Cool breezes
In honor of turning on my air conditioning yesterday for the first time this year, I decided to use the above image as my desktop background. (You can click on the image to get a desktop-sized version, 327K)
I feel cooler already.
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H. Sandwich in 2004!
Mike VS: Well, if Joe Lieberman is running in 2004, I can’t see myself voting for him.
Me: Really? If a ham sandwich was running against Bush, I’d vote for it in a heartbeat.
I stand by that assertion. But if I had to pick a favorite among the Dems right now, I’d pick Howard Dean. He understands grassroots organization, he speaks his mind forcefully but with common sense, he makes good use of the internet, and he has none of the “let’s beat Bush by falling all over ourselves to be the most like him” stink that permeates most of the other candidates.
Plus, how could I not like a guy who presided over passing civil unions for gay couples in Vermont? He caught tremendous heat for it but still managed to get re-elected in 2000.
“Vermont is the only state in the country where everyone is equal under the law and I think that?s a good thing and I think most Americans believe that?s a good thing.”
-Howard Dean on “Meet the Press,” March 2003
I was convinced after watching Dean’s performance against the smirking Tim Russert that Dean has the ability to frame issues strongly, with an air of common sense, and still get his point across. Just what we need right now, if you ask me.
They say celebrity deaths come in threes. (Witness Gregory Peck, David Brinkley and Hume Cronyn.) They also say bad things in general come in threes.
My question is, if you’ve had three, are you done for a while?
After an extended period of mental and emotional funk, today I did a whole new design for a web client and a new logo for a print client.
I’m back, baby.
Adventures in movie rental
Like a lot of people, I think, my friend Paul and I often say to one another, “We should rent that!” after a movie we both like but haven’t seen in a long time comes up in conversation.
So the other night we decided to rent a movie. Neither of us could remember any of the “WSRT!” candidates, of course. I suggested we go to the fine local establishment, Bongo Video. Paul said he would rather go to Four Star, which does have a larger selection, but irritates me by being one of the most inaccessible retail establishments imaginable – it’s downtown Madison, across from about four always-filled parking spots, on a one-way street bordered by two more one-way streets.
So we venture forth to Four Star. And eventually we leave the store with “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” the one movie in creation that every video store on God’s green earth has 40 copies of.
To add insult to injury, when I made my special trip back to return the movie, I ran inside (since I was parked illegally) and handed the DVD to the girl behind the counter. She pointed to another empty counter five feet away, saying, “Returns are over there.”
Let me just say: I love Bongo Video.
I think this about sums it up
Elaine: I will never understand people.
Jerry: They’re the worst!
Great stuff from Joshua Marshall at Talking Points Memo. He articulates pretty clearly my view of the whole “Bush lied” idea.
You hate me! You really hate me!
I’ve won an award!
Paraphrasing Maureen Stapleton in the best Oscar acceptance speech ever: “I’d like to thank everyone I’ve ever met in my entire life.”
Don’t skip over the intro this time – this is one Flash page that’s worth it. What I especially like about this idea is a common symbol, the black spot, we can use to demonstrate how we’re “mad as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore.” How we won’t stand for another Orwellian program to push us further through the sausage grinder.
I know it’s a pipe dream that a black spot will get us out of all this trouble we’ve gotten ourselves into. But I refuse to stop trying.
“I pledge to do my duty…and take my country back.”