Fear of Clowns

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// posted by Erik @ 5/21/2009 08:42:00 PM
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// posted by Erik @ 3/31/2009 08:10:00 PM
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I was too caught up in partisan rhetoric at the time to realize my passion for knocking on doors was primarily driven by a desire to hear an announcement like this from the president-elect. Awesome. YAY! We did it!

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// posted by Erik @ 12/21/2008 04:45:00 AM
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Believe it or not this was before our office team had a Friday afternoon beer break.

UPDATE: The remix by DJ Gerardo,

UPDATE 2: The recovery by Greg Swan,

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// posted by Erik @ 11/21/2008 05:23:00 PM
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One of the funniest GYWO and the first moving one I've seen.

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// posted by Erik @ 11/13/2008 01:52:00 PM
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But for free,

Ada Barak's snake spa, in Talmei Elazar, northern Israel, uses California and Florida king snakes, corn snakes and milk snakes for the massages, which cost £40 ($70).

Miss Barak believes that physical contact with the reptiles can be a relaxing experience. She says that she was inspired by her belief that once people get over any initial misgivings, they find physical contact with the snakes to be stress relieving.

Miss Barak began offering the service at the Talmey El'Azar tourist attraction in 2006 and now most of her income comes from exhibiting plants at her carnivorous plant farm, which eat everything from insects to small mammals.

(via). (video).

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// posted by Erik @ 10/23/2008 07:33:00 PM
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The tumult in the stock market should come as no surprise to those who realize exceptionally good or bad days are driven by the psychological perceptions of those hoping to make a gain in the sort term, but I think everyone regardless of stripes is shocked by the erratic behavior of the GOP over the last few days. Politics is now finnier than political satire could ever be. Just a few examples follow.

Today, the RNC introduced an ad blaming Democrats for the passage of the Wall Street bailout bill, which of course didn't pass,

They must not have caught wind of McCain campaign's claims of taking credit for the sure passage of the same bill,

McCain attempted to blame Barak and Democrats for shooting down the widely unpopular piece of legislation - who exactly is McCain expecting to appeal to here? Undecideds who were both for the legislation and against the Democrats on the same side of the legislation as McCain? It's too confusing to ponder for very long.

Even better, McCain and Palin attempt to couch a real-time debate between them as ... uh, a "Gotcha" question from a Palin supporter at a rally,

Then again, that's nothing compared to McCain's short debate with himself.

Here's Palin contrasting the choice before voters this presidential election, "I'm the new energy, the new face, the new ideas [vs] ... experience."

If an anonymously penned book about this election got zapped back to, say - July, it would be an immediate best seller --- in the vein of Being There and Dr. Strangelove.

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// posted by Erik @ 9/30/2008 07:34:00 PM
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// posted by Erik @ 9/27/2008 12:38:00 AM
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// posted by Erik @ 9/13/2008 12:27:00 AM
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// posted by Erik @ 8/31/2008 11:03:00 PM
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The print and television media coverage is obviously biased in favor of Sen. Obama, yet you do not hear McCain complaining about it. He continues to march face-first into the howling political winds like an American buffalo on a mission. I like that.

When Obama received European adulation (as if he were the Second Coming), McCain did not complain but rather continued his steadfast campaign on American turf.

"No Whiners Allowed"
By Ted Nugent

Here is just a sampling of the many complaints over much time from the McCain camp about Obama and the media.

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// posted by Erik @ 8/21/2008 07:46:00 PM
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Today as an ordained minister of the Universal Life Church, registered in the state of Minnesota, I solemnized my first marriage - between my friends Heath and Jennifer.

I thought the ceremony was at 6:30 pm --- oops, it was 5:30. Fortunately I had asked Him for a wide berth without rain.

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// posted by Erik @ 8/15/2008 11:57:00 PM
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Iraqis are begging for us to stay, nomatter what they may say. McSame,

"I have been there too many times. I've met too many times with him, and I know what they want."

Full interview (with commentary) is a hoot.

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// posted by Erik @ 7/22/2008 10:52:00 PM
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// posted by Erik @ 7/18/2008 11:03:00 PM
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One of the flaws in the President's approach is to say that [Bush] is doing what General Petraeus tells him is the best thing to do; that's not the President's job, the President's job is to tell the general's what the mission is because you have to take the entire strategic interests of the United States in mind not just one particular front when it comes to our national interest. And so the mission I will set for our generals is to bring this war to a close.

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// posted by Erik @ 7/03/2008 10:35:00 PM
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The pussy.

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// posted by Erik @ 7/03/2008 12:21:00 PM
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Right-wingers freak out over David Addington's appearance before a congressional hearing, claiming the hearing revealed his persona which has never been a secret to anyone. This, from the same folks that tried their best to defend the leaking of an actual covert CIA agent.

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// posted by Erik @ 6/28/2008 11:55:00 PM
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Interesting pointlesness.

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// posted by Erik @ 6/28/2008 01:42:00 AM
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Demetri Martin,

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// posted by Erik @ 6/25/2008 10:02:00 PM
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Kill, kill, kill!

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// posted by Erik @ 6/20/2008 03:27:00 PM
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Story.

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// posted by Erik @ 6/19/2008 01:26:00 PM
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"We're here to share in the pain of Lebanese people and to express our belief that authentic Jews have been against the State of Israel since day one and has no right to exist and it's against the Jewish faith ... Judaism is a religion of peace, Jews have been loyal citizens of whichever country they have lived in over the years and have lived in peace with Arabs in the Arab lands for thousands of years, we would like to continue to do so. The only problem is Zionism and Zionists. It's neither Jews nor Arabs, it's not Judiasm or Islam ... [Zionism] is only 50 to 100 years [old]."

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// posted by Erik @ 6/12/2008 07:18:00 PM
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// posted by Erik @ 4/24/2008 09:28:00 PM
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An elephant gored to death three people, including a woman, during a temple festival in Kerala's Thrissur district on Wednesday afternoon.

... The police identified two of those killed as Kausalya, 75, and Nidheesh, 20. "The third person's identity is yet to be confirmed. His face was crushed beyond recognition," an official at Irinjalakkuda police station said.

The jumbo, which continued the rampage for about two hours, was calmed down by the mahouts and chained.

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// posted by Erik @ 4/23/2008 08:25:00 PM
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For their first encore, the curtains opened to robots playing "We Are the Robots".

The band came out in "Tron" suits for the second encore.

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// posted by Erik @ 4/20/2008 07:01:00 PM
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• The Buggles
  • Video Killed the Radio Star
• Gary Numan
  • Are Friends Electric
  • Me, I Disconnect From You
  • Cars
  • I Die You Die
• Human League
  • Fascination
  • Don't You Want Me
• A Flock of Seagulls
  • I Ran
  • Space Age Love Song
• Korgis
  • Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime
• Sparks
  • Cool Places
• Ultravox
  • Hiroshima Mon Amour
  • Vienna
  • The Voice
  • Dancing With Tears in My Eyes
• The Fixx
  • Secret Separation
  • Red Skies at Night
• Talk Talk
  • It's My Life
  • Talk Talk
• Duran Duran
  • Planet Earth
  • Save a Prayer
  • Hungry Like the Wolf
• Thomas Dolby
  • One of Our Submarines
  • Radio Silence
  • Europa & The Pirate Twins
  • She Blinded Me with Science
• Peter Schilling
  • Major Tom
• OMD
  • Souvenir
  • Telegraph
  • Electricity
  • Enola Gay
• Psychedelic Furs
  • Heaven
  • Love My Way
  • The Ghost in You

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// posted by Erik @ 4/02/2008 08:38:00 PM
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