Metablog

When I first started this blog I blogged about why people would want to have blogs. Well, I'm starting to formulate an answer. I guess it's pretty obvious now that I think about it, but I admit that it hadn't occurred to me until last night at about 4:30 in the morning. Blogging is, dare I say, a potential form of... art.

I'm going to quickly qualify that with the statement that all blogs are not art, nor do I think my blog is art. But, as that most blogs are in some ways vessels for creative output (much like canvas and paint, or pen and paper), the format-blog is yet another medium by which the human subject can liberate its generally stifled sense of self.

Well, needless to say that since I was up till 4:30am, I'm in no condition to ramble on about such trivialities. But future blog entries about blogging (and art?) will fall under the metablog label, and I guess I'll poke around and see if anyone has written some academic literature on it. Maybe this can spawn an essay on Habermas and Blogging as Communicate Action, coupled with Gadamer's theory of Play and coming to understanding, by which the Blog-as-Art opens up new possibilities for the to-and-fro of discourse.

Sarah Palin - Part Two (Love Pita)

Well, I could write a lengthy follow-up to yesterdays post, but the Daily Show covered all the bases. Here's a link to last nights clip: Samantha Bee's part (at around 3 minutes in) is the best: ('Women don't vote with the big head, they vote with the little hood' Ha!)

If you didn't see it already, watch:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=183521&title=john-mccain-chooses-a-running

Sarah Palin

A lot of my friends have been asking me what I think of McCain's choice for VP: Sarah Palin. Well, I have a few thoughts, and here they are...

1) she looks like Tine Fey, which makes me like her on a superficial level. After all, Tina Fey is both super-cute and wickedly funny. Is Sarah funny too? We'll have to wait and see.

2) if McCain gets elected, it's quite likely that he will die in office (especially if he were to be re-elected). Well, I don't know that Palin could handle being president. And given that 'inexperience' is the big Republican criticism of Obama, Palin becomes a rather odd choice.

3) Her husband, Todd, is super hot. Sarah must like husky, bear-type guys, which means we have something in common.

4) it's pretty cool how she came to be Governor of Alaska. As far as Palin goes, she seems to be a *real* republican, not like these freaky nazi-esque neo-cons who are in office now.

5) she's pro-life. If I could conceive, I would probably be pro-life too. But I can't, and it's really not my concern anyway since I don't have a uterus.

6) Liberals will want us to believe that she would stack the supreme court with crazy right-wing judges. But maybe not. The first George Bush wasn't too bad when it came to nominating justices, and I think that McCain would probably be more moderate than his predecessor.

7) Her husband, Todd, is still really hot. (Do you think he's gay?)

Alright, that's the lo-down. Palin's pretty dope in my book and has excellent taste in men. Does that qualify her to be VP? Well, in America, why not?

God Prepares to Smite the Republicans

Well, though the future is still a bit hazy, it looks like as the diabolical Republicans gear up for their convention-of-hate&lies, not one but two big fat hurricanes will smack into Florida and the Gulf of Mexico (the latter of which might actually pummel New Orleans yet again).

And while I do admit that I myself am no theist, it does seem a bit ironic that those theistic Republicans are - serendipitously? - about to try and convince the country that they should be elected to power yet again while the country is simultaneously about to be reminded of Bush's failed response to Katrina three years ago.

Is God trying to tell us something? There sure weren't any frogs dropping from the sky when Obama gave his acceptance speech last night (which, by the way, was pretty convincing).

Will the levee's break just as McCain shuffles up to the podium? We will have to wait and see. But for now it looks like God likes democrats more than republicans. I guess Jesus will vote for Obama.

For Russia, With Love

Ah, Russia,
how fortunate we are to have you return into our lives,
sickle-rattling and growling at the Eastern borders of the Occident EU.
(though apparently, we should be angry with you.)

Oh, America,
you bloviate obnoxiously with a vice-tight lock on right
endlessly and hypocritically denouncing the very same actions you pursue
(have you not heard of that Golden Rule?)

And now you, Mr. Putin
(you're so divine!)
with your shiny dome and impish grin
(trying to put the union back together again)
are, dare we say
accusing the Republicans of conspiracy
just to get McCain elected
so their power will be unobstructed
for another four-year period
to further rape our beleaguered nation
a little more...
(the liberal whore!)

ah well, it's not our Georgia
not like the tanks are in Atlanta
and the flow of fuel that will be interrupted
was headed West across the Caucasus
(not to our ports of entry
that's from Saudi territory!)

and there is the added bonus
that when the fuel that is obstructed
is meant for our silly, passive cousins
it's the Euro that might soon falter
and bring strength back to the broken dollar
and the neo-cons will stay upon us
never to fall...
(privatization for all!)

Oh Russian Bear,
Please save our lot
expose the US plot!

Read more here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/29/russia.georgia

Hey Jack Cafferty!

Yeah, you Jack Cafferty from CNN! You totally suck dude. You're such an angry old prick, with your shitty op/ed pieces and your one-dimensional viewpoints. I know, I know, the world would be so much better if everyone thought just like you - in black and white. But we don't. So get over it. And one more thing: just fyi, Obama is not the messiah, just to give you the heads up.

Yes is Awesome

Yes is Awesome.

Close to the Edge Live, Parts one and two (cause the whole song is about 20 minutes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eFyevOrnAc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blOFLmH3uPI&feature=related

Why do people have blogs?

Consider my blog an experiment. I've been trying to figure out why people find it necessary to post their opinions on the web for others to read. Is it because they think that their opinions are so totally awesome that others would want to read them? Is it in hopes of being 'discovered' by the media, so that they can enter the 'blogosphere'? Or maybe it's that a blog is like bait, floating upon desolate electronic waters, waiting for some random fish to latch on and bring some excitement to the sad bloggers empty life.

Well, I dunno. My blog has actually been created - as previously mentioned - for experimental purposes. I want to know what blogging is all about, and what better way to find out than by blogging? Why would anyone read it? Fuck if I know. Why would I post on it? I don't know if I will. Why should you care? You shouldn't. Stop reading this crap. I suggest cracking open your favorite Marcuse book as an alternative, for it will almost certainly be more insightful.

No Way, Now How, No'bama

well, all my friends are up my ass to support the twit Obama, and I'm still saying 'no way'. And I can't help but wonder, did Hillary usher in that clever slogan of 'no way, no how, no mccain' knowing full well that her supporters would change it to no'bama? I think so, cause she's just so damn clever. After being robbed of the nomination by Obama's deceitful race-baiting and character assassination - not to mention the obvious chauvinism on the part of DNC leaders - now she is being coerced into encouraging her supporters to show 'unity' and climb on board the Obama bandwagon. Well, where was his show of unity when picking a VP? Nowhere. That cocky prick deserves to lose this election and I would love to watch it happen; the only problem is that in doing so, we get four more years of shitty republican rule. hmmm... I can't decide which would be worse.