Gangsta

so I got this from the Philly Search. Pretty awesome.

The Obamas in Washington

so this is a pretty cool article, it's asking whether the Obamas will go out in Washington more than George W. Bush. It mentions a few spots, like 2 Amy's (which I think is overrated) and Ben's Chili Bowl, and is one of the few articles about D.C. that talks about the city itself rather than just the institutions of government. I hope there are more to come.

Hair and Diamonds

So I saw this video on Facebooks. It's bizarre and kind of gross and funny.


Where Diamonds Come From. from christopher mcmanus on Vimeo.

It's from a blog called Hair and Diamonds, which is exactly what it sounds like.

Obama!

so Obama won! That's amazing. I was in Adams Morgan, DC when they called the election, walking down 18th Street. I heard chanting "5... 4... 3..." coming from the Duplex Diner, so I ran over and saw just as the graphic showing they predicted Obama to be the winner came up. Everybody went nuts at the bar, and my friend and I ran the four blocks to 14th and U Street, where a street party had already been happening. It was pandemonium.

There were hundreds of people all over, in the street, climbing on bus stops, chanting, singing, cheering, hugging strangers, giving high fives, on and on. I hung out in the street and met up with my friend, and we caught most of Obama's victory speech standing in a doorway of a bar on U, then met up with my friends who had been volunteering for Obama in southern Virginia. We went to DC9, which was an awesome atmosphere, and drank some there. Then at last call, about 2:30 am, we went back outside and it was still pandemonium everywhere - people honking, running around with flags, jumping on their cars. It was an amazing scene.

And I made this video from the night.



And I got quoted in this article (second page).

Cindy McCain

so this is pretty funny:


Cindy McCain Claims She's "Just Like Any Other Female Human"

Don't forget to vote

so this is pretty funny. Don't forget to vote and don't let excuses get you, or else this might be you:

Kula Shaker

so I just rediscovered Kula Shaker - remember them? They were a psychedelic British band from the 90s. with some hits over here like "Tattva," "Govinda," and "Hey Dude." The stuff still sounds pretty awesome. And randomly, the lead singer's mom is Hayley Mills from "The Parent Trap."

"Hey Dude"


"Tattva"

(Sounds Beatles-y huh?)

"Govinda"
Link (can't embed it)

"Hush"


"Mystical Machine Gun"

Marxist VP Candidate Ineligible to Serve

so this was kind of a random thing - I saw some posters in the Columbia Heights neighborhood in DC saying something about ending "evil gentrification," and the website listed was votepsl.org. The website is for the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a Marxist political party that's on the presidential ballot in a few states.

I was browsing the site and thought, "huh, the vice presidential candidate, Eugene Puryear, looks really young." His bio says he's a student at Howard University. Maybe he started late or was a grad student, but I couldn't find anything else about his age - his Wikipedia page just said he was born in Charlottesville, VA (until I updated it).

Then I Googled him, found his Facebook page and added him, and it turns out he was born in 1986, and is thus 22 years old. That makes him ineligible to serve as vice president, since you have to be 35 (and fulfill the rest of the requirements to be president). Here's a picture of his Facebook page, since you can't see it unless you're his friend on there.

Of course, this is a moot point, since the PSL will not win the election, but hey, it's interesting.

New Benjy Ferree song

so I'm a fan of Benjy Ferree, a DC musician. His latest album, Come Back To The Five And Dime, Bobby Dee Bobby Dee, is about Bobby Driscoll, a child actor who won an Oscar and was the voice of Peter Pan in the Disney cartoon movie. He was fired soon after for getting acne and growing older, and then developed a drug problem, dying alone at age 31. When found, the police thought he was a homeless person, and he was buried in an unmarked mass grave on New York's Hart Island. Pretty sad and crazy story.

One of the songs is out on the internet, and it's pretty good:



The album comes out February 9, 2009. Here's his Myspace page.

Palin as President

so this is amazing:

palinaspresident.com