December 30, 2008
Do it if you feel it.
I get a virtual shit-ton of donation requests at the end of the e-year, but I got to thinking about how much I use Ye Olde Wiki and although every appeal has merits, this seemed worthy of what teeny tiny moneys I could muster. How internets of me.
XOX&HNY,
DANER
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December 23, 2008
Just checking.
XOX
YR FRIEND
DANA
posted by dana at 11:14 PM | Comments (1)
I do like this
Bars & Tones from André F. Chocron on Vimeo.
via Elias. Thanks man. Penguin Cafe Orch is good musics.
X
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posted by dana at 11:44 AM | Comments (0)
December 19, 2008
Kid wrecks it.
Check this little lovable geek out:
Via The Grip
Could this be Jack in two years time? We'll see...
XO
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December 18, 2008
They Boldly Went
Holy. Crap. Turkish. Star. Trek.
Via the excellent IO9
Dear God - My mind! Rich and Andi, if yr out there, this one's for you...
XO
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posted by dana at 08:34 AM | Comments (1)
December 14, 2008
Size 10's
XO
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December 12, 2008
Rest, Bettie.
RIP Bettie Page 1923-2008.
Here's to hotness. We need more hotness in this world.
Wait, maybe that's just me.
Jeez,
DANER
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December 10, 2008
What's right.
Huckabee strikes me as one of the more dangerous political entities on the right, in that he is so carefully measured and "likeable". He has the folksy, common-sense Reagan-esque vibe down pat, yet is clearly quick-witted and thoughtful... and that makes his views on social conservatism all the more terrifying (to me at least). Check it, however: Righteous articulation does not impede what's right. I was captivated by this interview:
Go Jon.
Listen, I know this blog has basically become a tumbleog, but I don't mind so much... I guess I just wish I had more time and energy to write things of actual merit and/or value and/or meaning.
Whatevs - On with the comedy jokes and Ye Olde Tube vids. I guess I've always been a brain-dead recycler.
X
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posted by dana at 11:38 PM | Comments (0)
December 07, 2008
Fully J'd in my P when I saw this
So so happy to see Jorma & Akiva in this. Easily the best Digital Short next to Lazy Sunday (maybe D in a B):
More comedy jokes,
YR BEST FRIEND
DANA
posted by dana at 11:49 PM | Comments (1)
November 27, 2008
Thanks
XO
DANER
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November 22, 2008
Stars fall from the sky
Here's a vid of a meteorite that fell in Western Canada on Thursday - awesomely awesome cool.
(via io9.com)
YR FRIEND,
DANER
posted by dana at 11:28 AM | Comments (1)
November 19, 2008
Um...
More priceless "journalism" from Bill-O. I'm, uh, speechless:
Thoughts on this, you secular-progressive-dope-fiend-abortion-loving-hippy-freeloaders?
XO
DANA
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November 13, 2008
Sweet
(Photo by Time photographer Callie Shell - found it here via Fecal Face.)
XO
DANA
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November 07, 2008
"We just weren't allowed to say that during the election..."
Laffs!
XO
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November 03, 2008
Tomorrow.
Unbelievable waves of semi-manic anxiety and anticipation are making it difficult to do anything other than ramble incoherently to friends and relatives about voting. So I'll keep this short, then move on to wine and Mad Men in an attempt to NOT think about Florida.
I went with my fam and friends to see Barack Obama speak in Reno last weekend - it was very early in the morning and rapidly went from desert cold to desert hot, then desert rad as Obama took the stage.
The rally was very similar in tone and content to the one's he been at in this final week. He thanked the audience for their thoughts and prayers for his grandmother's health, this being his first public appearance since traveling to Hawaii to be with her. Update: Just found out today that she has passed away, so tragic that she won't see her grandson take the oath... Overall, he was gracious and lucid and in good humor, even when the power went out on stage briefly - he joked about the economy being so bad that they couldn't pay the power bill or, "Is there a McCain supporter backstage flipping the switch off?" The result was that we left with what my buddy Lee called, "The Barack Buzz". Dude is truly a rock star, albeit a humble and articulate one:
Here's to hope. And here's to the wish that we'll have something to celebrate tomorrow.
LOVE,
YOUR FRIEND DANA
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November 01, 2008
My friends, my friends...
(via Kilgore Trout)
XOX
DANA
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October 31, 2008
Holy crap, I'm in love
Suzi Quatro.
Admittedly, I'm a sucker for cute little tough girls who play bass and sing like they eat whiskey and drink broken glass, but jeez.
With cheers to Nathan who got me started on a Ye Olde Tube/Suzi carousal.
XOX
DANA
posted by dana at 11:29 AM | Comments (0)
October 23, 2008
Yeah, it's a bummer.
(via Fecal Face)
Warning: do NOT watch this if you are currently suffering from severe pre-election anxiety or depression!
Whatevs. I'm still hopeful that this represents just a small fragment of our society. I have to believe that in order to maintain any objective sense of reality right now.
XO
DANA
PS. Jack & I are back from Reno - volunteering was awesome, the Jo show was great, and we had a great time canvassing - only had a few dust-ups with haters. Pics and more later.
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October 19, 2008
Going to NV
Jack & I are heading to the BATTLEGROUND state of NV tomorrow to canvass for the Obama campaign! BATTLE-stoked. And Jack is too, it's crazy - my nine-year-old son wants to talk politics constantly. He's really fascinated with the candidates and their differences.
(Plus getting a few days off from school is kinda cool.)
Anyway, I'm proud of him and glad to have the time to help out. We're going straight to a venue somewhere in Reno to do the sound for a campaign concert event - a fundraiser I think? Joanna Newsom is playing - will rule it just a little bit? You betcha. Then we'll spend the next couple of days canvassing door-to-door, which will rule as well.
Oh, and speaking of RULING:
Eloquent, impassioned, enlightened - this is my favorite endorsement thus far...
More soon...
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posted by dana at 09:39 PM | Comments (1)
October 17, 2008
Whoa. Whoa.
I actually love our next President. He's a funnyman!
XO
DANER
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September 19, 2008
Killing it.
Battles, man, Battles!
I want to start a band again.
xo
DANA
posted by dana at 08:19 AM | Comments (1)
September 12, 2008
No, SERIOUSLY?
This woman can't tell the diff between the Bush "Doctrine" and a hole in her face. Listen to her face-hole's words and be afraid:
What?
DANA
posted by dana at 02:38 PM | Comments (0)
September 03, 2008
Seriously?
Papa don't preach,
DANA
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September 02, 2008
This, from the party of abstinence-only sex ed.
My friend Will sent this to me - I dunno who to credit, but they are brilliant and witty and deserve a writing job on The Daily Show, stat.
(Click for the original, full-size)
XO
DANA
posted by dana at 04:59 PM | Comments (1)
September 01, 2008
Really stupid. And dumb.
Donnez-moi une rupture, Françoise!
XO
DANEIR
posted by dana at 09:28 PM | Comments (0)
August 28, 2008
Ok, yeah.
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August 06, 2008
Hot pants
XO
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July 21, 2008
FISA overview
Via Stretta's blog, here is a compelling overview of FISA, its history and the impact it will have on our lives - check it out:
XO
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posted by dana at 02:23 PM | Comments (0)
July 20, 2008
Keef breaks it down
If this is even a ROUGH estimation of how the Obama camp views his FISA vote, then I'm happy.
(Olbermann is nuckin' futs, of course, but hey, I love the guy)
XO
D
posted by dana at 07:20 PM | Comments (0)
The Rebuttal
I asked my friend Jonah what he thought of the issue/non-issue outlined in my last post - he forwarded me an article which I'll reprint here, 'cos it's brief and to the point. And I agree with the core of it... up until the author asks that anyone critical of Obama's perceived centrism "get over it". The problem as I see it with the FISA vote is that not ONE of my fellow Obama loyalists are asking WHY? Why did he feel he had to vote for it after harshly criticizing it and other tangential Patriot Act infringements?
I honestly don't know - I guess I'll write someone at the campaign and ask... nicely.
Anyway, here's that article by Trey Ellis (originally posted on Huffington):
"What If Obama Never Left the Center?"
What if Obama isn't tacking to the center just for the general election as all us good progressives would like to think, but instead he genuinely believes his positions? What if he meant it all along when he said he didn't see red states or blue states but the United States? What if he wasn't kidding when he blamed both the old guard Republicans and the old school Dems for the gridlock that has paralyzed the past decade of so? What if he really is very Christian and not just pretending, as you lefty atheists not-so-secretly wish? I can't tell you how many times I've heard friends say, "He's just like us. He can't really believe that mumbo-jumbo." (For the record I'm more of a Zen Buddhist but I think it takes a nuanced mind for a man of intellect to also be a man of faith.)
I was a little late to jump on the Obama bandwagon for many of these very reasons. I didn't find his positions, especially on universal health care, as progressive as I would have wished. Both he and Hillary seemed very much of the DLC centrist mold despite calling themselves progressives.
Paul Krugman has been writing about this for months but you Obama fans to the left of him just didn't want to listen. The same thing happened with Howard Dean. He was an openly centrist, pro-business governor, but because he was anti-war, progressives ignored his record and just assumed he was to the left of Ralph Nader.
I came around to Obama 100% only after his transcendent Philadelphia race speech. I decided I didn't have to agree with him on all the issues. And his relative hawkishness for a "liberal" I couldn't agree with more. I shudder to think of Dennis Kucinich as Commander-in-Chief. There really are bad guys out there hellbent on our annihilation and we really do have to defend ourselves. Of course that doesn't mean the use of dumb sticks as the Bush administration has done, but it doesn't mean just traipsing around with a bag full of carrots either.
Obama's strength isn't his slavish adherence to party line but his ability, issue by issue, to decide the right medicine at the right moment.
If that makes you call him a centrist then so be it. Get over it already. He's nobody's man but his own.
posted by dana at 05:48 PM | Comments (0)
July 19, 2008
Pissed Pistopherson
I'm just a little mad at our next President:
NY Times article on the FISA/NSA wiretapping vote (I think login is required)
I understand that, hey, we're in the general election now, dude, and, like, he's gonna be a different candidate than he was in the primaries. And I am admittedly a battle-scarred, cynical, liberal-ass voter. But give me a break - even Hillary voted against this nonsense bill (yes, I know, she can afford to). Disappointing in light of his previous stance on the issue (filibuster, anyone?). I don't see the political "reality" in this. It's especially troubling in light of his other recent semi-significant flips.
Oh, I dunno, maybe I'm just being alarmist. But I've been so willing to fully commit to Candidate Barry, in both heart and wallet, that seeing him move to the center (as the Dems so often do in the general) just stings a bit. You wouldn't allow a good friend to get away with an analogous breach of trust without calling bullshit, right? So let's call it what it is.
I'm with my friend Miguel on this: ANY vote supporting the policies surrounding the Patriot Act is a BAD vote.
P.S. Back on offense (defense?), however - the New Yorker editors are indeed wearing asshats. Satire only works when, oh, say, more than half the country understands that Obama ISN'T a radical Muslim. Poor taste and poor judgement.
YR FRIEND
DANA
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