October 2008
May the Halloween gods take mercy on my soul
Dear friends, family and followers.
It’s an internet fact that I love Halloween. A real life fact, too. But I went a little too far this year, and I’m sorry about that.
Sure, it started off innocently enough: a post about the Halloween card my grandmother sent me. But what started off as an innocent walk down nostalgia lane quickly escaladed into various crimes against Halloween, including:
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Going off the radar...
chuckmore:
I won’t be doing much/any tumbling in the next few days. Today is my Birthday, so party time, and then tomorrow my dad and I are heading out to Pennsylvania for the remaining few days of the campaign to get the vote out for out boy Barack. Hopefully the next time you see me, we’ll have elected the first black president! Everybody vote. Everybody do anything and everything you can....
alexbalk:
“In a just world, bloggers like Balk and...
meredithnyc:
“People at McCain and Palin rallies often accuse Democrats of just wanting handouts. “A lot of people on the other side just want free money,” said Susan Emrich, at a McCain-Palin rally in Hershey on Tuesday. A real-estate agent, she wears a T-shirt that says, “I’m voting for Sarah Palin and that White Haired Dude.” Ms. Emrich would like to attend another rally later that day in...
Last night I got a Halloween card in the mail from my grandmother. In it was a faded $5 bill.
Regardless of what’s going on in the world, it’s nice to know that there are still grandmothers in the world who send their grandkids rhyming Halloween cards. Even when that grandkid is 26.
Happy Halloween, everyone. My grams hopes you make it “Spooktacular!”
On people that decide your fate
“I have cats, but I love dogs, and I’ve been thinking about it like five years already if I should adopt a dog. It’s a lot of responsibility and at my age I’m afraid to do it, but if I found a dog that’s 10 years old so he doesn’t live too much longer after me,” she said. “And I want to buy another car because my car is old, but I keep thinking, if...
Obama's Letter Was Answer To A Little Boy's... →
robot-heart:
dloosely:
When a Connecticut elementary class sent out Flat Stanley letters, Aron Mondschein sent his to Obama. A month later, Obama wrote back. I think this is my favorite part:
Obama’s three-page letter to Aron described Flat Stanley’s visit with him and his staff in Washington, D.C. It chronicled their busy day together, which included coffee with constituents, a Senate...
“There are more children on parents’ shoulders at Democratic rallies, more large...”
– PPLZ VALUEZ: THEY HAS THEM
on priorities
Gentry: Yours is the best Election Night party invite I’ve seen so far.
Joy: why is that? Because I sent it twice?
Gentry: Because you emphasized “massive quantities of alcohol.” Other people focus on cookies, treats, appetizers…
Joy: I am going to need drinks regardless out of the outcome, best to be upfront and honest about it.
“Striking new evidence has emerged of a widespread gap in the cost of health...”
– Women Buying Health Policies Pay A Penalty (via meredithnyc)
“Wearing a flag pin, Santos announces his candidacy by telling supporters, “I am...”
– The New York Times wrote a great piece on the similarities between the last two seasons of The West Wing and this campaign season — a comparison I have been making for months.
PS: if we lose on Tuesday, I’m breaking out my West Wing DVDs and watching them non stop for the next four...
23% of Texans think Obama is a Muslim
meredithnyc:
urg:
If you can find me one good thing to come out of Texas (aside from Anne Richards, Cecile Richards and Spoon) you will win my prize of the day.
(ugh, texas.)
Does my roommate count? Surely! And Pat Green.
Oooh, you got me there. I do love Pat Green. And the Dixie Chicks. Okay, so there are some redeemable things about Texas. Some. But I just think that there’s a...
23% of Texans think Obama is a Muslim
If you can find me one good thing to come out of Texas (aside from Anne Richards, Cecile Richards and Spoon) you will win my prize of the day.
(ugh, texas.)
the obama effect
chuckmore:
Joy, call me.
Done and done.
the obama effect
Erica: hey, are you ok?
Joy: I have a problem, do you have a sec?
Erica: kind of – I am in the middle of saving reproductive rights for the women of New York, but I will e-listen
Joy: okay, so, whenever I see Barack Obama speak, I want to make out with someone and I’m worried about what that says about me, and, if president, what that will mean. I mean, what if he announces that we’re going...
“I don’t know, by the end of the week he’ll be accusing me of being a secret...”
– Barack Obama, at a rally in Raleigh, NC. (via thedailywhat)
Watchrobot-heart:
apsies:election08:
“His Choice?” Obama goes after McCain’s two biggest weaknesses, the economy and Palin.
I like this. It’s simple and well done. It’s an attack, but it attacks for the right reasons. The music is very effective at keeping the mood from tipping over into something much nastier, a wise move.
I love that the music they chose is The Weepies. It makes me thing that...
halloween + feminism = love
Joy: I think I’m going to go to work dressed as Sarah Palin, but I can’t spend all of my Halloween as that horrid excuse for a woman, my feminist ideals won’t allow it. So I think I’ll be Zelda Fitzgerald for the evening part. Wanna be my F. Scott?
Michael: You’ll make a lovely Zelda, I was planning on being far less dapper F. Scott. think true blood…
Joy: Hot. You can spend the whole...
my mom is still awesomer than your mom
Momma: So, what are you going to be for Halloween?
Joy: Ug, I don’t know. I was going to be Sarah Palin, but, like the whole Internet is being Sarah Palin. Maybe I’ll just be Blair Waldorf
Momma: That’s not exactly a costume as you dress like her every day. What are you going to do, wear TWO headbands at once?
Confession: I kind of wish I was going through an epic break up so I could relate to Leona Lewis’ “Better in Time.”
geek love
Erica: omg, woah. Nate Silver is HOT
Joy: Yeah, I know. I totally want to bang him and like, then have him read statistical data to me
Erica: hahaha
Joy: He might actually be my ideal man. I writer, a lover of baseball and a political expert who could probably explain the economy to me. Too bad he’s not from New England, because then I would just throw my uterus at him.
“My assumption is that Barack Obama is going to be the underdog until he is...”
– Michelle Obama, in the NY Times profile of her
First snow of the season!!
efstein:
…its snowing at my office. Well I love snow, so this is always a welcome thing for me, but even for those who don’t it beats the hell out of a cold October rain.
So. Jealous. Stupid California
I love Gossip Girl almost as much as I love Barack...
Ahh, Daily Intel, your reality index as almost as good as watching Gossip Girl in HD with no commercials while eating popcorn sprinkled with truffle oil. Almost. My favorite aspects from today’s run down:
“So he just got up and left, abruptly?” Dan asks. “Like a Bass out of hell,” Blair replies. We swear, it’s like her headband whispers those lines into her ear....
Osama bin Laden’s Media Director on Trial at... →
Go ahead, make your “PR flack” jokes. Its not like I havent heard them before…
WatchThe Internet just exploded in cuteness
BREAKING: Stevens guilty of felony charges →
“The vast majority of white evangelical adolescents—seventy-four per cent—say...”
– AMAZING article by Margaret Talbot in the New Yorker. Totally today’s required reading
Anchorage Daily News: Obama for president →
thedailywhat:
Gov. Palin’s nomination clearly alters the landscape for Alaskans as we survey this race for the presidency — but it does not overwhelm all other judgment. The election, after all is said and done, is not about Sarah Palin, and our sober view is that her running mate, Sen. John McCain, is the wrong choice for president at this critical time for our nation.
Sen. Barack Obama, the...
Real estate developer offers Obama Contingency... →
CNN: Joe the plumber open to 2010 run →
thedailywhat:
Joe Wurzelbacher, the most famous plumber in America thanks to John McCain and Sarah Palin, told conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham Friday he’s considering a run for Congress in 2010.
That would pit Wurzelbacher against longtime Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur for Ohio’s 9th district on the state’s northern border, which includes Toledo and Sandusky. “I’ll tell you what,...
Watch“you’re a dangerous group with your reading! and your education! and your equal rights! and your hope!”
D.L. Hughley to Palin protesters
