so the sign says "ok"

Well it seems that my activity in these environs has been, at the least, lacking. Here's the briefest of updates:

Primaries!
Xtian asks who's the bigger loser, Hillary Clinton or Jeff Tweedy (nominated for a Grammy but didn't win). I have to give this one to Hillary: at least Jeff Tweedy was nominated!

But seriously folks. I really, really hope Obama's momentum continues. I'm done with the Clintons. Both of 'em. And I was enough of a fanboy that I got up early the day Hillary's book came out so that I could pick it up on my way to work.

But more than that, it Hillary wins the nomination, I'm done with my party. I don't dislike Hillary as a person. In fact, it's hard to find anyone involved in this current contest that I really dislike as a person; I even think Gomer Pyle Mike Huckabee, though an idiot, must be an okay guy to be in a room with, same as anybody else whose name doesn't end in Rove, Cheney, Rumsfeld, or George W. Bush. But if my peers in the Democratic party can't figure out that (a) nobody unites the fractured Republican party like Hillary Clinton and (2) it's time to get past the divisiveness of race- and gender-based politics, then I'm willing to vote for McCain just to punish the Dems. But so far there's reason to be optimistic...

Writers strike!
Woo-hoo! Writers are back!

Woo-hoo! Studios and networks figured out that the producers (and not just the distributors) of content should get paid for their work!

Woo-hoo! Maybe Friday Night Lights will come back (oh please oh please oh please)! Some people might feel sorry for me for not being a football fan and therefore not being able to enjoy the latest Big Game. And to you I say: it's not that I dislike the game itself, it's just that I can find nothing compelling about the NFL's version of 'sport'. But if the Dillon Panthers are on the field, I'm glued to the tube/lcd/plasma/ether.

Something else!
I'll be starting a new, more focused blog soon. It won't mean the demise of this one, it's just an idea that's been getting too big in my head to ignore. So it's a second blog along the lines of, like, a hockey blog or a tech blog (that wasn't given nearly enough time to find its audience, if you ask me) that might be started by any random blogging chump, but it won't deal with either of those subjects. I'd tell you what it will deal with, but I haven't come up with a good name for it yet. In the meantime, feel free to speculate wildly in the comments.

Song for today!
I think I may have posted this one before. I could do a simple search and find out, but instead I'll just risk repeating myself.
Interpol - Rest My Chemistry