I want a "koala".
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yes. the daily show on the new yorker cover. | 16 july 2008 -- 8:47 am
This just the parts about the New Yorker cover. The whole show is on hulu, which has a really nicest embedding link trick of letting you choose start and stop times, so you can tune in for the Pierce Brosnan interview at the end on your own time. John Stewart gets a little "special commenty", but the clips of the media coverage alone are worth it.
This, though is the win, and Obama's missed opportunity to show that liberals aren't entirely humorless:
This just the parts about the New Yorker cover. The whole show is on hulu, which has a really nicest embedding link trick of letting you choose start and stop times, so you can tune in for the Pierce Brosnan interview at the end on your own time. John Stewart gets a little "special commenty", but the clips of the media coverage alone are worth it.
This, though is the win, and Obama's missed opportunity to show that liberals aren't entirely humorless:
Obama's camp initially agreed that the cartoon was `tasteless and offensive'. Really? You know what your response should have been? It's very easy. Here let me put the statement out for you: "Barack Obama is in no way upset by the cartoon that depicts him as a Muslim extremist. Because you know who gets upset about cartoons? Muslim extremists. Of which Barack Obama is not. It's just a fucking cartoon."
mood : known for their "provocative" covers
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Foals, new favorite live band of the moment | 15 july 2008 -- 10:07 am
On Sunday, the first thing I thought when Foals ended their set was, "more of this please, preferably as soon as possible." Awesomely, they were one of the "secret" guests at Neumo's last night with Wolf Parade headlining. Both are bands with newish albums that are good, without identifiable "hits" as far as I can tell, that I like more and more every time I see them played in person. One from each is on sciencevsromance . muxtape .com
If there are complaints to be made, it is that the crowdsurfing dude crowd is quickly learning the new songs from Wolf Parade's Return to Mount Zoomer and that the band split "Sons & Daughters of Holy Ghosts" far apart from "I'll Believe in Anything" in their set.
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no age | 14 july 2008 -- 1:25 am
I spent the last two days in the sun in Redmond (where it is easy to get lost at night) watching twenty years of Sub Pop celebrate their label's birthday in a park. Today's early evening segment relied a bit more on nostalgia I didn't have than I might have liked, but there's no reason at all to quibble about a day that included Grand Archives, Blitzen Trapper, Foals, No Age, and Wolf Parade. Particularly when the prior day had a healthy dose of Fleet Foxes, Low, the Constantines, Flight of the Conchords, the Vaselines [!!!] and Iron & Wine.
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who wants to go to the "secret" show tomorrow at Neumo's?10 comments | post.
242-242 | 08 july 2008 -- 10:31 pm
for the first time, after many days of incredibly quick and helpful responses, chacha.com gave me an incorrect undecipherable answer this afternoon.
Maybe I should have asked it to help me decide what kind of ice cream to get at Molly Moon's tonight when we went there to take advantage of the long nice day after getting dinner and drinks at Linda's.
Maybe I should have asked it to help me decide what kind of ice cream to get at Molly Moon's tonight when we went there to take advantage of the long nice day after getting dinner and drinks at Linda's.
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out of office autoreply deactivated | 08 july 2008 -- 6:17 pm
On my last night in Ludington, a huge thunderstorm passed over the lake in the middle of the night while I was sleeping in an upstairs bedroom and apparently being eaten alive by a flood-enhanced mosquito population. Having lived in Seattle for so long, I'm out of practice for both. I woke up for about an hour, unplugged my electronics, closed the windows, and tried not to dwell on the possibility of an old tree falling through the roof by listening to a This American Life podcast.
On the drive to the airport, there was more rain and fake construction that would have caused me to miss my flight if the same weather hadn't led to my flight being delayed. Now I'm back in Seattle, catching up on work, getting ready for a meeting, and trying not to scratch all of those mosquito bites on my feet and ankles. It just might drive me crazy.
On my last night in Ludington, a huge thunderstorm passed over the lake in the middle of the night while I was sleeping in an upstairs bedroom and apparently being eaten alive by a flood-enhanced mosquito population. Having lived in Seattle for so long, I'm out of practice for both. I woke up for about an hour, unplugged my electronics, closed the windows, and tried not to dwell on the possibility of an old tree falling through the roof by listening to a This American Life podcast.
On the drive to the airport, there was more rain and fake construction that would have caused me to miss my flight if the same weather hadn't led to my flight being delayed. Now I'm back in Seattle, catching up on work, getting ready for a meeting, and trying not to scratch all of those mosquito bites on my feet and ankles. It just might drive me crazy.
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