"new era"

[dubdobdee]

blimey it's been a whole week! what has changed for you, oh LJ?

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I added yglesias to my Google Reader. Crikey he posts a lot.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

ACTually, happier, sleeping better, ghosts of 2004 election night put to rest. Plus also got to lol at the expression on Michelle Obama's face during the Meet the Bushs, and imagine intense Father Jack-style training to convince GWB not to rub the head of the smiling black man.

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

I have entered a whole new world of GRUMP and it is getting me down :(

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

gwb already said something strange, didn't he? something like "i'm delighted for you and your good bride"

(btw did you ever go see my friend's stand-up andrew? what did you think?)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I have decided that writing about music videos is the best thing ever (ie taking priority over j0b-search and cookery-fail-project) and I am trying really hard to keep it down to two posts a day in case I get sick of it.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I went to the one shortly after I saw you at Ricky's birthday. I'd like to go back and see him when he's doing a proper set. He was MCing, and tried to make bits of admin funny but didn't, and they had a weird thing where they'd had a competition at the last one for who could pull the ugliest face, and they made the winner come on stage to pick it up.

I think they were trying to shore up a regular fanbase, but it felt awkward to me and there was a bit of low-level heckling of the 'get on with it' variety from behind me (actually it was probably just conversation, but with a venue the size of a telephone booth...).

I left before the first act :( Though I did have in mind that when I went home there was a pretty lady to IM with, so science was not entirely served.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha superobamaworld

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i think their fanbase is VERY new, and they're new to the project -- russell said he couldn't work out how to be his comedy persona and MC there, so he won't do it again (elsewhere it's worked fine apparently but the space and the crowd work against t there)

i saw him again last week -- he was trying a lot of new stuff, and very nervous; but it sort of all came together -- it's interesting waching someone travel by touch, when they've hit on something potentially very rich, but incredibly ambitious (the other comics all seem terribly impressed by his boldness, which is interesting)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

a friendly anti-war libertarian's review of yglesias's book, which i keep meaning to read

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I can't get past the second set of pigs :(

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

We have sold out of 'Dreams Of My Father' EVERY DAY. Sometimes twice.

[http://users.livejournal.com/xyzzzz__/]

Plenty of 'interesting' spam.

tax break for me?

[spittake.livejournal.com]

some other girls at work and i have finally realized that we have all been getting new york city tax taken out of our paycheck this year for no reason.

now we'll see if we get any of this back, but we are on to you dumbass HR lady!!!