what if the world were upside down

Sometimes I question the need for major news sites having so many bloggers with so (apparently) few editors. Today, Jeff Zeleny of the New York Times writing on Obama's new McCain-Bush tie-in:

The White House announced on Friday that Mr. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush cast absentee ballots for Mr. McCain. It would have made for an interesting October surprise – wouldn’t it have extinguished Mr. Obama’s argument that Mr. McCain is tied to Mr. Bush? – if the president had voted for the Democratic ticket.

And how much of a blow would it have been if it turned out Bush actually never supported the war effort in Iraq, that it was all a DNC lie to win the election. OMFG this is really published!

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wtfnytimes

I mean, I know we're talking about state legislatures and all, but what in the world motivated the New York Times to create a graphic assigning red to democrats and blue to republicans?



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the times are

I was never a fan of the Budweiser "Wassup" ad campaign. It obviously catered strongly to another demographic. The kind of regrettable type that provides material for an endless supply "bro" types who never tire of repeating a single phrase at high volumes and in close proximity for months on end. Wonderful lines like "I'm Rick James," "Wassup," and "Yeaya." Individuality is expressed through length, intonation, and choice of emphasized syllable.

It is striking how abruptly times have changed when less than a decade passes and a meme so irritating and intensely devoid of meaning is now able to be a meaningful, dark, and powerful message. Enjoy?

unfocused walkunder

unfocused walkunder

under the 101 on lankershim blvd

This Should Have Been Bigger

I have set upon an odd mission. I don't know exactly where it will go but this is where it stands as of now. The purpose of this is to catalog:
i) Stories I believe should have gotten more attention, yet other circumstances (timing, topic, mass ignorance) prevailed and ended up sending it to the bottom of the bag.
ii) Things and places that I enjoy. Sometimes it might be things at places that I enjoy. Riveting, really.
iii) Photographs I have taken.
iv) Anything.

I hope to do this in a few different ways, depending on how eloquent I'm feeling or how much I actually know about the subject at hand.

i) Links to relevant websites or articles.
ii) Links to relevant websites or articles with some personal commentary.
iii) Photographs (yep).
iv) Anything.

So my mission seems sort of meandering, not to mention how I intend to accomplish it. But if I've learned anything about myself in the last year, something I've had plenty of time to do, it is that my mind is a meandering thing. That's not a philosophical observation, either. It seems that whatever topic may come up, I usually know something and have something to say about it. Not to automatically assume that it is worth anything, I just felt I should catalog it. Maybe then it will have better direction, maybe then also better execution. It's worth it.

I could have just said I wanted to get my writing back up to par. I really could have.