From the monthly archives:

October 2004

A Stranger in a Strange Land

October 28, 2004

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 [...]

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Shark Jumping with iPod (Photo)

October 26, 2004

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 [...]

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FeedBurner’s SmartCast™ — Podcasting for the Masses

October 25, 2004

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.
Download iPodder
Announcing SmartCast™ [...]

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General Mills on Sinclair Broadcast Group

October 21, 2004

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 [...]

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Readers around the world agree

October 18, 2004

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 [...]

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Frontrunner

October 18, 2004

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}

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Tony Outs Instapundit

October 18, 2004

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 [...]

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David Ortiz

October 18, 2004

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.

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Sullivan takes the outraged Cheney’s to task

October 15, 2004

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 [...]

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Poll no evil, See no evil

October 15, 2004

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 [...]

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From the ‘Says it all’ files

October 15, 2004

See above for Cheney’s new plan for truthful campaign promises — “I never promised an end to poverty–I said an end to povery.”
{from the AP}

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Chris Rock hosting the Oscars

October 14, 2004

Somehow, even though I’m reading it, I still can’t believe that Chris Rock is going to host the 2005 Academy Awards. I’m stoked–beats the hell out of Whoopi or Billy Crystal–but somehow I just can’t imagine it…..seems like quite a few monacles will drop into martini glasses on that Sunday night in Los Angeles.
{from [...]

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Seth Godin on Information Insulation

October 12, 2004

Sweet sassy molassey, Mr. Godin definitely nails it on the head this morning:
There’s more information on more topics on blogs and in the Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia than has ever been published before in the history of the planet.
And yet, with all this data, most of us resist the opportunity to obtain information. We don’t [...]

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HA HA

October 8, 2004

{from From Here To Obscurity via BoingBoing}

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Yet another reason to Vote Kerry, vol. 56

October 6, 2004

Because Natalie Portman’s doing it.
{from Daily Kos}

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Beware the Puppet Sex

October 6, 2004

Has anything more perfectly illustrated the absurdity of any one organization more than the rating that the MPAA assigned to Trey Parker & Matt Stone’s new movie, Team America: World Police? Not so much the fact that they made them cut out a bunch of puppet sex to avoid an NC-17, but check out [...]

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The facts dick with Cheney

October 6, 2004

Nobody expected complete honesty and forthrightness out of Vice President Dick Cheney at the debate last night, but Republican loyalists had to have hoped he would spew lies and errata that weren’t so quickly and easily debunked.
For starters, there was the “I’ve never met Senator Edwards before tonight” dig on Edwards’ time in the Senate. [...]

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Big game this weekend

October 5, 2004

Only 85 hours until kickoff. Can’t wait.

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Tin Foil

October 5, 2004

I just realized something, and what does one do, in 2004, when they realize something? Why, blog it, of course.
I still call it ‘tin foil’. Exclusively. Never ‘foil’ and certainly never the truly correct ‘aluminum foil’. No one even sells ‘tin foil’ anymore, do they?
Why do I (and many others, from [...]

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Angels in the Postseason

October 3, 2004

For the second time in 3 years, the Angels are in the playoffs. On Saturday, the Halos locked up their first Western Division title since 1986. And fittingly, the Angels will face the same team in the first round that they played in ‘86–the Boston Red Sox.
So if anyone knows any “appease the [...]

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