Jason Cooper is, professionally, an Online Community Coordinator for kaboom.org. Personally, he is a Detroit to DC transplant, and all around B.M.F. He secretly wants to be an internet celebrity.
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wad city: Why We Should Interpret the Islamophobic Glenn Beck Juggalo Movement As A Sign of Progress
The above quote from Wadcity and the following quote from Human Dog more than adequately sum up my feelings about Glenn Beck’s ‘Restoring Honor’ Summer Bar-b-que that took place yesterday in Washington DC.
Why not devote this energy to labor movement activities or contemporary urban and suburban land-use debates that directly relate to our national obsession with reckless energy consumption and waste that drive some of the worst abuses of our system from wars to cheap labor exploitation. Subjects that actually affect the existence of millions of people in this country and beyond.
Instead, everyday it’s look what Sarah Palin said while giving a handjob to Glenn Beck, look how crazy their followers are etc etc. These things are self-evident. It’s not news.
Not much more I can add and when it comes to this specific subject (Glenn Beck), I’m increasingly lazy and slow to respond. Let him fantasize about the past. Let him wish and pray for a day when America returns to whatever he thinks we as a nation once were. I’m looking forward.
I think we’ve just selected the song we will enter our reception to. Love Gun by Kiss.
In the next iteration of MP3 software, be it iTunes, Zune, Napster, whatever, to have a “Mix-Maker Mode” or “DJ Mode”.
Basically, I want to be able to play two songs at the same time— one through my speakers and another through my headphones.
I’m in the process of making playlists for the wedding, and I need to hear the song outloud in order for me to decide if its worthy of the list. I also want to be able to play songs that entertain myself and my lady as we chill on this Sunday afternoon. If I were starting a new track every 30 seconds, we’d both get annoyed.
I’m sure there is a way I could pull this off messing with my speaker settings and using Winamp and Zune at the same time, but that’s annoying and doesn’t make the process any easier.
via reddit
DC’s trending topics on Twitter are making me gag.
The invitation cover
Reply card
Close-up of Jack
Top half of reply card
We’ve been overwhelemed by the compliments and kudos our wedding invites have received. Thank you all for enjoying them so much!
There isn’t much of a story behind the invite. Shannon and I have a geeky bone (or two, or three) in our bodies, but we aren’t planning a very geeky wedding. We decided we should show that side of ourselves in the invite.
Off to the internet! Shannon did some searching, and found a man on Etsy.com that couples like us can commission to produce artwork for us. She realized this was the same person featured in an article sent to her by our friend Lindsay. We loved the sample artwork he provided and his overall style. We reached out to him, sent him some ideas we had about the landscape and what type of peril the invitation version of us would face. We decided to ground ourselves in a post-apocalyptic cityscape (there’s no place like home) and face-off against the greatest threat we could imagine: our cat Jack!
The artist was excited about our project and was ready to flex his artistic muscles. We sent him some headshots of us and Jack, and a few weeks later, got a huge black and white pencil of the artwork, and the digital, color image files that would make the invite.
We were ecstatic. I wanted to send them right away, but the advice of friends convinced me to wait for the proper times. Its been tough to keep the secret and to not blow the surprise coming to people’s mailboxes. The wait, however, was worth it and we’ve been delighted to hear all of the positive feedback.
The artist goes by the name swelser on Etsy and was an absolute pleasure to work with. Responsive and attentive, he met all of his deadlines and produced a piece of artwork that we’ll look back and love for a long, long time. If this is your sort of thing, I can’t recommend the guy enough. Plan way in advance though— swelser was recently featured on the uber-geek blog, i09.
We are likely going to get a little more use out of the artwork. There will liekly be a large print of the cover for show at the wedding and we’ll be reusing the little Jason and Shannon heads in some other places too.
PBR Can Handle
Don’t ask me to pick one.
Can. Not. Wait.
And without too much noise, AMC has become the brightest spot for drama on basic cable. And you know what, F/X is doing the same for comedy. You don’t have to be HBO to make high-quality TV. Maybe the major networks, the one’s with the big pockets, should wise up.
A few more shows like this and it actually won’t matter who’s broadcast and who’s broadband. Maybe it doesn’t already.
Also, this show looks amazing.
Help a kitty out!
Lola entered a coolest cat contest for her neighborhood blog and now she’s a semi-finalist. She is ok with Monty not making it to the semi-finals too. After all, the world revolves around her, doesn’t it?
