X-Tra Rant

Try “Wayne Newton, Stephen Baldwin and Bo Derek.”

Yikes

Move-On is premiering a new set of advertisements featuring:

The Republican response is ALMOST as funny as when Foghat said they would tour to try and offset the Springsteen (+ tons of other great acts) tour for the left.

Wayne Newton? Stephen Baldwin? Bo Derek?

Yikes.

What Dave Neiwert said.

It’s long but you’ll learn alot about the Japanese internment during WWII, how Michelle Malkin tries to justify it as a method of justifying present-day racial profiling, and just how wrong she is.

I had no idea so many Japanese-Americans could not become citizens until 1952.

If you haven’t heard, Bruce Springsteen is leading a tour of musicians including Jackson Browne, Pearl Jam, Bonnie Raitt, R.E.M., the Dixie Chicks, James Taylor, Sheryl Crow (and more really good artists) on a tour that’s raising money for ACT (Americans Coming Together, a mostly ‘get out the vote’ group.)

Well, now everything has changed. Apparently Bush campaign people “say that several performers, including [Lee Ann] Womack, Randy Travis, and even 1970s rock band Foghat have offered to tour to try to offset” the Springsteen group.

Foghat?!

Might as well call off the election. Once Foghat throws their.. umm… hat.. into the ring, it’s all but over.

Free Press News : The first lady of the press

My favorite part? When asked about the “liberal media”:

While waiting on about 100GB of data to copy to a backup server (yay fun fun!) I decided to combine the Japanese Death Haiku with a program called Babble that can take a text file and randomize words and lines (and can even combine multiple text files’ text sources).

But for this I just used the english translations of the haiku (so they don’t really all have the 5-7-5 syllable construction, since the syllables work in Japanese but not in English) and had Babble, well, babble for a bit. The output is interesting. Sometimes it’s really good, sometimes it makes no sense. But it was a fun and quick exercise to see what would come out. Click the “more” or “keep reading” or whatever it says link to read the output
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I’m really digging this Japanese Death Poetry for some reason. My favorite is this one in the “Poetry of the Samurai”

I also like this haiku

Go check out the entry at the travel blog and of course the photo blog.

Jump on over there for a quick update on things so far

And remember, go to the Photo Blog! There’s some cool stuff there, including a picture of me with a Blue Man from the Blue Man Group!!

update: There’s a new update at the Travel Blog, live from Times Square

Crossposted to the travel blog, X-Tra Rant On The Road

We leave tomorrow bright and early for our flight to NYC. We’ll be back Monday night (although I might not be posting about the trip until Wednesday. My computer at home died… )

Be sure to check the Photo Blog for pictures from my camera phone during the trip. I’ll try to put up some high-res pictures from my good camera once I get a working computer.

(Part of a hopefully continuing series)