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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Where today began: MLK’s old ‘hood
In January 2008, at the beginning of the primary election season, Sen. Barack Obama addressed the congregation at Ebenezer Baptist Church on the Martin Luther King holiday weekend. King was a pastor of Ebenezer 45 years ago today, when he delivered his "I have a dream" speech during the march on Washington, August 28, […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Culture, Local News, Politics, YouTube and such by shelbinator
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Text “FAIL” to 62262
Well, that was awesome. After what was a pretty crafty campaign to suck up a bunch of phone numbers for their SMS campaigns by promising to tell their supporters the inside scoop on the VP nom-noms, the Obama campaign rode the fail-whale all the way to Textland by playing the tease out a little […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Geekery, Media, Netroots, Politics, Rant, YouTube and such by shelbinator
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
If you’ve been under a rock
After waiting all afternoon for a non-existent text message from Barack, I’ll be smugly pleased if this new-media stunt is rendered totally moot by the time it comes out. If ABC and CNN are both saying the Secret Service is on its way to Wilmington, I’m taking that as all the news we need.
So […]
No Comments » - Posted in Media, Politics, Video by shelbinator
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
The Unity Express
A gay British Obama volunteer hopes to survive a Texas gun range while an Atlanta Clinton delegate looks forward to lots of happy hours despite relying on a cramped chemical toilet.
Sounds like a road trip to me.
Here’s the video from the Unity Express send-off Sunday, as six Democrats packed into a wee RV and started […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Local News, Politics, Travel, YouTube and such by shelbinator
Friday, August 15th, 2008
Hot Anderson on Anderson action
On Anderson Cooper’s AC360 the other night, the panel discussing “veepstakes” turned their attention to Joe Biden for a bit. The producers threw some b-roll footage of the senator on the screen showing him shaking hands with voters while being filmed by a devastatingly handsome citizen journalist you might recognize lingering in the background […]
No Comments » - Posted in Job Hunt, Media, Politics, YouTube and such by shelbinator
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
The House of the Senate?
Oh man I love a good play on words.
I also love House, the Fox TV series about the terribly arrogant and often offensive doctor who manages to dispel most people’s personal objections to his mannerisms by being freakishly smart and, more often than not, right in the end. Truth be told it’s a professional […]
5 Comments » - Posted in Politics by shelbinator
Monday, August 4th, 2008
McCain finally found his dipstick?
John McCain’s campaign sent out a little funny today, and it may actually be the most useful thing those pandering liars can do to help out with our energy crunch. If you send in a contribution of at least $25, they’ll send you a handy-dandy tire pressure gage that reads “Obama’s Energy Plan” on […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Politics, Rant, Sci-Tech by shelbinator
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
View from my uncle’s deck
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View from my uncle’s deck, originally uploaded by shelbinator.
Good place to kinda sorta write a dissertation, no? Reminds you what an insignificant blip your sorry-ass research is.
1 Comment » - Posted in Mobile, Photo by shelbinator
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Courteous Mass follows police crackdown
I’ve gotta tell ya, filming a Courteous Mass wasn’t all that interesting because nobody got into any trouble, but I might still find time to make an extended remix for elsewhere.
Video source.
1 Comment » - Posted in Get physical, Local News, YouTube and such by shelbinator
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Gone dissertatin’
If you hadn’t noticed by the crickets chirping around here, I’m on a bit of a writing sabbatical — and not the kind of writing you see here. Obviously checking in here to look for news is going to be disappointing, so you might as well just subscribe to the feed and save the […]
