Sweaters, tapes, batteries, and extra chutzpah

I still haven’t packed for Iowa.

I leave at 7:24am for Des Moines by way of Chicago and I still haven’t validated the iBook/Sprint mobile broadband card/new Ustream.tv interface setup. I haven’t decided if I’m going to bring my miniDV camera, or leave it behind as dead weight and rely on the Canon S800 for digital video clips since I fear the miniDV tapes wouldn’t stand up to well in single-digit temperatures.

Ha, I’m worried about tapes and not my toes and nay-nays? Lord, let some of that Indiana winter strength come back to me after 11 years away from the Midwestern winter.

In case you forgot, I’ll (hopefully) be live-streaming video from random campaign locations, be it Biden HQ where underpaid college kids and recent grads (and many of Joe’s relatives) unleash bajillions of last minute phone calls, or from inside an actual caucus location starting around 7:30pm EST. There will also be occasional self-contained clips of the more interesting and news-worthy moments uploaded to YouTube for publishing at Huffington Post. All my stuff will be available here at shelbinator.com/iowa.

And lest I go a week without battering you with propaganda, with just a few hours to spare in 2007 I uploaded my last campaign spot of the year. I’ve been looking for an excuse to use a song I found on ccmixter.org that I mentioned a couple weeks ago: Ana (hisboyelroy’s smooth dub), released under CC:by-nc, after making a few minor edits myself. It’s an overly dramatic electro-world beat suitable for an overly dramatic video with too much slow-mo, but what the hell. This is my final case — and that of several Iowa legislators and elected officials — for a guy I truly believe best suited for not getting our asses blown up in the years ahead, and I desperately hope enough Iowans don’t buy into this “but he can’t win” crap, because that media message ignores the fundamental fact that it’s up to them, not the Washington Post or New York Times.

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Wish me luck!

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4 Responses to “ Sweaters, tapes, batteries, and extra chutzpah ”

Comments:

Elizabeth Caughey says:
January 2nd, 2008 at 3:50 pm

Good luck, Shelby,
we’ll be watching for your post on the Iowa Caucus!

EDC

shelbinator says:
January 2nd, 2008 at 4:58 pm

Thanks, Dr. C! And you were right, I should’ve gotten #3 taken care of already. But I can put up with this dull throb till the 14th.

Juliana says:
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:54 am

I’m on pins and needles I tell ya!

Can’t wait to follow all the coverage. Say warm

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