Oct 26 2004
I can’t believe I’m doing this, but… the video for Eminem’s new single Mosh is a pretty damn powerful attempt to mobilize youth to vote against Bush.
Archive for October, 2004
Oct 21 2004
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson gets lucid (really?) and delivers his righteous anger in Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, 2004:
“Four more years of George Bush will be like four more years of syphilis,” the famed author said yesterday at a hastily called press conference near his home in Woody Creek, Colorado. “Only a fool or a sucker would vote for a dangerous loser like Bush,” Dr. Thompson warned. “He hates everything we stand for, and he knows we will vote against him in November.”
Thompson, long known for the eerie accuracy of his political instincts, went on to denounce Ralph Nader as “a worthless Judas Goat with no moral compass.”
“I endorsed John Kerry a long time ago,” he said, “and I will do everything in my power, short of roaming the streets with a meat hammer, to help him be the next President of the United States.”
Oct 17 2004
Rick Mercer’s show returns to CBC tomorrow, and his “Celebrity Tip” piece will come from noted academic and broadcaster Pierre Burton. Apparently the 84 year old will show how to roll a joint. Hee.
Oct 16 2004
A very interesting and concerning article by Ron Suskind of the New York Times on the increasing role of ‘faith’ — both Christian and otherwise — in George W. Bush’s America.
Oct 16 2004
There’s one thing everyone can agree upon no matter where you are on the political spectrum: the mainstream newsmedia in the U.S. is at best shallow, and at worst biased. Everyone knows it, but no one in the media every talks about it. Enter Jon Stewart on CNN’s Crossfire: kicking ass and taking names.
The link has the transcript and video, but you really have to see it to appreciate just how much Stewart refused to play along. I imagine it must be a little bewildering for a comedian to find himself as the most credible and well-known newsmedia analyst around, so props must be given again for not kowtowing to procedure and just trying to sell his book.
Oct 16 2004
Is your surname among the top 55,000 most popular in the US? Mine was number 53. I feel so common.
Oct 09 2004
Hallo cats and kittens.. I’m back from San Francisco and it’s nice to be home. I was at the Web 2.0 Conference, where pretty much anybody who created anything on the web five years ago gave a speech. There were some huge names in the Internet industry, some huge ideas floating around, and the whole thing seemed very well organized. It was nice to get that creative tech side of my brain working again.
Being in San Francisco was strange, though. I don’t know how many people at the conference were from out of the Bay Area, but I suspect not that many. The main moderator seemed to know all the people at the public microphones by their first name. I couldn’t help but think that it would have been a lot less expensive for the organizers to just throw a really big house party and invite all their friends.
One of my travelling companions made a very good observation: as far as we could tell, there were no brash young 21-year old upstarts with a lot of skill and some crazy ideas. I very much enjoyed hearing from established internet success stories, but much of it seemed to be people who were crazy kids in 1999. Where are the crazy kids of today?
Anyway, I really enjoyed myself (I LOVED San Francisco the city), and it was a fascinating conference, but it was nice to escape the bubble of the Bay Area and return to rainy Vancouver where no one I know uses the word ‘blogosphere’.