Another Blog Explosion Poem

Recapping the rules for Blog Explosion Poetry:

I visit 10 random blogs on Blog Explosion, take one line from each blog, in order, and create a poem.

This one's called "For Debby"

So John Kerr killed JonBenet Ramsey?
More details in "read more."
Everything is about her, her, and more her.
Do you use Flickr or PhotoBucket?
I took a try at windsurfing and did surprisingly well.
There was a sign.
Business must be booming, eh?
My View : This totally sucks.
I guess we'll find out on August 24th when it's put to a vote.
But let's put certain myths to rest at the very outset.

Today's the Day!

Yes, Snakes on A Plane is in theaters! I don't really have much to add to the subject, and I'm sorry if Sam hasn't called you yet.

Speaking of personalized messages though, you can now have Jessica Simpson sing a song personalized with your name. This would be cool if it was someone other than Jessica Simpson, and if it didn't cost $1.99. I guess she needs more publicity. The breast awareness campaign must not be doing so well.



Who would you rather have give you a personalized message? Tough choice. I know.

The Coolest Guy On Youtube

I can't remember if I blogged about this guy when I first discovered him or not, but that was months ago, so if I did, here he is again.

This kid is a 19 year old film students who, with a film crew of one and a cast of one, reenacts famous scenes from movies (playing ALL characters in the scenes). He's done scenes from The Big Lebowski, The Silence of the Lambs, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, among others. It's all tounge-in-cheek of course, but the funny thing is he's actually a pretty good actor. His best work to date, to me, is his Reenactment of The Shining, where he does a good Jack Nicholson, and an even better Shelly Duvall.

Blog Explosion Poetry

So here's my idea for a post today... I'm going to visit 10 random blogs on Blog Explosion, take one line from each blog, in order, and create a poem.

Here I go.

With an attitude and sometimes a wink
Of course, in the process, great work is created
Obviously, number crunching has numbed my brain
Three houses is just the beginning
Unfortunately, internet daters still don't realise this
Anybody see Supernova last night?
Check it out and be sure and check out the sampler CD as well.
That is always the challenge isn't it?
Is the concept of world peace dead?
Needless to say, many karate clubs flourished on mainland Japan.

Thank you. Thank you very much.

Macaca, Mohawks, Monkeys, HANNITY and colmes

More on George Allen:

So Georgie boy calls an Indian Webb staffer "macaca," which is an African word for monkey, and his staffers claim he was trying to say "mohawk" because of the staffer's hair. Despite the fact that the staffer looks like this. And despite the fact that "macaca" means "monkey" and not "mohawk."

Since Wonkette linked to Dara today, possibly giving Dara her biggest day ever on her blog, I'm going to link to Wonkette's post on HANNITY and colmes.

Are you freakin' kidding me? HANNITY goes on and on giving the Allen spin on the story and wimp-boy colmes' response is "That word means Mohawk. And the guy, by the way, is a native Virginian. He’s from Fairfax County."

I'm going to put together a contest of some sort to make fun of colmes' wimpiness, I just have to decide what to do.

Crazy States Are Back!

It's been a long time since I've visited my Crazy State Power Rankings. In fact, last I touched them on March 30. It's time to get this back on track. It doesn't seem right doing this now that MOsanthrope is no more, and there might not be quite the strong push for Missouri. But the show must go on.

If you haven't seen my rankings before, I rank states from craziest to least crazy.... the theoretical goal is to some day include all 50 state and the District of Columbia, but I haven't been that ambitious yet.

Salon published an article today regarding six states where there is likely to be voter suppression this year, so that article is weighing heavily in my mind. The six states are Arizona, California, Florida, Missouri, Ohio and Indiana.

So, without further delay....

1. Kansas Previously #1

Kansas has never fallen from it's perch for me at the top. Seriously, can someone tell me a way in which Kansas is not crazy?

2. Missouri Previously #2

One of the Salon Six. I considered pushing it up to #1. I really did. Maybe if MOsanthrope returns, I could be conviced.

3. Virginia Previously #4

Not one of the Salon Six, but we do have electronic voting without a paper trail. And George Allen.

4. Florida Previously #5

One of the Salon Six, and the place where voting is the most screwed up in general (although Ohio is closing in). And while Katherine Harris is getting crushed in her Senate bid, she still lives there.

5. Texas Previously #7

This ranking is all about Dubya, but if they elect Kinky.... well, they'll still be crazy, but in a good way.

6. Ohio Previously #16

The big mover on my list. One of the Salon Six, a horrible offendor in the voting rights arena, and did you see that trade the Reds made with the Nats?

7. Indiana Previously #12

Another Salon Six honoree.

8. Arizona New Entry

One of two debuts on my list, and a strong one for another Salon Six honoree.

9. Oklahoma Previously #3

Nothing new to report here. Just your typical Oklahoma crazy.

10. California Previously #14

Salon Six member, and while his re-election isn't a given, Governor "Jingle All The Way" still runs the place. I wanted to put this higher, but a certain someone wouldn't let me live it down if I said California was crazier than Oklahoma.

11. Alabama Previously #6

Nothin' much to say here.

12. Wisconsin Previously #15

Let me get this straight. Favre is STILL the QB?

13. Washington DC Previously #9

A small drop for DC, because of the same Nats-Reds trade.

14. New York New Entry

Speaking of bad baseball moves, didn't the Yankees see how bad Sidney Ponson was in St. Louis?

15. South Dakota Previously #8

I don't feel like picking on a Dakota so much today.

And the rest of the list...

16. Maryland Previously #10
17. Utah Previously #11
18. Wyoming Previously #13
19. Pennsylvania Previously #17

Comments accepted below.

Tuesday Morning Politics

**** My own Senator, Mr. George Allen, has been going around calling an Indian staffer for his opponent, Jim Webb, a monkey. Ok, it's not as cut and dry as I just put it, and whether it's an intentional racist slur is up for debate, but it's looking likely. On the Mel Gibson scale of 1 to 10, I'd say this is at least a 7 or 8.


**** And back to our good friend Joe Lieberman. He claims he's an "independent Democrat," but at this point, I don't see any evidence that he's a Democrat at all anymore. MyDD notes that the Republican National Committee and White House are refusing to endorse the Republican nominee in Connecticut, and Joe seems to have the support of people like Karl Rove and Bill Kristol. Kos has a good rundown of things Joe should be doing if he's a Democrat, including campaigning for other Democrats who need it and fighting back against Republicans using his campaign as a talking point.

Most importantly, Joe needs to pledge, right now, that he will support Harry Reid as majority leader if re-elected. If he won't do that, I now have to assume he wants the Senate to remain out of Democratic hands.

Who's Visiting My Blog?

Through the miracle of Sitemeter, I know a little more about where my blog traffic is coming from. I'm getting a surprising number of hits from abroad (probably about 50% of my hits that aren't from people I actually know are international). Particularly Canadians. Canadians seem to love my blog.

The thing I do that seems to bring in the most traffic to my site is posting in the comments sections of other blogs.

Because of a couple comments section postings, the most popular posts on my blog seem to be these two Tom Petty posts and this Kirk Cameron post. Which clearly means I need to blog about Tom Petty and Kirk Cameron more often.

So here's Petty....



And here's Cameron.



Oops, wrong Cameron.

Here's the real Cameron.



Damn. Still the wrong Cameron.



There. Happy now?

My New MP3 Player

As I mentioned last week, my iPod broke and I had to find another way to play music and podcasts on my commute. I used my PSP last week, and while it did the trick, it was bulky, didn't play the tracks loud enough, and doesn't remember where a track stops when you turn it off (which is important when listening to hour long podcasts).

So I got myself a new MP3 player on eBay. It cost me $45, including shipping and handling.

It's not a name brand MP3 player. It was probably made on the street somewhere in Europe or Asia. But at least it has Samsung innards. There are a bunch for sale on eBay, like this one.

So if it doesn't break (which is a BIG if, I know), I'm very happy with it. It has 2 GB of memory, doubles as a flash drive, has an FM radio (surprisingly good reception, and will be useful at the gym where the TVs have audio on radio frequencies), as well as a voice recorder and playback. And it's TINY. Not bad for $45.