Via Boing-Boing, this Firefox plug-in, which conveniently hides the YouTube comments least likely to be useful–those filled with misspellings, profanity, you know, Internet talk. What I'd love is a plug-in that worked on every site, so I'd never again have to read "Slow news day?" or "FAIL" or anything by Don Smith.
I kid, Don, I [...]
Last night, I watched Barack Obama's acceptance speech on a neighbor's high-falutin' High Definition television. The up-close-and-personal HD technology appears to benefit no face on TV—silver fox Anderson Cooper could stand to lay off the foundation; silver Wolf Blitzer's glinty eyes make him look perpetually high. Barack Obama, however, looks somehow even more fantastic; one [...]
Personally, I thought Barack Obama's speech last night was a tad humdrum. He got a little feisty, for him. But, the challenges to his opponent—"John McCain has voted with George Bush ninety percent of the time"—still seemed staid. He said what he need to say, but for some reason, the deliverance fell, mmmm, I [...]
Every year, I look forward to this day. Not because it's the start of a three-day weekend (at a weekly newspaper that goes to press on Tuesday night, three day weekends mean torture). Not because football season is starting, though that's always a bonus. Not because the temperatures are falling, because September in D.C. can [...]
Jazz in the Diamond District, a homegrown film about one woman's attempt to achieve national stardom by (whoops!) joining a go-go band, will screen at New York City's Urbanworld Film Festival next month. The movie premiered at Filmfest DC in April; back then, our reviewer Tricia Olszewski wrote that the film "has good intentions, atypical [...]
Fresh press release from the DC Republican Committee:
"Gov. Sarah Palin (Alaska-R) is a reformer who has a reputation of bucking her Party for the common good. As Chairman of the DC Republican Party, I can say on behalf of all Washington Republicans we welcome Gov. Palin as our Party's Vice Presidential nominee," stated DC [...]
DENVER—LL is currently sitting at Denver International Airport, yawning and enjoying the free WiFi, mostly to ogle Sarah Palin. As his time at the Democratic National Convention comes to a close, though, he is reminded of an informal blog-off discussed late last week between himself and the Washington Post’s David Nakamura and DCist’s Sommer Mathis.
You [...]
Just Asking: Which local journo cornered Sarah Silverman in Denver and asked if she wanted a job in an Obama administration, then asked "what position" (heh, heh)? The funny lady replied with two playful "love slaps" on the reporter's cheek.
Al Tompkins of Tampa's Poynter Institute posted an article this morning about the lengths a candidate will go to characterize his childhood as poverty-stricken:
Looking over the main speeches of the DNC, I have been amused/amazed by how often speakers have referred to their penniless humble roots, as if that makes them more like the rest [...]
Huck, a golden-retriever mix, recently jumped into Broad Branch, the small stream that runs along the Melvin Hazen trail, which is near the zoo in Rock Creek Park. Huck always jumps in Broad Branch. It's part of his daily routine. What wasn't part of his routine was coming home sick and lethargic because of something [...]
Yes, Obama delivered a great speech, direct, passionate, not at all hifalutin or snobby. But the biographical video that came first was even more amazing. It felt as earnest as the best American documentary–and it was made by "An Inconvenient Truth" director Davis Guggenheim–but at base it was artful propaganda. I could barely tell.
We're all [...]
The problems remain extravagant for Dan Snyder's multi-media extravaganza.
Last night's postgame show on the radio portion of Snyder's Redskins Broadcasting Network was, much like the Skins/Jacksonville game, an unplanned carnival.
Commercial breaks several minutes long came in while hosts John Riggins and Andy Pollin were talking, voice of the Redskins Larry Michael's allegedly live locker room [...]
DENVER—Tune in to WTOP radio this morning at 10 a.m. to hear LL run down the local side of the Democratic National Convention on the Politics Program With Mark Plotkin.
Plotkin was kind enough to invite LL on after not being able to personally attend his first Democratic convention since 1968. Here's the item from LL's [...]
DENVER—Mayor Adrian M. Fenty arrived moments ago at the D.C. delegation's floor space at Mile High Stadium, hours ahead of Sen. Barack Obama's acceptance speech. He initially was sitting at the back of the section, tending to his BlackBerry with aide Veronica Washington, but just now snapped a smiling picture arm in arm with Council [...]
DENVER—So they all showed up!
Sen. Paul Strauss and Michael D. Brown, not to mention Shadow Rep. Mike Panetta, got to back, along with several dozen guests in the glow of Heroes' Hayden Panettiere and the somewhat, um, dimmer aura of David Keith and Melissa Fitzgerald (who, incidentally, appeared at a campaign event for 2006 Ward [...]
