Monthly Archives: October 2004

A Stranger in a Strange Land

Richard Rushfield describes, over at Slate, the experience of cruising Silver Lake with full Bush/Cheney regalia on (t-shirt, sticker on car, etc.):
Slinking away, I stroll down Irony Row; a two-block stretch of Sunset Blvd. filled with boutiques peddling vintage 1970s lunch boxes, summer-camp T-shirts, and baby-doll dresses for grown women. So steeped are its denizens [...]

Shark Jumping with iPod (Photo)

I’m sorry, I know this is technoblasphemy, but I just don’t get the point of the brand-spanking new iPod Photo.
I mean, I get it, from Apple’s standpoint….they can certainly sell their fair share of color-screened iPods to their devoted nation of Applephiles, who standby just aching for something to make their iPod hipper than all [...]

FeedBurner’s SmartCast™ — Podcasting for the Masses

I can’t wait to blast out my first Podcast using FeedBurner’s new SmartCast™. It takes an XML feed from your blog, and adds the enclosure tags to make it work with iPodder and other Podcasting apps.
If you have no idea what I am talking about, you can try to catch up here.
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General Mills on Sinclair Broadcast Group

Wrote a bunch of Sinclair advertisers last week, to voice my disdain for supporting such one-sided partisanship from our news media. 
Got my first response today from General Mills.  Apparently they feel it’s OK for Sinclair to play the role of Republican cheerleaders down the stretch, b/c Dan Rather bungled his facts in talking about [...]

Readers around the world agree

The critics just can’t get enough of the Webside Taco Stand:
Kyle Bunch -
Thanks for helping me, by way of example (to wit: your pitiful excuse for a star-f*cking, sports-obsessed Teen Beat quality “blog”), to understand what a small potato is.
You make Tony Pierced Ego look like a bigshot by comparison.
Our hard work is finally paying [...]

Frontrunner

14 TDs, 1411 yards passing, a 157.4 quarterback rating, and most importantly, a 6-0 record.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the midseason leader of the Heisman Trophy pack.
{Photo provided by Athens not sparta}

Tony Outs Instapundit

After much coaxing, it seems Tony has convinced the Instapundit to out himself as a conservative. Well, sort of. Actually, not much at all.
But at least he had the decency to toss him an Instalanche….oh wait, he didn’t do that either.
What the hell am I posting about anyways?
Well, there is Tony’s response, which [...]

David Ortiz

Ok, I am biased b/c he was a stud for my fantasy baseball team this year, but you’ve gotta give props to the guy. He’s the only Sox player who’s really stepping up.

Sullivan takes the outraged Cheney’s to task

If you, like me, find the “outrage” surrounding John Kerry mentioning the fact that Cheney has a gay daughter to be, well, more than a bit lame, silly, hypocritical, and/or downright embarrassing for anyone who tries to peddle it, than you should enjoy political columnist (who also happens to be a homosexual, and an avowed [...]

Poll no evil, See no evil

Got to love the wide range of responses offered by this “Poll” from a website promoting the anti-Kerry documentary that Sinclair Broadcasting (and Fascism) Group is planning to air….Is it just me, or is that the same answer reworded 4 times?:

Always have to respect someone who refuses to even entertain dissenting opinions. How very [...]