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FMF: Guaranteed, Every Friday 2/29!

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• Transmissionary Six (in addition to above video)
• Magnetic Fields LIVE!
• Flaming Lips cover John and Yoko!
• Tokyo Police Club
• New Supergrass!
• Beach House.
• Ghostland Observatory (think I haven't posted this one)
• Alejandro Escovedo! covers Bowie!
• New Evangelicals!
• American Music Club. More.
• New Destroyer!
• Samantha Crane. More.
• Sigur Ros
• Article on Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel, and band I like but don't adore. The "Salinger of Indie Rock?"
• Obscure Sounds (always generous) best of the month.

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Beach House? Here's from last year's album:

Proof (I'm Old) I've no idea what this year's DCU will look like or: why my United silence

From today's Goffblog:

Pat Carroll is still with the club, a sign that he will earn a developmental contract.

Pat Carroll?

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Franco Gonzalo Gonzalo Martinez Marcelo Peralta Carvallo Gallardo-Niell could walk in the room right now and I'd have no idea who he is.

Soon! Not soon enough, but soon!

UPDATE!

Goff now reporting that Santino Quaranta is repentant!

Among the issues Quaranta addressed was the incident (if we can call it that) late in the summer of 2006 when he returned to RFK for the first time after being traded to the Los Angeles Galaxy and, at one point in the match, made rather unfriendly gestures toward the DCU supporters. Many fans have not forgiven him. (You know who you are!)

Us, pissed at Santino?

I have no idea what Goff's talking about.

UPDATE!

Here's Friday's Post article on Quaranta.

If - if if if - Quaranta understands this may be his last chance to avoid a lifetime of working the pit of a Jiffy Lube, this could be the steal of the year for United.

UNRELATED UPDATE!

City Paper has pro and con opinions on Poplar Point.

UPDATE!

United gets SportsBog love once, twice, three times.

Corn in the Pudding

Gail Collins, in a column pushing the uppity-negro meme, inadvertently, in praising Hillary Clinton, exactly nails the ur-metaphor for my visceral aversion to HRC:

If Hillary were a baseball player, she’d be Pete Rose. Minus, of course, the unfortunate gambling issues and the tendency to scratch inappropriate places while standing in the infield.

Minus my ass.

I have got to get me photoshop and learn how to use it (HRC in a Pete Rose buzz), but in the meantime, to show just how much Gail Collins admires the most overrated baseball player of all time:

Pete Rose:

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Gail Collins:

More reasons to vote for Obama.

Clinton Campaign!

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My next question is for Proconsul Pumpkinhead:

Proconsul, if you run over two grandmothers to get to the pastry table, gobble three dozen glazed donuts so rapidly you vomit and choke on your yak, have to be rushed to the hospital where, after regaining consciousness, you discover that the grandmothers had lived, do you, as the most insufferably dumbass motherfucker EVAH!, reserve the right to demand the grandmothers be taxied out in their wheelchairs so you can run their insignificant asses off the road once and for all to get to your next motherfucking three dozen donuts? Huh? Would you? Huh? Answer me! ANSWER ME!

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Sean Wilentz, an academic of well-deserved reputation, and an ardent HRC supporter, pens a long essay in TNR on the Obama campaign's use of reverse race-baiting AND misogyny against HRC as the despicable differences in Obama's rise to front-runner. It's worth a read.

Say, for argument, it's true (it's true): doesn't that undermine HRC's main theme that only she is capable of withstanding the upcoming barrage of rightwing shit-flinging? And if Obama can outfox Clinton INC at it's own game, doesn't that bode well against the pig-sloppier shit the RNC will try to use?

Is HRC getting puckered by Obama and the national media? Sure! It's called an election campaign to be Topfuck in Bottomrussertstan. Waaaaah! is lame.

Heraldists Want Penis Reinstated on military badge

Don't we all.

I'd argue it's the least major of HRC's major problems, though challenging Obama on qualifications to be commander-in-chief is a pissing contest, and Obama's penis is sure to be a topic of right-wing emails and whispers come summer.

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• Chris Dodd to endorse Obama.
• Distrust of articulateness is the obverse of adoration of the dope.
• Dionne doesn't say so directly, but the NYT article couldn't have helped McCain more.
• Which makes David Brooks feel like a little girl on Sprockets.
• Game plan versus Obama for the noble McCain. The Editors analyze.
• Excellent questions that won't be asked tonight, or if asked, not answered.
• Hillary status in Maryland.
• It's possible that progs are silly about Nader AND Nader's an asshole.
• For example, Nader and auto-electorial asphyxiation.
• Calling pussies pussies is effective? Doh!
• Lenin endorses, sort of, Obama.
• Mittbott to reboot?
• Veepstakes, adding, I listened to Biden interviewed last night on News Hour, and he'd be an excellent foreign policy choice for Obama, except he's a clown, and you can't double down on plagiarism; it doesn't matter if the charges are true, what matters is they're real.
• Soft sounds for bedlam.

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Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

What Took So Long?

I wrote:

Peggy Noonan says if uppity doesn't stick to Barack, it'll sure as niggerbitch stick to Michelle.

No surprise:

She seems like an "uppity" black woman and  just the thought of her as First Lady sends shivers down some white spines.

Don't worry. Bill Kristol's working the uppity-buck angle on Michelle's husband (and everyone knows uppity-bucks don't do patriotism).

Make them. Make them make them make them. (Including the pig formerly known as Hillary).

Theme Song Feb 08

Politics in Metaphorica

Said Bongo's suits after their number four broke Eduardo's chance of competing for Croatia in Euro 08 and WC10 and cashing at least one giga-club giga-paycheck:

'The club are saddened that such a fantastic game of football has been marred by a serious injury sustained to Arsenal player Eduardo. But Martin Taylor is adamant there was no malicious intent in the tackle and he is deeply upset by the extent of Eduardo's injury. Having reviewed the incident, this [the absence of malicious intent] is clearly the case. The club and Martin Taylor would like to send their very best wishes to the player for a speedy recovery.'

We, um, we wanted to fuck them up, play aggressively, not go down to ten men after only seven minutes. We feel just terrible about this.*

Said Eduardo's coach, Arsene Wenger:

'It was a very bad tackle. It goes along with the idea that to stop Arsenal you have to kick Arsenal and we knew that thing would happen one day.'

The only reason we lose is because our cause is so noble, our tactics so brilliant, our skills so exquisite, our execution so transcendental, the whole world conspires against us to cheat us of our glory.

UPDATE: See?

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*Tell you what. I'll bring the Mahogony video, the Godfather video, the CD you've wanted me to copy, a bottle of wine, and dinner at Pesco's is on me.

A working theory, plus: wagering on reckless speculation!

People sat on the McCain lobbyist story because they do like him and didn't want to run the insider stories and wouldn't have run the insider stories had McCain crapped out of the nomination campaign like it looked he would six months ago, but once he wrapped up the nomination the need to get ahead of the inevitably leaked innuendos and stories, driven by the impetus of free market competition, reached critical mass and kaboom.

The media wasn't out to get McCain; his success made the disclosure of his awesome asshatery uncontainable.

This got me thinking:

If you walked into a British book right now and asked for odds that none of the current candidates - McCain or Huckabee or Obama or Clinton - will be inaugurated president eleven months from now, what would they offer?

100-1? 50-1? 20-1? 5-1?

I'd place a dollar on all, and I'd say the odds are 2-1.

Slogging the WTF

HRC and Clinton INC, in the march to inevitability's entitlement, must have considered HRC's vulnerability to all stank-memes permanently skunked on her. Whatever the strategy was to address them, it hasn't worked. She can drive Obama's numbers down, but she can't get a corresponding rise in hers.

Whether HRC's claims to experience are half-true doesn't matter, because in this year's dynamic "experience" equals old, equals Iraq, equals recession, equals Washington-dynastic entropy.

HRC represents the old slog (which tastes like stank-memes) in a what-the-fuck moment, unfair as that framing may be.

UPDATE:

The minute I start re-evaluating the fairness of my dislike of HRC, she reminds me why I dislike HRC.

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• Pastor Gerson evokes The Blowjob to bless the dick of St McCain. He's a flesh-eating virus, the Pastor.
• While the World's Shittiest Human points at his dick and demands you salute.
• Speaking of pointing at dick and demanding salutes.
• Brooks says McCain's nobility and romanticism compel him, like unstoppable waves of awesome nature, to be corrupt. (Sighs, mops off.)
• Peggy Noonan says if uppity doesn't stick to Barack, it'll sure as niggerbitch stick to Michelle.
• Bucks fucking sluts or sluts fucking bucks?
• The trouble with progressives.
• More evidence of Clinton INC incompetence (which is a shocking sidebar to the campaign).
• While you were sleeping, or: this can't be good.
• The trouble with Stalinism: deep thoughts from a billionaire.
• Principles of Knowledge.
• Yugoslavia's dismantlement revisited.
• Ask Jim what the secret of "L-timing!-ibalertarianism" is.
• The word Greenwald again won't use is "pussies."
• UPDATE: the word Yglesias won't use is "pussies."
• Um... in Dallas?
• Smartest thing you'll read today.

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Make your own. (h/t Monkey Cage)