Tales of Shame, and Also of Delight

Before I unleash upon you the beauty of the edited Charlie Rose clip from Boing Boing, I have something else to share.  Sad news.

We may as well burn the rest of the Constitution now.

That said, there's this!

Both via Boing Boing.

Waiting for Obama

In chronological order now, the tweets and blog posts from my time in line, waiting for Barack Obama tickets.  Of which, I only got one.

1. Twitter / thespacebase: The Obama ticket line is al...
2. Twitter / thespacebase: I'm in line in front of the...
3. The Spacebase: Multimedia message
4. Twitter / thespacebase: We're blocking streets-for ...
5. The Spacebase: Multimedia message
6. The Spacebase: Multimedia message
7. Twitter / thespacebase: @BarackObama your people co...
8. The Spacebase: Multimedia message
9. Twitter / thespacebase: I'm smelling grilled cheese...
10. Twitter / thespacebase: Just stepped on an animal f...
11. The Spacebase: Multimedia message
12. The Spacebase: Multimedia message
13. The Spacebase: Multimedia message
14. The Spacebase: Multimedia message
15. Twitter / thespacebase: Got ONE ticket. Makes me sad.

I'm discovering, after the fact, that the chronology is difficult to determine; seems my Twitter and Blogger accounts post in different time zones.  Ah well, that's pretty close.

Record Companies Keeping the Money From File-Sharing Suits

337/365: The Big Money, originally uploaded by DavidDMuir.

And not giving any to the artists they're 'protecting.'

Fuckers.

I Need a New Plan

Over the last couple weeks, I applied for a position with the Teach for America organization.

I heard back today.  They don't want me.

I'm gonna need a job in Memphis.  Anyone who has an idea what a Creative Writing major can do for a living in that fair city, please let me know.

Turns out the 'blood for oil' thing is true. Again.

Oh, groan.

Seriously.  This needs to stop.  Bush, Cheney, et al. need to put on their big girl panties and just admit it.

Jon Taplin has more information, with decent sources.

Lady Tiger! On the Prowl!

The story beginning as told by the NY Times.


And then taking a hilarious headline (and a pretty good subhead) in the San Diego CityBeat.


I know, I know. Someone died. I should take this seriously. But "Lady Tiger on the Prowl" is a Hall & Oates song waiting to happen. I call Oates.

oh noes!

Wolf boy, with scary toenails on the loose in Moscow!

Run, Russian urban peasantry, run!

(story at boing boing.)

More real stuff later.

Thomas Friedman's Op-Ed article on "Illegal Mingling"

I only scanned the rest of the article, and I'm not sure I totally side with Friedman, but the first two paragraphs?

ick.