HERE IS RON HOGAN of Galleygat's video of COULTON and STRAUSS singing at the Strauss Book Party one week ago:
NOW HERE IS MITCH of Jocopedia's video of HOGAN taking a video of COULTON and STRAUSS singing at the Strauss Book Party one week ago:
IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY at Mitch's video, you can see when Ron swings around to catch me joining in on the horn part (I am the one sitting in the wing chair like Sidney Greenstreet).
IF YOU LOOK EVEN MORE CLOSELY at Mitch's video, you can see that on the viewscreen of Ron's video camera is a picture of me WRITING THIS VERY BLOG POST.
I KNOW MOST PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET are jaded about this sort of total surveillance.
But I still find the fact that Ron Hogan has a video camera that sees into the future PRETTY AMAZING.
That is all.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
"CRAIG KITTLES"
AND IN FACT...
THE FIRST PERSON to say the password to Darin Strauss tonight (as per the below), will additionally get a free copy of MORE THAN IT HURTS YOU
COURTESY: the author himself! (Darin Strauss).
That is all.
THE FIRST PERSON to say the password to Darin Strauss tonight (as per the below), will additionally get a free copy of MORE THAN IT HURTS YOU
COURTESY: the author himself! (Darin Strauss).
That is all.
IF YOU ARE IN SAN FRANCISCO
I APOLOGIZE that I failed to post yesterday. BLAME TELEVISION.
BUT NOW I MUST TELL YOU:
IF YOU ARE IN SAN FRANCISCO and looking for Mr. Darin Strauss,
THEN HERE is where you can find him:
Friday, June 27
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
BOOKS INC IN THE MARINA
2251 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA 94123
ALSO KNOWN AS "EVENT ID 376522"
IF YOU GO, you will hear words read in order from Darin's amazing novel MORE THAN IT HURTS YOU...
AND PLUS you will also probably get to meet Frank Lauria, the author of psychic detective novels who first virgiled COULTON and me around SF on the BOOK 1 tour, about 1000 years ago.
TELL THEM ALL I SAY HELLO.
OR BETTER: go up to DARIN at the signing and tell him I say "CRAIG KITTLES"
For that is the password.
DARIN WILL THEN TAKE YOUR NAME DOWN AND PROVIDE IT TO ME, and I will send you:
1. A TAXONOMY OF COMPLETE WORLD KNOWLEDGE
and
2. A SURPRISING PHOTOGRAPH OF DARIN STRAUSS.
This offer is good for the first five people who give Darin the password. If those people do not also buy his book, THEN SHAME ON THEM.
That is all.
BUT NOW I MUST TELL YOU:
IF YOU ARE IN SAN FRANCISCO and looking for Mr. Darin Strauss,
THEN HERE is where you can find him:
Friday, June 27
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
BOOKS INC IN THE MARINA
2251 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA 94123
ALSO KNOWN AS "EVENT ID 376522"
IF YOU GO, you will hear words read in order from Darin's amazing novel MORE THAN IT HURTS YOU...
AND PLUS you will also probably get to meet Frank Lauria, the author of psychic detective novels who first virgiled COULTON and me around SF on the BOOK 1 tour, about 1000 years ago.
TELL THEM ALL I SAY HELLO.
OR BETTER: go up to DARIN at the signing and tell him I say "CRAIG KITTLES"
For that is the password.
DARIN WILL THEN TAKE YOUR NAME DOWN AND PROVIDE IT TO ME, and I will send you:
1. A TAXONOMY OF COMPLETE WORLD KNOWLEDGE
and
2. A SURPRISING PHOTOGRAPH OF DARIN STRAUSS.
This offer is good for the first five people who give Darin the password. If those people do not also buy his book, THEN SHAME ON THEM.
That is all.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
IT HAS BEEN SOME TIME
SINCE I HAVE DRAWN your attention to these fine and persistent contributors to the H IN SUNRAYS POOL at flickr.
HERE IS A PROVOCATIVE ONE FROM greyaenigma, who shares my fondness for the strangeness of barnacles, et al.
That is all.
HERE IS A PROVOCATIVE ONE FROM greyaenigma, who shares my fondness for the strangeness of barnacles, et al.
That is all.
GOOD MORNING
I NEED TO WRITE a new blog post so that you don't all keep going to Darin's reading night after night.
BUT THANK YOU, all who did.
THAT IS ALL.
BUT THANK YOU, all who did.
THAT IS ALL.
Monday, June 23, 2008
ON BEHALF OF DARIN STRAUSS: TONIGHT
GREETINGS INTERNET USERS
THIS RATHER POOR BLOG is pleased to announce that I, JOHN HODGMAN, will be appearing alongside my old friends COULTON and DARIN STRAUSS at a party tonight to celebrate the publication of Strauss's new novel:
MORE THAN IT HURTS YOU.
COULTON will be singing some songs.*
I WILL be reading some pages from my new book, MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE.
I DO NOT KNOW EXACTLY what Strauss will be doing during all of this. Sitting on a giant satin pillow, I guess, or shooting at our feet with a pistol.
NO MATTER: I am happy to dance for Darin Strauss.
ATTENTION: TRUAX. I have a copy of Darin's book for you, signed by the author, and I will send it along forthwith. And by forthwith I mean: WITH FORTH!
SORRY TO THE MYSTERIOUS GL3NN and his faction. I did not understand his cryptic response to my trivia question (was it a rebus or something?), and so I reward TRUAX for being the first to answer in a clear, forthright manner, by which I mean: RIGHT FORTH!
IF YOU WANT A COPY OF DARIN'S BOOK, GL3NN, come to the party, and I will buy you one.
AND TO THE REST OF YOU, by all means, come to the party.
Monday, June 23
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
NYU PARTY
with John Hodgman ("Areas of my Expertise," and TV's "The Daily Show")
& music by Jonathan Coulton
58 W. 10th St.
Lillian Vernon Writers House
58 W 10th St, New York, NY, 10011
(Between 5th and 6th Avenues)
THAT IS ALL
*DID YOU SEE COULTON at the Highline Ballroom on Saturday night? Wow, correct? Coulton+Paul&Storm+Shirts+Ukes=RIGHT FORTH!
THIS RATHER POOR BLOG is pleased to announce that I, JOHN HODGMAN, will be appearing alongside my old friends COULTON and DARIN STRAUSS at a party tonight to celebrate the publication of Strauss's new novel:
MORE THAN IT HURTS YOU.
COULTON will be singing some songs.*
I WILL be reading some pages from my new book, MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE.
I DO NOT KNOW EXACTLY what Strauss will be doing during all of this. Sitting on a giant satin pillow, I guess, or shooting at our feet with a pistol.
NO MATTER: I am happy to dance for Darin Strauss.
ATTENTION: TRUAX. I have a copy of Darin's book for you, signed by the author, and I will send it along forthwith. And by forthwith I mean: WITH FORTH!
SORRY TO THE MYSTERIOUS GL3NN and his faction. I did not understand his cryptic response to my trivia question (was it a rebus or something?), and so I reward TRUAX for being the first to answer in a clear, forthright manner, by which I mean: RIGHT FORTH!
IF YOU WANT A COPY OF DARIN'S BOOK, GL3NN, come to the party, and I will buy you one.
AND TO THE REST OF YOU, by all means, come to the party.
Monday, June 23
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
NYU PARTY
with John Hodgman ("Areas of my Expertise," and TV's "The Daily Show")
& music by Jonathan Coulton
58 W. 10th St.
Lillian Vernon Writers House
58 W 10th St, New York, NY, 10011
(Between 5th and 6th Avenues)
THAT IS ALL
*DID YOU SEE COULTON at the Highline Ballroom on Saturday night? Wow, correct? Coulton+Paul&Storm+Shirts+Ukes=RIGHT FORTH!
Thursday, June 19, 2008
MORE THAN IT HURTS YOU
SOME OF YOU MAY KNOW that long ago, in the Second Age of Man, I was a Professional Literary Agent.
AND DURING THAT TIME, I had the great surprise to discover that my fun, unassuming, tall friend DARIN STRAUSS was actually--SECRETLY!--one of the best writers I had ever encountered.
HE WROTE A NOVEL called CHANG & ENG, which told the story Chang and Eng Bunker, the Siamese Twins for whom the term SIAMESE TWIN was coined. Specifically, he told the story from Eng's point of view, who narrates their conjoined tale during the brief period between his brother's death and his own--the only moment he was alone.
AN BRILLIANT, AMUSING GIMCRACK OF AN IDEA, no?
YES IT IS, but what startled readers more was Strauss's ability to inhabit this thrice foreign brain from long ago so completely and authentically, and to do so with such sensitivity, insight, and humor. IT WAS UNCANNY. How could Darin know so much about so much?
Indeed, after his next book, THE REAL MCCOY, about boxers and con men, Joe DiPietro spoke for all of Darin's friends and poker-mates when he speculated that perhaps Darin had secretly inherited a house full of manuscripts of unpublished novels and was quietly rolling them out as his own.
BUT THAT IS A SCURRILOUS RUMOR, spread by a barkeep. The truth is that Darin is simply a peerless liar, a fictioneer, a writer of real, honest-to-goodness big fat NOVELS.
NOW YOU MAY HAVE HEARD something about his latest, called MORE THAN IT HURTS YOU, on Craig Ferguson the other night. I did not work on that one at all. I confess that, as he worked on it, I was concerned that Darin was testing his limits.
THE 19th CENTURY and its twins and grifters is remote enough. But now he was writing about Long Island. Specifically: contemporary Long Island (where he is from) and the awful, emotional collisions that occur when a woman makes her own child sick (which Darin Strauss has never done).
THE BARKEEP and the other poker players went to NYU a year or so ago to hear him read from it for the first time. We were skeptical. But when he read it, we were weepy. HE HAD DONE IT AGAIN.
He had created a whole funny, sad, authentic world--one that is somehow all the more fascinating and powerful because it has no Siamese twins in it. JUST REGULAR PEOPLE, conjoined in other ways: white suburban parents and black ex-cons, obsessed doctors and one horribly ill mother--all twisting around each other so believably, and heartbreakingly, that you're quick to forget THEY ALL COME FROM DARIN'S HEAD.
LOOK, I NO LONGER RECEIVE COMMISSION ON DARIN'S BOOKS. My 15% is now earned in the pleasure I get in reading them (and the small fee I get for dipping them in silverplate and selling them on ebay).
SO MY RECOMMENDATION IS GENUINE.
I will be buying his book today.
And I and the Barkeep and all the rest will be going to hear him read in NYC tonight.
I HOPE YOU WILL JOIN ME IN BOTH ENDEAVORS
That is all.
PS: a rare TRUE TRIVIA CHALLENGE: did you know that Darin Strauss once played in a band with Jonathan Coulton? It is so. A Free Darin Strauss book goes to the first person who can name the band in the comments.
AND DURING THAT TIME, I had the great surprise to discover that my fun, unassuming, tall friend DARIN STRAUSS was actually--SECRETLY!--one of the best writers I had ever encountered.
HE WROTE A NOVEL called CHANG & ENG, which told the story Chang and Eng Bunker, the Siamese Twins for whom the term SIAMESE TWIN was coined. Specifically, he told the story from Eng's point of view, who narrates their conjoined tale during the brief period between his brother's death and his own--the only moment he was alone.
AN BRILLIANT, AMUSING GIMCRACK OF AN IDEA, no?
YES IT IS, but what startled readers more was Strauss's ability to inhabit this thrice foreign brain from long ago so completely and authentically, and to do so with such sensitivity, insight, and humor. IT WAS UNCANNY. How could Darin know so much about so much?
Indeed, after his next book, THE REAL MCCOY, about boxers and con men, Joe DiPietro spoke for all of Darin's friends and poker-mates when he speculated that perhaps Darin had secretly inherited a house full of manuscripts of unpublished novels and was quietly rolling them out as his own.
BUT THAT IS A SCURRILOUS RUMOR, spread by a barkeep. The truth is that Darin is simply a peerless liar, a fictioneer, a writer of real, honest-to-goodness big fat NOVELS.
NOW YOU MAY HAVE HEARD something about his latest, called MORE THAN IT HURTS YOU, on Craig Ferguson the other night. I did not work on that one at all. I confess that, as he worked on it, I was concerned that Darin was testing his limits.
THE 19th CENTURY and its twins and grifters is remote enough. But now he was writing about Long Island. Specifically: contemporary Long Island (where he is from) and the awful, emotional collisions that occur when a woman makes her own child sick (which Darin Strauss has never done).
THE BARKEEP and the other poker players went to NYU a year or so ago to hear him read from it for the first time. We were skeptical. But when he read it, we were weepy. HE HAD DONE IT AGAIN.
He had created a whole funny, sad, authentic world--one that is somehow all the more fascinating and powerful because it has no Siamese twins in it. JUST REGULAR PEOPLE, conjoined in other ways: white suburban parents and black ex-cons, obsessed doctors and one horribly ill mother--all twisting around each other so believably, and heartbreakingly, that you're quick to forget THEY ALL COME FROM DARIN'S HEAD.
LOOK, I NO LONGER RECEIVE COMMISSION ON DARIN'S BOOKS. My 15% is now earned in the pleasure I get in reading them (and the small fee I get for dipping them in silverplate and selling them on ebay).
SO MY RECOMMENDATION IS GENUINE.
I will be buying his book today.
And I and the Barkeep and all the rest will be going to hear him read in NYC tonight.
I HOPE YOU WILL JOIN ME IN BOTH ENDEAVORS
That is all.
PS: a rare TRUE TRIVIA CHALLENGE: did you know that Darin Strauss once played in a band with Jonathan Coulton? It is so. A Free Darin Strauss book goes to the first person who can name the band in the comments.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
"THERE WAS NO KOOKY UNCLE WHO INSPIRED ME"
DURING APRIL AND MAY (of this year), when I was 100 feet underwater with hard but pleasant work on the book and other surreal diversions (GERVAIS), I turned down a lot of opportunities I wished I hadn't, such as:
BATHING
EATING MEALS WITH FRIENDS
REMEMBERING BIRTHDAYS
BEING INTERVIEWED FOR THIS WEBSITE.
BUT NOW, things are calmer, and on slower mornings like this one, I have a chance to peruse what it was that I had missed.
AND I CAN TELL YOU NOW: bathing is terrific.
AND SO IS THIS LINK.
FOLLOW it for lots of interviews with very smart, thoughtful heads, including HUEBEL, RICH, IWEALA, KOTTKE, CHANG, and THE GREAT LIEB, below, who is not only brilliant, but wears green pants like he has a license to.* (also **)
That is all.
* You can't see so here, but trust me. In real life, he has legs. In fact, a whole body.
**AND PS: where is SILVERMAN in this group?
BATHING
EATING MEALS WITH FRIENDS
REMEMBERING BIRTHDAYS
BEING INTERVIEWED FOR THIS WEBSITE.
BUT NOW, things are calmer, and on slower mornings like this one, I have a chance to peruse what it was that I had missed.
AND I CAN TELL YOU NOW: bathing is terrific.
AND SO IS THIS LINK.
FOLLOW it for lots of interviews with very smart, thoughtful heads, including HUEBEL, RICH, IWEALA, KOTTKE, CHANG, and THE GREAT LIEB, below, who is not only brilliant, but wears green pants like he has a license to.* (also **)
That is all.
* You can't see so here, but trust me. In real life, he has legs. In fact, a whole body.
**AND PS: where is SILVERMAN in this group?
Monday, June 16, 2008
AN EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT OF MY NEW BOOK
INSPIRED, AS USUAL, by Coulton,
HERE IS MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE, as a word cloud, using all 91,723 words of the manuscript as saved on 5-6-08.
INCREDIBLE word-clouding/end-of-day-erasing technology is courtesy: WORDLE.
That is all.
PS: HONESTLY, I didn't know my book had so much "Mr." Has to be the mole-man names.
HERE IS MORE INFORMATION THAN YOU REQUIRE, as a word cloud, using all 91,723 words of the manuscript as saved on 5-6-08.
INCREDIBLE word-clouding/end-of-day-erasing technology is courtesy: WORDLE.
That is all.
PS: HONESTLY, I didn't know my book had so much "Mr." Has to be the mole-man names.
I NORMALLY DON'T JOIN IN ON THE BLOGOSPHERIC CULTURE OF CONSTANT, DRONING COMPLAINT
AND I APPRECIATE HOW my commentary on advertising...
AND/OR my commentary on Brooklyn's ruination by various carpetbaggers like IKEA (or me),
ALL SENDS this imitation blog down a ETHICAL HEDGE MAZE full of twists and thorns...
BUT IN THIS CASE, I must agree with the actual blog called LOST CITY.
TO QUOTE Paul F. Tompkins, this is THE WORST.
That is all.
AND/OR my commentary on Brooklyn's ruination by various carpetbaggers like IKEA (or me),
ALL SENDS this imitation blog down a ETHICAL HEDGE MAZE full of twists and thorns...
BUT IN THIS CASE, I must agree with the actual blog called LOST CITY.
TO QUOTE Paul F. Tompkins, this is THE WORST.
That is all.
Monday, June 09, 2008
CAN NO LONGER TWITTER TODAY
Saturday, June 07, 2008
I SAID THANK YOU
AND SO SHOULD YOU. It's the right thing to do.
EVEN BEFORE CLINTON'S very gracious and powerful (and well written) speech, I was feeling this morning that lovely sensation that comes when bitterness evaporates, frustration disappears, and you remember that there are bigger fights worth having.
THAT FEELING OF SPONTANEOUS FORGIVENESS, as much of yourself for your own stupid anger, as of anyone else, is the closest thing I know to capital G grace.
AND IN A WAY THAT I COULDN'T BEFORE (sadly), I now feel a sudden surge of gratitude. I am grateful on behalf of my daughter (and my son) for her campaign. I never really saw this race in gender or race terms before (probably because I had the luxury of not having to). But I think it's evident and remarkable that either one of them could have easily won the nomination, and from there the presidency. And that is inspiring.
IT'S TIME TO SHAKE HANDS, and congratulate Sen. Hillary Clinton.
That is all.
PS: Now what?
EVEN BEFORE CLINTON'S very gracious and powerful (and well written) speech, I was feeling this morning that lovely sensation that comes when bitterness evaporates, frustration disappears, and you remember that there are bigger fights worth having.
THAT FEELING OF SPONTANEOUS FORGIVENESS, as much of yourself for your own stupid anger, as of anyone else, is the closest thing I know to capital G grace.
AND IN A WAY THAT I COULDN'T BEFORE (sadly), I now feel a sudden surge of gratitude. I am grateful on behalf of my daughter (and my son) for her campaign. I never really saw this race in gender or race terms before (probably because I had the luxury of not having to). But I think it's evident and remarkable that either one of them could have easily won the nomination, and from there the presidency. And that is inspiring.
IT'S TIME TO SHAKE HANDS, and congratulate Sen. Hillary Clinton.
That is all.
PS: Now what?
Thursday, June 05, 2008
FROM THE COMMENTS...
I THINK CAP'N JOY'S second comment (circa 2:24PM) offers the most humane, and frankly, most plausible explanation of HRC's speech.
BUT THE FACT THAT OBAMA is the nominee--and all that that means--really only sunk in last night, as I was heading south in a taxi on the FDR expressway.
IT IS LUCKY I WAS NOT DRIVING, because at that moment, my whole brain swerved off the road in happy surprise.
BUT THERE IS A LOT OF FDR EXPRESSWAY LEFT to travel. Onward.
That is all.
BUT THE FACT THAT OBAMA is the nominee--and all that that means--really only sunk in last night, as I was heading south in a taxi on the FDR expressway.
IT IS LUCKY I WAS NOT DRIVING, because at that moment, my whole brain swerved off the road in happy surprise.
BUT THERE IS A LOT OF FDR EXPRESSWAY LEFT to travel. Onward.
That is all.
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
CLINTON'S HAND: AT BEST, STRONG TRIPS
I CONFESS I WAS actually surprised when Clinton refused to congratulate Obama on winning the Democratic nomination.
(AND I'M EQUALLY SURPRISED by the NY Times's headline, which echoes her toxic contention that Barack Obama has merely "claimed" the nomination, when the fact is: he earned it).
IT IS NOT THAT I DIDN'T expect her to be tenacious. But I think anyone who gives it real and measured thought must conclude that she overplayed her hand.
TO VIGOROUSLY OPPOSE and even undermine your Democratic opponent in the heat of a hard fought primary contest is one thing.
HOWEVER: Barack Obama is the nominee of the party they both supposedly support. It was a close race, but he played by the rules they all agreed to, and he won.
TO WITHHOLD her support, as she did last night, and indeed to actually undermine his legitimacy in public is pretty poor form in itself.
BUT IF SHE REALLY IS SEEKING TO LEVERAGE HER VOTERS against a VP slot, or some other prize, how is openly blackmailing her own party's nominee going to help her?
AFTER ALL, whether or not you agree that Obama NEEDS Clinton's voters in order to win, you must accept that the argument itself has a flaw:
CLINTON DOES NOT OWN HER VOTERS.
(as Hilary Rosen points out ELSEWHERE)
YES: the latest polls suggest that 53% of those who voted for her will not vote for Obama. But that means that almost half will indeed naturally gravitate to the nominee without Clinton's express permission to do so.
BUT HOW MANY of those hardcore 53% will follow Clinton into political exile? Into a legacy-scorching feud with the nominee of her party? Or into a doomed Independent bid for President that would almost assure McCain the White House?
ANSWER=SOME, but not all.
AND I WOULD ARGUE that each day that she attempts to horde her supporters at the expense of the party's nominee, the more her reputation and influence within the party will suffer, and the fewer supporters she will actually have to bargain with.
IRONICALLY, (actually ironically), if she had held her cards a bit longer--if she had conceded and congratulated and endorsed Obama last night, she would have looked great. She could have easily conducted the same negotiations behind the scenes in private, and arguably from a much stronger position.
AS SUSANNAH MEADOWS knows all too well from my rantings yesterday in the park, as of 24 hours ago, I was even feeling that, should Clinton make a graceful exit, adding her to the ticket would be unavoidable, appropriate, and smart.
NOW, HOWEVER, I think caving to her open bullying would be disastrous to an Obama campaign and presidency. And I can't imagine I'm the only person to feel this way (just, perhaps, THE LEAST INFLUENTIAL).
BUT IT'S OK. If Obama wants to neutralize Clinton as a serious VP candidate, all he needs to do is wait. So long as she openly opposes her own party's nominee, her cards get worse by the hour.
That is all.
(AND I'M EQUALLY SURPRISED by the NY Times's headline, which echoes her toxic contention that Barack Obama has merely "claimed" the nomination, when the fact is: he earned it).
IT IS NOT THAT I DIDN'T expect her to be tenacious. But I think anyone who gives it real and measured thought must conclude that she overplayed her hand.
TO VIGOROUSLY OPPOSE and even undermine your Democratic opponent in the heat of a hard fought primary contest is one thing.
HOWEVER: Barack Obama is the nominee of the party they both supposedly support. It was a close race, but he played by the rules they all agreed to, and he won.
TO WITHHOLD her support, as she did last night, and indeed to actually undermine his legitimacy in public is pretty poor form in itself.
BUT IF SHE REALLY IS SEEKING TO LEVERAGE HER VOTERS against a VP slot, or some other prize, how is openly blackmailing her own party's nominee going to help her?
AFTER ALL, whether or not you agree that Obama NEEDS Clinton's voters in order to win, you must accept that the argument itself has a flaw:
CLINTON DOES NOT OWN HER VOTERS.
(as Hilary Rosen points out ELSEWHERE)
YES: the latest polls suggest that 53% of those who voted for her will not vote for Obama. But that means that almost half will indeed naturally gravitate to the nominee without Clinton's express permission to do so.
BUT HOW MANY of those hardcore 53% will follow Clinton into political exile? Into a legacy-scorching feud with the nominee of her party? Or into a doomed Independent bid for President that would almost assure McCain the White House?
ANSWER=SOME, but not all.
AND I WOULD ARGUE that each day that she attempts to horde her supporters at the expense of the party's nominee, the more her reputation and influence within the party will suffer, and the fewer supporters she will actually have to bargain with.
IRONICALLY, (actually ironically), if she had held her cards a bit longer--if she had conceded and congratulated and endorsed Obama last night, she would have looked great. She could have easily conducted the same negotiations behind the scenes in private, and arguably from a much stronger position.
AS SUSANNAH MEADOWS knows all too well from my rantings yesterday in the park, as of 24 hours ago, I was even feeling that, should Clinton make a graceful exit, adding her to the ticket would be unavoidable, appropriate, and smart.
NOW, HOWEVER, I think caving to her open bullying would be disastrous to an Obama campaign and presidency. And I can't imagine I'm the only person to feel this way (just, perhaps, THE LEAST INFLUENTIAL).
BUT IT'S OK. If Obama wants to neutralize Clinton as a serious VP candidate, all he needs to do is wait. So long as she openly opposes her own party's nominee, her cards get worse by the hour.
That is all.
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
GERVAIS PICKS "FLIGHT" OVER INVISIBILITY
AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW BY NOW, as you are all internet users, Gervais picked FLIGHT over INVISIBILITY when given the choice.
APPARENTLY, he was afraid that if he chose flight, I would curse him with the ability to only fly a few feet above the ground.
(APPARENTLY, he was also under the impression that I was actually able to magically grant him a superpower).
THEN HE ASKED ME about my nipples.
(Again)
HE HAS THE NICE, QUICKTIME version on his website. GO THERE.
BUT AS I CAN'T FIGURE OUT how to "embed" that version, here is a fuzzy, Youtubic version:
BUT REALLY, go to Ricky's site, as he has much more to offer, and you ought to really enjoy the work of GUY, the nice fellow behind the camera, in its full glory.
That is all.
APPARENTLY, he was afraid that if he chose flight, I would curse him with the ability to only fly a few feet above the ground.
(APPARENTLY, he was also under the impression that I was actually able to magically grant him a superpower).
THEN HE ASKED ME about my nipples.
(Again)
HE HAS THE NICE, QUICKTIME version on his website. GO THERE.
BUT AS I CAN'T FIGURE OUT how to "embed" that version, here is a fuzzy, Youtubic version:
BUT REALLY, go to Ricky's site, as he has much more to offer, and you ought to really enjoy the work of GUY, the nice fellow behind the camera, in its full glory.
That is all.
IN MY FIRST TIME AS AN IMITATION BLOGGER
I HAVE FALLEN PREY to the high enthusiasms of DRUDGE.
I MUST AGREE WITH this analysis. It is inappropriate and misleading for the press to call a race based on anything but public votes/endorsements.
AND BASED ON HRC'S mixed messages about what exactly is going to be happening during her speech tonight, I think it's too early to be drawing conclusions, or even jumping to them.
I APOLOGIZE for speaking too soon.
That is all.
I MUST AGREE WITH this analysis. It is inappropriate and misleading for the press to call a race based on anything but public votes/endorsements.
AND BASED ON HRC'S mixed messages about what exactly is going to be happening during her speech tonight, I think it's too early to be drawing conclusions, or even jumping to them.
I APOLOGIZE for speaking too soon.
That is all.
I HOPE
THE AP REPORTS: Obama is the nominee.
I HOPE, desperately, both for the Democratic party and for the legacy of my former President and current Senator, that HRC will stop by in St. Paul tonight for an endorsement.
That is all.
I HOPE, desperately, both for the Democratic party and for the legacy of my former President and current Senator, that HRC will stop by in St. Paul tonight for an endorsement.
That is all.
Sunday, June 01, 2008
HERE ARE THE E3 PODCASTS I MENTIONED
THANK YOU, PopSci, and thank you MIKE HANEY, for posting the link and also for sending us to LA so long ago.
IT WAS AMAZING, tiresome fun. And after the convention, I hung around in LA and met Richard Hatch.
That is all.
IT WAS AMAZING, tiresome fun. And after the convention, I hung around in LA and met Richard Hatch.
That is all.
SARAH AND ZANE AND MATTHEW ARE ALMOST HOME
THOSE OF YOU who read very very closely the acknowledgments of my first book know of my fondness for this little family, who have been traveling in IRELAND.
MEANWHILE: I have been at BEA, signing TAXONOMIES OF COMPLETE WORLD KNOWLEDGE and meeting booksellers/bookreaders/bookeaters in Los Angeles.
ED HUMES WAS THERE.
THE LAST TIME I was at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Coulton and I were podcasting from the 2005 E3.
THIS TIME=fewer people dressed as zombies, stormtroopers, and warrior princesses. But one man who was trying to sell his book on gardening did force me to smell two gigantic sprigs of rosemary he was carrying around; and another man was very convincingly dressed as TED TURNER.
That is all
MEANWHILE: I have been at BEA, signing TAXONOMIES OF COMPLETE WORLD KNOWLEDGE and meeting booksellers/bookreaders/bookeaters in Los Angeles.
ED HUMES WAS THERE.
THE LAST TIME I was at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Coulton and I were podcasting from the 2005 E3.
THIS TIME=fewer people dressed as zombies, stormtroopers, and warrior princesses. But one man who was trying to sell his book on gardening did force me to smell two gigantic sprigs of rosemary he was carrying around; and another man was very convincingly dressed as TED TURNER.
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