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We’re here, we’re marshmallows and we don’t want any more of that stuff we don’t like

I’m sure you’ve heard of the Coffee Party — an astroturfical answer to the Tea Parties. Organized by Facebook page and as as spontaneous as you’d expect (though I don’t think this one is a professional job; it’s just too lame).

Yeah, tens of thousands of people can march in dozens of cities over months, and the media never hoid of them. Thirty liberals get together in somebody’s basement, and the New York Times is all over it.

Anyhow, in a fit of laudible silliness, Zombie has started a FB page for the Cocoa Party.

We are 100% weedroots. No astroturf Obama-campaigning former New York Times employees in the Cocoa Movement, no sirree! No grassroots racist fascist redneck Neanderthal Teabaggers either! And no hyper-partisan strategists calling the shots in this movement. We are a spontaneous and collective expression of our desire to forge a culture of ludicrous propaganda that is entirely blame-oriented.

People are having fun with it — and you can, too!

Also note that Stoaty Weasel has a FB account. I don’t know why you’d want to friend it; I never update it. I got it to keep company with the Twitter account I never use.

March 3, 2010 — 10:23 pm
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Some little girls learned to cross-stitch

Me, I was murder on a Heathkit.

That’s the pen to my original old Wacom graphics tablet, which has been back and forth across the Atlantic many times, was chewed to bits by a teething kitten and finally heaved a sigh and stopped responding a couple of months ago. I have a newer, spiffier tablet for my desktop machine upstairs, but it’s been a pain in the ass not having a graphical wotsit to go with my laptop.

Turns out, a replacement pen is more expensive than buying a whole new rig on eBay, so I decided to try to Frankenstein this one back together.

See those two little wires? Yeah, the ones in the circle with the arrow pointing to them, Einstein. They lead from the coil in the tip back to the circuit board, along a hard piece of plastic. So every time the innards shifted in the outards, it crushed those poor little buggers until they finally broke.

Just a spoonful of solder, and I’m back in business.

Speaking of graphics, meet my new BFF. No, not Hillary — Jason Seiler (pronounced “syler”), the guy who drew this. I sent him a fan letter, and he wrote back and said “thanks” — so there you go!

I saw his illustration for this Weekly Standard piece and had to Google it. Turns out, I’ve seen (and lusted after) his stuff before.

Seriously, take a few minutes and browse through his main web site. He’s got some amazing work in there (at least hit the entertainment and political galleries).

Dude kicks multiple kinds of ass, including a couple of kinds of ass I didn’t even know existed.

 

March 2, 2010 — 11:23 pm
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Pass my goddamn bill, goddammit! -=hic=-

Heh. Right. Like I was going to ignore this article: in addition to giving up the smokes totally, Obama’s doctors also counselled “moderation of alcohol intake.” Which sent a titter through the blogosphere.

That’s actually just clumsy phrasing on the Guardian‘s part. If you read the report, it’s clear the doctors recommend continued moderation of alcohol. I don’t believe dude’s a drinker. But, hey — where would I be if I didn’t take the cheap shots?

Sometimes I feel bad about that. Particularly when I remember how fair and gracious the opposition was to George Bush.


Feel free to add to the Dead Pool thread. We don’t wrap that sucker up until somebody dies (and then we start all over again).

March 1, 2010 — 10:17 pm
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