One Year Ago Today

karl rove got no elvis in him

i think michael j fox has proven that he did indeed have elvis in him.  since i'm not sure if elvis ever got out of joan rivers, i will say with conviction that karl rove is the evil anti-elvis.

who's the next to go?

herman cain is running for the affirmative action vp spot on the ticket?  thad--?  fuck that.  santorum and his santorum stain?  we know ron paul is crazy right up until nearly the end.  so who's gonna drop?

president bachmann

it's never gonna happen.  watch for the mainstream republican douchebags to get all bent now and start kicking her where it hurts.

perry/bachmann?  now that would be a refreshing change from the sane and intelligent!

outcasts

i know it was a fill-in for bbc america, and that it went over like a lead balloon in the uk, but it's frustrating because there could have been something decent there.  the stunt casting of apollo was pretty funny itself.

arcade fire: the suburbs

okay, i'm finally ready to give it the thumbs up.  (i have no fucking idea if it was album of the year or whatever or not, but i think it's absolutely fucking hilarious that the fucking grammy's would give an award to a record on merge records.  what's next, epitaph?)

anywho, it's a good record regardless.  not perfect, but the complexities and art-fag pretensions often work well, and the ones that don't are noble attempts.  i liken the album to the book the corrections by jonathan franzen: a good work, probably the best the artist will ever do, but far short of transformative brilliance.  like that book, i also find that the overarching theme doesn't work that well.  the corrections in the book and the suburbs on the album are forced instead of supportive or expansive.  that's one of the shortcomings of the artist that shows clearly; it is only a shortcoming when compared to the very greatest and definitely not in comparison to much more pedestrian artists and works. 

regardless, the suburbs rewards well on repeated listening.  there's a nice balance to the whole album and a palpable movement through the progression.  it is a major work; i like it. 

go sox!

where do i have to go to formally protest that the redsox and nesn do not put on real post-game shows when the sox play on the west coast late and josh beckett loses?

bastards.

some real top-notch political analysis from josh marshall

i know josh marshall is like a village wannabe, but jesus, this is some really inane analysis.  not even 12 hours! 

pawlenty sucks his last

adios, t-paw!  what a sack of crap he is.  what's the matter with minnesota?