Dancing on the Jumbotron

This appears to have been caught on the Jumbotron during a Boston Celtics game. I can't actually confirm whether or not it is real or staged. Either way the people around him don't seem to be in on it.

Flight of the Conchords (Double Bill)

"Foux Da Fa Fa"


"Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros"

The Minutemen - "Corona" (acoustic)

Black Cab Sessions #59: Brian Wilson "That Lucky Old Sun/California Girls"

Frank Black - "Hang On To Your Ego" (The Beach Boys)

Black Cab Sessions #43: My Morning Jacket "Touch Me I'm Going to Scream Pt. 2"

Black Cab Sessions #46: Robin Pecknold of the Fleet Foxes covering Judee Sill's "Crayon Angel"

TV On the Radio - "Golden Age"

Yes He Did

Adventures in Voting (What Did You Do With My Ballot Joel?)

I voted yesterday. That alone shouldn’t merit noting. Yet, this time it does. I have voted in every election since 1998. It was a midterm election and I remember being appalled by the fact that impeachment proceedings were being brought up against Clinton because he had gotten a blowjob. I’m not going to rehash that particular point because it was 10 years ago and I was right to be rattled out of my cage by what had proved to be an expensive distraction and absolute waste of time. Since moving overseas in 2005 I voted in the mid-term election and receive ballots for various school board elections and other propositions that pop up every now and then. If I had been following the issue, I vote. If not, I don’t. The point here is that each ballot that I have received has been with plenty of time for me to fill in my little circles and walk it back to the post office where I could then ease back knowing that I had done my civic duty.

This year, inexplicably (I say inexplicably because I actually called my county auditor’s office, that would be you Joel D. Miller, and was given very little information. But I’m getting ahead of myself here) I still have not received my ballot. Follow me back to September if you will.

In the first few weeks of September I had emailed the Linn County Auditor (Joel D. Miller) to inquire about the status on my registration. I never received a reply, but shortly thereafter I did receive my voter registration verification card in the mail. It wasn’t a response to my email as judging from the postmark date it had been sent before I had sent my email. It didn’t matter. My question had been answered.

By mid-October I had yet to receive my ballot and was beginning to grow concerned as several other people that I knew had received theirs and had already sent them back. On October 20th, two weeks and one day away from the election I called the Linn County Auditor’s (Joel D. Miller’s) office to get a sense of where my ballot was. The lady that answered the phone was exasperated by my question, which lead me to believe that I probably hadn’t been the only one with this question on this particular afternoon. She informed me that my ballot had been sent out that very day and would be put in the mail the next day, October 21st. I went on to ask why if I live overseas was my ballot being mailed two weeks before the election. She didn’t have an answer, but did suggest that it should be there within a week and a half. Should is the opportunative word here. Yes, it should have been in my hands before Election Day, but it wasn’t.

All overseas ballots need to be postmarked by November 3rd in order to be valid. I write this on November 4th (election night) and have yet to receive my ballot.
What I did learn about, thankfully on Saturday November 1st, was this, http://www.fvap.gov/, a web page that provides provisional ballots for those who do not receive their state’s ballots. I filled in the hastily printed ballot and scrambled to the post office yesterday evening to get it postmarked before the due date. I have no guarantee that my pseudo ballot will make it to Joel D. Miller’s office by November 10th (the last day for overseas ballots to be received). I can only hope, knowing that should it arrive on November 11th it will be tossed in the bin. That really shouldn’t have been my concern though. Part of Joel D. Miller’s job is to provide ballots for presidential elections. I have to wonder if Joel D. Miller wasn’t aware that there was a presidential election this year, perhaps it had slipped his mind. Regardless, Joel, where the hell is my ballot?

Get Your War On (language not suitable for work)

"Moose Meat"

They Live Among Us

I find this video to be the most startling evidence of the dead living among us. Watch closely....

I'm Sorry...What Did You Just Call Me!?

Highlight from the 2008 Spelling Bee

I Am Them

I've been hesitant to post any of my fiction work up here. But as the recently inspired piece that I alluded to in the last post is unraveling on me, I will post this. I had written this around Halloween and its purpose was to be displayed as a work of flash fiction (generally one page or so) in the Writing Corner at Cafe Infinito. It was written, it was accepted and for the month of January it was shown as the inaugural posting in the aforementioned Writing Corner.
Most of my fiction writing has a tendency to go on for pages. The challenge in this was keeping it under the one page limit. I was pleased with myself when I finished, but now that I read it again, I'm not sure.
Here it is, feel free to have your way with it on the message board.
(zombie image courtesy of www.revok.com/zombie.html)
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I Am Them

At night we lock the doors because that’s when they come for us. They come out at the moment that the sun settles below the horizon, when there is still enough light to make out the ominous forms that begin shuffling into town. There aren’t many left on our side, most have been taken over to their’s.

Last night was different, somehow they got through. We’ve held them off for five weeks. Several times it got close, several times it got too close, but never that close. We don’t know how they got through. Afterwards when we fought them back, there were accusations as to whether or not it was someone on the inside. As if one of us had let them through.

They say it only takes salivary contact to get the sickness, it only takes one bite.

It’s night again and up until last night we held them off. Last night they got through…somehow. Tonight they’ll get through again. Tonight will be like last night, and yet tonight will be different because tonight, I am them.

Work in Progress

I've been wrestling with a combination of writer's block and general ennui over the past few months. I think its subsiding, I'm working on a new properly written piece and not just a pasted video from You Tube to keep you all coming back. I hope to have it up within the next couple of days.

Jon Stewart's First Daily Show, Jan. 11, 1999

In keeping with the "Then and Now" theme, I found this clip of Jon Stewart's first stint on The Daily Show after Craig Kilborne left.



9 years, 10 Emmys, 2 Peabodys and 1 nomination for Teen Choice awards later. This is from April 17, 2008

Kings of Leon Then and Now

It's been a while since I've posted. I can't really think of anything to post and I've been listening to Kings of Leon quite a bit, so there's the brainchild behind the genius of this particular post.
Take note of the bass player's black Gibson Thunderbird bass in "McFearless". I'm not sure what I'd do (outside of paying $1800), but I'd do things to get one of those.

Kings of Leon - "Molly's Chamber" (2003)


Kings of Leon - "McFearless" (2007)

...And Now a Word From Tio Masclet

Hillary to Obama: "Hey want to be my Vice-President" Obama to Hillary: "um...no."

"Burn" The Cure

I was hoping that they would play this one on Wednesday night, but kind of knew they probably wouldn't.