right now All Tomorrow's Parties is going on down in the lbc.

its a two-day music festival starring the guy from the velvet underground, the guy from pavement, modest mouse, the shins, the cramps and a bunch of other bands.

a funny little comment war broke out on the blogging.la site about whether ATP is a better two-day concert than this summer's Coachella.

some guy was all, ATP is nothing compared to Coachella, and thats when a guy named Travis went off:

You're tripping man. Coachella 2004 sucked balls, unless you caught some shit I missed out there in the 200 degree heat. The only good bands I SAW were Kraftwerk, The Pixies (but they barely count cuz they're old, fat, sober, and I saw them the night before at the Glasshouse, which was ten times better than seeing them in a field), Radiohead (who totally sucked, they were acutally OUT OF TUNE on some songs), and I guess you could say The Cure (but they were so quiet they might as well of not played, plus they played a bunch of new songs from their ROSS ROBINSON record). ATP slays that shit.

to which a guy named Bacon said, "I'm not sure you were at the same festival I was at. The Pixies were fucking tight. Radiohead was amazing. Air was dope too.. not to mention all the good Hip Hop I saw from Dizzee Rascal and the Streets etc..

"When its all said and done, the acts that played at Coachella 2004 had way more of a profound and direct influence on music than any of these bands at this festival will ever have."

and then someone named RS said, "Modest Mouse should have voted THEMSELVES off the list of bands..."

and a guy named Michael said, "Travis, has it ever occured to you that some people might like the other music festivals because they know and like the bands playing there? You seem quick to deem everything that you're not interested in as 'sucking' or 'shitty'. Why not just be excited about this festival instead of playing the 'I'm cool and indy and your American festivals suck' card?"

which only made Travis nuts:

Jesus, everyone's a fucking cry baby around here. Hang on while I rub your pussies.

Did it ever occur to me that people like bands cuz they know them? What the fuck does that mean? Who doesn't know Lou Reed? What planet are you from? Did it ever occur to YOU that most people are total fucking morons? I deemed Coachella shitty not cuz it wasn't interesting to me, but because it WAS shitty. The sound was shit, the heat was shit, the drive out there was shit, and the line up was shit. That equals shitty to me. Sorry if you disagree, but I'm right and you're wrong. If your idea of a good time is watching hip hop live (which in case you weren't sure, is people yelling at you - hip hop live is about as fun as going to the dentist) or Air live (which as good as their records might be is TOTALLY FUCKING BORING TO WATCH LIVE - wanna watch me check my email?), DURING THE DAY in a field in the desert, then KNOCK YOURSELF OUT CHAMP!

Profound and direct influence on music? What? LOU REED BITCH!

You guys can skip The Cramps, Old Lou, Black Heart, The Shins, Stephen Malkmus, White Magic, and Lungfish and wait til Coachella next year you fucking cry babies

later Bacon said:

Congratulations. You don't like hip-hop. I guess this makes you some sort of rebel or something.

I was born and raised on the shit, it aint gonna change because some pasty silverlaked-haired ironic t-shirt guy told me that hating hip hop like its disco circa 1980 makes him cooler than me.

Air was a great performance they were up there with a live band, were you watching them or are you just basing your opinion on what you saw??heard from your buddyhead cronies?

Also, its hilarious that your telling me I'm bitching like a little girl. Isnt that what buddyhead is all about?? Complaining about people bitching on the Internets is like complaining about people driving on the street.

That's what its there for.

You and all your Rilo-Kiley-Slater-Kinney wannabe friends have fun trying to out indy each other this weekend.

and our pal Travis responded thusly:

You were born and raised by an English dude rapping about knickers? That would explain it allot. Sucks to be you. And ummm dude, you just showed me all your cards… bad move. I was raised on BLACK SABBATH and LES ZEPPELIN and THE STOOGES and MINOR THREAT and BAD BRAINS… you might wanna check out the first three.

But hey now Mr. Hip Hop guy, don't get me wrong, I like rap ON RECORD when they've got something to say like Public Enemy or NWA did. Yes, that shit is rad. But do I wanna stand in a field and watch The Streets? NO BRO!

Silverlake? Ironic t shirts? You’ve got the wrong guy… I’m not who you think I am, but nice try. And my location has nothing to do with why I'm cooler than you man... I live in West Hollywood sizzlechest.

And yes I saw AIR... and if they had a “live band” hows comes THEY DIDNT HAVE A DRUMMER? WHERE THE FUCK WHERE THE DRUM SOUNDS COMING FROM SMART GUY?!?! Yes, the one dude was playing guitar over samples and keyboards and dats yes…. GREAT! How exciting… Not.

Buddyhead isn't about bitching... it's us entertaining ourselves while dorks get their panties in a bunch over what we say... just like I'm doing here on this site with you jackasses... who’s got the most comments on a post? I DO!

And for the record, Rilo Kiley sucks shit and Sleater Kinney rock for three girls but you won't catch me listening to it.

Sorry everyone... my next post will be about how rad rap music is and how nice everything is...

highly entertaining which is why you should read the whole thing

h/t sean bonner + layne edjumacates the jesuslanders + sorry everybody + hot prison guard

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a year ago today

Thursday, November 06, 2003

one of the nice things about living in hollywood is that theres people from all over the world here. which means theres food from all over the world.

the food that im most fascinated by currently is philippine food. specifically hollywood philippine food.

usually i get tricked into one of these magical places because from the outside they look like $1 per item Chinese places in that they have the buffet style pans of crap with the heat lamps drying everything out, a crazy woman sitting on a stool waiting to serve you, and a mexican chap in the back with an apron listening to the clipper game on the radio.

i like philippine places like this because its almost like an adult lemonade stand: people just can believe that youre buying something from them, and when you do they always smile and smile and sometimes they'll even shake your hand.

today they told me that i was parked in a red zone.

i was all, its karisas car, if she doesnt get a ticket a week the dmv will worry that shes dead.

one thing you can count on in philippine restaurants like this is you wont be able to recognize a damn thing other than the fried rice. call me nuts, but i like that. and youre bound to see a tray with an entire fish or two laying there with a slice of onion on it or a wedge of lemon or something unbelievably random like a hunk of sweet potato or some shit.

your best bet is not to ask what things are, it'll just terrify you.

is that deep fried?

yes, its turtle.

oops.

today i got little squares of beef with swirls of onions, fried rice, and little cubes of pork with sweet sauce on it.

i think.

they were all very nice and it cost me less than four dollars.

tonight last nights girl wants me to come back over to spend the night again. apparently whatever it was that i did deserves an encore.

am i gay if i just want to stay home tonight, watch the lakers, and work on this novel?

if you saw this babe youd say yes tony, youre gay. and then youd step on my toe.

i went over there yesterday primarily to see her, of course, but also to do my laundry. besides being beautiful shes also very rich and has a washer and a dryer back by her poolhouse. but i only got one load done, and that one barely, so this morning i had to leave my stuff at her place and go to work.

have you noticed that my job really gets in the way of my life?

smart as this girl is, i dont think she understands that im not the kickass writer that she thinks i am. i just cant sit in her den and knock out pages for the novel with a snap of the fingers.

i need all my stuff around me.

i need the stereo on with the right music. i need the tv on. i need a few virgins fumbling with their restraints wondering if they will be sacrificed that night. i need my diet dr pepper because i probably am gay.

i need my thinking cap. i need my special rum. i need my munchies. and i need to be focused.

and there is nothing about this hot young woman that allows me to be focused on anything other than her.

i have to shower now and head on over there.

isou + mark cuban got fined for his blog + town and planet

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Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil." - job 1:8

if i had a radio show or a television talk show i would invite the president to be a guest

but only if we could only talk about the bible for an hour.

millions of americans allegedly voted for mr bush because he claims to be Christian and it's not like im saying hes not, i would just like to find out what sort of Christian he sees himself as. cuz theres lots of different kinds.

the first passage i would want to talk with him about is in Job, one of the most universally loved and told tales from the good book.

i would ask the president what he thinks of the book of job and ask him if he sees any similarities between himself and the character job.

after we talked about that for a few minutes i would ask him if he felt that he was blameless. not as a loaded question cuz thats not nice, but as a real question.

i know im not blameless, which in a way, if you think about it is good because the lord would never present me to satan and say, heres tone: perfect, great, blameless - fuck with his life and i bet you he still loves Me when youre done.

it's not that im afraid that i wouldnt always remain faithful to the lord, i just wouldnt want to live with boils to prove it. i have enough problems.

but in a way our president acts blameless about pretty much everything and i would be curious to see if he thinks he is.

if i was mr bush i would have no fear right now. id be honest to tony pierce. why not?

in many peoples minds he could not have done worse in his first term - from ignoring the 8/6/01 pdr entitled bin laden determined to strike inside the us, to not finding bin laden, to not finding wmd, to creating the largest deficit ever, etc etc - which means unless he literally started acting like hitler, he can only do better this next term.

plus whos gonna beat mccain in 08? no one.

even four more years of the tard isnt going to hurt mccain.

so if i was george bush i would be brutally honest with people. id have no fear. if i thought i was blameless id say im fuckin blameless g.

or i would say, yeah we blew it, but it wont happen again. and we are sorry. please forgive us.

then the question would be, how does one shun evil? do you shun it by ignoring it? do you shun it by striking first? or do you shun it by some other means?

and then i would have mr bush rank the evil of the world. that would probably be helpful. and again, what does he have to lose?

i would say ok, obviously afghanistan and iraq rank 10 on the scale of evil because we went in there and had war.

so is saudi arabia a 9?

is north korea a 9?

is china a 9?

what about cuba?

are there any countries in africa a 9?

if the president didnt want to say whether a country ranked highly i would argue that the american people should know if they were about to travel to a country that the president thought was near the top on the scale of evil

isnt ashcrofts terror alert dealie a way for the government to let the public know how things are going? then why not colors for individual countries?

canada i would imagine would be a green, but what about iran?

as a Christian i want to shun evil. as president dont you want us to know where this evil is?

and then finally i would ask the president to discuss with me the fine line between divine intervention and free will, cuz i think that gray area is fascinating.

and im pretty sure he'd agree

cuz hes obviously expecting some divine intervention regarding the american economy.

unless he knows something that he hasnt told us about yet.

in which case i hope he gives me the exclusive.

and if he does, you'll be the first to know.

fragrant + chelle + raspil + michael moore's latest film

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she was twenty one and i was twenty

and she pulled down her jeans and it sat there like a cloud

natural

blonde isnt the word for it cuz it was so fair it wasnt fair platinum in a good way silvery gold.

heathery.

as if pussy wasnt a mystery enough at twenty.

and this girl was sweet and knew music but lived in orange county. so this night would be it princess capulet.

who knew voting would be so competitive she said and lifted off her sweater.

and bluecad likes her caddys and i liked mine.

formerly my grandmothers seventy six sedan de ville. grey. red leather interior. maroon really.

there once was a girl in malibu when i lived in inglewood and i worked in west la and i would sometimes drop her off after a nice long night

and drive through the curvy darkness of pch at two am careful not to hit celebrities and sea gulls

and some nights i wouldnt make it all the way home, i would park in the back of the record store i worked at and id sleep in that backseat

in those days for some reason they wouldnt think twice about a guy sleeping in his car.

in those days you could smoke pretty much everywhere.

and in those days they played music videos on the music video station.

but as great as those days were my friends there werent little clouds floating below every girls belly chain

and this is what i have to say about that

if you meet a girl that you like

and everything seems to be going okay

hang in there buddy

even if her name is a palindrome.

sandrine + keli + feministe

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the worst days for hits are saturdays, which could mean two things:

a) enjoy the freedom
b) try to do something that makes people remember to come here on saturdays

the best idea of course is Sex Saturdays

most people want to see titties and read dirty stories on the busblog but most of them are reading from work and most of us dont have big fancy private offices so you sorta have to keep it clean if youre trying to hit a certain demographic

its not that i dont want to appeal to the lowest common purient intrest, shit. but thats greasy kids stuff that anyone can do.

so the idea was on Saturdays people would be at home dickin around playing tetris or whatever people do on saturdays on their home computer, so if a M-F reader knew that they were going to get a bonus for coming back to their second favorite blog on the weekend, maybe they would.

and on it i would show naked pictures of like, say, tara reid whose dress seemed to slip off her shoulder the other night at puff daddys 38th birthday party revealing a boob job, which upon closer examination is really something to sue over, not expose willingly.

the text would be dripping of detailed explorations of my sexual past which has been full my friends and definately worth reviewing because seriously half the time i say, that shit happened to me? im as average as any light skinned black american can be. so most of the stories would be along the lines of, "i was sitting there doing nothing like the lameass that i was and the lameass that i am now. when a knock came from the back. i put down my pornography and went to the door. there she was, tanned, smiley, and thank god above drunk as shit and dying to bone."

(im not saying it would be particularily good. im just saying it would be different than say what you normally read on here on most days.)

and then i would go into the wild night with as much attention to detail as one would hope for from a man who was trained that a reporter goes places the reader cannot go and tells the story with a punchy lede, facts, quotes, and details. the daily nexus taught me how to sneak some humor in there when noones lookin.

which brings us to the point of all of this.

which is yes i want to bring back the concept of sex saturday, only problem is this, how does one do it in such a way that people are rewarded for coming here on the weekend, but not (un)pleasantly suprised by bosoms as they scroll down the page on monday morn?

i didnt have the answer for that until today

what you do is you write whatever bullshit youre going to write on saturday, but when youre done you link to a webpage off of the blog that leads to the sexy story you want to tell.

like so.

and i wish i could take credit for this simple and perfect solution, but i cant. the hat tip needs to go to the cheerleader from the other night who for the sake of confusion we will call anna kournikova who was so excited to be mentioned on this blog that she told me she had baked chocolate chip cookies and wanted to bring them to me after the game tonight.

and as i was thanking her she said oh my god, stop, and i wiped my mouth with the duvee and crawled up next to her and she said i figured out how to bring back sex saturday

and i wonder, can you fall in love with a girl after just three dates?

a very special matt welch post + a picture is worth 420 words + i heart flagrant + wtf stoked me first

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yes mariah, tsar will be on national tv on monday

yes they dont have a cd coming out any time soon.

yes they are no longer on disney-owned hollywood records who are more interested in pimping out the new hillary duff cd because of her scary talent.

yes they are recording their third cd as we speak

and yes i was invited to go to the taping but it happens too early in the evening for me to attend but i still wanted to let you know that

yes, tsar will be on the Late Late Show, formerly hosted by craig kilbourn.

how did this happen?

how did an unsigned band who does not have an album out does not have a video out is not on any world tour get a national tv opportunity?

because Tsar really is that good

and their legend and majesty matches up with their live shows.

and because when they played the Late Late Show a few years ago they rocked the house.

and because when one of the big wigs of the show saw a beautiful young woman wearing a tsar tshirt he said, "wow, Tsar, my favorite band. those guys are destined for fame really soon."

and the woman said, "i think so too, but i might be the wrong person to ask as my husband is their manager."

and the big wig said, "have your husband call me, i'd love to have them on the show."

and thats how things are done in LA, it all matters who you know and how hard you rock.

so America, heres your chance to see rock history

the first time an unsigned band will perform on national tv despite not having anything to sell

other than love.

tune in Monday November 8 around midnight on CBS to see Tsar on the Late Late Show

you'll be better because of it.

yes, even you mariah.

vertical hold + opera dork + guinness and poker + ryan mcgee

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im not ashamed to say i love michael moore. why should i? that new senator in south carolina isnt ashamed to say that he doesnt want unwed mothers or homosexuals as teachers.

i love moore's movies, i loved his tv shows.

im not crazy about his interviews, and his website/blog rarely interests me and i dont believe ive ever linked to it.

until today.

here are most of his points: 17 Reasons Not to Slit Your Wrists... by Michael Moore

Dear Friends,

Ok, it sucks. Really sucks. But before you go and cash it all in, let's, in the words of Monty Python, “always look on the bright side of life!” There IS some good news from Tuesday's election.

Here are 17 reasons not to slit your wrists:

1. It is against the law for George W. Bush to run for president again.

2. Bush's victory was the NARROWEST win for a sitting president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916.

3. The only age group in which the majority voted for Kerry was young adults (Kerry: 54%, Bush: 44%), proving once again that your parents are always wrong and you should never listen to them.

4. In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the country is headed in the wrong direction (56%), think the war wasn't worth fighting (51%), and don’t approve of the job George W. Bush is doing (52%). (Note to foreigners: Don't try to figure this one out. It's an American thing, like Pop Tarts.)

5. The Republicans will not have a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority in the Senate. If the Democrats do their job, Bush won't be able to pack the Supreme Court with right-wing ideologues. Did I say "if the Democrats do their job?" Um, maybe better to scratch this one.


7. Once again we are reminded that the buckeye is a nut, and not just any old nut -- a poisonous nut. A great nation was felled by a poisonous nut. May Ohio State pay dearly this Saturday when it faces Michigan.

8. 88% of Bush's support came from white voters. In 50 years, America will no longer have a white majority. Hey, 50 years isn't such a long time! If you're ten years old and reading this, your golden years will be truly golden and you will be well cared for in your old age.

9. Gays, thanks to the ballot measures passed on Tuesday, cannot get married in 11 new states. Thank God. Just think of all those wedding gifts we won't have to buy now.

10. Five more African Americans were elected as members of Congress, including the return of Cynthia McKinney of Georgia. It's always good to have more blacks in there fighting for us and doing the job our candidates can't.

11. The CEO of Coors was defeated for Senate in Colorado. Drink up!

12. Admit it: We like the Bush twins and we don't want them to go away.

14. Bush is now a lame duck president. He will have no greater moment than the one he's having this week. It's all downhill for him from here on out -- and, more significantly, he's just not going to want to do all the hard work that will be expected of him. It'll be like everyone's last month in 12th grade -- you've already made it, so it's party time! Perhaps he'll treat the next four years like a permanent Friday, spending even more time at the ranch or in Kennebunkport. And why shouldn't he? He's already proved his point, avenged his father and kicked our ass.

15. Should Bush decide to show up to work and take this country down a very dark road, it is also just as likely that either of the following two scenarios will happen: a) Now that he doesn't ever need to pander to the Christian conservatives again to get elected, someone may whisper in his ear that he should spend these last four years building "a legacy" so that history will render a kinder verdict on him and thus he will not push for too aggressive a right-wing agenda; or b) He will become so cocky and arrogant -- and thus, reckless -- that he will commit a blunder of such major proportions that even his own party will have to remove him from office.

16. There are nearly 300 million Americans -- 200 million of them of voting age. We only lost by three and a half million! That's not a landslide -- it means we're almost there. Imagine losing by 20 million. If you had 58 yards to go before you reached the goal line and then you barreled down 55 of those yards, would you stop on the three yard line, pick up the ball and go home crying -- especially when you get to start the next down on the three yard line? Of course not! Buck up! Have hope! More sports analogies are coming!!!

17. Finally and most importantly, over 55 million Americans voted for the candidate dubbed "The #1 Liberal in the Senate." That's more than the total number of voters who voted for either Reagan, Bush I, Clinton or Gore. Again, more people voted for Kerry than Reagan. If the media are looking for a trend it should be this -- that so many Americans were, for the first time since Kennedy, willing to vote for an out-and-out liberal. The country has always been filled with evangelicals -- that is not news. What IS news is that so many people have shifted toward a Massachusetts liberal. In fact, that's BIG news. Which means, don't expect the mainstream media, the ones who brought you the Iraq War, to ever report the real truth about November 2, 2004. In fact, it's better that they don't. We'll need the element of surprise in 2008.

Feeling better? I hope so. As my friend Mort wrote me yesterday, "My Romanian grandfather used to say to me, 'Remember, Morton, this is such a wonderful country -- it doesn't even need a president!'"

But it needs us. Rest up, I'll write you again tomorrow.

Yours,

Michael Moore

aaron clemens + stacy + lolipops and roses + brett

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the week in rock in LA

tonight 11/5
laurie anderson, royce hall
cameo, malibu inn
death cab for cutie, wiltern
dirty dozen brass band, house of blues
unkle, pearl
america, vault 350

tomorrow 11/6
lou reed + j mascis + the walkmen + modest mouse, queen mary
laurie anderson, royce hall
the tubes, the canyon
moris tepper, knitting factory
bela fleck, wiltern
colder, the echo
delgados, amoeba (free)

sunday 11/7
flaming lips + stephen malkmus + eagles of death metal + peaches + built to spill + the shins, queen mary
modeski martin and wood, avalon
juvenile, vault 350

monday 11/8
camper van beethoven, amoeba (free)
diana ross, pantages
john cale, key club
gary busey, house of blues

tuesday 11/9
and you will know us by the trail of dead, roxy
something corporate, house of blues

wednesday 11/10
THE DWARVES + dragonfly
tegan and sara, el rey
dogs die in hot cars, troubador

thursday 11/11
morrissey, universal
too $hort, vault 350
wolf eyes, echo
bad wizard, spaceland
sally kellerman, roxy

hell is a closed door + laist + blogging.la

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this is what america looked like right before the civil war.

and in my 111 years, ive never felt the nation more divided more bitter more righteous.

and knucklehead who just got reelected, i think we can all agree, aint no abe lincoln. so, in a way, we're fucked and headed for some nasty times.

now, to be honest, and you know we keep things real on the busblog... but i couldn't give a fuck the red states.

and im sure they could just as easily say, you know what, fuck the blue states right back.

which is exactly what the terrorists want us to do.

whoever the fuck they are.

which is another symptom of our national imbalance.

so i think we should agree to disagree as a nation on some major points before shit goes down, not because im afraid of any of you redsters, i just have enough shit to deal with without having to worry about the annoyance of a second civil war.

which is probably a little overdue, but whatever.

what will solve it is The Great 2005 Compromise

first we need to agree that jesusland shouldn't happen. cali and oregon and washington and the big ten and the northeast shouldn't join up with canada.

canada deserves better.

so no secession.

next we need to give states some powers that they dont have right now.

let the states who dont want gay marriages to not have to perform them, but they must acknowledge them in the same way that they currently recognize marriages from other states, or even countries.

in return the blue states need allow the red majority up to two wars a year. as long as they come in under budget. yes there should be a war budget and those monies need to be collected before said war(s).

if they are then no one in america can be allowed to talk any shit, especially in the press.

meanwhile the red states need to allow the blue states to grow sell and use marijuana. not just medical weed, all weed. a man shouldn't have to be terminal to have a legal high. and if the red states dont want to join in, fine. but where do you think youre getting the tax revenues for your two wars a year - pot tax - so lightem if you got em.

in return abortion can be illegal in all cities with less than 500,000 people. if you look at the map, most of the people who vote blue live in big cities. they are also the ones who want a woman to have the right to choose. if someone from the suburbs or from a state with no big cities wants an abortion, she can get a ride or take the bus to the nearest city and get it handled there.

if a non-profit or philanthropist wants to donate a bus ticket to planned parenthood who will arrange for safe transport of the woman, then fine. but roe v wade needs to be protected. you get your wars, we get to have abortions if we need them.

also you get to keep bush jr in office. you say you like him, odds are in the next six months hes going to do more stupid things, the blue states should agree not to impeach his ass for one of the many fucked up things hes responsible for.

in return there needs to be supreme court reform. this wackiness where a president could pack the court with four new judges that match his ideals is... well... partisan. and wasn't the whole purpose of the courts that they were impartial? well that doesn't seem to be working out so well, so let the dnc pick four and let the rnc pick four. let the people approve the nominees until there are four from each of the two parties.

and finally, voting should take place over a period of three days. there shouldn't be any need for paper ballots or long lines. theres a lot of unemployed people these days, for a few of them to have a week's work for something as important as an election is a good iea.

the fourth day will be National Ballot Counting Day. cuz seriously, whats the rush? i want a fair and accurate count. no need to do it in the middle of the night with the manmade pressure of network cameras all up in their grill, allow one full day to count the votes and on friday at twelve noon eastern time, the results will be read aloud and people can accept or concede. and you should be forced to show ID when you vote. i wasnt asked for my ID and neither were a lot of people i know. thats silly.

not everyone is going to like what the "other" side is getting but thats all part of the compromise. its about tough choices and tolerance.

and courage and trust in your fellow american.

its a real compromise where people who live where they do can live the lives that they want to and those who disagree can live their lives without retribution or ridicule.

which is what this fine land was founded on.

that and giving the finger to the oppressor

so lets make this happen before it gets uglier.

virginia + no matt + i am a slampig + photos from the instapundit

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had this cheerleader waxing my pole last night, and when youre as old as i am you can sorta enjoy it without worrying that you'll end the play before the third act if you know what i mean.

cute girl. sweet. wonderful really. but something was missing. somethings always missing.

she was liking what she was doing and i was liking watching her.

sometimes it helps to think of something else other than the fact that theres an nba cheerleader on my ikea oriental rug but like i said, im old, i dont need to think about those things.

and any girl that ive been with in the last decade can tell you that theres only one way that i can finish and its not that way

which is a bonus for most

but for her it was a challenge.

she had called me at work and said that she wanted to do what no other had done

i said knock yourself out.

so we drank some wine we held hands and watched southpark we played footsies and before you knew it she was doing her thing.

and something has happened since the days when i was a lad.

in those days you couldnt put your hand on the girls head. you couldnt say anything mean like yeah bitch yeah, even if you were just kidding.

you couldnt even really do it right there in front of the tv with the lakers on

it was all part of one huge smorgasborg which had to end with her whipping her head from one side to another saying oh my god oh my god.

but this is LA and this is 2004 and some girls want to prove to themselves and to you that theyre better than the others

this is an era where girls will do things to guys that you'd have had to beg for in the olden days, but nowadays they'll do it if there aint shit on hbo and theyre bored.

these are the golden years.

as long as your name isnt adolf and you dont smell like feet the world is your oyster my friends

especially in california where i have always been surprised by how gracious people can be.

and i focused real hard for a minute

and i tried, i swear i did

but finally i had to say stop stop stop

and she said mmmmmph-no

and i said yeah come on stop, its cool.

and she took off her go go boots and climbed onto the couch with me

and minutes later the neighbors heard ohmygod ohmygod yes yes yes

and the legend will last another day in the lockerroom where the cheerleaders compare notes

in hollywood.

goldberg + sutter + chokey chicken + sk smiff

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Dan Rather quotes from tuesday night

"Do you hear that knocking...President Bush's re-election is at the door."

"This race is hotter than the Devil's anvil."

"His lead is as thin as turnip soup."

"This race is humming along like Ray Charles."

"The presidential race is swinging like Count Basie."

"This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex."

"Ohio becomes like a sauna for the two candidates. All they can do is wait and sweat."

"One's reminded of that old saying, 'Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.'"

"Bush is sweeping through the South like a big wheel through a cotton field."

"What Kerry needs at this point is the equivalent of Tom Brady coming off the bench to rescue him. But it's still too close to call."

"No question now that Kerry's rapidly reaching the point where he's got his back to the wall, his shirttails on fire and the bill collector's at the door."

"John Kerry needs something on the order of a 55 or 60-yard field goal to win this."

(To Joe Lockhart) "I know that you'd rather walk through a furnace in a gasoline suit than consider the possibility that John Kerry would lose Ohio."

(To Joe Lockhart) "What about Michigan? It's been out there for a long time. Is that making your fingernails sweat?"

"This presidential race has been crackling like a hickory fire for at least the last hour and a half."

"Let's see where it goes from here. Round and round it goes, where it stops nobody knows."

"We keep talking about Ohio if you've been tuning in and out or you put the baby to bed or you went to pop the cap on an adult, or otherwise, beverage..."

"We used to say if a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun."

"No one is saying that George Bush is not going to win the election, and if you had to bet the double-wide, you'd have to bet that he'd win."

"In southern states they beat him like a rented mule."

"If you try to read the tea leaves before the cup is done you can get yourself burned."

"We need Billy Crystal to Analyze This"

"You know that old song, 'it's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely' for President Bush in most areas of the country."

"We had a slight hitch in our giddy up, but we corrected that."

"In some ways, George Bush's lead is as thin as November ice."

"Put on a cup of coffee, this race isn't going to be over for a while."

"You look at the map and say it's all a big Bush victory. But this is one time when your Mother is right, looks can be deceiving."

"John Kerry's moon has just moved behind a cloud, as far as Florida is concerned."

On Kerry's chances: "To use a metaphor, he's gotta draw to an inside straight. But hey, sometimes you get lucky and hit that straight."

"Is it like a swan, with every feather above the water settled, but under the water paddling like crazy?"

What you have here is the football equivalent of a fourth quarter rally by Kerry."

The election is "closer than Lassie and Timmy"

"Keep in mind they are teetotally meetmortally convinced they have Ohio won."

""Vice President Dick Cheney would not have flown all the way out there (Hawaii) overnight and put that lei around his neck and sort of hula-danced, if you will, unless he thought there was a chance of carrying that out there."

"President Bush smiling there with his family. He's laid down aces so far."

"You can almost hear the GOP (deep breathing sound). We're getting within maybe smelling distance."

"We don't know what to do. We don't know whether to wind a watch or bark at the moon."

On how the results are affecting strategists: "It's one reason so many of them drink a lot."

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), on being congratulated on victory by Rather: "Thanks Dan, I always believe you." Rather: "Now, ladies and gentleman, if you believe that, you'll believe rocks can grow."

"Could be game set and match Republicans."

"They're about first and goal from 4 yards out."

"Tight as the pages in a book."

"President Bush is hoping to ace his first midterm."

"Crackling like a hickory fire."

"Two hands worth of white knuckle still hanging ten."

"Reminds you of that old Will Rogers line, it takes a lot of money just to get beaten."

"It's beginning to get exciting as the Democrats' fingernails are starting to sweat"

dobleblog + strangblog + my lovely wife moxie + just a girl

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i love it when people come to this blog, my blog, The blog and try to tell me to stop "ranting".

when they came here for the first time probably Because of a rant.

what they should say is "quit ranting about things that i disagree with you about, because it makes me sad."

asking tony pierce to back off on the ranting is like asking jim henson to take it easy with the puppets.

a while back people asked that i stop writing about politics.

yesterday i got twice as many hits as normal Because people wanted to read what i had to say about the election.

then tons of people thanked me and encouraged me regarding what i had to say.

the lesson is, blog what is real for you. dont listen to the negative commentors. meanwhile take the praise with a grain of salt but dont feed off it.

last month the busblog got more hits than any other month over the last year. some of it was due to the washington post and some of it was due to mr. wil wheaton, my new best friend.

but the majority of it was due to average blogs and bloggers and their readers who bookmark this page not to find out which cheerleader waxed my pole but to read what i have to say about a variety of topics

including counting the ways that the leader of the free world is an imbecile.

which is why it baffles me when regular readers get their boxers in a bunch when they come here the day after the elections and see that my nipples arent as hard as theirs are.

the lakers suck. anna kournikova is long gone. the elections are over but like a fart ripped by a herd of elephants, the residue is wafting in the air.

and im here to write it down for posterity.

so yes im going to write down all of it

and that includes knocking the pundits who got it wrong about why the "red" states voted the way that they did.

which wasnt because they loved this president so much, or even liked what he did over the last four years

and it wasnt because they read the Bible and saw some passage that said to shoot first hans.

they voted the way that they did because 9/11 made them piss their pants.

and the idea of gays gaining rights is something that they arent at all comfortable with.

my belief is america doesnt believe that anyone could have prevented 9/11

but someone can stop the gays.

and the gaystopper got re-elected.

if you have a different opinion i will never tell you not to voice it, which is the difference between freedom loving independents like myself and conservatives whose first intinct is to stop people from doing things.

orange zen + wtf + candied ginger

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dear fellow Christian americans,

gays are already married.

where it matters.

"let no man break apart what the Lord has joined."

to me that means no man. not even you.

but its cool, i know you didnt show up in droves to win the election for bush.

mostly cuz youre not that big of a number: actual bible-thumping american Christians who think moralities should be legistlated by government.

and even if you were a sizable number, how many of you truly support a leader who invades another country because they seemed dangerous.

all that fighting and mayhem and blood and guts, but exactly how many pre-emptive strikes do you remember in the bible?

how many times did you see God or His chosen ones attack another nation so that they wouldnt attack them first?

i remember one.

the flood.

and afterwards the Lord felt so bad about it he created the rainbow to remind mankind that he would never do anything like that again.

Christians don't believe in pre-emptive strikes.

And Christians, real Christians when they're afraid trust in the Lord - not guns, not armies.

In Rumsfeld we trust?

I don't think so.

There were two biblical ways to handle 9/11: the old school old testament way of "an eye for an eye" which would mean that since Osama and the majority of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi, that we would strike back at... well, Saudi Arabia.

or the new school, Christian teaching of "turn the other cheek."

bombing, invading, and occupying iraq doesn't fit in with either of those teachings.

Christians voting from a biblical Christian place in their hearts would actually vote *against* president Bush.

those weren't Christians who voted for the president the other night.

those were people who don't believe in a higher, spiritual being rooted in love respecting our neighbors, and forgiveness

those Bush voters are people who believe in isolationism, an agressive military, and holding on to the treasures of earth - not the promise of a heavenly reward.

even though i disagree with them doesn't mean that i don't love them or respect them

but i wouldn't deem them as Christian just cuz they don't live in big cities.

in fact the people who live in the cities and states that were the targets of the 9/11 terrorism (new york, penn., and d.c.) actually voted against Bush. many of the victims of the airplanes that crashed were from mass. and california, those two states voted against Bush too.

are we to speculate that those states believe that their safety is better in the hands of someone other than bush?

i think so.

and to be honest, i dont think spirituality has anything to do with it.

i think most of the united states who didnt vote to re-elect the president would be very interested to find out why people voted the way that they did, but to assume that it was the Christian vote just doesnt match up with Christian teaching or even common sense.

but i forgive them.

culture kitchen + after the debauchery + jim gilliam + ray garraud

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let the healing begin



if you had the number to the oval office, what would you say?

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america voted, and america got what it wanted.

my country said last night that deficit spending, fighting wars with countries who had no wmds, deceptions, lies, ignorance, and tax cuts for the rich was what it wanted.

my country said that theyd rather vote for the awoler than the triple purple hearter to defend the nation.

my country said that our gay brothers and sisters shouldnt have the right to marry.

my country said that they wanted new senators. three in particular won. one who thinks that unwed mothers and gays shouldnt be school teachers, one who thinks that doctors who perform legal abortions should get the death penalty, and one who thinks that there should be a consititutional amendment to protect prayer in schools.

my country thinks that it's right to go it alone and be the world police even if we're wrong about who we attack and even if it means that our children will have to pay for it with their lives and their finances.

my country thinks that the loser of all three presidential debates should get four more years.

my country thinks that its totally cool that Bush appointed the #1 timber lobbyist to be the head of the Forest Service, a mining industry lobbyist who thinks public lands are unconstitutional to be head of public lands, as well as several other anti-environmentalist to make it easy for corporations to pollute the air and water and rape our natural resources.

makes me wonder if my country actually thinks.

but it is my country, the land that i love. through thick and thin, through better and worse.

moving away is never an option. plus my people have been here for 400 years. we aint going nowhere.

and this isnt about democrat or republican. this is about freedoms versus fears. this is about failure versus hope.

my country picked a failure who ran on one platform: vote republican or die.

cuz thats all he had.

thats all he was made of.

and last night i got to see what my country is made of.

so today i hope my country realizes that it just got what it asked for.

be careful what you ask for.

for these people will continue to hide valueable information from us

they will continue to give tax cuts during times of war to the rich, as irresponsible as that is. as foolish. as pandering.

you encouraged BushCo to keep on keeping on, america.

well, at least 51% of you did.

so give yourselves a round of applause.

on the brighter side, i have a good feeling that rock n roll will be back

with a vengence.

punk too.

and liberalism, which i dont subscribe to, will be bigger and louder and more organized than ever before.

homer simpson voted for who his buddies told him to vote for.

anna kournikova now has her enrique.

and all of those who said that nothing could be worse than these last four years

aint seen nothing yet.

psychotic normalcy + tman + sahalie

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karisa called late last night, drunk, somber

ready.

what do we burn down first, she asked.

ohio?

clipper girls cousin was over trying to get me to inhale some medical marijuana but i didnt want any. i wanted everything to sink in real good.

first thing i thought was where do i go.

do i move to canada and make babies with raymi.

do i move to new york and get the clinton/barack ticket going.

do i get a job with media matters who have just been handed four years of shooting fish in a barrel.

do i apply at the ny times.

i told karisa we cant burn down ohio. ohio has republican senators, a republican governor, they voted to ban gay marriage. ohio isnt interested in the land of the free and the home of the brave.

like pretty much the rest of the country, ohio is interested in the land of the fear and the home of the lame.

like marilyn manson said, i dont have enough middle fingers.

my gmail was nearly full today.

"but the redskins lost at home."

"but bush is a retard."

"but everything sucks."

"but gasoline is $2.50 a gallon."

people, if theres one thing i have said over and over on this blog

it's life isnt fair.

it's not fair that britney spears can marry and divorce in vegas in 48 hours and then marry kevin fuckerhead a few months later

while gay and lesbian couples who have been together for decades cant have that same freedom.

it's not fair that the president can redact 28 pages of the 9/11 report that explains Saudi Arabias part in terrorism.

it's not fair that bush "won" in 2000.

nothings fair and nothing will ever be fair.

and america, it isnt fair that we're living in the richest, top 10 freest, most influencial superpower of all time.

howard stern has been on the air for an hour and hes even frustrated

"it's time to go back to the penis jokes."

but before we do, lets give ken layne props for what he busted with the other night on the eve of the election, which was brilliant,

After all the 9/11 horror and bullshit, the crass exploitation of 2,755 killed in those attacks, $4 billion in '04 campaign spending, 1,100 American troops killed in Iraq, 800 U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan, the biggest deficit in American history, an orgy of new laws and federal bureaucracies that will be with us for many years to come, cynical & doomed campaigns to amend the Constitution, less jobs, more expensive health insurance, low mortgage rates, swift boats, tax cuts, Orange Alerts, Howard Dean, Anthrax, Michael Moore, Air America, Fox News, fonts, blogs, Saddam captured and Osama on the loose, everything is basically the same as it was on Sept. 10, 2001.

Nobody today is more Sept. 10 than George W. Bush. Just like on that boring day three years ago, Bush is disliked by half the country, while a vocal minority sees him as a stupid yet dangerous fraud who must be deposed. The only thing that's changed is the intensity of feeling. Same on the other side, with half the country saying, "Yeah, he's okay" and a vocal minority of Bush followers who hate and fear non-Republicans -- and Republicans who question Bush -- carrying on just as they did on Sept. 10, 2001.

the title of laynes post is "all for nothing" and thats exactly how i feel.

who would have thought that moore and the job loss and the debates and the deficit and all those dead and maimed in iraq and 9/11 and osama still putting out tapes and the lack of wmd and bush just being bush wouldnt change one state's mind?

theres not enough fire karisa to make this go away.

we need to realize that we live in a country that believes that gays shouldnt be allowed to get married

and george bush can protect us.

and tonight they will spend $50 to fill up their Explorer

they will turn on everyone loves raymond

and they wont even see the impeachment coming.

amy + chelle + gorilla mask

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Obama becomes lone black in US Senate with landslide victory

CHICAGO (AFP) - Democratic rising-star Barack Obama became the lone African American senator, beating ultra-conservative talk show host Alan Keyes in a landslide in Illinois.

Television networks projected that Obama, 43, had soundly defeated Keyes in the contest to replace a retiring one-term Republican by some 70 percentage points, snagging a seat for the Democrats in the narrowly Republican-controlled Senate.

"Thank you, Illinois!" an beaming Obama shouted into the crowd at his victory rally. "Let me say how grateful I am to all of you for the extraordinary privilege of standing here."

The charismatic Obama, the son of a Kenyan father and American mother, was a relatively obscure Senate hopeful just a few months ago but he catapulted to prominence after giving an electrifying keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in July.

He was one of a handful of blacks running for US Senate seats this year, including his rival Keyes, but was considered the only African-American candidate with a realistic chance of winning.

Obama becomes only the third black senator in 150 years. The last African American to serve in the US Senate was Democrat Carole Moseley Braun, also of Illinois, who was defeated in 1998 by Fitzgerald after a single scandal-plagued term.

"The skinny kid with the funny name," as Obama has described himself, grew up in Hawaii and Indonesia.

In the weeks since his much-lauded convention speech, Obama came to have such star power that he was recruited to travel to more than a dozen states to stump for Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (news - web sites), as well as fellow congressional candidates.

"Barack Obama's importance to our party and our effort to recapture the United States Senate simply cannot be overstated," said Brad Woodhouse, a spokesman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

Obama is widely touted for a future leadership position in his party -- possibly even a US presidential candidate.

When it became clear that a seat in the US Senate from Illinois would be up for grabs in November, Obama, then a three-term state senator, jumped into the race.

His rhetoric stresses inclusiveness, and he has a lot of support among white liberals and white middle class voters in suburban Chicago, as well as blacks on the city's South Side.

"There is not a black America, and a white America, a Latino America, and Asian America -- we are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America," Obama told the Democratic Convention.

monique + wil wheaton + zulieka + ironmouth

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call me a pussy but i nearly wept with joy when i walked home

kausfiles + welch + layne + xtracyx

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karisa and i are great friends. we hardly ever see each other. we hardly ever talk to each other on the phone.

we chat almost every day thanks to the miracle of the internet.

sometimes we'll write an email if im up in chopper one.

when we get on the phone it can last for hours.

tonight was one of those nights.

its so hard not to get dramatic and lord knows i want to be as funny as i can in everything i write.

but could half you motherfuckers really be serious about four more years of this shit?

there was a time when i lived with two of the finest musicians you'll never hear because life isnt fair.

one of them was named jeff whalen. singer songwriter guitar for the rock group tsar.

like most geniuses, he's often misunderstood, frustrated, and criticised unfairly. sometimes however the criticisms are fair.

one night greg and i were discussing the existence of God.

everyone was pissed off.

and jeff threw his hands up and said, i feel so alienated right now.

not until today did i know what he meant by that.

if half this country votes for that fucking tool despite

well, everything--

this should be the example of a no-brainer in the dictionary.

it should be the epitome of a landslide.

it should be an answer on jeopardy.

"alex, 'Duh' for $500."

"ken, this is the second-easiest decision mankind has ever made."

"alex, what is electing michael jordan into the nba hall of fame?"

"thats right ken. the first of course being voting for john kerry over george bush back in 2004."

after i read The Stand, i freaked out any time someone sneezed. i didnt trust anyone. if bush wins, how do you think im going to feel traveling to a red state.

sick.

thats how i'll feel.

poindexters pretending that theyre voting to protect the nation by rehiring a failures failure.

worst in show.

deficit: fucked.
health care: fucked.
gasoline: fucked.
schools: fucked.
chances of buying a house in a decent neighborhood: totally fucked.
price of a fucking bullshit halfway decent new car: fucking $25k.
jobs: fucked.
war: fucked.
osama: laughing.
saddam: had no wmds.
cheney: still getting checks from haliburton.
powell: "we're losing the war"
rice: "i believe the title [of the PDB] was, 'Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States."

rumsfield: "We know where [Iraq's WMD] are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north somewhat." - ABC, 03/30/03

rumsfield: "As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, The ones we don't know We don't know." - 2/12/02, DoD

rumsfield: "Once in a while, I'm standing here, doing something. And I think, 'What in the world am I doing here?' It's a big surprise." — 5/16/01, NYT.

rush: You ever heard of emotional release? You [ever] heard of need to blow some steam off?"

ashcroft: lost to a dead man, nyt: worst att'y general ever

youre not just supporting bush, youre supporting all these fools.

here's dubyas horoscope for tomorrow:

For November 2: You comfort others, especially this morning, and take the attitude that, no matter what, things will turn out fine. Your apparent acceptance creates comfort, strength and unity among friends and loved ones. Throughout the day, you can feel the future quickly approaching your front door. You anticipate change, travel or even moving, and feel at peace with the prospect. In fact, you begin to welcome the likelihood of change. Once you’re able to step outside of preconceived notions and expectations, you’re able to see the peace and beauty inherent in a new way of living.

here kerry's horoscope for tomorrow:

For November 2: First thing this morning, you are made aware of a groundswell of activity that benefits you. This powerful locomotive is unstoppable and likely to outperform everyone’s expectations. Even so, you will experience moments of uncertainty from time to time – but not for long. The best information indicates that your momentum is irreversible. You feel very popular and beloved most of the day. Even another’s petty criticism is too limp to hit a bullseye. Enormous changes that you’ve hoped for – perhaps your own personal miracle – can occur.

this is mine:

For November 2: Opportunities actually find you today. This is an excellent time for interviews, meetings and public appearances. Others view you as someone that is well worth betting on. Some of your past efforts also come up in conversation – mostly in glowing terms. Get out and rub elbows with colleagues, pals and decision-makers today, and look your most devastating because you’re sure to run into someone you know. One caveat: you will encounter one disgruntled ex-friend or former colleague. Don’t give this individual a split second of your time. Focus on the best the future has to offer.

and last but not least, here's america's

For November 2: You comfort others, especially this morning, and take the attitude that, no matter what, things will turn out fine. Your apparent acceptance creates comfort, strength and unity among friends and loved ones. Throughout the day, you can feel the future quickly approaching your front door. You anticipate change, travel or even moving, and feel at peace with the prospect. In fact, you begin to welcome the likelihood of change. Once you’re able to step outside of preconceived notions and expectations, you’re able to see the peace and beauty inherent in a new way of living.

ken layne + oliver willis + mc brown + asshole

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Word of the Day for Monday November 1, 2004
from dictionary.com

debouch \dih-BOWCH; -BOOSH\, intransitive verb:

1. To march out (as from a wood, defile, or other narrow or confined spot) into the open.

2. To emerge; to issue.

transitive verb:

To cause to emerge or issue; to discharge.

When the mill hands hassled Pete at the Manchester Cafe, he took off his apron, debouched from behind the counter and beat them senseless. --Richard Rhodes, Why They Kill

Bangladesh, one of the most populous spots on earth, is virtually the delta of the Brahmaputra and Ganga river systems, where numerous streams and rivers debouch to the Bay of Bengal.
-- "Blood on the Border," Times of India , April 23, 2001

. . . one of those ancient towns of central France where the streets wind upward from the railway track, through scowling walls of medievalism, until they debouch in the square outside the cathedral door, surveyed by huge stone animals from the cathedral tower and prowled around on Sunday mornings by cats and desultory tourists.
--Jan Morris, Fifty Years of Europe

Debouch comes from French déboucher, from dé- (for de), "out of" (from Latin de) + bouche, "mouth" (from Latin bucca, "cheek, mouth"). The noun form is debouchment.

EVEN THE DICTIONARY WANTS BUSH OUT

flagrant + write hard + bunnie

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our pal karisa j wrote me today and said, tony what are you going to do now that Nader isnt on the california ballot?

i was a little shocked cuz i didnt know that nader wasnt on the california ballot.

so since i dont vote for people who cant find their way on the ballot, choosing between the people that i now see on the ballot, i will be voting for john f kerry

who won the debates - in a sweep

who faught in nam and was a hero moreso when he returned and called bullshit

who was a senator for 20 years

who gives a shit about the enviornment

who is Christian and knows how to seperate church from state

who can stand in front of people and speak like a man who earned his college degree

who has no family ties to saudi arabia who were 15 of the 19 9/11 terrorists

who wont be giving any tax breaks to the rich

who isnt running with a vice presidential candidate who is profitting financially from the war in iraq

who wrote a friggin book about global terrorism and afghanistan back in 1997 long before it became trendy to yell out "terror" to try to get re-elected

who believes that a woman should have the choice to decide what happens in her womb

who will provide a much needed balance to the republican congress and republican supreme court because america works best when there is compromise.

and when im done voting, im going to hang out with the cool kids and party and drink

and pray like ive never prayed before.

springsteen speaking in wisconsin + murphy + kalipornica

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Dear Tony-
What do we do if Bush wins?
-Tracy

Dear Tracy,

Bush isnt going to win.

He didnt even win last time.

Only reason FLA didnt want a recount, and why they went to the Supreme Court to stop the recount wasnt because they wanted to find out who actually won the fucking thing, they stopped the recount because they DIDNT want to find out who actually won the fucking thing and their man was leading.

So in the last four years has Dubya done anything - Even ONE thing - to get someone who voted for Gore to vote Bush this time?

hell no.

in fact he fucked up nearly everything he touched.

and with all these bogus polls telling everyone that its a tight race all its doing is mobilizing the stoned slackers who didnt vote in 2000 to put down their 6 footer for a few minutes and vote kerry.

America might be a lot of things, but we as a nation do not reward men who fuck our economy, who dont say squat about increased gasoline prices, or who take us to war for the wrong reasons and have us LOSE said war.

Republicans (or those who occassionally vote Republican) dont reward administrations who spend $200 billion to squash Osama and fail. Osama looks better after 3 years of Bush chasing him than I do! how does that work?

americans dont like being dissed by anyone named Bin Ladin. that video tape made Bush look like Elmer Fudd and made OBL look like Buggs Bunny nibbling on his carrot - it didnt make one person say, "gee, bin ladin is still around, i really need four more years of Dipshit to 'protect' my american ass."

the idea that Only george w. bush can lead the fight terrorism is the most ridiculous concept ive ever heard.

fucker doesnt even know which countries are terrorists and which arent.

fucker cant even get terrorist #1 using all the kings horses or all the kings men.

what the last three years have shown is if theres one person who Cannot fight terrorism it's George W. Bush

who couldnt even handle a physical at the Texas National Guard, so of course he can't handle international politics, domestic spending, or war.

there should be a box next to kerry's box that says "duh."

what should you do if bush wins tracy?

you should riot.

burn the mother down.

cuz theres no overwhelming rush of new republicans coming out of the woodwork, but theres plenty of dems.

and if somehow they figure out a way to take away our freedom to vote and to have our vote count then they deserve the fires that will burn across this land.

bush didnt win the debates, he hasnt won our hearts, he hasnt won any new alliances in the world, he hasnt won either of the wars that he's still fighting,

and he wont win this election.

jarvis finally calls glenn out + ernie the attorney + sk smith

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raymi the minx tells you what she thinx



about Vice Magazine in this busblog exclusive

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im not very handsome, its true. nor am i rich or smart or tall or priveledged.

im not really motivated or ambitious or wise or jolly or cultured or tidy or fit or trim.

i lack hair where i should have it and i have it where i shouldnt.

im turning gray in the worst places like in my nose

and on my nuts.

i dont pray as much as i should.

i dont read books as much as i should.

i dont visit my friends i dont seek out religion.

i dont write enough. i dont art enough.

i should give my mother more gifts but i refuse.

when people call me on the telephone to ask my opinoin i dont lie as much as i could.

and i accept far too little a wage from my employer.

i get the biggest thrills from the littlest moments

i dont have a car, or good clothes,

or the desire to ask for the things that i want.

which makes the gentle perfumed tap

at my back door on cold evenings

like tonight

all the more inconceivable.

and youd be stunned at how quick

theyve stripped.

how to vote + bob hayes + daily clerks + panama jane

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october thirty first that is my date of birth...

my favorite beastie boy, king ad rock
turns 38 years old today.

oh man.

heres what beastiemania says about him:

If there was ever a popularity contest amongst the members of the Beastie Boys, Adam Horovitz would come out the winner. To prove this point, consider going in with two other people, each spending $333.00 to divide up a set of the Beastie Boys action figures. Now ask yourself: "If I have to choose which figure I want, who would it be?" Follow that with: "Which figure is everyone else going to want for their $333.00?"

Being probably the most popular with female fans, it should be noted that Adam has had a handful of very public relationships. During the Licensed to Ill tour he was romantically involved with actress Molly Ringwald. Following the band's move to Los Angeles in the late 1980s, he met and fell in love with actress Ione Skye and later married her. After the demise of that marriage, Adam was seen with Kathleen Hanna, who is best known for her work with the bands Le Tigre and Bikini Kill.

Adrock wasn't always a member of Beastie Boys though; he and Dave Scilken were in a band called The Young and the Useless. The Young and the Useless had a sound similar to that of the earlier incarnation of the Beastie Boys. The Young and the Useless put out the very rare and sought after Real Men Don't Floss ep, which to this day brings top dollar in online auctions.

Adrock joined the Beastie Boys during their metamorphosis into a hip hop act and the rest is history. Yet recently Adrock has ventured more deeply into his hobby of collecting beats, releasing both the self-titled BS 2000 album as well as Simply Mortified with partner AWOL.

Along with making music, Adrock as also made a few full length feature films. "Lost Angels" was released in 1989 and "Roadside Prophets" was put out in 1992. He also has had memorable roles in "A Kiss Before Dying" and "Cityscrapes", which stars his friend Max Perlich and his former wife Ione Skye. Before appearing on the large screen though, Adam guest-starred on a 1985 episode of the "Equalizer."

"Well, I'm a funky skull and I'm a Scorpio..."

from imdb's info:

Son of Israel Horovitz

Brother of Rachael Horovitz and Matthew Horovitz

The other two Beastie Boys admitted that he was the author of about 80% of the music on the album "Hello Nasty."

His mother died of alcoholism while he was in his teens.

Has been dating Kathleen Hanna of the punk band Bikini Kill for some time.

Is the Beastie Boys' guitarist.

Few people know that he suffered from a major epileptic fit, caused from flash photography. His seizures are now under control and is under constand medical supervision.

Pursued an acting career in the late 80s and early 90s, typically getting James Dean-style parts as brooding, troubled young men. He apparently abandoned his acting career in 1994, although he continues to "act" along with his Beastie Boy bandmates as the various bizarre characters they play in their videos.

Although born while his mother was visiting in New Jersey, he was raised in Manhattan, where he still lives.


people born on halloween:

1795 - John Keats, British poet
1912 - Dale Evans, singer, actress
1920 - Dick Francis, novelist
1920 - Helmut Newton, photographer
1927 - Lee Grant, actress
1931 - Dan Rather, American news anchor
1936 - Michael Landon, actor
1944 - Kinky Friedman, musician, novelist
1945 - Brian Doyle-Murray, American comedian and actor
1947 - Frank Shorter, marathon runner
1949 - Stephen Rea, actor
1950 - John Candy, Canadian genius
1950 - Jane Pauley, news anchor
1959 - Neal Stephenson, author
1961 - Peter Jackson, New Zealand film director
1961 - Larry Mullen, Irish drummer for the rock band U2
1963 - Fred McGriff, baseball player
1963 - Rob Schneider, actor
1968 - Vanilla Ice, rap music singer

people who have died on halloween:

1926 - Harry Houdini, magician
1983 - George Halas, American football player, coach, team owner
1984 - Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India
1987 - Joseph Campbell, American author and expert on mythology
1988 - John Houseman, actor, director, teacher
1993 - Federico Fellini, Italian director
1993 - River Phoenix, actor
2000 - Ring Lardner, Jr., American screenwriter
2002 - Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizell), rapper (Run DMC)

wiz bang + rabbit blog + my hallway

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courtney love
wiltern theatre, los angeles
10/30/04

it should first be mentioned that i love courtney love.

i want my rock stars to be drug addicts. i want them to get naked.

i like them sloppy and passionate and dangerous and intense.

i like it when they take themselves too seriously and back it up with powerful music and fascinating performances.

and i especially like it when theyre crazy.

you can have pearl jam, i'll keep courtney.

the best part of grunge to me were the riot grrls: bikini kill, babes in toyland, 7 year bitch, L7, the muffs, and once kurdt started writing songs for them hole.

i love courtney love so much that after her july 23, 2004 show was canceled due to her legal issues, ticketmaster said i could hold on to them and use them when it gets rescheduled or get my money back.

well i still have those tickets cuz im going when it happens.

say what you want about her but shes a rock star and i pay money to see rock stars, especially when their worlds are falling apart around them.

just this week she was ordered to stand trial for allegedly throwing a bottle at some chick she found at her ex-boyfriends house, chasing her around the house with a flashlight, throwing a lit candle at her and pinching her breasts.

and shes allegedly broke.

none of that drama stopped her from going on a five stop mini tour which ended last night in koreatown halloween eve.

it should also be mentioned that i was dressed in red pants a red shirt and a wig as jack white and my date for the evening was dressed as a sexy vampire

who swore she was wearing undergarments

but i sure couldnt feel none.

and even though i looked retarded, people said very nice things and took pictures of us.

because we were late i couldnt get any full body shots of us but you sorta get the idea below i hope.

juliette lewis ripped off her public enemy tshirt during her third tune and writhed around on the oriental rug and shook out whatever demons could still be haunting that wild little girl as her band kicked out the jams.

she was janis and pj and iggy and mick

rolled up in a skinny little nimble porn star actress chick who either has so many issues or none left cuz she just fucking lets loose.

courtney appeared around 11:30p, flowers everywhere, pretty dress, ballerina shoes, gracious, mellow, smiling, geniunely happy. shit.

the wiltern was not sold out. her record americas sweetheart had been her worst selling record ever. she's obviously been gaining weight.

but there she was smiling at everyone. so happy.

Mono
But Julian I'm A little Bit Older Than You
Asking For It
Plump
All The Drugs
Reasons To Be Beautiful
Malibu
I'll Do Anything
Miss World
Violet
Codiene (Buffy Saint Marie Cover)
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Sunset Strip
House Of the Rising Sun
Northern Star
Celebrity Skin

she didnt hit all the high notes on all the songs, she didnt play any guitar, but when she went for some of the more powerful screams she nailed em and it was really nice.

and i have to say the songs that her husband wrote were particularily moving and rich and memorable.

heres what dave navarro said about the show:

October 31, 2004
The Morning After Love

Last night we went to see Courtney play at the Wiltern. This girl has really gotten it together. What a star. Energy, presence and light like never before. The show was brilliant and with the all girl line up, they really give the men in this game a run for their money. She has really become one of my favorite people in the world. Sweet, endearing and a true pleasure to be around... even more captivating than the old self-destructive artist be grew to love. I am really happy to see her talent take the front seat away from some of the headlines she has endured over the past few months.

it was a very sweet, very feminine night, the sights and sounds of the wiltern were intoxicating.

photo by dallas from kittyradio.com + which also has three vids from the show + the comedian

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