Site of the Day

Why did we not come up with this sooner?

http://dcinterns.blogspot.com/

NYC and Me?

I'm heading to NYC this weekend and every time I spend a weekend there I wonder aloud why I've not made the move to the Big Apple, (the fact that I'd have to live in a shoebox and eat ramen) notwithstanding...anyways Time Out NYC basically just reinforced what I already know about my potential relationship with New York!

Only until you age out.
Sorry to say it, but you're a temporary New Yorker. Sure, this city is awesome for running around and enjoying your youth, but you came here to work and play hard and plan on jetting at the first signs of crow's feet or when your parents stop financing that party lifestyle of yours. Plus, if you ever decide to settle down and have kids, there's no way you're bringing them up in a studio.

Do you belong in New York City?

HOLY SH*T!

Have you been sneezing, coughing, feeling achy?

DO I HAVE SWINE FLU?

Site of the Day.

Once again, another site (Maria) and I could be frequent contributors to... Thank you to the creators of

Texts From Last Night

Sneaking towards 60 Seats...

Arlen Spector's made it official...he's going to run as a Democrat in 2010! While this has a lot of us in a tizzy of excitement, we've got to take a deep breath here. Even though he will be running as a Dem, he doesn't necessarily support the progressive agenda in its entirety. He's already made it clear that he's upholding his stance on the Employee Free Choice Act (unfortunate for those of us who favor Unions), but at least he's progressive in his views on the environment and abortion.I mean I do wonder why he didn't decide to run as an Independent, but as they say - strength in numbers...

Not such a bad idea?

So this email made its round during the election cycle, and now, given the recent brouhaha surrounding proposed "Democrat-tax-hikes" Republicans decided to throw their version of a temper tantrum, thus nationwide on Tax-day "Tea Parties" were held, (JIC you missed Anderson Cooper's thought on the Tea Parties). Anyways, evidently in light of these peaceful protests, The New Yorker wrote it's own take on the tea parties, and it's pretty much a high-brow regurgitation, of the email below. Either way, both are pretty funny... - " (Note I included the email in an abbrev'd form so as not to garner hate-mail frm some of my Red-State compadres...
So Long, Pardner,"

Dear Red States:
We intend to form our own country, and we're taking the other Blue States with us. In case you aren't aware, that includes California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, and all the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California.

To sum up briefly: You get all the slave states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood. We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.

We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss. We get 85% of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama. We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states pay their fair share.

With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80% of the country's fresh water, more than 90% of the pineapple and lettuce, 92% of the nation's fresh fruit, 95% of America's quality wines, 90% of all cheese, 90% of the high tech industry, 95% of the corn and soybeans (thanks Iowa!), most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools plus Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.

With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88% of all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92% of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100% of the tornadoes, 90% of the hurricanes, 99% of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100% of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.

We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.

Additionally, 38% of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62% believe life is sacred unless we're discussing the war, the death penalty or gun laws, 44% say that evolution is only a theory, 53% that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61% of you crazy bastards believe you are people with higher morals then we lefties.

Finally, we're taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt weed they grow in Mexico

Peace out,
--Blue States--

Gavin Newsom for Governor?

I'm excited to see how things progress with the Gavin Newsom for Governor campaign, I love all he's done to push for gay rights, and clean-up the city of SF, but lately he's looking a little... off?Who knows, what's going on, but Newsom's looking a lot less like Bateman (Christian Bale) from American Psycho, and more and more like the sneaky (but kind hearted) butler from Mr. Deeds (John Turturro). I'm clearly all for a Democratic Governor, but this kind of freaked me out...

Happy Earth Day (for reals yo!)

While I know I should be looking at ways to green my day, recycle my soda can, and bike to work (which I did thanks to Jenna loaning me Princess Sparkle), Earth Day actually makes me a touch misty eyed at, not only the threat of global warming, but also at the memories of Earth Day's past in Isla Vista, CA. I have to give a shout out to Morgen, with whom I spent one of the greatest Earth Day's to-date dancing our faces off in Anisqoi'o Park to Blue Turtle Seduction (one of my favorite jam-bands to see live, great, great energy- see below for the hard evidence).

This was followed by an encore set played ocean front on Del Playa, we all packed ourselves in to noodle around on the deck of a house on the 6800 block...

As if I needed more reason to love SB....

Yoshimi

The Flaming Lips delivered, despite the typical awkward crowd that I guess I've just come to expect when seeing a show in this town. Though they made use wait an extra 20 mins, (I thought for sure we'd be caught in a serious thunder storm), lead singer Wayme Coyne strutted out on stage in his white-leisure suit and proceeded to rollick and roll atop the crowd in his trademark bubble, shooting off streamers and confetti (I know seemed like a bit of an oxymoron to be doing at Earth Day) before launching into a few opening acoustic songs. I'll admit opening with some lesser known songs started the show off a touch slow, but Wayne took it up a notch with a rather unexpected cover of...oh yea...Madonna's "Borderline" that at least got me jumping around and singing along. Bring on a round of "Yoshimi" and "She Don't Use Jelly" and pretty much all of us were satisfied with having waited it out for a free show. I mean I wasn't expecting to be blown away, and I wasn't but it was fun, and Ellen and I got to bop around on a Sunday to some sweet tunes. Done and done.

Green Apple Festival!

In the past week, thanks to the Dead show and now the Green Apple festival, I've been part and partie to more hippie-ish events in DC than throughout the past year. Today's event will take place on the mall, and I'm curious to see how the Flaming Lips will pull off their theatrical stage show midday, or if they won't bother with the traditional bubbles, confetti and costumes! Will let you know later!

Site of the Day.

This site appears to be relatively nascent, however it shows great promise, I hope they don't disappoint: Look at this Fucking Hipster

I know I'll certainly be a contributor, and I'll keep my fingers crossed that I don't somehow end up on here. (After my tour de SoCal it's not that much of a stretch...)

la la land

The lack of posting of late can be attributed 100% to the fact that I am currently vacationing whilst in between jobs! Spent the past 5 days in paradise aka Pacific Beach in san Diego, CA and am now galavanting around Hollywood. I start working in business development for Blue State Digital come Monday, so prepare yourself for some serious catch-up blogging soon!

Happy Birthday to ME!

Yes, as of yesterday, I am officially 25. And let me tell you, this year's off to a helluva start.

Cut Copy, lit my Heart on Fire!

Cut Copy could qualify as # 376 in the long list of "Stuff White People Like", but that's totally fine by me, especially given the energy of last night's show at the 930 Club! The lead singer of the Melbourne based band is a total cliche, but he's totally geek-chic as he flails around in too-tight-skinny jeans and a worn-out-tee, firing up the sold-out crowd by opening with their infectious hit "Hearts on Fire". They got fists pumping and the crowd jumping with their electro-beats; "Lights & Music" and "Feel the Love" and also sampled a new song (whose name I did not quite catch due to the hammered chick next to me dumping her beer down the front of my (skinny) jeans.) And as my friend Matt pointed out to me, "Out There on the Ice" definitely deserves a mention, that got people moving! Not the most amazing band to see live, and they played an exceptionally short set; leaving the stage after 45 mins, returning only to play a two-song encore. Weak. But I'd still recommend seeing them for a seriously fun night of tweaked-out-awkward-white-guy dancing! *Unfortunately they didn't allow camera's so I don't have any pictures of their stage set-up, but it featured really simple bars of retro neon lights, and did a dazzlingly good job of following the fast tempo of the show! Check out DCist for some great shots (and a glowing review)!

Bring It On.

"The sickest thing to drop from a Republican since Bill Bennett ate bad chili."

I try not to post too many clips from John Stewart or Colbert, but every once in a while my restraint wears thin, especially this "slam burger" from Colbert last week. Try to hang in there until around minute 3.

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Conservative Rap Battle - Michael Steele's Response
comedycentral.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Mark Sanford

Gentleman, Choose Your Weapons...

Pretty much every one's still in disbelief at AIG using their bailout money to give bonuses to "retain" people on staff; despite the fact that hundreds of incredibly brilliant bankers, traders and analysts have been getting laid off ALL over Wall Street. AIG felt it necessary to "reward" their barely competent staff and give them bonuses of up to $100,000 because, you know, they've done such a great job!

This such a ludicrous use of funds, but AIG CEO Edward Liddy seems to be orbiting on his own planet, why else would he think it a good idea dish out tax payer money in such an irresponsible and inappropriate fashion. Nearly every one's got ideas about what should happen to AIG, Liddy and the mysterious recipients of our money, but my favorite call-to-action thus far has got to be these words of wisdom from Iowa Senator-R, Chuck Grassley:

"I would suggest the first thing that would make me feel a little bit better toward them if they'd follow the Japanese example and come before the American people and take that deep bow and say, I'm sorry, and then either do one of two things: resign or go commit suicide.And in the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology."

Thank you Senator, while many have criticized you for your harsh words, I think America could use some good, old fashioned humility.

Neighborhood News

Tear. The only delicious and affordable breakfast/coffee/bagelsonUstreet joint has just (unexpectedly to me) closed their doors! I loved haunting Mocha Hut on the weekends for their delicious eggs-on-toast breakfast (so good and only like $4) and huge cups of dark-almost-as-good-as-Peet's coffee. Yummy food combined with free wi-fi...a loss to the neighborhood...

Joke of the Day.

I got a giggle outta this one, given my new hood and general 'tude of the area...

Q. How many hipsters does it take to screw in a light bulb?



A. It's a really obscure number, you probably haven't heard of it.

Modest Mouse: Fail.

Now that I'm living in the U street area, I've been hitting up live music like nobodies business.(As is evidenced by my back-to-back evenings at The Black Cat and the 930 Club, respectively). After having seen them nearly five years ago, just after the release of "Good News for People who Love Bad News", I'd been looking forward to last night's Modest Mouse concert for some time and considering the hype surrounding the sold-out show (please see this DCist find from last week), and re-sell ticket prices at nearly triple face value, I was expecting a solid night of cacophonous brass beats. (I personally think it's bad concert-karma to overprice your tickets that much, do undo to others as they say...)
Anyways, doors opened at 8, so we headed over around quarter to ten thinking we'd catch the tail end of the opener and then MM shortly thereafter. Wrong. We show up to a nearly empty 930 Club, catching the end of the first opening act, wait another thirty minutes before being assaulted by a Mexican version of Franz Ferdinand who decided it was a good idea to project awkward and unoriginal video montages onto a screen behind them. I suppose I wouldn't have been so irritated had they just played a few songs, but they took the stage for a solid hour and fifteen. The worst part was probably that the lead singer was crooning into the mike which had a camera mounted on it, that then projected waytoclose images of the sweaty singer's nose onto the screen behind him. I think he thought he was frontin' Menudo. No gracias.

Around Midnight 930 was packed and there was still no sign of the boys. They finally did come on around 12:15, had it been a Saturday night I probably wouldn't have minded as much, but coming off a long work week, then standing around guzzling luke warm Miller Lites (and Guinness in early honor of St Paddy's day) put me in no mood to then deal with the pre-teens attempting to mosh to "City made of Ashes". While the band played a lot of their popular songs and their stage lights were pretty cool, I wasn't even interested enough in their show to stay and hear them do "Float On" for the encore. That might have also been due to the fact that someone evidently had vomited in close proximity to us, and the barman attempted to cover up the smell by spraying it down with catastrophic amounts of disinfectant. (I had to use my pashmina like a burka to keep my nostrils from burning). All I can say is that I hope they improve their stage presence for the remainder of their tour, otherwise, I'd say keep your $50 and listen to them on your ipod en route to work. Much more enjoyable.

The Airborne Toxic Event

And no, I'm not talking about the George W. Bush Sewer Plant...this was the awesome show my roommate and I saw at The Black Cat last night! They sounded like a cross between Vampire Weekend, Ryan Adams and The Shins...I loved them! Click here to go to take a listen!

Mean Girls.

While I am still big no Meghan McCain fan, I can appreciate her foray into blogging, and I really did get a kick out of her blasting Ann Coulter, She does her research and speaks her mind, even if she's still a die-hard Republican, she's cool with me. Thus when I heard Laura Ingrahams snarky comments in response to McCain's interview with Rachael Maddow, I was pretty peeved. Conservative radio host Ingrahm didn't even address the real issues she has with McCain, rather she chose the tragically petty route of name calling. Not only name calling, but also the lowest form of female bitchiness...the weight slap. Yep, she went there. Laura Ingrahm, a seasoned conservative, resorted to calling the daughter of the former GOP presidential nominee fat.

“too plus sized to be a cast member on the television show The Real World”

McCain's 140 character response via Twitter, telling gals to embrace their curves, and to not let anybody make them feel bad about their body was beautifully executed. Good move, lady.

Stay classy Laura, you really proved your point on that one.

The PR firm from Hell.

Of all the talking heads out there, Rachael Maddow is far and away my favorite. I just love watching her unapolagetic sarcasm as she points out the absurdities of politicos, celebs and pretty much anyone else newsworthy or noteworthy. I watch her show fairly frequently and was pretty tickled watching her the other night as she absolutely nailed Burson Marsteller. See the clip below to watch Racheal Maddow in all her high-brow-sarcastic glory, rip Burson a new one. This is pretty much the worst publicity a PR firm can come by...but hey, who can really blame them? In this economic environment, at least they've got clients!

Summit Series

I was lucky enough to not only score some prime time at the Gibson Friday night, but to also get the low-down on the most recent Summit Series event held at the White House. My buddy Seth, filled me in on his day of discussion with young entrepreneurs including (my personal crush) Tom's Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie, Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, Ecko Enterprises founder Marc Ecko, Tishman Speyer co-CEO Rob Speyer, Trump SVP Ivanka Trump, Mint.com founder and CEO Aaron Patzer, College Humor co-founder Josh Abramson and others. He said they rapped about their experiences and bounced around ideas on a variety of topics including job creation, energy and the breadth and depth of new social media.

Dude. Let's Shred.

TGIF! My friend Karolina put it most succinctly:

"I thought you might enjoy this link becuase it has three things you like in it:

MGMT
Jackson Hole
Snowboarding"

She was so right too! I love watching these dudes get air over fresh powder in Jackson...love, love, love it!


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Jen is on Safari and So Can You!

My amazing roommate from college, Jen decided a little over 6 months ago to volunteer at an orphanage in Kenya. I'm so impressed with her for having followed through on this dream and now she's documenting her work and travels in an insightful blog, read-up at Jen Goes to Kenya.

How Madoff Effed Me.

So I really have no idea who funds the Birthright Israel trips, or how many donors give money in order to sponsor these totally free (yes, completely gratis) trips for young Jews (under the age of 26 - and who have never been there before-) but since the collapse of the Madoff ponzi scheme, lotsa Jews are hurting. And many of those people were former donors and sponsors of the Birthright Trips, so now even I have Madoff to thank for the collapse of my summer vacation. I might still get on a trip, but they're scaling back quite a bit because of the financial hit so many have taken. My cousin and I still might get to go, but it will likely be one of the late-August-it's-so-hot-nobody-wanted-to-go-anyways trips... boo hiss!

Site of the Day: Warning this might make you feel a little ill.

I honestly don't know if people actually eat these things, but something tells me they probably do...

Please see full site below, and while I take this Oreo tower (obvi accompanied by a gallon or so of milk) to the face; some of the other creations on the site are beyond heart-attack-in-a-box proportions. They're sometimes just down right disgusting and some probably top out at around 8,000 calories. Mmmmmm

This is Why You're Fat

Bailout.

There's been an ongoing push by GOP to frame the stimulus as a pet project loaded "with pork barrel spending". Well yes, be that as if may, if you think about it, almost everything is a pet project it just depends on your values. I personally love the fact that so much money is being channelled to education, public transportation and renewable energy. I am perfectly happy to have this money ear-marked for said projects. Let's be honest, when compared to what the Bush Administration has thrown at the DoD, we're talking pennies in comparison. The GOP has been combing through the bill, as everyone should, but they've spent so much time trying to find wasteful spending, they seem to have forgotten why we need this money in the first place. The unemployment rate in America is steadily rising and yet the elements Republicans are claiming to be wasteful don't make much sense to me. They've deemed elements such as "$500 million for state and local fire stations" as wasteful spending. Why would you NOT want your local fire department to be as up-to-date as possible? I mean my local fire dept does a helluva lot more than just save kittens from trees, I would hope that they are able to have a nice facility and the most recent advances in fire protection! We're talking lives here-

The more time spent trying to discredit this effort, the more the market's failing. While I am not expecting this stimulus to be the end of this recession (I mean by now it's global), unless completely mismanaged, even these "pet projects" will be creating much needed jobs! I'm holding my breath to see how many more projects GOP pulls out and highlights just for kicks...but I kinda like seeing what they deem "unnecessary".

JIC you forgot: "I found this deficit when I showed up."

Dayum! This speech by Obama last week pretty much calls out those who are opposing the stimulus package, nicely stated by fellow blogger Jon:

"Nice blend of righteous indignation with dismissive sarcasm that actually exposes the ignorance of a lot of the critics of the bill."

Good on paper, Bad in...yea...actually that'll never happen...

So I love being a single gal, but sometimes (like last night when every creeper at the bar decided they wanted to have an intense convo and share life stories and/or awkwardly grind up against my back) or when we decide to give someone a chance only to have an evening like the one described by a friend posted below things get a little out of hand...

So I went on a date with the "good on paper" guy. Harvard undergrad, went to private school in the DC area, grew up in Chevy Chase, in his last year of medical school. I had met him on jdate in JULY - SIX months ago. We had never met in person before tonight. He always gchatted me - I eventually deleted him from my gchat list - so he then found me on facebook chat. The last "chat" conversation we had I explained to him that my number of facebook friends had reached a dangerously low number to have extra riffraff hanging around and if he was to stay on the list, I would need to meet him or he would be deleted. As a result, he set up a date for tonight to go to trivia night at Wonderland Ballroom.

He wanted us to get there "early" (7:15) to ensure a table before the 7:30 start. As I was driving there, I was thinking - what am I getting into? The only trivia I know consists of topics found on Perez Hilton, LNS forums and the Facebook newsfeed. He, on the other hand, was really smart, not just based on his education, but based on the way he communicated on gchat and used "big words." I decided it was my best technique to blurt out that I hoped he wasn't expecting anything as soon as we met and exchanged an awkward hug. I explained that I would only be really good at "pop culture." Yes, I know, the true way to a man's heart - useless D-list celebrity knowledge, such as how many stints in rehab Kelly Osbourne has had (3).

As soon as I got past that, his presence really started to weigh in immediately followed by my "how am I going to get out of here" thoughts. Three things I initially noticed: unusually large head, unusually latino look for a Jewish boy (it was like he was Sephardi versus Ashkenazi Jewish) and unusually bad breath.

As soon as he started talking, I realized why it took him six months to contact me. He was the most socially awkward human being I had ever encountered. He was also REALLY cocky when he shouldn't be. He spent 20 minutes talking about himself, med school, Baltimore (did I mention he lives in Baltimore and drove 45 minutes for this date?), etc. He thought he was really cool and looked down upon my PR career (fair), my lack of caring about when the trivia would begin (fair) and my insistence that our trivia team name should be "we just met tonight" (unfair).

He finally absorbed that the trivia hadn't started, realized there was a second floor and led us up there. When we got up there at 7:40, the entire second floor was packed and I think he was annoyed that we hadn't realized that the trivia was occurring on this floor sooner. Only feeling partially bad that he drove 45 minutes to meet me, I got my hopes up that he would decide that it wasn't worth it to stay and we could leave. He didn't. He kind of then stood in the middle of the crowded bar not really knowing what to do. It was confusing to me. He just didn't know what to do. He was lost and couldn't make a decision. He was overwhelmed by the new situation we were in. Basically, he would not be a doctor I would want to count on.

I then took control (like I love to do). I walked up to the " stage area," grabbed some chairs piled up together (he insisted I ask permission before grabbing them - what a fool, doesn't he know I do what I want?) and carried them to the exact middle of the room to set them up. He then went to grab drinks (he gets credit for not judging my drink choice: "hard cider, if they don't have it, diet coke with lemon") and I set up the chairs in the small empty space of the middle of the room, which was clearly a fire hazard. I decided to ask the band geek group (pimply greasy haired trench coat boy, african american dwarf, round persian boy and long blonde hair giant man) to move their table slightly so I could move my chair over and wouldn't be in the middle of the room. The long blonde hair giant man then gave me a lecture. Some highlights: "We got here at SIX PM to reserve this table. Why would we help YOU when YOU got here SO late?" He ended it with "I don't mean to be an asshole or anything." I replied, "You are an asshole," with a strange bitchy monotone combination tone, which did its job of portraying how much I HATED him (and the situation I was in). He will end up alone.

Eventually, I decided to join a table: fat girl who was bossy and wanted to be the only person who wrote for the team, awkward pimply long hair glasses guy and unfortunate girl with eyes too close together who had the name, I am not making this up, "Jess." There were 7 rounds. The only round I really contributed to was the "Political Sex Scandals" round where I had to match the call girl (or boy) with the politician. I also knew the bonus question to which my answer was "full frontal male nudity." All we needed was "pornography" to win.

Also, those "drinks" he offered to get in the beginning, he never got. I don't know why. Finally after round 4 of trivia (aka hell on earth), I asked him if he was going to get the drinks. He then seemed annoyed that I asked when he had offered in the first place. They had Woodchuck Cider. I scored. It was the big moment of the night.

At the end of the night, we awkwardly hugged and he told me to drive home safe. That was it. That was 2.5 hours I will never get back. The only fortunate part was that I spent the majority of my time talking to a table of losers (the date, fat girl, glasses boy and "Jess") instead of just one loser (the date). I also enjoyed exchanging death looks with the band geek group, especially the long blonde hair giant man.

Site of the Day

Is George W. Bush President?

The District

I don't know about you, but I cannot stand MTV's "The City" and yet, living with 5 other gals I find myself each week staring transfixed by the idiocy of Whitney, the snarky bitchiness that is Olivia and Jay, who's just a total douche.

And yet, Newsweek hits the nail on the head with "The District", this parody even gets the "long meaningful looks" that end each scene of "The City"...ch-ch-check it!

I love Jesus, but I drink a little.

Ellen, I love your show and I'm regular...I mean, a regular watcher.
Just watch this clip. It's awesome.
Keep on keeping on-

Sorry Mom!

Another amazing time-suck for your day...

It should be noted though, that you should feel free to send your own stories to both these sites! God knows I should!

Sorry, Mom (I bang the worst dudes)

F%^$ My Life.

Ok so while I'd like to be purely political, sometimes there are certain things I find online that MUST be shared, such as this site...gifted to me via a coworker...
I think we'll all be able to relate. And as a result, I now follow every statement with an "FML".

For instance:

"Today, I took a picture for my photography course of a random adorable couple kissing in the snow. Later, upon closer inspection, I realized that the guy was my boyfriend. FML"
or

"Today, I found some porn videos in my parents room. I put them in and began to toss off, but as the camera moved up I realized it was my mom and my step-dad. FML"

Please see the link.

http://www.fmylife.com/

White House 2.0

While the Washington Post reported that the new administration faced struggles on its' first day due to the incredibly out-dated computer systems left in the WH, I was impressed first with the Change.gov site created by the transition team and now the new Whitehouse.gov. Imagine that, a government that actually wants you to know what they're doing? Hot damn!

High Five!

You know the District's gone big-time when the Almost Twins hit town! Check this out...all our local big-shots are high-fiving it up all over DC!

HIGH-FIVE INAUGURATION! - watch more funny videos

"Hey Hey Hey. Good Bye!"

If you weren't there you might have missed the fact that as Executive One flew over the mall on 1/20, with former Prez Bush, the entire mass of people on the Mall started singing "nah nah nah nah. nah nah nah nah. Hey hey hey. Goooood bye!"

And a special thank you to Letterman for putting together this amazing montage. Now, I was out of the country for the 2004 election, but this really makes me wonder about who the hell voted for this moron! Good riddance retard.

44. We Are One.

After this insane inaugural weekend, I vowed to re-commence blogging, especially during the first 100 days of Obama in office.

Also, let me just describe, briefly, how U-N-B-E-L-I-E-V-A-B-L-E this entire week has been. Sunday's "We Are One" concert kicked off the festivities, in what felt like a giant sing-a-long on the National Mall. Seriously, Garth Brooks killed it. He managed to get even the SOBs like me who were watching the jumbotrons near the Monument to jump up-and-down to "Shout!" and sing along to "American Pie". Mary J. got a roar from the crowd and an especially vigorous round of applause for her rendition of "Lean on Me", while my girlfriend Eleni and I loved the trifecta of Wil.i.Am, Sheryl Crow and Herbie Hancock singing "One Love". All in all, it was an incredible show, with the HBO cameras panning over to catch Michelle Obama singing along and Sasha and Malia snapping photos of Beyonce and Shakira. I think what also impressed me was the sheer size and energy of the crowd. After waiting in a line to get in for nearly 2 hours, the gates were closed and we were told to watch from in from of the Monument. I thought this could be the moment when things get ugly and the mod gets angry, but I was proven wrong. Everyone peacefully made their way to the 'trons and all danced and sang together. (SO cheesey, but, hell I loved every minute of it!)