I Was Just About to Send This Baby Off

...when my mother informed me I'd left the inner envelope at her house.

I still want to send it in (who the fuck cares about the inner envelope?) but my mom thinks my vote won't be counted without the inner envelope.

What do you think, interwebs? This is the biggest election I've ever had the opportunity to influence. The stakes are enormous. I can't fuck this one up.

I'm sure tons of people forgot the inner envelope during the last election. Did their votes still count?

Andrew Sullivan Tackles the Subject of Blogging

The flip side, of course, is that bloggers are also human beings. Reason is not the only fuel in the tank. In a world where no distinction is made between good traffic and bad traffic, and where emotion often rules, some will always raise their voice to dominate the conversation; others will pander shamelessly to their readers’ prejudices; others will start online brawls for the fun of it. Sensationalism, dirt, and the ease of formulaic talking points always beckon. You can disappear into the partisan blogosphere and never stumble onto a site you disagree with.

But linkage mitigates this. A Democratic blog will, for example, be forced to link to Republican ones, if only to attack and mock. And it’s in the interests of both camps to generate shared traffic. This encourages polarized slugfests. But online, at least you see both sides. Reading The Nation or National Review before the Internet existed allowed for more cocooning than the wide-open online sluice gates do now. If there’s more incivility, there’s also more fluidity. Rudeness, in any case, isn’t the worst thing that can happen to a blogger. Being ignored is. Perhaps the nastiest thing one can do to a fellow blogger is to rip him apart and fail to provide a link.

I'm trying to write about lark

This is what I have so far...

The crowd is Aveda-moisturized, dressed in Coldwater Creek and whispering excitedly about their favorite Alice Waters book. They are eating their food slowly because it is a tiny amount of food and they must make it last long enough to finish explaining their favorite Alice Waters book.

I love stereotyping.

Text Message From Capitol Hill

At honey hole. A girl (perhaps SU?) with Juicy Couture booty shorts and a big shiny purse just came in and the conversations. stopped. She is not wanted.

Dept. of City Marketing

This video made me laugh. It's part of an advertising campaign for Upstate South Carolina, and it really undersells the region at the beginning of the clip. "When my parents told me we were moving to the upstate of South Carolina" says the teenage girl interviewed for the clip. "I pretty much assumed my life was over."

The girl goes on to talk about how she thought South Carolina would have "one room schoolhouses" and thinks aloud "what would I have in common with those kids?" The girl also figured "I wouldn't have a social life."

Thankfully, the girl was "blown away" when she actually started school in upstate South Carolina. And this is basically the theme of the entire advert campaign, where residents talk about how much they thought South Carolina would suck, before they make the vague recommendation that the city "blows them away." How, exactly the city blows people away is a good question. According to the video...Because it has a fountain? A restaurant? A couple human beings?

I wonder how the residents of upstate south carolina feel about some ad execs from new york coming into their town and creating an ad campaign that (before the pitch) kinda shits on their town.

And that voice over: actress or realperson? Discuss.

Thankya Ms. Duff...

"Knock it off!"

I think that will stop it.

And haha, she wore a skirt on her boobz.

Video of the Day

Because these kind of videos just don't get posted enough anymore.

UW Undergrad Education is a Joke

I am now sitting in one of the "supposedly good" UW classes. Half the class is asleep, the others look unengaged. The professor is still talking and it doesn't seem like he notices. All my classes are like this.

Uhm

Does anyone else find Norah Ephron's political reporting (and general literary aura) supremely annoying?

Betty Crocker Creates Fat Person's Lip Balm, Theoretical People Rejoice