• Local blogger and freelance video type Spacey Gracey has a new beat on Huffington Post’s “Off the Bus”, citizen journalism from those outside the campaign machinery. She kicked off the pilot episode this Tuesday at Manuel’s Tavern for the (somewhat disappointingly small) “Government in Exile” regular drinking gaggle. I got to hold the camera for a while and provide the closing monologue, and a number of other local bloggers (including Rusty, Amber, and James) chimed in, too — though the local old-school media could only think to call us “groupies.” (Must! mock! what! I! don’t! understand!)

    Hopefully this will become a (semi-)regular Tuesday appearance with minimal editing required, but considering how easy is ain’t to produce a decent video on a weekly basis and the amount HuffPo is paying its contributors (big ol’ goose egg), whatever feelings of jealousy I had for Spacey’s fancy new gig are melting away like a shaved ice in this summer heat.

  • For those of us without our own beats, The Politico is soliciting ad hoc citizen journalism (though judging by a couple of the vids I’ve seen I don’t think they’re being all that rigorous with the filter) on their multimedia page, so go make some news. They accepted my Mitt Romney episode, but so far, they haven’t offered to fly me to Iowa.
  • Georgia Blog Carnival includes the Mitt Romney flame war.
  • And finally from the kitchen, for those of you fellow disgusting, cheap-ass, crap-cooking, beer-swilling bachelors who really wanted to do the mojito but couldn’t bring yourself to buy the fresh mint (you wouldn’t believe how fast that fragile crap goes nasty, even in the fridge), good news! My careful scientific experimentation has verified that a much more bachelor-friendly ingredient with an archeological shelf-life does quite well as a substitute!

    Teabag

    Teabag it, baby! Jam a teabag of straight spearmint tea down in there with your plastic lime juice and a little bit of the beer before you stir in your sugar, and you’re good to go.

    And you get to say, “Teabag it.”



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