3/2/00 - Maria Hsia, Gore's Buddhist Temple fundraiser, has been convicted on all five counts of lying to the FEC. Gore immediately told aides to stock up on ice tea.
In a touch of class and dignity (two traits his opponent wouldn't recognize if they bit him in the ass), Bradley made nice in this last debate and returned full circle to his original message of idealism, character, and leadership. I challenge any self-respecting Democrat to watch last night's debate and tell me that the Vice-President is the better candidate, the better leader, or the better person. *sigh* Come back, Shane! Run for President!
On the other side of the aisle, Dubya rivaled John McCain's infamous Chelsea joke in bad taste with his appearance on Letterman last night. The recuperating Letterman asked Bush what he meant by his constant repetition of being a "uniter, not a divider." Bush: "That means when it comes time to sew up your chest cavity, we use stitches as opposed to opening it up." Egad. I mean, it's not even funny.
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3/1/00 - Another shooting in the Bronx?!?
Though it may be a tad anticlimactic at this point, The Final Showdown between Bradley and Gore is tonight on CNN at 9pmET/6PT, after which I'm going to sit in an unlit room for several hours and contemplate this world's amazing tendency to continually reward the most unethical and least deserving of our species.
Speaking of which, having vanquished Bradley with their acerbic pens, the scorps are now putting John McCain on death watch.
Breaching the Web found that President Clinton was "amazed" by a screensaver, which to my mind is as bad as Bush pere's supermarket scanner epiphany.
The official Lord of the Rings site has updated. It now includes some teaser banner pics (including Arwen, Gandalf, and a nasty-looking orc) and a place to ask director Peter Jackson anything you want about the upcoming three films.
From the ever creative Wetlog, American Beauty in ASCII.
2/28/00 - Smoking weed helps fight cancer? Take that, drug warriors.
So John McCain takes it to the Christian Coalition a day before Virginia votes. Bully for him. I would think his move has more to do with his sagging numbers in Cali among the less religious, more libertarian GOP voters of the West than a sudden declaration of principle, but it's nice to hear anyway.
Elaine and I spent Saturday at a wedding in Chapel Hill, NC, and most of Sunday in heavy recuperation mode (which for me included watching the Knicks eke out their second come-from behind victory in a row). Elaine's now on a business trip in West Virginia for a week, meaning that, with nothing to do, my updates here should be more frequent and my lack of personal hygiene should be made criminal.
The villain concept design being one of the few elements in Episode I that lived up to expectations, I found this article relating Darth Maul's creation to scary clowns to be quite an interesting read. And, while I'm in fanboy mode, I should record my disappointment with the William Gibson X-Files I had earlier hyped on this page. Ripe opportunities for satire were wasted by lousy dialogue, flat characters, and lame gender archetypes.
Strange Sims behavior is spreading. Wetlog wants American Beauty recreated in Simland, while Harrumph and Gammatron have discovered the Sadistic Family Photo Album.
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2/26/00 - Rodney King Redux. Sad, sad, sad. It seems no matter what coast you're on, D.A.'s can find 12 people who trust police officers over minorities, no matter how glaring the facts of the case.
Hmmmm...This could be bad. (via Wetlog and, of course, Twernt.) And, while I'm ganking links from Twernt, who asked David Duchovny?
Elaine and I are off to the wedding of some of her college friends in Durham, NC later today. Six months after our big day, it'll be nice to relax and get drunk at nuptials, rather than sweating the details and working the crowd.
2/22/00 - Well, I thought Bradley completely kicked Gore's ass in the first half hour, then made too nice for the rest of the show to have any effect on the all-knowing, all-powerful, and of course never-wrong Punditocracy. I could rage on and on in this space about how much I despise Gore and what he's doing to our party, but it'd be redundant and unconstructive. Suffice to say, I hope all Democrats of principle do NOT follow Senator Bradley's lead and will support either Ralph Nader or John McCain should the Vice-President win the Democratic nomination. We as Democrats should take a stand against such pathetic, condescending, and unprincipled behavior, even if it means four years away from the Executive Office.
I noticed The Other Side has included me in his daily digestion. Thanks much for the compliment. It is reassuring to know that people of all political temperaments can agree that Cerebus is an absolutely amazing piece of work.
With tonight's win over the Clips and Miami's contemporaneous loss to the Pistons, the New York Knickerbockers now lead the Atlantic Division. NYC represent, represent, sent.
Salon has a great new piece on the Presidential candidates' side-stepping of the failed drug war. They also have delved into my friend Mike Colton's new project, Modern Humorist.
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3/2/00 - Maria Hsia, Gore's Buddhist Temple fundraiser, has been convicted on all five counts of lying to the FEC. Gore immediately told aides to stock up on ice tea.
In a touch of class and dignity (two traits his opponent wouldn't recognize if they bit him in the ass), Bradley made nice in this last debate and returned full circle to his original message of idealism, character, and leadership. I challenge any self-respecting Democrat to watch last night's debate and tell me that the Vice-President is the better candidate, the better leader, or the better person. *sigh* Come back, Shane! Run for President!
On the other side of the aisle, Dubya rivaled John McCain's infamous Chelsea joke in bad taste with his appearance on Letterman last night. The recuperating Letterman asked Bush what he meant by his constant repetition of being a "uniter, not a divider." Bush: "That means when it comes time to sew up your chest cavity, we use stitches as opposed to opening it up." Egad. I mean, it's not even funny.
Though it may be a tad anticlimactic at this point, The Final Showdown between Bradley and Gore is tonight on CNN at 9pmET/6PT, after which I'm going to sit in an unlit room for several hours and contemplate this world's amazing tendency to continually reward the most unethical and least deserving of our species.
Speaking of which, having vanquished Bradley with their acerbic pens, the scorps are now putting John McCain on death watch.
Breaching the Web found that President Clinton was "amazed" by a screensaver, which to my mind is as bad as Bush pere's supermarket scanner epiphany.
The official Lord of the Rings site has updated. It now includes some teaser banner pics (including Arwen, Gandalf, and a nasty-looking orc) and a place to ask director Peter Jackson anything you want about the upcoming three films.
From the ever creative Wetlog, American Beauty in ASCII.
Riothero wonders aloud why he can't find a decent Doogie Howser page. Here's a more interesting question that came to my mind when I compiled my Icons List a few months ago. Why is it so hard to find celebrity fan sites for dramatic black actors? For example, no active websites are listed in Yahoo for Larry Fishburne, Ving Rhames, Yaphet Kotto, Don Cheadle, Clarence Williams III, Giancarlo Esposito, or Joe Morton. One fan site is listed apiece for Sidney Poitier, Morgan Freeman, and Taye Diggs. Cinematic luminaries Samuel L. Jackson, James Earl Jones, and television favorite Bill Cosby have only two each. Of name African-American actors, only Denzel - with a measly four fan sites - approximates the usual web celebrity treatment. As a random sample for contrast, Robert deNiro has 8 sites listed, Gary Oldman has 9, Seth Green has 12, and even lesser known white actors like J.T. Walsh (1), Jurgen Prochnow (2), Bob Hoskins (2), and Jim Caviezel (2) get some Internet love from crazy fans. (African-American women - Halle Berry (6), Whoopi Goldberg (6), Angela Bassett (2), Thandie Newton (1) - fare slightly better than do the fellas, but the numbers are usually inflated by enticing photo galleries promoting other traits than their acting chops.) Is this a white male conspiracy? Of course not. But it is a sad indicator of the Digital Divide.
Pith and Vinegar (not to be confused with Whim & Vinegar) suggests Jump the Shark, a site that aims to determine the exact point at which good TV shows go bad. Also, Hit or Miss points out this age-guessing website. It missed me by eight years, but other blogs seem to have had better results. Finally, Wetlog has moved.
John McCain takes Michigan by a hair and Arizona by favorite-son margins. Bushlings have privately picked a scapegoat and publicly claim that the Dems hijacked the primary...so much for being a "unifier."
Dubya discovers gravity.