tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173245692024-03-23T14:36:38.063-04:00good eveningPertaining to "MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE," a further compendium of COMPLETE WORLD KNOWLEDGE, and its author. That is all.hodg-manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07095136165935728617noreply@blogger.comBlogger526125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17324569.post-17069038233580083632008-11-15T17:54:00.001-05:002008-11-15T17:55:48.630-05:00THERE IS A NEW BLOG; THIS ONE IS NO LONGER<a href="http://www.areasofmyexpertise.com/">GO HERE.</a><br /><br />Thank you.<br /><br />That is all.hodg-manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07095136165935728617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17324569.post-14293787041700154142008-10-20T23:54:00.002-04:002008-10-20T23:57:33.029-04:00THERE IS A NEW VERSION OF THIS WEBSITEAND WHILE BLOGGER has been very good to me, the time has come to move to the grand unified theory entitled:<br /><br />http://www.areasofmyexpertise.com/<br /><br />PLEASE update your links.<br /><br />YOUR NEW RSS FEED is: http://www.areasofmyexpertise.com/rss/<br /><br />That is all.hodg-manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07095136165935728617noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17324569.post-71597017000285237162008-10-20T13:00:00.004-04:002008-10-20T13:22:33.944-04:00THIS IS DAY MINUS ONETHIS IS DAY MINUS ONE of the publication of MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE.<br /><br />TOMORROW, when it is published, will be DAY ZERO. Then we will start counting upward.<br /><br />(ON THAT DAY, I will be on television, and probably tonight as well.)<br /><br />ALSO, today is DAY ONE of my guest blogging for boingboing.net. Look for STARTLING EVIDENCE regarding the crystal skulls there, later today.<br /><br />THAT IS ALL.hodg-manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07095136165935728617noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17324569.post-74333326978301658572008-10-19T11:10:00.002-04:002008-10-19T11:51:15.134-04:00MY CONSIDERED ENDORSEMENT<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/BoingBoingShirt1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/BoingBoingShirt1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.boingboing.net/Picture%201-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.boingboing.net/Picture%201-1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>AS YOU KNOW, I have known and respected <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/">BoingBoing</a> now for many years.<br /><br />(INDEED, I used to read the <a href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.boingboing.net/bb01_01.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.boingboing.net/2005/12/11-week/&h=322&w=250&sz=48&hl=en&start=5&um=1&usg=__LMKCnqbr0E67YP2aaJmF2-UIy98=&tbnid=YIIlS2jnv0-TYM:&tbnh=118&tbnw=92&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dboingboing%2Bzine%2Bprint%2Bversion%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN">PRINT VERSION</a> of it, back when there were "print versions" of things, and back when <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Allston_Mall">The Primal Plunge</a> was selling them.)<br /><br />SINCE THEN, I have been a reader of the site, and a grateful beneficiary of its <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2005/10/24/700-imaginary-hobo-n.html">unexpected</a> and <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2006/07/21/700-hoboes-project-t.html">serendipitous</a> <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/08/john-hodgmans-hobo-m.html">largesse</a>.<br /><br />BUT I HAVE NEVER DARED to write for them, preferring instead the neutrality and ABSOLUTE ANONYMITY of my own imitation blog.<br /><br />MANY OF YOU may wonder, then, why I have agreed to GUEST BLOG (or really, GUEST IMITATION BLOG) for Mark, Xeni, Cory, and David, starting tomorrow.<br /><br />SURELY SOME OF IT, the skeptics will suggest, has something to do with my NEW BOOK BEING PUBLISHED ON TUESDAY.<br /><br />AND THAT IS SO.<br /><br />BUT I MUST SAY the tipping point came today, with the <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/18/video-creepy-gnome-b.html">RETURN OF THE CREEPY GNOME</a>.<br /><br />APART FROM THEIR many accomplishments and talents, it is this dedication to keeping this MOST IMPORTANT STORY in the public eye that has earned them, this Sunday, my full and humble endorsement.<br /><br />That is all.<br /><br />OLD BOINGBOING IMAGE courtesy: Wikipedia, who claim "fair use" in replicating the work of the amazing Mark Frauenfelder. I'll leave it to them to fight it out.<br /><br />CREEPY GNOME image courtesy: teenagers is Argentina.hodg-manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07095136165935728617noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17324569.post-53759951152779664522008-10-16T18:25:00.002-04:002008-10-17T11:50:15.626-04:00NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://apelad.blogspot.com/"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3014/2943697080_b58063d360.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />PORTENT COURTESY: <a href="http://apelad.blogspot.com/">Ape-Lad</a><br /><br />THANKS GO AS WELL to: the comments, for pointing out the margin errors. I hope this fixes it.<br /><br />That is all.hodg-manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07095136165935728617noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17324569.post-26660773508623562352008-10-16T08:48:00.003-04:002008-10-16T09:05:59.140-04:00LAST NIGHT'S DEBATEI WAS TWEETING the debate last night like Vin Diesel: FAST AND FURIOUS.<br /><br />(ACTUALLY, if I were really tweeting like the Diese, I'd be tweeting about D&D).<br /><br />THOSE OF YOU who were unlucky enough to have followed the whole thing will recall:<br /><br />A) MY PREDICTION that the pundits would attempt to call the debate for McCain, purely out of a desire for a new plotline.<br /><br />B) MY ABSOLUTE SURPRISE that the instant polls would reveal such an overwhelming consensus in favor of Obama, especially among independents.<br /><br />I WAS GOING to write on about how bizarre it was to watch the pundits on CNN all suddenly change their minds about what just happened the moment they learned of those early polls...<br /><br />(EXCEPT GERGEN, who actually got it exactly right, saying McCain's eye-roll and facial spasm strategy that began at the 20 minute mark would be his undoing)...<br /><br />AND I WAS GOING to write how I ended up feeling no better than those pundits once it was clear my dire, gut pessimism about debate coverage was proven false (for the fourth time in a row this season).<br /><br />BUT THEN, while looking for a link to back up my Diesel/D&D claim above, I came across this video.<br /><br />And now this video is THE ONLY THING IN THE WORLD THAT MATTERS:<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GlUsiKfeDfo&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GlUsiKfeDfo&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />THAT IS ALL.hodg-manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07095136165935728617noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17324569.post-78622334260108397372008-10-15T10:42:00.002-04:002008-10-15T14:52:53.275-04:00GET READY FOR SOME TOTALLY SUCCESSFUL EMBEDDINGSEE HOW GOOD I am getting?<br /><br />(at embedding. Not necessarily: singing).<br /><br /><object id="ep_player" name="ep_player" height="390" width="480" data="http://cdn.episodic.com/player/EpisodicPlayer.swf?config=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.episodic.com%2Fshows%2F21%2F296%2F10%2Fconfig.xml&dbg=false&378954143" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="movie" value="http://cdn.episodic.com/player/EpisodicPlayer.swf?config=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.episodic.com%2Fshows%2F21%2F296%2F10%2Fconfig.xml&dbg=false&378954143"/><param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/><embed src="http://cdn.episodic.com/player/EpisodicPlayer.swf?config=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.episodic.com%2Fshows%2F21%2F296%2F10%2Fconfig.xml&dbg=false&378954143" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" AllowScriptAccess="always" width="480" height="390" id="ep_player" name="ep_player"></embed></object><br /><br />THAT IS ALLhodg-manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07095136165935728617noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17324569.post-70693267098470073132008-10-15T10:28:00.003-04:002008-10-15T10:30:50.348-04:00ALAS, JOHN SELLERSALAS, <a href="http://www.johnsellers.net/">JOHN SELLERS</a> did not include any of our conversation on the subject of my first job for <a href="http://www.timeout.com/newyork/">Time Out NY</a>: reviewing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexen">video games</a>.<br /><br />BUT I AM STILL very glad to be back in their <a href="http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/hot-seat/67791/john-hodgman">pages</a>.<br /><br />That is all.hodg-manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07095136165935728617noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17324569.post-69605948359779420722008-10-14T11:10:00.003-04:002008-10-14T13:29:41.334-04:00I AM NOW A PAID BLOGGER<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh6fpYrUnYtHck1TxhaXQv5955_UaxTOS6JknID0BLfEynkNhyphenhyphenmMTK_5TIERSnlS66XPZn2hMieFtckuTkaEp0cz-eSgxIcEPfBzNuGOXgm1r8VvwfVV2_5QWVhQ48xZPRxstF/s1600-h/Photo+84.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh6fpYrUnYtHck1TxhaXQv5955_UaxTOS6JknID0BLfEynkNhyphenhyphenmMTK_5TIERSnlS66XPZn2hMieFtckuTkaEp0cz-eSgxIcEPfBzNuGOXgm1r8VvwfVV2_5QWVhQ48xZPRxstF/s320/Photo+84.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257055979072549362" border="0" /></a><br />IRA GLASS paid me a dollar to mention me on his blog.<br /><br />THE EVIDENCE IS HERE:<br /><br />HONESTLY, I like and admire Ira so much, I probably would have done it for 60 cents.<br /><br />STILL, this particular dollar makes for a nice keepsake. I think I will give it away as a prize of some at one of my book readings next week.<br /><br />ON THAT SUBJECT, WERE YOU AWARE THAT I WILL BE APPEARING...<br /><br />AT <a href="http://storelocator.barnesandnoble.com/results.do?ls=rO0ABXcw7ZjlOwIAAQAAAAEhAAEhAAEhAABaAAEhAAEhCnMAASEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA">Barnes and Noble, Union Square, of Manhattan</a>, Tues Oct 21, at 7PM, WITH Jonathan Coulton<br /><br />AT the <a href="http://brooklinebooksmith.com/Events/MainEvent.html">Coolidge Corner Theater, Brookline, of Massachusetts,</a> Wed Oct 22, at 7PM, WITH Jonathan Coulton.<br /><br />AT <a href="http://www.politics-prose.com/calendar.htm">Politics and Prose, Washington, of District of Columbia</a>, Thurs Oct 23, at 7PM, WITHOUT Jonathan Coulton, who will be going to England for a spell.<br /><br />AT the 215 Festival of Philadelphia, PA, specifically <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&q=latvian+society+philadelphia&fb=1&view=text&latlng=516880077446711910">THE LATVIAN SOCIETY</a>, Friday Oct 24, at 9PM, WITHOUT Coulton, but WITH David Rees and Patrick Borelli.<br /><br />?<br /><br />All of this is true.<br /><br />STAND BY for more true details re:<br /><br />ANN ARBOR!<br />The fictional city of CHICAGO!<br />and the across-the-pond return of COULTON for<br />SEATTLE!<br />PORTLAND!<br />SAN FRANCISCO!<br />and<br />LOS ANGELES!<br /><br />PLUS (though without Coulton):<br />ATLANTA!<br />OXFORD!<br />THE APPLE STORE OF SOHO WITH ELIZABETH GILBERT!<br /><br />ALSO, there will be some changes to this website.<br /><br />But for now: THAT IS ALL.hodg-manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07095136165935728617noreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17324569.post-40815497391679684862008-10-09T10:46:00.003-04:002008-10-09T11:21:03.268-04:00SMEARSHERE IS THE GREAT <a href="http://www.liberaloasis.com/2008/10/a_stupid_strategy_sputters_out.php">BILL SCHER</a> on the subject of the absurdity of launching a smear campaign this late in the game.<br /><br />BEGIN QUOTED TEXT<br /><p><strong></strong></p><blockquote><p><strong>McCain can't get back in this race by running against a fictional character.</strong> He has to run against Obama, and make a case that he has a better strategy than Obama for getting the economy back on track. </p> <p>But that would require having a strategy. And he's running out of time to come up with one.</p></blockquote><p></p>END QUOTED TEXT<br /><br />(BUT BY ALL MEANS, <a href="http://www.liberaloasis.com/">read</a> <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/users/bill-scher">on</a>. Bill Scher is one of the smartest and least excitable folks on the political internet, and he also eats deep-fried hamburgers)<br /><br />BILL IS CORRECT: the time for defining Obama as a crazy, fist-bumping, BLACK!, Muslim, secret agent for Al Qaeda was back when no one really knew him. Like during the primaries.<br /><br />(And it failed then, too. Because for the attack to be effective, the audience has to ACTUALLY BELIEVE that Obama is a villainous secret jihadist who REALLY AND TRULY CAN'T WAIT to paint the White House black. Surely there are some who actually do believe this science fiction; but most people are not INSANE. They just like<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span> acting that way in blog comments--and sometimes, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/05/virginia-goper-writes-rac_n_132014.html">newspapers</a>). <br /><br />BUT WHAT'S EVEN MORE startling is that the Ayers conspiracy theories and "Barack HUSSEIN Obama" dog-whistling that was once left to rumor spams and whisper campaigns has now been taken up, <a href="http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/politics/index.ssf?/base/politics-18/1223169243211280.xml&storylist=politics">OFFICIALLY</a>, by the candidates themselves.<br /><br />THAT IS TO SAY, McCain/Palin are essentially attacking Obama with BLOG COMMENTS.<br /><br />That is all.hodg-manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07095136165935728617noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17324569.post-80576535082108717022008-10-07T12:46:00.003-04:002008-10-07T13:06:29.371-04:00POST CANCELLEDA FAMOUS ACTOR just stepped in and saved me from completing an embarrassingly sincere and serious blog post.<br /><br />I AM VERY GRATEFUL to him.<br /><br />That is all.hodg-manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07095136165935728617noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17324569.post-68308216938916448552008-10-05T10:14:00.003-04:002008-10-05T10:47:02.677-04:00NEW THEORIES ABOUT THE CRYSTAL SKULLS<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkjJQtWdS-Zj4WpbfeE_XqMHhQ6hYybicyAp8CtwS2G1hQ6u7UX55IjOFZPS7Gi87rKIVa6ozOFgLOARcOgsvNHDf-rFZCdF4PbQ8sfvY04GeB5WddsCDe6hT_P-To77v95ThG/s1600-h/crystalhead.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkjJQtWdS-Zj4WpbfeE_XqMHhQ6hYybicyAp8CtwS2G1hQ6u7UX55IjOFZPS7Gi87rKIVa6ozOFgLOARcOgsvNHDf-rFZCdF4PbQ8sfvY04GeB5WddsCDe6hT_P-To77v95ThG/s320/crystalhead.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253681127347628274" border="0" /></a><br />THANKS TO SEAN MCDONALD, I have discovered this <a href="http://www.notcot.com/archives/2008/10/crystal_head_vo.php">PROVOCATIVE LINK</a> from a blog called <a href="http://www.notcot.com/">NOTCOT</a>...<br /><br />REGARDING DAN AYKROYD AND HIS KINGDOM OF CRYSTAL SKULLS, mentioned earlier on this non-blog.<br /><br />READING IT, WE MUST CONCLUDE either...<br /><br />a) CRYSTAL HEAD VODKA is a real product, and not an elaborate, deadpan joke.<br /><br />b) CRYSTAL HEAD VODKA is a fake product, and NOTCOT is a part of the worldwide, Aykroyd-Tricks-the-Internet conspiracy.<br /><br />c) CRYSTAL HEAD VODKA is a fake product, and indeed an elaborate deadpan joke, but one that is so elaborate that they ACTUALLY MADE THE FAKE PRODUCT in order to trick people into thinking it is real.<br /><br />FOR ALL OBVIOUS REASONS, I am pulling for option C.<br /><br />HOWEVER, this <a href="http://www.delish.com/cooking-shows/food-tv/dan-aykroyd-wine-ufos">interview</a> turned up by "NOTCOT," if that is indeed their name, suggests that the answer=A: Dan Aykroyd is simply a deadly earnest ufologist who loves to drink.<br /><br />AND IS THAT REALLY SO BAD?<br /><br />That is all.<br /><br />IMAGE courtesy: "<a href="http://www.notcot.com/">NOTCOT</a>"hodg-manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07095136165935728617noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17324569.post-72294133184989428652008-10-03T15:57:00.003-04:002008-10-03T16:04:55.376-04:00THE MYSTERY OF THE CRYSTAL HEADSThe Crystal Head Vodka website contains no ordering information.<br /><br />BUT IT DOES FEATURE THE MASONIC SQUARE AND COMPASS!<br /><br />Huh?<br /><br />ALSO: BEVMO! has it <a href="http://www.bevmo.com/Shop/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductID=28056">listed</a>, but it is mysteriously not available.<br /><br />COINCIDENCE?<br /><br />ALSO: I SAW GHOSTBUSTERS 1 at the same time I was first reading the novel DUNE...all during a childhood trip to YALE, where I would later go to college.<br /><br />COINCIDENCE?<br /><br />WHAT IF I TOLD YOU that while I was at Yale, I was telepathically tutored by the crystal skull of Geronimo in the tomb of the Skull and Bones secret society!<br /><br />It isn't true, of course. (I was never a Bonesman). But WHAT IF I TOLD YOU I WAS!?<br /><br />That is all.hodg-manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07095136165935728617noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17324569.post-48835450654957202482008-10-03T14:45:00.007-04:002008-10-06T18:04:59.224-04:00CRYSTAL HEAD VODKATHIS COMES IN via <a href="http://www.avclub.com/content/hater/dan_aykroyd_would_like_you_to_try">The Hater</a>, and I don't know what to say.<br /><br />IMAGINE ALL THE HERKY-JERK pitchman verbiage of Dan Aykroyd's classic commercial parodies from SNL as filtered through the X-Files, Tony Little, and the Swan Orientation Film, and THREE LAYERS OF HERKIMER DIAMONDS,<br /><br />THEN ACTUALLY ADD DAN AYKROYD and you get:<br /><br />CRYSTAL SKULL VODKA<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/b4sjaX_4274&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/b4sjaX_4274&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />NOT SINCE Dick Van Patten's <a href="http://www.naturalbalanceinc.com/dogformulas/eatables.html">Hobo Chili for Dogs</a> have I confronted a product so strange and marvelously implausible that I feel robbed somehow of what might have been a beautiful, sublime joke, were it not all so undeniably real.<br /><br />(AND IF YOU HAVE ANY DOUBT about the quality of spirits produced in the province of Newfoundland, may I recommend <a href="http://www.screechrum.com/home.asp">THE SCREECH</a>?)<br /><br />That is all.<br /><br />UPDATE: because they care about me, <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/10/is_this_dan_aykroyd_crystal_he.html">THE VULTURE</a> POSITS that this may all be part of an oblique, GHOSTBUSTERS III viral campaign. I hope so. It would be one of the most beautiful deadpan jokes of all time, were it so. And worthy of Dan Aykroyd. But on the other hand, he does apparently have a real, non-joke, non-viral, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVf34XQtBfo">fascination</a> with the paranormal, so who knows?hodg-manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07095136165935728617noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17324569.post-67715707072914941462008-10-03T10:11:00.000-04:002008-10-03T10:12:11.164-04:00I FIND THIS INTRIGUING<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/primeau/2756943545/">VERY INTRIGUING</a><br /><br />That is all.hodg-manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07095136165935728617noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17324569.post-11918616286513243392008-10-03T09:20:00.003-04:002008-10-03T09:55:36.599-04:00COKIEI THINK ARGUMENTS of "media bias" are almost always a pointless, joyless hedge maze to enter.<br /><br />HOWEVER, I CONFESS to fuming frequently at my Tivoli radio while listening to NPR this year (I live in Park Slope) whenever Cokie Roberts came on to casually, Kristen Wiig-ily undermine Obama.<br /><br />SUCH IS HER RIGHT. I trust she calls them as she sees them. But as <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/221642.php">Josh Marshall</a> suggests this morning, on the issue of BOSNIAKS, she seems to be wrong.<br /><br />BEGIN QUOTED TEXT<br /><br /><blockquote><p>Watching the debate I noticed that Biden referred to the Muslim population of Bosnia and Herzegovina as "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosniaks">Bosniaks</a>". This is actually the correct term, though in English people often say simply Bosnian Muslims. When he said it, the first thing I though was, I wonder how many right-wingers would jump on this as a gaffe on the model of candidate George W. Bush's reference to 'Grecians.'</p> <p>I don't know who else exposed their own ignorance by falling into this trap. But <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200810030001">Cokie Roberts did</a>.</p><p>--Josh Marshall/TPM<br /></p></blockquote>END QUOTED TEXT<br /><br />WATCH BELOW as Cokie attempts to weave a false equivalency between Biden's using an actual, legitimate term and Palin's FORGETTING THE NAME OF OUR COMMANDER IN AFGHANISTAN--confusing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D._McKiernan">General McKiernan</a> with "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._McClellan">General McClellan</a>."<br /><br />(ALSO WATCH for a great Doris Kearns Goodwin cameo. She catches Palin's error right away, but I think that's because she knew McClellan personally. Lincoln introduced them).<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RA0KYLZ12P0&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RA0KYLZ12P0&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />LOOK, I don't know the Bosniaks. Maybe Josh Marshall is wrong on this one. But I think Cokie's smirking-with-intent is obvious here, and if Marshall's intel is correct, she owes Biden an apology.<br /><br />OR ELSE: I'm just lost in the hedge maze.<br /><br />That is all.<br /><br />UPDATE: To be fair, I guess she COULD have picked on him for not knowing that Katie's, a Delaware restaurant he mentioned, <a href="http://www.delawareonline.com/blogs/secondhelpings/2008/10/joe-gives-delaware-shout-outs.html">closed</a> decades ago.hodg-manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07095136165935728617noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17324569.post-46700795415657515892008-10-02T23:52:00.003-04:002008-10-02T23:54:18.930-04:00I DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPENBUT TO ALL THOSE DEMOCRATS who implied (or told me outright) 2 wks ago that they feared Americans were "TOO STUPID" to vote right,<br /><br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/4cshq2">HERE</a> is why this election is so exciting.<br /><br />That is all.hodg-manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07095136165935728617noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17324569.post-63038721087270994802008-10-02T23:10:00.003-04:002008-10-02T23:18:43.538-04:00ADVANTAGE=?IF YOU SEE MY TWEETS up there in the upper right, you know that I was pretty wowed by Biden in the final run.<br /><br />MOST AGREE on CNN that Palin and Biden made no major flubs, however. So in terms of pundit perception: ADVANTAGE PALIN. And I think that consensus is settling in, at least in the FILTER OF THE MEDIA.<br /><br />THAT SAID, she did call General McKiernan "General McClellan." That's an absurd thing to say, and should count as a major flub. But no one on CNN seems to have noticed.<br /><br />THAT SAID, the first snap poll says 51% of respondents say Biden "won." And 53% still feel that she is not qualified to be President (down from 54%). That shut up the "Palin stuck the landing" meme for a moment there, so what do I know?<br /><br />That is all.hodg-manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07095136165935728617noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17324569.post-14946569622267140512008-10-02T17:01:00.004-04:002008-10-02T17:37:19.185-04:00ADVANTAGE PALINSINCE NO ONE ASKED, and yet the internet demands words,<br /><br />FLUBS MATTER MOST--misstatements of fact, flustered moments of silence, obvious "dog ate homework" moments, and other assorted COURICIANA.<br /><br />HERE IS THE FLOWCHART as I see it.<br /><br />Palin flubs + Biden flubs = ADVANTAGE PALIN. Storyline="Everybody is human."<br /><br />Neither flubs = ADVANTAGE PALIN. Storyline= "Palin didn't flub."<br /><br />Palin doesn't flub + Biden flubs = MAJOR ADVANTAGE PALIN. Storyline="What's the problem with Joe Biden?"<br /><br />Palin flubs + Biden doesn't flub = ADVANTAGE THE UNIVERSE. Storyline= Palin exits the national stage.<br /><br />I WOULD TAKE NO GLEE IN THIS, but I would be relieved. In any case, Biden must not flub.<br /><br />THE WILD CARD: will Biden attack?<br /><br />PALIN CERTAINLY WILL. It is part of "Palin being Palin."<br /><br />I TRUST that Biden has been counseled neither to attack nor counter-attack Palin. It is a massive risk, and he has nothing to gain.<br /><br />I AM SURE that Biden agrees with this strategy as of this writing.<br /><br />I AM NOT SO SURE that he will follow it. In the heat of the moment he may not be able to help himself.<br /><br />If he succumbs, ADVANTAGE PALIN--even if (especially if) she flubs. Storyline="Biden=mean."<br /><br />AS YOU SEE, by my goofball reasoning at least, that's four possible PALIN FTWs, and only one out for the entire universe.<br /><br />IT ALL DEPENDS ON BIDEN'S SELF CONTROL.<br /><br />I like Biden. But I will be drinking.<br /><br />That is all.hodg-manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07095136165935728617noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17324569.post-89732001167035335102008-10-01T13:51:00.003-04:002008-10-02T19:38:11.420-04:00MARQUEE ATTRACTIONALSO, THAT ACTUALLY IS the <a href="http://brookline.booksense.com/NASApp/store/Product?s=showproduct&isbn=9780525950349">Coolidge Corner Theater</a> (nee "Moviehouse") in GQ this month<br /><br />AND I ACTUALLY DID used to put those letters up on the marquee back when I worked there in the early nineties (the 20th century).<br /><br />(BUT AT THAT TIME, we used a long, long mechanical arm with a claw on the end, BECAUSE EVERYTHING WAS BETTER IN THE PAST.)<br /><br />AND I ACTUALLY WILL BE <a href="http://www.brooklinebooksmith.com/Events/MainEvent.html">APPEARING THERE</a>, with COULTON, on October 22, at 6PM to promote my new BOOK, which will be sold by <a href="http://brookline.booksense.com/NASApp/store/Product?s=showproduct&isbn=9780525950349">THE BROOKLINE BOOKSMITH</a>,<br /><br />WHERE I ACTUALLY bought my first copy of LORD OF THE RINGS.<br /><br />ALL OF THIS IS TRUE, and yet still unbelievable, at least to me.<br /><br />That is all.hodg-manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07095136165935728617noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17324569.post-77297864506213620802008-10-01T13:36:00.003-04:002008-10-01T13:49:45.774-04:00BOINGHELLO AGAIN, bOINGbOINGists<br /><br />IT IS NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN through the internet.<br /><br />GUESS WHAT I LEARNED TO DO since last time? PROPER EMBEDDING TECHNIQUES.<br /><br />WITNESS:<br /><br /><object id="ep_player" name="ep_player" data="http://cdn.episodic.com/player/EpisodicPlayer.swf?config=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.episodic.com%2Fshows%2F21%2F226%2F10%2Fconfig.xml&dbg=false&189100848" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="390" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://cdn.episodic.com/player/EpisodicPlayer.swf?config=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.episodic.com%2Fshows%2F21%2F226%2F10%2Fconfig.xml&dbg=false&189100848"><param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="always"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><embed src="http://cdn.episodic.com/player/EpisodicPlayer.swf?config=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.episodic.com%2Fshows%2F21%2F226%2F10%2Fconfig.xml&dbg=false&189100848" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="true" id="ep_player" name="ep_player" height="390" width="480"></embed></object><br /><br />(I REALLY HOPE THIS WORKS)<br /><br />MEANWHILE, HERE IS AN ACTUAL NOTE left for me in my room by the management of the CHATEAU MARMONT after viewing my <a href="http://tv.boingboing.net/2008/09/08/john-hodgman-more-in.html">last visit</a> to BoingBoingTV...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj76MP-x-desraTfh7KIFJM2eA111eG2JFo17UaF7dzJ64034Hu2FjzR212vlwgeNEuWnavfSFzNNvRZyWBHp7l4LdOagfDdjaVj8XJ6yUWGGohl6ys4WDVKVfeD_9obzEJmFla/s1600-h/Photo+77.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj76MP-x-desraTfh7KIFJM2eA111eG2JFo17UaF7dzJ64034Hu2FjzR212vlwgeNEuWnavfSFzNNvRZyWBHp7l4LdOagfDdjaVj8XJ6yUWGGohl6ys4WDVKVfeD_9obzEJmFla/s320/Photo+77.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252243583876344002" border="0" /></a><br /><br />THEY REALLY DID OFFER the best Soylent Green in Los Angeles. I hope they bring it back.<br /><br />ALSO, MAY I PLEASE, PLEASE TAKE THIS TRAFFICKY MOMENT TO RECOMMEND...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Eat-Me-Philosophy-Kenny-Shopsin/dp/0307264939">SHOPSIN</a><br /><br />?<br /><br />That is all.hodg-manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07095136165935728617noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17324569.post-57683294512840296662008-09-30T09:37:00.002-04:002008-09-30T09:37:54.457-04:00THE INTERNET NEEDS MORE PHOTOS OF WONDRICHLUCKILY, there is <a href="http://www.adamsachs.org/2008/09/dave-wondrich-as-seen-from-inside-his.html">Sachs</a>, aka "My Uncle, Traveling Sachs."<br /><br />That is all.hodg-manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07095136165935728617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17324569.post-86291022275101699862008-09-29T11:14:00.002-04:002008-09-29T11:32:06.240-04:00THIS POST IS FOR JOEL LOVELLSORRY I'VE BEEN AWAY SO LONG, Joel. <br /><br />AS PER OUR conversation this morning on the streets of <a href="http://nymag.com/news/features/43575/">BROOKLYN</a>, <br /><br />AND IN ANSWER to your request for more political blogging,<br /><br />(A REQUEST YOU ARE ALONE IN MAKING)<br /><br /><a href="http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/obamas_radical_sensibility_won.php">HERE</a> is a much better assessment of why my <a href="http://twitter.com/hodgman/statuses/936683201">TWITTERING</a> about the debate was ALL WRONG. <br /><br />THAT MY COME-UPPANCE should come at the hands of PAT BUCHANAN is appropriately shaming. <br /><br />AS I SAID IN FRONT OF THAT COFFEE SHOP, what we who refresh political blogs all day long forget is this:<br /><br />THERE ARE A LOT OF DEMOCRATS who like but are still wary of Obama--FOR WHATEVER REASON--and are waiting for a cue that it's OK to support him. <br /><br />CERTAIN FORMER PRESIDENTS are not giving them that cue, but apparently, on Friday night, OBAMA DID. <br /><br />WHAT'S MORE, since I am used to McCain's unnerving blinkyness and weird, mad smiles, the fact that he did not end up screaming obscenities just made him seem like a statesman to me. <br /><br />BUT I GUESS TO THOSE WHO DO NOT REFRESH POLITICAL BLOGS ALL DAY, his angry condescension seemed surprising, and unpleasant. <br /><br />ALL THE MORE REASON we should step away from the blogs and get out into the world, especially those parts of the world known as battleground states. <br /><br />I ALSO STAND BY the other statement I made in front of that coffee shop: I NEED SOME MORE COFFEE<br /><br />That is all.hodg-manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07095136165935728617noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17324569.post-69206193853366192672008-09-27T15:57:00.003-04:002008-09-27T16:21:00.645-04:00A SECOND SHADOUT TO KING, BOINGBOINGI HAVE BEEN OUT OF TOWN, visiting the celebrity enclaves of LOS ANGELES and now ORLANDO FLORIDA, so please forgive the non-existent posting.<br /><br />COURTESY XENI, here---FINALLY---is the corrected embed of the famous "KAKI KING" episode:<br /><br /><object id='ep_player' name='ep_player' height='390' width='480' data='http://cdn.episodic.com/player/EpisodicPlayer.swf?config=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.episodic.com%2Fshows%2F21%2F155%2F10%2Fconfig.xml&dbg=false&730034239' type='application/x-shockwave-flash'><param name='movie' value='http://cdn.episodic.com/player/EpisodicPlayer.swf?config=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.episodic.com%2Fshows%2F21%2F155%2F10%2Fconfig.xml&dbg=false&730034239'/><param name='AllowScriptAccess' value='always'/><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true'/></object><br /><br />AND COURTESY XENI AGAIN, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP9P_EpGnwc">here</a> is a link to Kaki's astonishing DUNE NERD-DOM, which makes me love her all the more.<br /><br />AND COURTESY XENI and all at <a href="http://tv.boingboing.net/">BoingBoingTV</a> in the future, stay on the look out for "SPAMASTERPIECE THEATER" and other MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE.<br /><br />That is all.hodg-manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07095136165935728617noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17324569.post-28664679457014529982008-09-19T11:17:00.004-04:002008-09-19T11:19:21.307-04:00ASK KAKI KING ABOUT THE SHADOUT MAPESLOOK, XENI did another perfect interview.<br /><br />BUT YOU HAVE NOT LIVED until you hear Kaki King recite the opening monologue from DUNE in front of a FULL ROCK BAND.<br /><br /><object id="'ep_player'" name="'ep_player'" data="'http://cdn.episodic.com/player/EpisodicPlayer.swf?config=" dbg="false&730034239'" type="'application/x-shockwave-flash'" height="390" width="480"><param name="'movie'" value="'http://cdn.episodic.com/player/EpisodicPlayer.swf?config=" dbg="false&730034239'/"><param name="'AllowScriptAccess'" value="'always'/"><param name="'allowfullscreen'" value="'true'/"></object><object id="'ep_player'" name="'ep_player'" height="'390'" width="'480'" data="'http://cdn.episodic.com/player/EpisodicPlayer.swf?config="http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.episodic.com%2Fshows%2F21%2F155%2F10%2Fconfig.xml&dbg="false&730034239'" type="'application/x-shockwave-flash'"><param name="'movie'" value="'http://cdn.episodic.com/player/EpisodicPlayer.swf?config="http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.episodic.com%2Fshows%2F21%2F155%2F10%2Fconfig.xml&dbg="false&730034239'/"><param name="'AllowScriptAccess'" value="'always'/"><param name="'allowfullscreen'" value="'true'/"></object><br /><br />AND YES: this embed may break the borders, but it is worth it!<br /><br />That is all.hodg-manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07095136165935728617noreply@blogger.com12