While I like to imagine that I’m open minded, can I truly respect the intelligence of my peers who vote for McPain? It’s beyond the pale.
What was 2 weeks ago hailed as a brilliant RNC chess move is now being called foolish from within the right. So are conservatives like George Will, who is now openly questioning the intelligence of McCain, going to break rank once inside the voting booth? I think so. The idea of Palin engaging Putin is just too much to bear. The video below makes me laugh, but it also makes me very scared.
Category: Our World
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Sarah Palin…Helping the Iraq?
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I Like Little Marshmallows
Katie Couric is my new BFF, cause this interview of Palin is fire. Des Temps eschews cut+paste blogging, but could. not. resist. Below is the copy from the last :40. To be honest, I’m surprised the RNC powers let CBS air this.Couric: You’ve said, quote, “John McCain will reform the way Wall Street does business.” Other than supporting stricter regulations of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac two years ago, can you give us any more example of his leading the charge for more oversight?
Palin: I think that the example that you just cited, with his warnings two years ago about Fannie and Freddie – that, that’s paramount. That’s more than a heck of a lot of other senators and representatives did for us.
Couric: But he’s been in Congress for 26 years. He’s been chairman of the powerful Commerce Committee. And he has almost always sided with less regulation, not more.
Palin: He’s also known as the maverick though, taking shots from his own party, and certainly taking shots from the other party. Trying to get people to understand what he’s been talking about – the need to reform government.
Couric: But can you give me any other concrete examples? Because I know you’ve said Barack Obama is a lot of talk and no action. Can you give me any other examples in his 26 years of John McCain truly taking a stand on this?
Palin: I can give you examples of things that John McCain has done, that has shown his foresight, his pragmatism, and his leadership abilities. And that is what America needs today.
Couric: I’m just going to ask you one more time – not to belabor the point. Specific examples in his 26 years of pushing for more regulation.
Palin: I’ll try to find you some and I’ll bring them to you.
Oh yeah, you do that. And bring me some bars and hot cocoa too. Like ships passing in the night, I wonder if this interview will break Sarah and make Kate.
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All Bounce, No Fill
I’m in Berlin, wandering the streets with a camera, hoping to see beneath the surface. Shooting in a new city always begins with contrasts of the banal, and the trick is to get past that. En route, I saw the bikes and thought of Eggleston, who shoots only one take. Resolved to do the same, and then the flash flashed back. Moved on down the road, as happy as the pixies that must be living in those reflectors. -
Branded Local
This past summer in my uptown New Orleans neighborhood I noticed some funky stuff going on in the shop windows. In a city in which local and neighborhood identity means everything to folks, certain shop owners had taken the step to support a local artist in the most surprising way. Instead of the standard issue open/closed signs that most places use, a number of shops in the area had hand-painted signs — all of them painted and dated by the same guy: Simon.
I never got the story on Simon. Later I saw that he owns an antique shop and calls himself a “Louisiana habitat endangered artist.” Likewise, it is the wit and personality of his signs that calls out. Many of his “closed” signs, for example, omit the final letter “d” thus presenting the visitor with a pun, “store close.” His closed sign for the women’s shoe store Bella is cut in the shape of a foot, and a separate sign of his in the window announces, “girls love shoes.”
The oval-shaped brand at the bottom of his signs make Simon the Ford of hand-painted open/closed signs in Uptown New Orleans. But even he has competitors. Still, as a shopper, it was with a small smile that I crossed the threshold into shops signed by him. If there is as unique a visual culture to another commercial strip in America, I haven’t seen it. But I’ll be looking.
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Sound The Trumpets
and ring the alarm, cause today is Raafmonster’s birthday. Tonight there will be much making merry and galavanting around New York Town. Give a shout to join our hijinks. -
Who's Got Next: Champion + Starter?
OK. So we know that the 90s are the new 80s, and now that it’s the first crispy day of fall, I’m ready to see if 2 classic brands come back 100% in hipster/rapster style: Champion logo sweatshirts and Starter Jackets. Internets, what do you think?
And – JSmooth has for us a great note about Hipster Rap:
