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Smart Girls At The Party might be the best thing to happen to the internet ever. Amy Poehler, please adopt me, even though that would mean that you would have given birth to me when you were seven years old.
Also the irony that this thing is sponsored by Barbie is spectacular.
Also too the little kid wearing a tiara when she writes is the cutest thing that I have ever seen in my life.
Please tell me what to get from Netflix next.
I am bored by everything right now.
This fucker decided to post the post below this twice so I may as well write about something that has nothing to do with politics.
Welsh Bands With Extraneous Exclamation Points Who Inexplicably Have Spanish Names Who I Am In Love With Now:
Los Campesinos!
What Today Has Been Like:
sad, sad, hungry, bored, sad, sad, irritated, hungry, really sad, cold, irritated, woo Gossip Girl, wistful, sleepy
Reasons For The Above:
daylight savings time?
Things I Would Like For Christmas:
????
This is my new favorite website. Go read it. From a post speculating about what the inaugural ceremonies are going to be like:
"2 p.m. - Salute to Liberal Organizations, with the Vice President-elect Joe Biden, at the Blackburn Ballroom at Howard University.
Senator Obama would instead like to use this as an opportunity to honor his Kansas roots. Please propose an event saluting America's heartland.
4 p.m. - Concert celebrating America's youth at the MCI Center with Gnarls Barkley and Lil' Wayne.
Lil' Wayne is perhaps not the best role model for America's youth. Replace him with the White Stripes. "
Now that ElectionFever2008 is more or less over, I don't really have that much to write about. There was a report on the news this morning that someone on the staff of the Milwaukee police department had drawn a bullet pointing at Obama's head on the cover of the November 5 edition of the Journal-Sentinel. I look forward ("look forward") to hearing a bunch more stories that really bring home the fact that a lot of my fellow countrymen are a bunch of fucking assholes. I am trying to just savor the words "President Obama" (eee) but things like this make me worry, a bit, and even some of the coverage comparing the Obama family to Camelot strikes me as a bit, I dunno, doomsaying.
And the question now is what the Republican party is going to do to come back, and how the Democrats actually hold on. Obviously the amount of disarray that Republicans are in right now is pretty fun to watch, but also they are already talking about this guy, calling him "the Other Obama." (Dammit, autocorrect, you may as well get used to the fact that Obama is a word and stop red underlining it.) Basically what this means to me is that they are both charismatic minorities with young families who have the ability to excite a lot of people, and the similarities end there. Mr. Jindal has a 100% pro-life voting record, no exceptions, voted yes on making the Patriot Act permanent, supported a constitutional amendment banning flag-burning, really reeeeeeeeally wants to drill offshore, has an A rating with Gun Owners of America, etc., etc.
So like: you put this guy in place with, say, Mitt Romney in 2012, assuming that Obama isn't able to turn the economy around in the next four years and/or there is some other kind of backlash and the republicans get all "WOOO BITCHES SMALL GOVERNMENT." You might have something. You might, if you are me, have a reason to really watch what Obama does closely for the next four years, and be a tiny bit nervous. Because it doesn't matter what kind of packaging old stale ideas come in--they are still old, stale, and somewhat frightening.
But I am not going to think about this anymore. OBAMA IS NOT EVEN TECHNICALLY IN OFFICE YET. Quincy Jones has apparently been put in charge of putting the inaugural ball entertainment together. It is going to rule! But that is even two months away! But if all this comes down in 2012, remember: you heard it here first. And, um, a bunch of other places.
Last night I was at Girl Talk while Obama was being ELECTED AS THE 44TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OH MY GOD. It was a sold-out show, I think I may have sprained some of my limbs, I still woke up too early and with congealed sweat everywhere, I have never felt happier and older in this particular combination before. I took the morning off from work today and am watching some of the coverage that I missed. I don't know if I am ever going to stop smiling, or if I am ever going to sleep properly again. HE DID IT. HE FUCKING DID IT. The entire city was screaming, it felt like, on the way home, and there were cars waving Obama signs outside their windows. There were actually points during the show where the giant CNN projection got more attention than Mr. Talk, especially the part where the show was stopped and the win was announced--the screaming was unlike anything that I have ever heard in my life.
All I am saying is that celebrating the most historic election ever while listening to music that samples both Journey and Soulja Boy and being among extremely sweaty strangers (and friends!) was not a bad way to do this shit. And when I am old and have grandchildren I can be like "hell no bitches I saw him talking in the victory speech, but I was DANCING."
download:
Girl Talk--Play Your Part (Part 2)
Do you know what is really tedious?
Reading journals that you kept when you were twenty years old.
That's all.
Found here.
Internet message board dude in response to this quote from Sarah Palin, and believe me when I say I am sadder and sadder that I share her name every day.
Quote:"I say, you know, when is enough enough of taxpayer dollars being thrown into this bill out there?" she asked. "This next one of the Democrats being proposed should be very, very concerning to all Americans because to me it sends a message that $700 billion bailout, maybe that was just the tip of the iceberg. No, you know, we were told when we've got to be believing if we have enough elected officials who are going to be standing strong on fiscal conservative principles and free enterprise and we have to believe that there are enough of those elected officials to say, 'No, OK, that's enough.'"
Response: "I know when I'm told I've got to be believing in we having enough elected officials who don't stand strong on fiscal conservative principles it makes story sad, and me sad as well, because we as America, country who loves freedom, must have to believe things that we make promises in."
hee
I am sick today. (Once you announce you are sick you are no longer cheating the gods of denial so I fully expect to be flat on my back all day tomorrow, possibly with an oxygen tank.) Being sick is tedious for people close to the sick individual because all they want to do is talk about how sick they are, and it is lonely when you live alone because you have to go get the zinc tablets and cranberry juice yourself and no one is going to rub your back because it hurts or do the dishes for you because they are piling up and you do not feel like getting out of bed. However, when I went to get juice and tablets and things just now I stopped at my favorite place in the world to get tea and the bartender asked if I was sick, recommended a good sinus-clearing tea, called me "Sicky" and said "Feel better, buddy," as I was leaving. This is the same bartender who gave me free whisky after I got back in town after I experienced the absolute worst week of my life two years ago in June.
And this is mostly about how much I love this bartender, but it is also sort of about how I finally feel like Milwaukee is becoming a home.
Look:
I have been bemused by McCain's doddering idiocy in the last two debates. I smiled when "that one" turned into thatone08.com. I enjoyed that Saturday Night Live has suddenly become relevant again. That was funny. This shit that I am watching right now? THIS SHIT? I AM ANGRY. WE DO NOT HAVE TO DO OFFSHORE DRILLING NOW, SENATOR MCCAIN, IT IS NOT GOING TO MAKE USEABLE OIL FOR TEN TO FIFTEEN YEARS. IT IS NOT GOING TO FIX THE ENERGY CRISIS RIGHT NOW. IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW MUCH FASTER YOU REPEAT THE TALKING POINTS AND CATCH PHRASES THAT YOU SAID IN THE LAST TWO DEBATES, IT TELLS ME NOTHING ABOUT ANYTHING THAT YOU HAVE TO ACTUALLY SAY. IN WHAT BACKASSWARDS FUCKING HANDMAID'S TALE GOD DAMN SOCIETY IS SARAH PALIN A ROLE MODEL FOR WOMEN, AND WHAT EXACTLY HAS SHE DONE FOR SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN OTHER THAN HOLD HER BABY UP LIKE THE FUCKING LION KING AT THE FUCKING RNC. STOP TALKING ABOUT JOE THE FUCKING PLUMBER. STOP CUTTING YOUR OPPONENT OFF MID SENTENCE. SENATOR MCCAIN, YOU DID NOTHING TO REFUTE THE AWFUL THINGS THAT PEOPLE AT YOUR RALLIES WERE SAYING UNTIL THERE WERE CAMERAS AND IT WAS ALMOST THE LAST GOD DAMN SECOND. SENATOR MCCAIN, IF I EVER SEE YOU ON THE STREET, I AM GOING TO PUNCH YOU IN YOUR FUCKING FACE.
JESUS MOTHER OF ALL THAT IS HOLY.