announcement! (etc)

okay so first the announcement: yesterday, friday 23 oct, maura moved to and then seconded a motion to add joeblog to the list of friends’ art and blogs, located conveniently to the left of this post. the motion passed. enjoy.

okay, now for the etc: este and i did awesome halloween things! check it:

BEFORE

AFTER

and lastly, our apartment’s falling apart! no, not really, but it’s kind of scary. okay long story short: they started doing renovations on the apartment above ours a couple of weeks ago. the landlord called este to tell him this, and to say that should we find any cracks in the ceiling or anything during this process, to call them immediately. well, no cracks yet, but this happened yesterday:

yes, normally that is attached to the ceiling a little better. there are also a couple of spots (in the bathroom, este’s desk…) where there are heavy sprinklings of, well, ceiling.

nothing really terrible’s happened yet, though. we called the maintenance people yesterday but because of shabbat the only thing available to us was the emergency line. i tried calling that – and i know this isn’t technically an emergency, but i KNOW that if part of the ceiling falls over the weekend and we hadn’t called to tell them what was going on, they’d flip out and not pay for damages or fix anything or whatever – and they said that this technically isn’t an emergency and that they’d call me back. still waiting on that.

so i’m not really worried because we survived the night and i’d say that’s a good sign, but i am kind of annoyed, since i was being very polite and calm in explaining that i know this isn’t like the apartment’s on fire or anything, but i wanted to get something on record as saying that we had, in fact, notice some slight changes to the apartment since the construction upstairs started, but the three different people i talked to (always fun) kept interrupting and not really listening to what i was saying. it’s times like that that provide me with absolutely no faith whatsoever that anything will get resolved, since you can’t really solve a problem if you don’t understand what’s happening, right?

okay and while we’re on the complaining track… sorry i’ve been a bad little poster recently. este is downloading eight (8) seasons of the simpsons right now and it’s making our internet wicked slow and me pretty damn cranky when i use the computer. so. there’s that. read joeblog!

suck it, comcast: part two

THAT’S RIGHT.

covering it live, part deux

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covering it live

finally figured it out! made a rookie mistake last week by not reading all of the directions. nice.

link it up!

not quite scathing, but close enough.

i know i’m not the first person to say that sarah palin kind of sucks. or to say that she REALLY sucks. (both of which i agree with.) but what really grinds my gears is her smug demeanor. republicans have made it a point to call barack and michelle obama “elitists” as often as humanly possible, but the only one of the four nominees (presidential and vice presidential, respectively) who acts like she’s better than everyone is sarah palin.

too many people have taken her tone for spunk, but i have to say, to me she’s nothing more than a sniveling, third-grade-style know-it-all. the problem is, though, that she knows practically nothing, as is usually the case. but honestly, it’s not surprising. anyone who’s served so little time in any sort of government position simply cannot be expected to learn, memorize, and recite everything that a 25+-year senator knows over the course of five weeks. but to stand there and act like you can, and you did, is just rude. to have the audacity to put on airs and pretend that you have even the slightest bit of knowledge about such an enormous range of information… it’s disrespectful.

almost as disrespectful as mccain’s campaign’s assumption that women (and i’m sure a lot of men) are so shallow, that we would be willing to overlook the fact that hillary and sarah are different on pretty much every single fundamental level… and vote for her anyway because she’s a woman, and for some reason, mccain’s camp thinks that the reason hillary clinton came so close to office was not because she’s qualified or deserving, but because women in general just really want a woman in office.

and what makes it worse – in BOTH cases – is that there are so many people out there who are feeding into these stereotypes and misogynistic opinions. IN BOTH CASES. there are men and women all over this country who are supporting sarah palin for all the wrong reasons. and i know that i’m implying, by saying that, that there are “right” reasons to vote for her and mccain… i happen to wholeheartedly believe that no such “right” reason exists, but i’m trying to be tolerant. as tolerant as palin just said she is of her gay friend’s choice. to be gay. choice. gay. okay…

but seriously, it’s disappointing to me that there are people out there who are succumbing to all of the grandstanding, and all of the low low low expectations that are being formed – by the minute – for and by the american people. people like that should embarrassed and, quite frankly, ashamed of themselves. it is people like you who turn historic events like presidential races and even things like the post-9/11 era – things that should otherwise be fully respected – and make them into mockeries.

and now for the cool part:

politifact
amazing fact checkers with hilarious moving graphics denoting the level of fact and/or fiction of politician’s statements

nope.

well i tried to liveblog for you guys, but apparently they’re at capacity or something. anyway, i have a lot of things to say, so i’ll be updating on twitter, if you have that. if not, i’ll post some scathing remarks tomorrow.

star sightings.

last friday at penn station: renée zellweger

she was putting her mom on the train i was boarding to go to boston. it took me about 20 minutes and three clusters of people alluding a celebrity being in the vicinity, and then finally her blatantly standing in front of me, to notice.

yesterday at joe’s pub: john hodgman

i was invited to a show – which was awesome, and john h here agreed because he gave the only standing ovation at the end – by gloria deluxe. amazing. the website’s a disaster, but if you click on “sounds” you can hear some of her stuff.

celebrity sighting-by-proxy at whole foods: whoopi goldberg

technically este saw her, but it counts.

btw, renee z and john h both wear really dorky glasses in real life.
no, i did not talk to either of them.