Boo Obama

I am disappointed in Barack Obama.

The death penalty is vile and should be abolished. Obama disagrees.

I just saw

A preview for the movie Zombie Strippers.

No. I'm not kidding.
And, Yes, when it comes out on DVD (when oh when will that be?), I will place it at the top of my Netflix queue.

Let's hear it for thinly veiled moral allegories!!

Oh, Debates.

You should check this site when you get a chance. It's called "The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 (Slight Return)," and it's moderated by Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos. It's gorgeous. Thanks to my dear friend, AWS, for the link.

One More Thing...

People being smart, resourceful, and Super-Fly-Cool all at the same time.

America Goddamn

Here is a sentence I probably won't get to write very often: I can't decide if I agree more with Christopher Hayes or DMX (in the following interview).

So you’re not following the race. You can’t vote right?
Nope.

Is that why you’re not following it?
No, because it’s just—it doesn’t matter. They’re gonna do what they’re gonna do. It doesn’t really make a difference. These are the last years.

But it would be pretty big if we had a first Black president. That would be huge.
I mean, I guess…. What, they gon’ give a dog a bone? There you go. Ooh, we have a Black president now. They should’ve done that shit a long time ago, we wouldn’t be in the fuckin’ position we in now. With world war coming up right now. They done fucked this shit up then give it to the Black people, “Here you take it. Take my mess.”

Right, exactly.
It’s all a fuckin’ setup. It’s all a setup. All fuckin’ bullshit. All bullshit. I don’t give a fuck about none of that.

We could have a female president also, Hillary Clinton.
I mean, either way it doesn’t matter. I don’t care. No one person is directly affected by which president, you know, so what does it matter.

Yeah, but the country is.
I guess. The president is a puppet anyway. The president don’t make no damn decisions.

The president…they don’t have that much authority basically?
Nah, never.

But Bush pretty much…
You think Bush is making fuckin’ decisions?

He did, yeah, he fucked up the country.
He act like he making decisions. He could barely speak! He could barely fuckin’ speak!
Can’t be serious. He ain’t making no damn decisions.

Well Barack has a good chance of winning so that might be something.
Good for him, good for him.


(Thanks to my favorite Geeks for the DMX interview and to my favorite Goth girlfriend for Hayes.)

I see dead people

And so do these guys (one of whom is a blog writer and one of whom is a forced-to-retire-admiral-who-spoke-out-about-the-deathly-costs-of-the-war-in-Iraq). Bush and Cheney and McCain are intent, it seems, on starting World War III. And Senator Clinton thinks that the world today compares with the world of Harry Truman (in which atomic bombs got dropped, in case you've forgotten). I wish Senator Obama would talk about nonproliferation again. That is a conversation that needs to be re-started.

Wait. Now I feel sick again

Fuck. Nut. Bitch.

Things about Politics

Behold... a metaphor for the upcoming election: "I am interested in watching the primaries in the same way a prisoner sentenced to life without parole would be interested in watching how the prison guards change shifts." That's from my friend's blog, Progymnasmata. Now, I don't Completely Agree with this. Most of the time.

Another website that makes me laugh

Is cracked.com. (Thanks to M for the rec!)

Reasons to read this website:
1) They love lists.
2) They love words.
3) They love making fun of people who are famous or pompous or annoying (or all three).
And here's the real kicker:
4) Dude, they love zombies.

Here are some delicious examples (for your reading pleasure):

5 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Apocalypse Could Actually Happen (I'm telling you, investing in a crossbow might not be the worst idea you ever had. Although, as Max Brooks says, blades don't need reloading.)

The Top 25 Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians (Ha! Bruce Jenner!)

10 Words and Phrases You Won't Believe Shakespeare Invented (Please notice the translation of "Hot-Blooded" and try not to cry laughing).

The Gruesome Origins of 5 Popular Fairy Tales (Fairy tales are creepy. Like politics.)

There's also a really hilarious article about what Valentine's Day cards would say if they were honest. But I don't have a link to that one, so you can just search. You're welcome.

Form of: An Abyss

I could write something about how disappointed I am that the Clintons continue their devastation of the Democratic party (and any chances it might have of putting a sort-of-left-thinking-person in the Oval Office). But instead, I will just post a link to this eerily prescient analogy between Hillary Clinton and "Scream"'s Billy Loomis. Politics is a horror movie, people.

On another (and more hopeful) note, I was just re-watching the scene from "Once" in which the main characters are sitting in the piano shop, singing "Falling Slowly." And it makes me feel better about several things--politics (for no real reason), the possibility of love (abyss included), the impossibility of love (and how accidentally/possibly finding yourself In It may not always Be So Bad), the ephemeral quality of real connection (beautiful and momentary like lightning bugs or Christmas lights or a really cold, super-delicious martini), the fact that ephemerality makes those moments good (because watching lightning bugs in summer trees is even better than Christmas lights and martinis put together).