Let's take a break from Newsom FAIL, Muni FAIL, and Overall Economy FAIL with...the Dancin' Stormtrooper!
For more of the Dancin' Stormtrooper, check out Danny Choo's site. It's rather awesome.
edited by: Adam Haverstock,
California Editor
Let's take a break from Newsom FAIL, Muni FAIL, and Overall Economy FAIL with...the Dancin' Stormtrooper!
For more of the Dancin' Stormtrooper, check out Danny Choo's site. It's rather awesome.
By now everyone knows Newsom press spokesman Nathan Ballard has decided to leave, and use his consderable talents elsewhere. This is just the latest in an exodus of talent from the Newsom "Administration," now in full force since his departure from the race for Governor (and his [...]
So there's an election going on next Tuesday, but I think this off-year must have set a record for Most Boring Election Ever. Aside from some mail I've received about Prop. D, and a mailer from the local Democratic Party, this election has been a snoozefest. That may be [...]
So I was going through what little political mail I've been getting during this quiet political season, and the other day I got one from the No on D campaign, decrying the horridness of billboards on Market Street and so on. Whatever.
I mean' [...]
So, it seems Mr. Mayor Whatshisname has a new campaign video out. I guess nowadays posting something on YouTube is a really big deal, and this is like, way Web 2.0 campaigning and all Obama-like and whatnot. Fine.
However, I find this video interesting. but [...]
So the other day I ranked on "Mayor" Newsom's gubernatorial logo crowdsourcing efforts, something I still stand by. I mean, not to go all Don Draper on this, but this selection is a joke. I say this with many years of experience conceiving and executing' [...] 
Ack! By the time I got home to write this, Everyone Else already blogged something way cooler. Curses!
By now, the Newsom for Governor campaign has spent so much time believing its own hype and that their candidate walks on water, it's almost a bit' [...]My birthday is this Saturday, the first time it's been on a Saturday in ages. Past birthdays have ranged from elaborate events, to unplanned "happenings" that end up as big as elaborate events, without the expense and effort. In 2007, I suggested the Mayor spend his birthday the' [...]
There's some new show on ABC coming out, "Fast Forward," where everyone in the world passes out for 2 minutes, then wakes up with visions of the future. I'm beginning to wonder if some variant on that, perhaps a nation-wide "time out" is needed for America to chill the [...]
There's no doubt that in the political campaign world, Facebook is the Bright Shiny Thing everyone's got their eyes on, especially since a first-term Senator from Illinois won the presidency last year. But all this activity triggers a question that doesn't have an easy answer: How' [...] If you've not already seen the Tonight Show's "Twitter Tracker," well, you're missing out on a hilarious send-up of Twitter, particularly when used by celebrites. The exploding Twitterbirds and WWF style announcer just add to the fun.
' [...]In politics, a bad idea never goes away, especially when it is campaign gimmickry designed to boost the fortunes of a politician desperate for headlines. The problem is these silly campaign gimmicks can often end up becoming very bad, very expensive policy, and you, the citizen, end up paying [...]
I sent my mail ballot in a while back and voted a nice big "NO" on all these ridiculous propositions for this "special election" next week. Most people don't know what they're about, or that there's even an election. Political nerds like me who actually tried to read this' [...]
What few readers out there that still read this blog may recall we launched this blog at the CDP Convention in 2006 in Sacramento. I'm up here now mostly for my day job, but I'm also posting Twitter updates, which can be found at my Twitter page. In [...]
Does it not strike anyone else as odd that the only person willing and able to call this kind of nonsense by alleged "journalists" at CNBC, et al, works on a comedy show?
Glad he's doing it, but another example of why the media is dying. They can't criticize anyone [...]
Well that was funny to read this morning...it seems that gossip gurus TMZ.com are going to start applying their style of journalism to politicos as it warrants, much as they do celebrities in Hollywood.
To which I say "Thank God!"
I actually posted a zany little blog missive on this [...]
I mean, really. Lots of explosions, noise and whatnot. Saw all the promos at Comic Con last July but now it's finally happening...tack on BSG at 10pm on SciFi (or for me, iTunes) and there's really no reason to go out of the house..
A lot of folks around town are talking about the city's budget problems, and the prospects of a special election and whether it'd fly or not. While the City deals with its headaches, the MTA and MUNI are dealing with similar misery.
There's a multitude of' [...]
This is sad news..it seems Bob Wilkins, former host of Creature Features and Captain Cosmic on KTVU died this week. If you were around in the Bay Area in the 1960's and 1970s, no doubt you remember Bob's programs and his unique personality [...] UPDATE: Friday's LA Times has more on this story....
Which "dog poo" policy left behind by the Bush Adminstration will give the incoming Obama Administration the biggest short-term hit? War? Economy? Terrorism? Maybe.
If I had to bet, I'd put my money on the federal government's bungling conversion to' [...]
Kind of a strange way to start the new year, but I was just reading in the Blog Herald that the free blog hosting service Journalspace.com is dead. You can read more at what's left of the site here.
Journalspace wasn't the best blog service - it was [...]
One of the most misunderstood parts of Campaign 2008, be it the Obama for President campaign, or a down ballot race, has been the power of social networking and one-to-one marketing in political decision making. Plenty of consultants and the like know buzzwords like "social networking," "Facebook," and so [...]
Overheard from a very smart person on the N Judah...sorry Mormons, I had no problem with you before, but now that you're taking your "tithe" money to spend on politics and to frak with my State Constitution, well you can go FRAK yourselves. Unlike liberal bloggers in SF, I'm [...]
As you cast your ballots for the myriad of local ballot measures, candidates for Supervisor, and so on, you should be aware of how the votes are being counted for school board and college board races.
While candidates for supervisor are using the so-called "ranked choice voting" scheme, candidates for [...]
I can't make this stuff up...apparently GOP Senator John McCain was a featured speaker at a (gasp!) ACORN organized rally with (gasp!) unions and (double gasp!) IMMIGRANT'S RIGHTS people! ZOMG!
I did not believe it until I saw this:
Then this:
and this:
Note to McCain campaign: when living in glass houses (all [...]
Disclaimer: I do some work for No on H.
It seems no good deed goes unpunished. Sunday, the Yes on H ran the strangest attack rally yet, calling anyone who opposes Prop. H a "liar." And yet, in promoting the rally, which was both pro-Prop. H and against Prop. 8, [...]
For Your Saturday just a few days before Election Day...the guys from an old Budweiser commercial have reunited...to talk about something other than Bud. And yeah it really is them. So, in case you hadn't had enough of an ad that was on a while ago that might have' [...]
It's things like this that remind me why A) San Francisco "politics" is petty BS wrapped in a so-called liberal wrapper, and b) why Obama, faults and all, won the primaries, and is positioned to win the Presidency.
But more importantly, Obama ain't doing this all by himself. This [...]
Presidential election years bring with them not only a Big Decision about who will lead our country, but a plethora of ballot measures at the state and local level. This year is no exception - we're being asked to vote on a tremendous amount of policy questions (and in' [...]
I've never made a secret of what I do for a living - anyone can find my LinkedIn profile or my resume online, and so on. I've also created several blogs to voice my opinions for fun, including the N Judah Chronicles and BSG fanblog Adama for [...]
Because I like to track all things MUNI related for The N Judah Chronicles, I have Google News Alerts for many N-Judah and MUNI related keywords. Sometimes they turn up unexpected gems like this:
"She claims she has foreign policy experience because she lives so close to Russia–" [...]I wish I'd come up with this myself, but someone more clever than I nailed it when asked to describe Gov. Sarah Palin: "The ideology and intelligence of Bush combined with the ruthless ambition of Richard Nixon. All wrapped up in nice clothes and big smiles."
Brilliant.
Why does McCain have to lie so much in his ads? Is his campaign in that much trouble?
C'mon, John, you were supposed to be the "good" Republican. What happened?
There's no denying that people want to see Good Things happen in San Francisco, and around the country, when it comes to global warming. People have responded to Vice President Gore's film, and want to do the right thing. So it's a bit disturbing when people's good intentions are [...]
One of the bigger lies that was told during the campaign to force IRV/RCV/WTF down everyone's throats was that the system would "save money," because it would mean no runoff election.
Well, once again, that absurd little promise is proving once again to be false. Last year we had to [...]
I ended up going outdoors now that the weather's so nice so I'm watching Bill Clinton's speech at the DNC's Video Player page right now. Much has been made of Obama's meteoric rise - from being unable to get a floor pass in 2000, to the keynote [...]
One of the disadvantages of having so many blogs, including the Best Local Blog, The N Judah Chronicles (sorry I can't help it, I never win stuff like that and it is kinda cool), the Adama For President site, and various other online things I'm always experimenting [...]
Time for a little shameless self promotion...this morning a friend called me up and told me that apparently Bay Guardian readers have named the N Judah Chronicles the "best local blog" in their annual "Best of the Bay" poll.
I had no idea that they even had such a [...]
Tonight I depart for San Diego, where I, and 149,999 of my nerd brothers and sisters will be gathering for San Diego Comic-Con. Three times the size of Burning Man, with celebrities and air conditioning (but with folks in costume, like BM), it should be fun.
However, taking a look [...]
A few days ago I joked around about my upcoming trip to the San Diego Comic-Con, aka Nerdvana, next week. From what I've been receiving in my inbox, thanks to the folks at Galactica Sitrep (and the magic press pass), it is going to be quite a [...]
Wanna know why I voted for Obama? It ain't whatcha think....
No really.
See, I voted for Obama as someone subjected to the inane bullsh*t that was 90's Liberalism On Campus (at UC Hippie Dipsh*t Santa Cruz no less!), that whole big basket of irrational PC bullsnot that was all about [...]
