11 posts tagged “obama”
You guys, he looks like a mischievous little kitten. He looks like he can't wait for you to leave your knitting bag on the floor and that he day dreams about saucers of buttermilk and feathers tied to sticks.
This is in no way meant to disrespectful of our president-elect. I couldn't be happier with the outcome of the election (save for Prop 8 in Cali)... but c'mon, man. He's like the best LOLCat EVERRRRR.
Over the weekend I saw this picture of him on Tumblr and remarked: "He looks like a cartoon cat who has just discovered a jar of lamb-flavored jam." And am I wrong, people?
I'm saying I have to have these nails. I don't care if I can't use my Blackberry. But maybe instead of Barry and Michelle I can have Mark and Cory?
Barry O nails via notcaragh
I went and ate a bunch of chicken with Ed tonight and I was really exhausted from eating so much celebration food that I came home and spaced out in front of episodes of Picket Fences on my computer and tried to decompress. I don't know if this point has been brought up or not, and I'm sure it probably has by this late hour, but I feel like I gotta say something:
It appears that the ban on gay marriage is going to get passed, as well as Prop 2, which as Spiegs put it is basically asking that we give chickens "more legroom".
What this tells me, California, is that you value the life of a chicken that was bred for your consumption more than you do about equal rights for your fellow man. Uh, hey guys? That's fucking retarded.
No, I mean. I get it. Animals are cute. When you were voting to pass Prop 2, you were thinking "Oh, yeah. Well, I like animals. Sure!" But it's about more than that, as is banning gay marriage. Voting no on the ban was not about letting the homos catch up to you and possibly beat you in the race of life, you fucking bigots. It was about preventing permanent restrictions on our rights. If you can't look outside of yourself to find a reason to care, think about a right that you have been afforded as a citizen of this country being taken away from you because you are a part of any marginalized group. If that's the kinda thing we're into, then I want to ban all James Francos from boning any not mes.
Anyway, people are fucking idiots, but it's OK. We have a black president, I have Sour Patch Kids.
The New York Post, which endorsed McCain, is the first national paper to call it for Obama.
Laters!
I just got a panicky Google-chat from Alex asking me to repost this here, so because I love him and he's right, here's what Alex wrote on Bed Time today:
If you know anyone in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Virginia, or North Carolina and you think they will vote For Barack Obama please send them a text, an email, or a call (anything). Make sure they realize how important their vote truly is. Last election the RNC brought a serious effort in the last 2 days and the actual election with a “ground game” that brought out a giant republican turnout that was not expected. Lets not get caught off guard again.
My fellow Dems please do not think this “Is in the bag”. If you can help in anyway even just a quick email to your Aunt in Philly (I will be emailing her after this) take the couple minutes. It could alter the course of our country and the world.
Because I am a self-promoting and nosy person, I know from my stat counter that I have a lot of readers in Ohio, Florida and North Carolina specifically. I hope Alex's message reaches you and you make the choice that will be best for our country.
I know that makes me sound like I have a lot of interpersonal issues and I'll cop to at least that, if not a lot more being true.
My point in prefacing something like this is to say that normally I don't have a place for this shit on my radar. I don't surf Funny or Die or Break, I don't click on most of the YouTube links I'm sent, but today when a reader sent me a link to this video he found on HuffPo, I was inclined to take a look. And I really, really loved what I saw.
This is the kind of comedy that's right up my alley, you guys. We've got appropriate nostalgia (not too soon, not too over done), the familiar set up of the Budwieser commercials, both things that would be boring and unremarkable on their own. What I love here is that they are totally saying some shit. That sounds really stonery, but I want to be as plain as possible about this. I think it's kind of great that they found a marker that most people wouldn't think to reference (the "simplier" times when in a pre-9/11 world brosephs and brosephines alike would great each other with that horrible "WAZZZZZZUUUUUPPP?" because most people were at home watching the Superbowl and got the joke, not at the office putting in extra hours to afford their health insurance premium) and basically found a humorous way to slap us in the faces with the fact that things have gotten really, tragically bad since we first had that slogan penetrating our brains.
Not to explain the joke or whatever, but I think that if I'm going to show you something like this that made me laugh and think and then feel a little bit sad and compelled to write about it on the internet, I want you to know why I'm doing it. I'm explaining it because a lot of people miss the point when it comes to stuff like this and it would be ashame if anyone's take away was that I thought it's just been too long since I heard a good "WAZZZZZZZZZUUUUUPPP?". In some ways it will never be too long for that, I'm sure. But this is good, this is real good. It's important to remember to say something even if you're not saying it directly. I think it's pretty clear that I live by that philosophy several hundred words into a blog entry about a web video later, huh?
