Thursday, April 30, 2009

HOLY SH*T!


Have you been sneezing, coughing, feeling achy?

DO I HAVE SWINE FLU?

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

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

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

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...

Monday, April 27, 2009

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--

Friday, April 24, 2009

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...

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

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....

Sunday, April 19, 2009

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!

Thursday, April 16, 2009

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...)



Thursday, April 9, 2009

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!