Check this track from the Kleptones.

I didn't think Queen + KRS1 + Grandmaster Flash + misc sound effects sounded like a great idea either at first, but holy shit. Holy fucking shit. This is the future. These people are taking the crude technique of mash-ups to the next level. This is like what P. Diddy (nee Puff Daddy) started out with in terms of ripping off well known pop and rock backings for his tracks back in the late 90s, except it's pure art.

The fact that this is technically illegal (even posting it for free without making a damn penny) says a lot about our society.

Get the whole thing here.

Strong Bad email 117 is the best in quite a long time. It's called "montage" and it features a wagon full of pancakes. Plus four (4) songs!

Guts, guts and might
Liftin' weights and feelin' all right
It's a showdown
Goin' downtown
You're gonna mess around, showdown
Put your nose down, showdown!

Awesome. Those guys are genius as far as I'm concerned. In their own more limited way they are the heirs apparent to the Simpsonic throne.

For those of you who don't know what Homestarrunner is, I recomment the wiki.

So some spambot found me and wants to advertise online gambling. Comments will be off until I have a solution. Suggestions via email are welcome UPDATE: I think we're all good.

Still going to New York tomorrow. There's a conference this weekend, the "morning after," in New York put together by the good people of cosmopolity. Next week lots of writing plans and talking about timelines, then another weekend in NY, then back here. Hopefully more time and inspiration to write and think non-work future too.

I'm starting to feel better about life, the universe and everything. Hope you are too.

First proven tactic in maintaining a better head: exercise. I knew it would work, too. It's the closest thing I have in my life right now to a method for anything. I'm going to enjoy getting back into shape, loosening up all these desk-jockey kinks, feeling strong again.

Week long retreat for MfA has started. So far it's going pretty well. Friday I get to go back to New York. Really looking forward to that. I'll be much happier in a bit when more of my future has taken shape.

After being more or less "on a mission" for the past year, it's quite something to no longer have the perceptual bounds of campaign separating me from the rest of humanity.

I think it might be a good thing, or at least enlightening and fun. More freedom should lead to a better lifestyle.

I've been seeing more and more allegations of voter fraud going around. I think it's good and right to count all the votes (provisional and absentee), and I also think it's grand and necessary to audit the fuck out of electonic machines.

However, I have yet to see any actual evidence that there was organized fraud on a scale that could have tipped the balance 150,000 votes, which is what people are talking about with Ohio. That's not easy. An audit and full count is in order, but the actual mechanics of shifting the balance to that degree make it highly unlikely.

Also, I'd like to say it's highly depressing when people forward me emails containg quotes like, "It's a statistical impossibility that Bush got 8 million more votes than he got last time."

That's bullshit. It's not in any way a statistical impossibility. It's reflective of the worst stereotypes of liberal elitism. Here in the reality based community, we know there were 128 million registered voters in the 2002 election, with 80 million more of voting age but unregistered (source: census). Turnout in this election was about 115 million. There's plenty of room in there for anyone to pick up 8 or 10 million more supporters just by shifting alliances among the already registered, to say nothing of bringing in new people.

The fact is, there are a lot of people out there who really like Bush, or at least voted for him. Believe it. Contemplate it. Figure out what to do.

My friend Laura Mannino who makes funny things happen back in NYC got interviewed on the Gothamist Blog. Sweet!

I did my job, but somehow seniors went for Bush and a few million never-before-voted hardcore cultural conservatives showed up, and that was enough to tip the balance.

But old people die, and pretty soon they'll run out of gay things to bash, and then we'll have our chance to run the country. All we have to do is keep them from fucking it up too badly; no small task, but hardly impossible.

Message for the next 2 to 4 years: hold the line.

For the record, I'm not seriously considering moving to another country. That's a really difficult thing to do. What I am considering is a red state road trip this summer, and being part of an orgnized movement to reform the Democratic party.

We've all earned some down time; so I'll be moving a little slower and leaning into the melancholy for a while. If you're so inclined, go ahead and do it too.