Caroll Spinney is Big Bird
From what I gather, Mr. Spinney has spent nearly 40 years with his right arm in the air, operating the mouth and providing a tender voice for everybody’s favorite 6-year-old bird with gigantism.
Last night, I watched this fascinating A&E Classroom on the life and times of Sesame Street. Highly recommended, for an infusion of preliterate, pre-ironic nostalgia.
Lisagor on the ticket
Can I take a moment to tell you how proud I am of my pop? He sent me this today - his name on the official ballot, right there next to Barry. He’s doing his part to make public schools great. Dr. Mark ‘08.
A cordial invitation to Rock
I probably won’t be attending. But it’s at The Edison, which is actually kind of a cool place. Way to book a venue, Hillary!
Report: 60 Million People You’d Never Talk To Voting For Other Guy
From The Onion:
The report also confirmed that even if you were able to communicate with these other citizens, your passion and conviction would never be enough to convince them not to vote for their candidate, just as they would never be able to convince you not to vote for your candidate, and just as nobody can convince anybody else that what they believe to be right is wrong, regardless of how clear the evidence to the contrary may be.
The report maintained that, during your purely hypothetical discussion, both of you would come off as smug, narrow-minded, or downright ignorant if you tried to criticize the other candidate’s positions on key issues such as abortion and gay rights. The ensuing argument would only further cement both of your feelings of disgust toward the other candidate.
And yet incredibly, sources said, neither one of you would technically be wrong.
Because—and this is reportedly the most maddening part—even though these people’s unwavering support for their candidate completely dumbfounds you, you cannot even get angry at them, since they are not voting for him because they are idiots or because they want to spite you, but rather because they actually believe that he is the better choice to run our nation.
YUM
thx, sister
A solid and gut-wrenching work of fiction
Care to instantly summon the pleasant mix of confusion, alienation and despair of the last two elections? Press play.
via citizen
Greenscreen en la clase de español
So I’m sitting in Spanish class and I remark to my pal Jesse that entirely 1/6th of my field of view is taken up by the chroma green of this guy’s polo shirt. So Jesse says to me he says wouldn’t it be cool if you could greenscreen some shit in there.
So I thought and I thought about what I could greenscreen in there to keep me entertained during class and this is what I kept coming back to.
No on Prop 8
Senator Martin Cavanaugh
I asked for video of this parody political ad from The State, and dear reader and Grand Champion Justin sent it to me.
