You Don't Mess Around With Vlad

t would seem that centuries before he had the car wash blues, he may have had those steadily depressin', low-down, mind-messin' suckin' out your blood cell blues. And now we all know the truth about that airplane crash. It was totally to cover up the fact that he was immortal and would never age. Don't mess with Jim, bitches, cause he will suck your blood. The end.

I got the photo from TotallyLooksLike.com. You can click the photo to visit the site and see a bunch more of the funny lookalikes.

If you dig it, do it. If you dig it a lot, do it twice. - Jim Croce

DNC Inside and Out

t's been interesting listening to the DNC the past couple of nights. I'm getting tired of speakers with repetitive mantras. Really trite. Honestly. I don't find them to be qualities of a good speaker. Best line of last night: "That's not a maverick. That's a sidekick!" Agreed! Tonight I heard a lot of Bush bashing and quite honestly I don't get it. We all know Bush sucks. It's a dead horse. Move on. Obama is running against McCain. Besides, I think I would much rather hear more discussion about change and cooperation than the usual "the other dude sucks balls" talk that crops up in campaign season. Yeah, McCain sucks. I may not have said that a few years ago admittedly, but ever since 2000 and learning more about him, I really have come to dislike him as a politician and seriously distrust him. I'm looking forward to hearing where Bill Clinton is going with his speech right now. So that's inside. All nice and cushy and happy.

Let's look at outside:

The same police brutality happened last election and the election before. Violence committed by police against peaceful protesters is just as unwarranted and unlawful as any other violence. Police not having visible means of identification is unlawful. I wonder if the mainstream media is ignoring any speaking out happening against this inside or if the Democrats are just willfully ignoring and/or enabling it.

McCain?
Obama?
Nader?
Other?
None of the above?

I'm not sure yet who I will pick, but I know it won't be McCain or None of the above (although I still hope to listen to the RNC). I'm not entirely sold on Obama as this great candidate everyone makes him out to be, but I do like some of what I hear. I find it likely that I would vote for him, and I'm not sure if that would be leser of two evils or earnest good candidate. The possibility that I could vote for someone simply because of the feeling they might be the lesser of two evils really bothers me on a fundamental level, but I have to admit there is a certain amount of actual refreshment in what I'm seeing and hearing from Obama and company. I've supported Nader twice now but this time around I just can't entirely get motivated to do it again. He just seems to have gone... I don't know. He's going the H. Ross route, though I don't think he's so barmy to claim aliens or Mexicans kidnapped family or anything like that. Just disgruntled in the cranky "I want to avoid you" kind of way. Still I would like to hear more from him. I'm still very much disenfranchised with this perpetuation of the two-party system both in the system itself and the portrait the mainstream media paints of the system.

It was nice to hear Bill Clinton list off sexual orientation in the "regardless of" list. I am strongly wanting to hear politicians include gender identity/expression among those kinds of lists.

Anyway... I'm rambling. Time to stop.

"This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies." - Ralph Nader