October 2008
More Palin/Couric video released - yay! http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/30/eveningnews/main4490618.shtml
Twitter’s “feature” of truncating long tweets sucks - fight back! http://is.gd/3lUP
Kind of weird how Fox anchors practically begged McCain to suspend his campaign again. http://tinyurl.com/suspendagain
Trying not to descend into sleepy naptime, since I have to be on the road to cover Obama in Wisconsin at 5am.
Editing. Now I’ll totally retweet myself - VOLTRON NEWS! Watch + love! http://tinyurl.com/4cqors
September 2008
Unearthed sci-fi news video →
Behold: Voltron Evening News! I’d given up hope of ever finding this video I did as a “digital arts” student at MCTC in 2002. I happened upon a backup DVD with this crappy Quicktime rough cut while…
Looks like I’m heading to Monticello for the CD6 Bachmann-Tinklenberg Debate this eve, though Bachmann will likely not be there.
I met a nice D-Day WWII vet at the VFW. Total NRA old school Republican. His wife passed away in June so he was happy for some conversation.
Unearthed! VOLTRON Evening News, a rough cut, long lost but now on the tubes: http://tinyurl.com/4cqors
We are live now in Minnesota’s CD2 - Steve Sarvi http://www.mogulus.com/theuptake
Converting video files, thinking I’ll thin down my 90’s CD collection. Then I start listening to them and getting sentimental. Blast!
Hello from the VFW hall in Zumbrota, MN! Never heard of this town before today. Here for a Sarvi/Kline debate, minus the Kline.
Palin on Biden: “I’ve been hearing about his Senate speeches since I was in, like, second grade.” http://is.gd/3i7F
I’m prolly not cut out for partisan politics. I’m too inclined to respect people’s right to believe what they believe, even if it’s crazy.
(I’m sure I’ll change my mind tomorrow and turn brutally, relentlessly partisan.)
37 days left
Battle between furniture, cleaning, and my nose. Nose loses obviously.
Pants Status: Preemptive Jesus
Who let my wife in here??? Hide the porno! @Lorika13
Cool Hand Luke
Pants Status: Karate truck
Help Chuck out. Watch my classic 16mm film: http://tinyurl.com/3hwjdl Then vote for me here: http://is.gd/3bsf (#43)
The economy: Who is to blame? Greed…Dems? http://tinyurl.com/4hjrfn
Our liveblog is underway at http://theuptake.org/ - join the party! CSPAN and Memphis video feeds too. #debates08
Watching post-debate reaction from @schlomo on http://theuptake.org
There’s a new candidate on the scene - this will shake things up: http://www.helpryanevans.com/ http://twitter.com/ryanevans08
What does Sock Le Puppet think? He’s going live now: http://theuptake.org/
98% of RNC journalists were embedded with reality.
Our new homeowner friends just got a fire pit and asked where to get wood. Me: “I get wood from Sarah Palin’s daughter.” Thank you gnite!
There’s the empty debate hall getting setup. We’ll have the debate live and live coast-to-coast party reaction. http://theuptake.org/
Oh no. My ultimate cameragasm has been forged by Japanese cyborg dream demons. http://tinyurl.com/dreamcamera
Stunning story of the Al-Jazeera journalist released from Gitmo after 6 years: http://is.gd/39Ru (via @richpav)
Is there like, a DVD Box Set of the Couric/Palin interviews? I want the extras, the outtakes, the behind-the-scenes featurette.
Did McCain fuck up the muxtape negotiations, too?
Ok there are a dozen no bailout demonstrators now, I’ll go live in a sec http://qik.com/theuptake
Check it out! Suspended David Blaine, interviewed about suspended McCain: http://tinyurl.com/3f8jbh from @debateporridge
There are like 4 people at the “Say no to bailouts” rally outside the Mpls Fed Reserve, not counting KSTP.
Oh my god. I srsly love Palin more and more. An angel. http://tinyurl.com/3juwto
Franken Ads http://theuptake.org/
Worth a retweet from @FakeSarahPalin: “TODD IS GIVING UP SNOWMACHINING TO HELP ME FOCUS ON TEH ECONOMY”
Here come the “sea smurfs” with shields and batons, and beanbag bullets. http://tinyurl.com/3sendx
Sheriff Fletcher: About 500 anarchists coordinated actions and damage on day 1 of RNC: http://tinyurl.com/3ehbo4
Sure, Sarah Palin met with Kissinger… but did she kiss him? http://tinyurl.com/4z795u
Fuck David Blaine
McCain has really taken an astonishing dive. Fire somebody! http://tinyurl.com/46prqh
