Kitty Battles The Ink Robot

Chuck Klosterman Reviews Chinese Democracy

Who wants a big, juicy burger?

Twits the night before Thanksgiving

Special guest = dj alvysinger (aka the sweet dance).

The Food Pyramid.

So the main kid in this is one of my good friends (Eva and D he's the Levon guy from karoke). He's the kid having the nightmare in the beginning. It's his birthday and even though none of you know him I think we can all learn a little something from this educational video.

Love,
Crescent

dum dum dum dum dum dum dum ... duuuummm

(poster by chris)

Uke Galactica! Coming Dec 6th - barely two weeks!!

Get Bruce

Eva and I have often wondered why Bruce Campbell never "made it" as a leading man - he's funny, handsome, charismatic...

Perhaps this recent quote of his illustrates part of the problem:

''All right, you think you're all so smart?'' said Campbell. Then he challenged [the audience] to play studio exec as he pitched one of his past projects. ''I'm Frank Marshall,'' he began. ''I've produced all of Steven Spielberg's movies. Interested? Okay, I've got a book written by Michael Crichton. I'm going to get John Patrick Shanley, the Academy Award-winning writer of Moonstruck, to adapt it. It'll be shot by Allen Daviau, who did E.T. Will you make this movie? Well, congratulations! You just made Congo.''

Worst Band Ever?

From Miles Raymer's blog at the Reader:

"Brokencyde is quite possibly the worst band in the world. I literally can't find a single thing about these guys that anyone could find appealing. Actually I can't find a single thing about them that doesn't make me want to send them to jail for the rest of their lives. Combining the most misogynist elements of hip-hop with the most misogynist elements of emo is just one of their crimes--there's no calculating the damage they've done to the very concept of music.

I just went to their MySpace and discovered that they have 46 pages of photos of scene girls in various states of undress with "Brokencyde" Sharpied on their bodies. That's like discovering a pile of dead kittens two stories high, except that kittens don't usually die from their own bad judgment."

I actually think the part with the guy screaming is kind of hilarious. Maybe it's me.

Douchebag HOF Nominee

Billy Corgan as the Sun God at the Smashing Pumpkins 20th Anniversary show.

Hahahahahhahahahhahahhahahhahahah

Hostage Crisis

The lack of activity on LE over the last few days has prompted me to tell the story of the Lighter Hostage Crisis. Enjoy.

Last January, I stole Paul & Liza's red lighter, and sent them the following missive:



YOU WILL NEVER SEE THIS AGAIN








To which they responded:


To which I replied:


And they concluded with:

Newest SNL Character to Imitate Arianna Huffington!

Pretty funny video of the new cast member doing Arianna.

http://gawker.com/5084560/meet-snls-new-arianna-huffington

Band Photos Revisited

Swedish dance bands, anyone?

Waitermonkeys!

Camile Paglia Jumps The Shark. AGAIN.

"I like Sarah Palin, and I've heartily enjoyed her arrival on the national stage. As a career classroom teacher, I can see how smart she is -- and quite frankly, I think the people who don't see it are the stupid ones, wrapped in the fuzzy mummy-gauze of their own worn-out partisan dogma. So she doesn't speak the King's English -- big whoop! There is a powerful clarity of consciousness in her eyes. She uses language with the jumps, breaks and rippling momentum of a be-bop saxophonist. I stand on what I said (as a staunch pro-choice advocate) in my last two columns -- that Palin as a pro-life wife, mother and ambitious professional represents the next big shift in feminism. Pro-life women will save feminism by expanding it, particularly into the more traditional Third World."

Better Than The Original

Genius Alert

NSFW. At all.

Lake Effect Poll

In case you missed it, this was the Reader cover the day after the election. Lake Effectors, how does it strike you? I had an angry kneejerk reaction when I first saw it-it seemed needlessly negative and cynical, especially the morning after the election.

Eva's Dream Pt. 2

Health Beat

Vitamin supplements don't work.
Switch to bacon.

Baptize first, ask questions later

They just can't help themselves; they care too much. My favorite line, but by no means the only good one, is this:

"The Mormon church contends that the baptism offer can be rejected by the intended recipient in the afterlife."

But wait, there's more: The LDS will give you a 10% larger planet as your celestial reward, should you in any way be unsatisfied with your undesired, postmortem souljacking. GUARANTEED!
Convert now, proxies are waiting, salvation not guaranteed, disallowed by law in all sane nations and states.

Do yourself a favor

Click here

A Taste of What's to Come

AP: Obama Crafting Plan To Shut Down Gitmo

President-Elect Obama and his team are drawing up plans under which terrorism suspects at Gitmo would either be released, shipped to the U.S. for criminal trials, or face trial at a new kind of court "designed especially to handle sensitive national security cases," AP reports.

More Japan Inspired Cat Video

This is Maru, he lives in Japan. He likes boxes.

Happy Monday!!

Bad band photos.

Remake, Remodel

Not okay. I have 10 jillion dollars that says they change the ending.

If you haven't seen the original, you should.

Eva's Dream

Amazing.

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2008/11/06/campaign-for-the-president-a-tribute/

My Dinner With Psycho

I missed this New Yorker profile of Alec Baldwin when it came out in September, but i highly recommend it.

Another Reason to Love Obama

from a tape of Obama debate prep obtained by Newsweek


Obama continues: "When you have to be cheerful all the time and try to perform and act like [the tape is unclear; Obama appears to be poking fun at his opponents], I'm sure that some of it has to do with nerves or anxiety and not having done this before, I'm sure. And in my own head, you know, there's--I don't consider this to be a good format for me, which makes me more cautious. When you're going into something thinking, 'This is not my best ...' I often find myself trapped by the questions and thinking to myself, 'You know, this is a stupid question, but let me ... answer it.' Instead of being appropriately [the tape is garbled]. So when Brian Williams is asking me about what's a personal thing that you've done [that's green], and I say, you know, 'Well, I planted a bunch of trees.' And he says, 'I'm talking about personal.' What I'm thinking in my head is, 'Well, the truth is, Brian, we can't solve global warming because I f---ing changed light bulbs in my house. It's because of something collective'."

posted by Shanghai Shecky

Photos from Grant Park, Election Night

Our finest moment? Sure felt like it.

Election dispatch from Gary, IN

The Hitmaker ... in the field. He may look like he's not working hard, but he just got 2 guys to come to the poll. They may have been drunk.

To Get You Through

Obama is Beautiful World!

From the Beachwood Reporter:

One Day More!!!

Another Entry for the Outrage Scrapbook

Having just completed several hours of phone banking, I have a few things to convey to the residents of the great state of Colorado.

First off, if you support John McCain, fine. Alternately, if you're a certifiable moron who is still undecided, there's little I can do now to remedy this condition.

However, if you are a registered Democrat and avowed supporter of Barack Obama and you yell at me and berate me when I call, saying you have received "lots" or "10" or "12" calls asking for your vote and to never call again, I do have a response:

1. Be glad your vote means something. You can get pissed at the unpaid volunteers who are hustling to get you to the polls or you can be thankful that you live in a state that grants you the power to affect the outcome of an historic election.

2. If you really think receiving a dozen phone calls is too onerous a burden for a democratic citizen to bear, you probably shouldn't be one.

3. Fuck you very much.

Prediction

I also have him winning one of the electoral votes in Nebraska (they split, but you can't do it on this map) for a total of 326. You heard it here.

I also say NBC calls it at 9:41 Chicago time. Drinks after the Obama speech anyone?

Lake Effect Poll: Who is going to the Obama rally tomorrow?

Notes from the Club, Or Tales from Obama's NYC HQS

Some of you may recall hearing about the night I spent getting sloshed on free apple martinis at Jay Z's club as a Nation intern "covering" the 2004 Republican National Convention in NYC. Really my friend Carmina, another intern, and I used our press passes to get into one of the only RNC parties we could-- one hosted by a Republican African-American politician from Maryland whose name I, predictably, cannot recall. Carmina, in between dancing to Crazy, went around the dance floor asking a lot of people, "You're black-- why are you a Republican?" To which they tended to respond, "I'm not really."

Yesterday my mother and I went to the nearest of three downtown Obama phone bank centers. There were the velvet ropes. Instead of bouncers there were two smiling, bearded guys wearing flannel, one with a ski vest, but there was no mistaking. After signing in so that the campaign could "tell Jay Z and Beyonce how many people showed up" to the space they had "generously donated," my mom and I split up (She got the billiards room upstairs.), and I made my calls from one of ten white leather couches (accidentally across from a girl I went to college with). In another room some guys watched the Jets game, and every half hour or so a server with a plate full of wings stepped awkwardly over us, as he tried to make his way to a paying table.

How's that for full circle?

Courtesy of BA's Blog
I know, Halloween is over, but this helps me hold on just a bit longer

Insane Costumes From Around The World

#s 18 and 26 my faves

Wow, all the acts delivered incredible performances at The Lake Effect Halloween Rock & Roll Masquerade. I've heard that the show was well documented and will send things around as I receive them. I was able to get this one myself and think that EKM and Mizz Magee will get a kick out of it. Great Job everyone!