While I’m blogging…
In the last couple of weeks my loving look back to the early nineties has sometimes brought a tear (of joy, of course) to my eye. Witness the journey:
- a few weeks ago, Renda brought her old cds to the office. I filled in some of the gaps in my nineties music collection, [...]

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via Andy Pressman. One of the most brilliant and culturally appropriate things I’ve seen in a long time. Yes We Can Has (cheezburgers)
See ya later, hunkz. It’s an election year.

Update: New LolObama blogs:
i can has nomination?

and Lol Obama

and, potentially the weirdest one, cats for obama
last but not least, people keep fainting at obama rallies
what the [...]

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After a leisurely 90 minute lunch at home (cabbage, hummus, and tomato sandwich), I returned for 45 more minutes of meditative news-viewing. I had just started a new Facebook scrabble game (in which I opened with a bingo, “UNEATEN”), and they’re dismissing us. For eight years! I’m already thinking of volunteering, sometime when I have [...]

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Unlike most people, I’ve been looking forward to jury duty for my whole life. Something about the formality, the sense of civic obligation, and the potentially bus-terminalish humiliation of it has called my name since I first said the pledge of allegiance.
I have only been here for four hours, and it has not let me [...]

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My favorite part of the night was when Diane Sawyer told Bill Richardson he was having some sort of Justin Timberlake moment.
Also, the term “lunch-pail Democrats.”

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…the voting fever! But not the Obama fever, I’m afraid.

Nothing interesting happened today at my polling place, mostly because we still have the same voting machines that we’ve had since New York became a state. (Fuck HAVA!) So instead I’ll share with you my experience from voting in the 2004 primary. (Sharpton ‘04, totally not [...]

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Guys check this out. I was watching CNN Election Center tonight, and a Mike Huckabee ad came on. He said he wanted to ‘be the President who nails the “going out of business” sign on the door of the IRS.’ I have not really been following the Republican race, but Huckabee is zanier than I [...]

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Polling places are open tomorrow from 6am to 9pm. Don’t know where your polling place is? Ask this website. If you’re polling place is around battery park or city hall, I advice that you try to vote early in the morning or late in the evening to avoid the crowds from the ny giants ticker-tape [...]

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