suffocation, Veil of Maya, Whitechapel, Carcass, Samael @ The Grove of Anaheim
sounds lame, i know, but if the aussies are doing it, then its ok with me
speaking of aussies, the grates play tonight at 8pm at the silverlake lounge (will they turn off the lights at 8:30?) and monday night at 10pm at spaceland
president hope n change just crushed millions of stoners around the nation today. the white house had its online town hall meeting and lots of people wanted to know from the commander n chief if during this period of economic downturn if ending the war on a drug that is getting lots of people high might be one way to improve our economy.
some lawmakers here in california seem to think that it could mean that the $14 billion cash crop could generate over $1 billion annually to the state’s coffers, if not more when you consider how much we pay to prosecute and jail growers sellers and users of the versatile plant.
while every other question mr obama took he greeted in a serious manner, the matter of legalizing marijuana was brushed past so quickly and with such little explanation that the kids on digg cried (coughed?) foul.
-laughing tears: “What’s he been smoking?”
– diggitydingdongdiggitydingdong: “C’mon, the man inhaled.”
– mr fuzz: “could the money for enforcement be used for something more productive ?”
– rancemo: “FTA: ‘I don’t know what this says about the online audience’
“Obviously this is his way of discrediting the internet, as if we’re all a bunch of idiots.
“Abolish the whole federal government! Really, what do they do that can’t be done without them? They’re just a bunch of violent thieving thugs — organized crime at it’s worst!”
and this is just a small sample from those who have commented in the last few hours. the post is on the precipice of going popular on Digg and then the Digg crowd will pile on like mad. just watch.
and pop the popcorn because of this: Digg users have shown that they absolutely support Obama just as much as they support the end of the war on drugs. here we have an issue that they are passionate about thats in direct opposition with their favorite politician in an instance where they see some hypocrisy because it was just five years ago that Obama said, “We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws.” The president said nothing close to that today.
i know the kids dont read shakespeare as much as we did back in the dark ages before the interwebs, but the bard’s words are more than just poetry, they’re good advice.
i say this in regards to the latest post from my dear friend, and fellow long suffering cub fan, andy sternberg, who winces at the name of one of our new products, Brand X, which launches early next month.
the LAist news editor said on his personal blog that the new print product and blog is “so -horribly-named-it-makes-me -quiver.”
in the time ive been blog editor at the times, i have been in countless meetings in regards to launching new blogs. in each of those meetings the question of name comes up. because i have seen “good” names and “bad” names make absolutely no difference, i have now reached the point where i advise those involved “i dont care what you name it, just name it and move on to far more important things like content.”
unfortunately i was not in the meetings when Brand X was named but if i were i would have said the same thing.
far too many times have we seen “horrible” names like Google, Yahoo, and BoingBoing fare quite reasonably in these modern times because nowadays people are far too savvy to get caught up in what the thing is called – all they care about is what it does and how it will make their lives better.
for example, here we have a photo of san diego glamour girl Danielle K. lets say you get set up on a blind date with her and as you’re about to lean in to kiss her goodnight she reveals that her real name is actually Armageddon Zoom… do you not kiss her? What if she says that her parents are from new jersey and really wanted a boy, but when they got a girl named her Bruce Eugene Springsteen anyway… do you not attempt to make beautiful music together?
the truth of the matter is once you actually got to know Danielle Armageddon Springsteen her name means zero, it’s all about what makes up her character, or for you more base folks, how she looks in a summer dress while driving her Benz.
same goes for web sites, and blogs, and newspapers. you can name them anything you want but if they dont tell you anything interesting, if they dont enlighten you, if they dont make your life easier or better or more entertained then theyre useless.
i was and am a huge fan of metromix. almost every day id go up to their small offices and stand in awe as to how much content they created out of such a small group of people. i learned something new with each issue and i was in love with their beautiful design. their merge with The Guide which will be this new thing called Brand X will be great because of the people and their skills, not because of its name – which by the way i also like.
the things that make me wince are when people get distracted by things that mean zero to the heart of the products that we use.
as you read the world famous busblog just like millions of people have done over the years think to yourself, “when was the last time that fool wrote about riding a bus?”
people read this thing because of me, not because of a dumb name. likewise people will read Brand X because of the people who create it and the stories that they have to tell.
some may use the ridiculously named Google or Yahoo to find it and sites like BoingBoing and probably even NetZoo will link to it. just like always.
meanwhile, im sure the good people behind the site at icanhascheezeburger.com are more than comfortable with their name and the fact that their content gets them millions of visitors a week. in fact, i bet they’re LOLing all the way to the bank.
what happens is i take medicine, drink some water, eat some soup and try to lay down.
then the cold gets strong and starts making me sneeze then sniffle then it makes my nose run. then when the food gets to a certain spot the cold says oh hell no and sends it right back up.
i run to the bathroom and expunge and flush and my toilet runs so i lift the top and fiddle with the handle and then its time for me to hurl again so i do that and everythings gone. so i brush my teeth and go back to bed.
but im starving, so i drink some water, make some more soup, take some more medicine and eat the soup and try to lay down. i futz around on the computer waiting to see if the food will be allowed into the large intestine and the coughing starts and then the spitting and there i am back at the porcelain throne.
people call. i respond to emails. work is busy. my voice is dying. i feel like im dying. then i think if i die thats ok, ive done pretty much everything ive wanted to do. but im starving, so i make more soup. there are triscuits taunting me but the thought of those coming back up make me shiver.
this time i dont take any medicine. i drink water. ding the soup is microwaved. and minutes later there i am in the bathroom again.
i weigh myself. this is a great diet. i go outside. im freezing. its 75 degrees. i have a hat on, a flannel, a jacket. i move my car, its street cleaning. everyone has shorts and tshirts on. im dressed like its novembrrrr. if i die, i think, at least i lived in warm weather a lot.
get back in bed. answer more emails. unlike most other jobs a lot of the questions only get sent to me, no one is cc’ed. sometimes lindsay gets cc’ed and she knows i am never sick so she helps all she can, god bless her. i eat a hersheys kiss. it makes my teeth sting. i am the most sensitive poet alive. no wonder im dying.
my mom calls. my sister got accepted to law school. life is so weird. she was always better at school than me. i always wanted to be a lawyer. so good for her for beating me once again. it was a fair fight. starving so i make another bowl of soup. im running out of bowls so i get one of those healthy choice soups that have the lid on it. you snap off the top, put the lid back on, and nuke it for 2 minutes.
i drink some water and wait. i tell the cold i can do this all day and all night. i tell it that im gonna die one day and if this is how its gonna go then at least i had some nice italian wedding soup – twice.
so here it is 9pm. the soup went down and stayed down. and i have a sneaking suspicion that i barfed out the cold.
which is great cuz i really wanted to go to work tomorrow
i know the kids dont read shakespeare as much as we did back in the dark ages before the interwebs, but the bard’s words are more than just poetry, they’re good advice.