Woohoo! Obama has won handily in my state. I felt it in the air when I voted on Friday. The place was packed with Obama voters and 9 out of every 10 Democratic Party bumper stickers I've seen are for Obama.

I love how state Rep. Brad Miller uses basketball as a metaphor in this article. It's quite fitting for North Carolina. ;)

Tagged by bloodcicleList seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening to ( Read more... )

Sometimes reality lets you down. Sometimes the only thing you can do is make a sammich and ignore reality ( Read more... )

Courtesy of smurphy487:

If you could have anything delivered to your doorstep each morning what would it be?
umm... I'm not going to answer that in mixed company. ;)

Suppose that right now you could be at your favorite vacation spot, reading your favorite book,listening to your favorite CD and eating your favorite food, what would they be?Washington, DC - ( Read more... )

Starting Out in the Evening stars the under-appreciated Frank Langella as Leonard Schiller, a novelist and retired professor whose out-of-print novels are decades in the past as he struggles to finish what he feels will be his final book. Lauren Ambrose is Heather Wolfe, an ambitious grad student who chips through Leonard's shell and enters his ( Read more... )

Today, he is 49. Happy birthday, Keith! I'm reallyreallyreally (really) happy you were born. :)

Here's a recent clip from a CNN interview in which he's asked about the O'Reilly rivalry, and whether he's obsessed. I like his answer.

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Keith Olbermann blogs that US Attorney General Mukasey has a portrait of Eric Blair, aka George fuckin' Orwell in his office.Is this meta-meta-meta-irony of the highest order? Is it a blatant middle finger to the citizens of the US? Is it a coded message that says "get out now, while you still can ( Read more... )

Happy birthday, my dear Nomi. You'd be 64 today. Wherever you are, I hope you know how many people still love you and miss you.

Bold the ones that are true for you. [Note: also italicized because it's hard to tell what's bold and what's not ( Read more... )

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