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« August 2003 | HOME | October 2003 » September 2003 Howard Dean and his supporters are making history today Have been out of commission for a while, due to certain problems, but I am back up and running again. Last night when that computer problem rendered my Mac useless, the Howard Dean campaign was more than $2M short of... September 30, 2003 The irresistible thong Frequent BFW commenter TheKCCL writes in about the stupid Slumdance store: I have a comment that I feel obligated to make about your silly merchandise and was waiting to post on†your blog.† Oh well - I can't stand it.† Here... September 29, 2003 All the Resident's Men: Welcome to the New Watergate As Atrios says, "Pass the effing popcorn." If the words "Valerie Plame affair" are unfamiliar to you, here's a brief guide to the scandal that has seized the White House and is about to play out on TV, blogs and... September 28, 2003 In the market for a nice thong? This stage of finishing Nothing So Strange is pretty great. Forty-five minutes of work, 15 minutes of rendering (i.e., screwing around while Final Cut Pro or another program does its thing). All day long. And the movie is really taking... September 27, 2003 Possible comments fix Okay, so comments aren't working still. But I did find this post that seems to offer a promising solution: For the record, if this happens to your Movable Type site just export and import the comments.db file using the command-line... September 27, 2003 Ye of little faith (I posted these thoughts as a comment over at Dan Conley's Dean Blog, but I thought I'd put them here, too.) There's been an assumption among many observers that the current Dean "Bat" campaign set the target too high and... September 27, 2003 Shut up! Arghh. Too busy in the real world and didn't even notice until now that today is Talk Like Bill O'Reilly Day. In honor of this great holiday, the play-only version of the crawlaway bestseller Fair & Balanced is free, just... September 26, 2003 Arnold Schwarzenegger would like to shove Arianna Huffington's head into a toilet Holy shit. No pun intended. I didn't watch the debate, in keeping with my policy since 9-11 of not watching TV, so I don't know about any body language or other signal that might mitigate his shocking statement, but these... September 24, 2003 "Mouse pads, shoe leather and hope" Howard Dean: We're meeting up. We're organizing. We're putting out flyers and knocking on doors. We're writing letters to one another, and talking about how we can shape the future of our country. Some come together through Meetup.com and deanforamerica.com,... September 24, 2003 Chris of Arabia proposes a vacation Well, now Natalie Davis is involved, and dammit if she hasn't gone and given this whole to-do ("Chickenhawk Snared!") a positive vibe. Just like her to turn a chickenhawk's boast into something that is actually going to do some good.... September 24, 2003 You gotta believe Great post at Howard Dean's Blog for America by Zephyr Teachout. Her words relate well what it must feel like to be part of a campaign that has announced an intention to bring in $5M by September 30: There's a... September 23, 2003 Comments, comments, comments To get comments working here again, apparently, I have to do a "fresh reinstall." Reinstall what? I don't know. Everything? I think so. I'm getting tech support by asking questions at the MT forum (here, here, and here), for which... September 23, 2003 Chickenhawk snared! The Chris Arabia story, Part 1 Ha ha ha ha! Pro-war or anti-war, if you find hypocrisy entertaining, you're gonna love this. Here's the deal: Blogcritic Hal Pawluk posted an article about the embarrassment that Bush Admin neoconservatives are experiencing as their liberties with certain facts... September 22, 2003 Village Voice article on 'blogocrats,' Howard Dean, Lawrence L Anya Kamenetz of the Village Voice interviewed me via email a while back, and I just discovered while egosurfing myself at Google News that the Voice last week published Anya's brief, excellent story on the intersection of Howard Dean's presidential... September 22, 2003 Banned Books Week: On a mission from God So I was just blogging about BookCrossing.com, a sort of grassroots book-liberation cult that my parents joined and that describes itself this way: You know the feeling you get after reading a book that speaks to you, that touches your... September 21, 2003 Letterboxing and BookCrossing L.A. Blogs has a recent entry about letterboxing. Apparently it involves...well, here is the description from Letterboxing North America: Letterboxing is an intriguing mix of treasure hunting, art, navigation, and exploring interesting, scenic, and sometimes remote places. It takes the... September 21, 2003 Abby Singer I'm not usually interested in stories of filmmakers struggling hard to kiss the ass of Hollywood, but as those tales go, the story of Abby Singer is very funny, and very well written by Tim Cooper in this Guardian article.... September 21, 2003 California recall election results California recall election returns will be available at this site on October 7, 2003. Information on the Recall Arnold movement can be found here: Recall Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger! Arnold-related articles: Premiere Magazine article (serious misbehavior) Desire to shove Arianna Huffington's... September 21, 2003 Comments still not working Just a reminder. Working on it. Over at the MT forum the consensus is that the "database has become corrupted." Have asked for the third time what I can do about this. No answer yet. Good, fast, cheap. Pick any... September 21, 2003 President Bush cuts aid to Reproductive Health for Ref Thanks to Steve Rhodes for highlighting a Nicholas Kristof column in the New York Times relating the real-world impact of President Bush's cutting of aid to the Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium. Short version: Women and girls are going to... September 20, 2003 Nothing So Strange set for Leeds If you're going to be in the neighborhood of Leeds next month, maybe you'd like to check out Nothing So Strange at the Leeds International Film Festival on October 7. Also in the "Fringe" section with me are my pal... September 19, 2003 Stare at it until it moves Click for more. (via Eric Alterman.)... September 18, 2003 Redhead Blogs Web Ring Confession: I am not a redhead, but I joined the Redhead Blogs Web Ring anyway. This was some time ago, when I joined a bunch of web rings. I thought, Well, I'm not a redhead, but I like redheads. But... September 17, 2003 United States map This United States map looks pretty familiar, eh? But it's not what you think:... September 16, 2003 Those SOB's in SUV's: Flip off a Hummer New initiative asks, Won't you at least lift a finger for the environment? (via onegoodmove.)... September 16, 2003 Comments not working Don't know why, but all of the comments have disappeared and new ones will not post. Sorry to all who have commented in vain. I'm working on it over at the Movable Type help forum. Meanwhile, here is my favorite... September 16, 2003 Sometimes it's good to be Brian Flemming This is one of the very best things about blogging: Attractive women send you their pictures unsolicited. September 15, 2003 MoveOn.org launches "The Daily Mis-Lead" at misleader.org MoveOn.org, increasingly one of the most important political organizations in the U.S., has launched a new website at misleader.org and a daily email service: The President says things that are misleading or just plain wrong every day, but most of... September 15, 2003 U.S. casualty figures in Iraq Guess the number of casualties the U.S. military has suffered in Iraq. Got a number in mind? Guess again. (via Atrios.)... September 14, 2003 What you've been missing on Howard Dean's blog I am continually amazed that a political campaign has one of the most fascinating blogs on the web. Howard Dean's Blog For America could easily have been just a collection of position papers and generic praise for the candidate. But... September 14, 2003 More dogs! September 14, 2003 Electronic Frontier Foundation "Take A Stand Against..." Busy working on the "Nothing So Strange" DVD. But I have just enough time today to ask you to please go sign this petition. To The United States Congress: We are the customers and former customers of the member labels... September 12, 2003 What we lost Speaking of loss, some pictures of what we have lost since 9-11. The images were assembled two years ago. They will probably make you cry for different reasons now. (via Tom Tomorrow)... September 11, 2003 "Dad is free" Natalie's father died.... September 10, 2003 50 reasons not to vote for Arnold Schwarzenegger From Metro Santa Cruz: ...2. He's in way over his head. This can't be stressed enough, so expect us to revisit it often. There are three basic levels to Arnie's ineptitude: (1) He has never run so much as a... September 10, 2003 What if your birthday were September 11? L.A. artist and Slumdance blogger Nora Murphy has a pal with this unhappy birthday and mentions this fact in the context of telling her personal 9-11 story and linking to her brand-new Buzznet page, which has small pictures of some... September 09, 2003 Photos, photos, photos The Bat Boy authors and a certain favorite producer met at the HMS Bounty last night to hatch an evil scheme. I took pictures for posterity and buzzed them up to Buzznet, the amazing creation of Marc Brown. (You, too,... September 09, 2003 Howard Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi just wrote me! Well, okay, it's possible Joe Trippi wrote a lot of other people, too. Still, I liked what he had to say: Dear Brian, Your efforts are making an incredible difference. The latest national poll shows Howard Dean leading among the... September 08, 2003 Krugman on Bush Telling it like it is: But the most important concession Mr. Bush should make isn't about money or control ó it's about truth-telling. He squandered American credibility by selling a war of choice as a war of necessity; if he... September 08, 2003 George Bush + bin Laden = Carlyle Group Conspiracy that isn't really a conspiracy but is instead a confirmed set of business ties that the mainstream press largely ignores out of, oh, I don't know, courtesy: The Carlyle Group. September 06, 2003 Those who rock are as follows: Code Pink, because they know how it's done. In that CNN story, Arnold Schwarzenegger says in response to charges that he is a misogynist, "I think you should just go and talk with all the women I... September 06, 2003 Gender Genie, my ass So cinema minima led me to the Gender Genie, which is this website where you can enter in some text you have written, and the "Gender Genie" uses an algorithm to guess whether you are male or female. Well, you... September 04, 2003 Open Source Politics Aha! Now we know what has been keeping Nurse Ratched so busy lately. It's a new group blog called Open Source Politics. The Nurse herself describes it this way: Open Source Politics is a new group blog that's run somewhat... September 03, 2003 Code Pink and other groups to protest Arnold Schwarzeneg Karen Pomer, who sends me regular updates on Schwarzenegger controversies via email, lets me know about an upcoming protest at Arnie for Gov headquarters in Santa Monica. I can't believe that any woman (or feminist male) who knows about Schwarzenegger's... September 03, 2003 "Fair & Balanced" builds Busy finishing up a ludicrous amount of loose ends, thus the light posting. However, Fair & Balanced sales are good and, better yet, remain steady. There seems to be something irresistible about the ad image to the left. It gets... September 02, 2003

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