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October 30, 2004
Media Notes
The new issue of the WXYC publication In/Audible (see description here) is now available as a downloadable PDF file. Warning, it's a bit large at 6.3 MB...but hopefully worth the wait/bandwidth!
Speaking of WXYC, I'm going to be filling in as the Halloween night DJ on the New Science Experience, this Sunday night from 10 pm to 12 midnight. If you want to hear a slimmed-down, beat-centric version of my Saturday night trick-or-treat set, tune into 89.3 FM or try listening to one of WXYC's new MP3 or OGG streams online.
Many thanks to Chris Toenes for his overly kind words in this week's Independent regarding my lazy-ass agit-vampirism. I never thought I would see the name "Joby's Opinion" in print again!
I'm noticing that this blog has sort of morphed into a promotional vehicle for my DJ gigs and other minor media appearances...and that isn't really the only thing that I intend for it to be. But I'm not much of a diary keeper and these are the bits that happen to be spilling from my brain right now. I'm hoping that everything will shift gears a bit after the election and the WXYC Webcast Anniversary Celebration.
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October 28, 2004
This Year Halloween Fell on a Weekend...
...me and The Federal are trick-or-treatin'. On the night before Halloween, Saturday October 30th! It's going to be a full-on party with a costume contest, a raffle, and all sorts of valuable prizes. If you're planning on dressing up for Sunday anyway, go ahead and dress up twice and come spend your Saturday night in downtown Durham.
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I've got a lot of great thematic music planned for this evening before All Hallow's Eve: death jamz, Halloween dub, monster-mashups, Whodini hits, horrorcore hip-hop, John Carpenter's famous film soundtrack, "I Put a Spell On You", some song called "Thriller", copious portions of DJ P's awesome Hell on Wheels mixes, seasonal tunes by Sonic Youth and the Spinanes, and much more!
Here's a Thriller trivia question while we're on the subject:
Q: Three very famous people made notable guest appearances on Michael Jackson's album Thriller. Name them. (And no, Quincy Jones doesn't count.)
A: Paul McCartney (the execrable "The Girl Is Mine"), Vincent Price ("Thriller"), and Eddie Van Halen ("Beat It").
Posted by Tim at 06:22 PM | Comments (2)
In/Audible
In/Audible is a sporadically published WXYC newsletter/zine, and the first issue in two years finally hit the streets this past weekend. As a contributor to this particular In/Audible, I might be a bit biased...but I've really been enjoying reading other people's articles over the last few days and I highly recommend picking up an issue. It's action-packed! Funk archaeologist Jason Perlmutter wrote a fascinating article about little-known NC soul/funk/R&B acts from the 1960s and 1970s, and Todd Ito put together a great and eye-opening list of "15 Slept-On Hip-Hop Albums", respectfully raising the ante on a similar "slept-on" list that the Ego Trip folks published many years back. Jessica Kem reviews an interesting-sounding book that critically reexamines the prevailing Robert-Johnson-centric ideas about blues history while also finding enough space to tip us off to the online audio exhibit Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip. And I could go on and on....there's also a whole bunch of record reviews and thought-provoking essays about various music-related topics.
My article is a detailed and quote-centric account of how WXYC became the first radio station in the world to simulcast its radio signal over the internet. The 10-year anniversary of that groundbreaking event is coming up in just a week-and-a-half, and within a few days I will be putting my article online and hyping the anniversary celebration as much as I can. Until then, you can read about the 1994 WXYC webcast in this swank-looking issue of In/Audible, which is probably available in local independent record stores (Schoolkids, CD Alley), local rock clubs, and hopefully a few other places. Out-of-towners (especially you WXYC alums) who are interested in a copy can just email me a street address or PO Box....and I will do my best to grab one and send it your way.
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October 26, 2004
Kerry In Five?
Spotted at the intersection of E. Poplar and W. Main Street in Carrboro:
A nice spin on the Kerry/Red Sox confluence....because those of us in the reality-based community don't believe in curses anyway, right?
I was initially amused by the idea of the Houston Astros winning the NL pennant and turning this year's World Series into a proxy Bush/Kerry battle...but that would have received way more media hype than even the Red Sox/Kerry thing is getting. So in retrospect, I'm glad it didn't happen. Plus, we already had that Carolina/New England Super Bowl while Edwards and Kerry were duking it out as Democratic primary foes.
Just for kicks, some more sports/politics trivia:
Q: Before 2004, when was the last (election) year that a state simultaneously had one of its baseball teams in the World Series and one of its residents as the presidential nominee of a major political party?
A: Only twenty years ago in 1984, when Reagan was running for re-election against Walter Mondale while the San Diego Padres were going up against the far superior Detroit Tigers in the World Series. Unfortunately, the Upper-Midwest-slaughters-Southern-California outcome of the World Series was reversed 180 degrees for the 1984 presidential election. The last time a state had a winning World Series team and a winning nominee? Again, the state was California - in 1972 with Nixon and the Oakland A's. This is about to change, however.
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October 25, 2004
Wellstone!
Two years ago today, a tragic plane crash killed Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone, his wife Sheila, his daughter Marcia, and three campaign aides. Wellstone had received both his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from UNC-CH, and two weeks ago, UNC dedicated a brand new Paul & Sheila Wellstone Memorial Garden at the corner of Murphy Hall on the main UNC quad. I was fortunate enough to be getting out of a nearby class when the ceremony was going on. UNC Law School dean Gene Nichol spoke about Wellstone and what a principled Senator he was, how he had an unfair advantage over other politicians because he actually believed everything that he said, how he had voted against the Iraq War Resolution in spite of being in the middle of a tough re-election battle where his vote might have cost him some support, how other Senators who had voted for the Iraq War Resolution probably now wished that they could go back and vote the way Wellstone had voted, and how raising private money for the Memorial Garden had been the easiest fundraiser that he had ever been associated with because so many people were eager to contribute to something that would honor Wellstone.
Wellstone was such a rarity as far as politicians go and it's great to see him fittingly remembered by his alma mater. It's also great to see that the Wellstone Action folks are still at work, focusing on Get-Out-The-Vote efforts in swing-state Minnesota right now.
So that this post doesn't wind up being too somber, here's a little Wellstone-related trivia:
Q: Paul Wellstone was on the UNC wrestling team and won an ACC championship for his weight class in 1964. What other former UNC wrestler was very much in the national news in October 2002?
Click on the 'Continue Reading' link for the answer...
A: Former Montgomery County, MD police chief Charles Moose (UNC-CH class of '75) who led the manhunt for the infamous DC-area "beltway sniper" in October 2002.
Posted by Tim at 05:21 PM | Comments (0)
October 20, 2004
Before We Throw Out The Devils...
That's right, it's a big pre-Halloween, pre-election dance party this Saturday night at Hell! And if you like this flyer, The Merch also printed up a batch of orange T-shirts that sport a slight variation of this same demons/devils design. The shirts will be available at Hell from tomorrow through Election Day. Or if you are out of town and would like to nab one, email me and we'll work out some sort of quick mail-order transaction.
Last week, someone suggested that I start up some sort of mailing list to let people know about our various DJ nights at Hell and The Federal. I'm not sure that anyone who reads this blog is lacking in information about such events, but I decided to go ahead and start up a Yahoo group to help me promote DJ gigs via regular emails. The list will be super-low traffic, no more than one message a week, if that. So sign up here if you want my occasional DJ spam to come directly into your inbox.
Go Sox!!
Posted by Tim at 08:14 PM | Comments (0)
October 15, 2004
Federal Holiday
My DJ pals and I have been holding down Saturday nights at The Federal for 9 straight weeks without a break...so it's a good thing Oktoberfest has come to relieve us from duty this weekend. If you're into the the bratwurst-and-Weihenstephan thing, Federal Oktoberfest ("Federal Republic of Germany"?) will probably be a fun time with plenty of drunken carousing. As for me, I'd really like to see Mission of Burma at the Cradle...but long ago I agreed to DJ a wedding at Artspace in Raleigh. Which should be really fun in its own right.
Since we aren't DJing at The Federal at all this week, we're going to double up next week to compensate. North Carolina's favorite hip-hop scribe and slanguage artist Dave Tompkins (The Wire, Village Voice, Wax Poetics, Spin, Grand Slam, etc.) is reworking the Triangle this next week...and Dave's ready to drop some science, only in an aural and not written format. Tompkins loves few things more than sitting around and playing his recent vinyl acquisitions for people....so we're going to do exactly that, next Tuesday night (October 19th) at The Federal. Probably starting a little earlier than 10pm since it's a weeknight. Please come out and hear those quad ditties that none of us will probably ever hear again! As always, no cover charge.
On Saturday October 23rd, Todd and I will be DJing a big pre-election pre-Halloween dance party at Hell (more on that later), so Misty Touch will be returning to The Federal to spin selections from her formidable collection of dancehall, ragga, grime, hip-hop, etc. If you're not into the typical Hell dance party madness, consider going out to The Federal to check out a great DJ who we hope to schedule more frequently in the future! Or at least on some Saturday night that I actually have free so that I can go hang out and hear her latest set.
Posted by Tim at 10:39 AM | Comments (2)
October 14, 2004
Stop Sinclair
This week I've been spending a lot of time on the Sinclair/Stolen Honor controversy. Even though I think that Kerry's got this election in the bag now (barring a crazy October Surprise from Mr. Rove), the Sinclair thing really burns me up....and unfortunately, the whole situation is merely a symptom of a much larger problem, one that will still be around on November 3rd: corporate media consolidation and how deregulation has allowed a wealthy, powerful few to amass control of large numbers of radio and television stations, "public interest" be damned. I started trying to kick around some ideas about the best ways to respond to Sinclair locally, and Ruby kindly invited me to write a guest post for OrangePolitics. So below is a semi-long post that I just sent her....if this sort of thing interests you and you live in The OC (NC version), read on after the image...
Many of you have probably heard about the controversy regarding Sinclair Broadcast Group and its plans to require the 62 local TV stations that it owns to broadcast an anti-Kerry "documentary" shortly before the November 2nd election. The film, Stolen Honor, is reportedly a blatant political hatchet-job on John Kerry - it might as well be called Swift Boat Vets: The Movie. But while the Bush/Kerry race is on everyone's mind at the moment, this particular controversy is much more than just another development in the 2004 presidential race. The real issue at hand is the considerable effect that corporate media consolidation can have on local TV markets. Including this one.
Many of us in Orange County receive 2 of Sinclair's 62 stations: WRDC ("UPN 28", the UPN affiliate) and WLFL ("WB 22", the WB affiliate), both based out of Raleigh. If you've watched the WLFL 10 o'clock "local news" recently, you may have noticed that only a portion of the news is actually "local". Most of the stories come from a remote "NewsCentral" desk that pipes out the same "local news" to dozens of other Sinclair stations. The nightly commentary ("The Point") is done by Sinclair Vice President of Corporate Communications Mark Hyman, and Hyman's editorials tend to be extremely biased right-wing propaganda masquerading as a "fair-and-balanced" viewpoint. Like Sinclair, Hyman is based out of Baltimore, MD. To help put this into perspective, consider that at least Jesse Helms' infamous WRAL editorials were actually expressing a local opinion.
So, what can you do?
Well, if you as a resident of Orange County are bothered by the fact that our local airwaves are being misused by a large media corporation with considerable financial and political ties to both the defense industry and the Bush administration, you have several courses of action:
1) Sign the Stop Sinclair petition at StopSinclair.org. This first one's really easy. Personally I'm not that sure how effective a petition will be, but since it will be presented to the FCC, to Sinclair, and to Sinclair's major advertisers, it would be great for this petition to have at least 100,000 signatures.
2) Contact advertisers directly, especially local advertisers, and politely let them know how you feel about Sinclair and their plans to air an anti-Kerry program. A growing database of advertisers specific to WLFL and WRDC is available here. Feel free to add to it while watching TV! And remember when you call or email these advertisers that some of these folks are probably sympathetic to your concerns....they just may not realize who or what their advertising dollars are going to support. I called the Raleigh-based Law Offices of James Scott Farrin on Tuesday afternoon after seeing an advertisement. I was at least the second caller that they had received that day, and by Wednesday afternoon the firm had pulled all advertising from both WLFL and WRDC. This may not work with all advertisers, but if just a few advertisers pull their ads out, the stations will definitely take notice, as this directly effects their bottom line.
3) File either an informal objection or a formal "Petition to Deny" with the FCC regarding the upcoming license renewals of both WLFL and WRDC. As luck would have it, the licenses for both of these Raleigh stations expire on December 1st of this year. As Steve Soto of The Left Coaster has pointed out, the FCC rules allow anyone with an interest, presumably a local interest, to file a formal or informal objection as long as it is received one month before the license expiration date. For the Raleigh stations, that is November 1st. These objections must meet specific FCC requirements....I don't know these specifics, unfortunately, and it would be great to have a communications/media law expert weigh in here with more details. Remember, the FCC grants licenses to local TV stations and allows them to use goverment-owned airwaves with the expectation that the stations serve the public interest of their local community and that they provide reasonably accurate and balanced coverage of political races. If you do not feel that the Orange County community is being properly served by Sinclair's franchised version of homogenous "local news" or by right-wing propaganda designed to influence pre-election opinion, you have the right to tell the FCC this as they consider whether or not to renew the licenses of these stations!
4) Finally, call or write the stations directly and let them know how you feel. They may refer you to Sinclair's corporate headquarters, but it can't hurt to let them know that there are local TV viewers who do not approve of Sinclair's actions. Here is the contact info for WRDC and WLFL:
WLFL: (919) 872-9535
http://www.wlfl22.com/raleigh_nc/
WRDC: (919) 878-6198
http://www.upn28tv.com/
Address for both stations:
WLFL & WRDC
3012 Highwoods Blvd, Ste 101
Raleigh, NC 27604
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October 10, 2004
Debates and Internets
Will Forte as President Bush on last night's episode of Saturday Night Live:
"Good question, Carla. I hear there's rumors on The Internets that we're going to have a draft. I don't know how many of these Internets are carrying these rumors, but they're just wrong. I think the problem here may be more of a question of getting rid of the bad Internets and keeping the good Internets. You know, 'cause I think we can all agree....they're just too many Internets."
I was highly amused and very pleased to see that there's a huge group of folks that got a big kick out of Bush's pluralization gaffe ("I hear there's rumors on the Internets") during Friday night's debate. Even Howard Fineman mentioned it on The Chris Matthews Show this morning - further proof that the chuckling about this latest Bushism has extended far beyond the headshaking from technologically savvy voters and snarky bloggers.
But I discovered something really interesting while going back and looking through the transcripts of the 2000 presidential debates. Bush actually used the term "Internets" in the third debate with Al Gore. But in 2000, he didn't precede "Internets" with a "the". Here's an excerpt from Bush's answer to a question about morality and protecting children from mass popular culture:
"We can have filters on Internets where public money is spent. There ought to be filters in public libraries and filters in public schools so if kids get on the Internet, there is not going to be pornography or violence coming in."
I wondered if this might be a typo, but I went back through the C-SPAN debate video for the 10/17/2000 debate and discovered that Bush really did say "internets" (exactly one hour into the video). Maybe there's something about that room, because the third 2000 debate took place in the exact same location at Washington University in St. Louis. Regardless, the 2000 usage of "internets" isn't at all worthy of mocking...there's technically nothing at all incorrect about it. Despite all the haughty "there's only one internet" assertions that I've seen floating around the political blogosphere this weekend, there are actually multiple "lowercase i" internets (i.e. networks of smaller computer networks that use the same internetworking protocol) in existence. There's even a second big "Internet" (capital I) where public money is spent: the next-generation Internet2 currently being evaluated by numerous researchers, including many right here in North Carolina. But I really doubt the IPv6 packets on Internet2 or the traffic on smaller corporate internets have been carrying many of those rumors about a U.S. military draft. And it's clear by his use of the article "the" that in this past Friday's debate, Bush just plain misspoke...and made himself look pretty stupid and out of touch while doing it. Which is fine by me....if the 2000 rules are still in play, once Saturday Night Live mocks a debate moment, no one will ever forget it.
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October 07, 2004
Give Bush the Running Shoe
Someday soon this blog will return to topics other than politics, but what can I say, it's an incredibly political time. Even exercise/sport is getting politicized. My friend Todd and I are going to be running in the 'Give Bush The Boot' 5K this Saturday morning. There's still time to sign up if you're interested in counteracting your anti-Bush anger or post-debate disbelief with a good dose of runner's high. It costs $20 to sign up and proceeds go to support a local chapter of the MoveOn PAC.
I've never run a 5K before but yesterday evening I ran for what I estimate to be a little bit more than 5K so I think I'm pretty much ready. The Give Bush The Boot 5K organizers have a paper pledge form for runners interested in raising funds, but since donations cannot be made online and since I can't say with certainty how such money might be spent, I am not going that route. However, if you are interested in making a pledge on behalf of my particpation in this athletic fundraiser, please make a donation to the DCCC instead. I'm falling behind in that particular contest but the DCCC can definitely use the funds and I'm happy to help channel donations their way even if I don't get to go to DC on Election Day.
On Sunday, there's another chance to throw $20 towards a worthy cause. The Cat's Cradle is hosting an Erskine Bowles benefit featuring Yo La Tengo along with special guests David Kilgour, Chris Stamey, and Mac McCaughan. YLT never disappoint live and it'll be fun to see what covers they decide to play during this strategically booked "Swing States Tour". Maybe they'll also whip out "The Evil That Men Do" from President Yo La Tengo...
Posted by Tim at 04:46 PM | Comments (0)
October 06, 2004
Turn That House Into A Home
Send me to DC on Election Day! I'm in third place right now, right behind the second place guy and still very much in the race. Oh yeah, I'm not actually running for office, I'm trying to raise money for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. I like to think of the DCCC as analagous to the manager of a baseball team in the late innings of a close game. They strategize based on what resources they have left and what sorts of plays can be made. Which basically means that they evaluate which House races seem legitimately winnable before allocating their limited resources to the places where they can have the most impact. This is pretty much the last chance for the DCCC to raise money that can be used for the November election. Your small contribution could help unseat the likes of Katherine "stop counting the Gore votes" Harris (FL-13) and Charles "my bank gives out illegal loans" Taylor (NC-11). And I will be very grateful, especially if I win the DC trip...
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October 05, 2004
We're Being Challenged Like Never Before...
While all eyes will soon be on tonight's vice-presidential debate, there are still opportunities to revisit that disastrous performance that George Bush so kindly treated us to last Thursday. Thanks to Bo for sending me a link to this five-minute-long mp3 of Bush debate responses edited together. Lots of pauses and uhs and ums....but it actually doesn't sound that different from the unedited debate audio! My new favorite Bush quote from the evening: "How can I follow this guy?". Good question, George!
My man Jesse Lee over at the DCCC put together another video montage, this time without any audio contributions from yours truly. "Miserable Failure" is a really effective clip that intersperses Bush debate bits with Washington Post "reality check" facts that contradict just about everything Bush says. What makes the video so powerful is not just the fact checking, however, but also the instrumental version of Bruce Springsteen's "Streets of Philadelphia" that serves as the underlying soundtrack. That song's mournful, minor-key moodiness really brings out the tragic desperation in Bush's stammering responses. And after a while, it starts to seem really sad that this incompetent and confused man who doesn't seem to know what he's doing is up on a national stage, struggling to come up with words and explanations that don't even make sense. Lots of us tend to hate George Bush at this particular moment, and for good reason...but perhaps in ten or twenty years he will be this tragic Nixon-like figure that is more worthy of pity than anything else.
Speaking of the DCCC, they just started a Majority Makers 'War Room' contest to help raise money to be used on behalf of Democrats who find themselves in toss-up U.S. House races. I signed up as a Majority Maker fundraiser a couple of weeks back but now I'm really eager to start up my fundraising drive, 'cause if I raise more money than anyone else, I get a free trip to D.C. to spend Election Day/Night in the Democratic National Headquarters. I know people are probably very tired of political donation solicitations at this stage in the game, but please help me out if you can....right now I'm in second place and this thing only runs through Sunday night!! Here's the URL where you can donate $5, $10, $25, $50, or really, just whatever you can afford:
http://makers.democraticaction.org/page/mm/tubacity
Donations to the DCCC can actually make much more of a difference than presidential or Senate race donations....I'll write more about that and the DCCC's strategy later this week, but until then, please help a brother out while helping make Nancy Pelosi the new Speaker of the House!!
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October 04, 2004
Car Talk
A year ago today, I purchased the 2002 Mazda Protege pictured above. And suddenly, my long automobile nightmare was over. Well, I guess three weeks isn't really that long...but it certainly seemed like an eternity at the time. It all started with "The Accident". On a mid-September morning, I had been driving up W. Poplar Street, heading towards downtown Carrboro....and just as I was approaching the intersection of W. Poplar and Davie Road, a minivan on Davie plowed right through a not-very-visible stop sign without stopping. I had absolutely no time to do anything but run right into the minivan. My car got spun around 180 degrees (torque!) and wound up looking like this:
Side note: Just a couple of weeks ago, I actually saw another very serious-looking accident at this same Davie/Poplar intersection...and on "Car Free Day", no less. To me it looked like the exact same thing had happened: a car running through the Davie stop sign. I normally don't like extraneous stoplights but I'm starting to think that they really ought to do something to fix that intersection. Anyway, back to Fall 2003...
The minivan that I unwillingly hit came out of the accident with a big dent in the side but in fairly drivable condition. My car, however, was totalled. On the plus side: everyone was OK and the other driver admitted to being at fault. On the minus side: the book value of my 1990 Prizm was not very high and so the insurance payout wasn't all that much. Plus, they totally stiffed me on a rental car. I had thought that I would be given a rental car for a reasonable amount of time, long enough to weigh all of my car-purchasing options. But they only paid for 5 measly days. So over the next few weeks I wound up with three different rental cars....actually, four if you count the big panel van that I rented for a bachelor party. I'm usually not a very car-dependent person...I bike around town and to campus all the time. But I hate not having transportation options and flexibility. Plus, the time when you really need a car the most is when you have to go car-shopping!
After all the crap with the insurance company settled and I got over my initial bout of car-buying paralysis, I went over to Raleigh and bought a year-old Protege from Hertz Car Sales (highly recommended and much less odious than regular car dealers, Carmax, etc.). As I said, I'm not a very auto-centric person but it's been a really fun car to drive this past year and I like it infinitely better than the old (but admittedly reliable) Prizm that I'd been driving around for so long. At the rate I'm going, the Protege will probably last a long time as well. The limited powertrain warranty expired today and the terms were "12 month/12,000 miles"....so I checked my mileage and got a kick out of the fact that I'd only driven 5,089 miles in 12 months. Taking the "car" back out of Carrboro, ha. Maybe I need to take more roadtrips...
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October 01, 2004
Mexed Missages
Uh, of course I'm doing, uh, everything I can to....er....uh, throw a Hell dance party...that's my job. That's what DJs do. And I understand that. There have been some mexed missages...er, mixed messages....about the date of this dance party. We said it was October 9th....and I hoped that it would happen, uh, as soon as possible...I'm optimistic. See, I think you can, uh, be optimistic and realistic at the same time. But the Amurkan people understand that artificial deadlines are not good deadlines. Even though that's what deadlines are...that's why they do their job. And so that's why we are changing stategery, er, strategy....we now, uh, have a multi-prong strategy...uh, for having...a Hell dance party. It's going to be, uh, on Saturday October 23rd. And we're going to speak clearly and send the right message to everyone this time...we will dance that night. That will be our job, that's what dancers do. And maybe a fantastic lady named Missy Johnson will be there....she and her son Brian, they came to see me. And it was hard work to try to love her as best I can...
Alright, that's enough....we keep it clean here at Tuba City and that means not going any farther than "hard work to try to love her as best as I can".
One point I'd like to make is that the Hell dance party originally scheduled for Saturday October 9th is now happening on Saturday October 23rd. Sorry for the mexed missages but it's going to wind up being a much better event on the 23rd, trust me.
The other point is that I really think Bush lost himself the election tonight. You won't hear that outright from the mainstream media but when even Joe Scarborough is forced to admit that Kerry won, it was clearly a lopsided affair.
No full celebrations until November 3rd, of course...I'm hoping to finally get around to canvassing my Carrboro neighborhood this weekend and if you're interested in helping out, please get in touch. It'll be fun and easy and you'll get to tell people about early voting and polling places and how there's only one more week to register or change registration.
There's also a Run Against Bush jog at 10 am this Saturday morning. Starts at the Old Well on the UNC campus. I've never been to one but I'm on a jogging kick these days and am eager to give it a whirl. Come join me for some non-competitive exercise as I try to get in shape for the Give Bush the Boot 5K on October 9th!
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