"ONLY people in glass houses should throw stones." I was hoping the other videos would be as funny, but they weren't. Still, imagine Demetri Martin in the "Only One October" ad campaign from last year. He would have crushed and I wouldn't have wanted to throw my remote at the TV every half inning when Dane Cook came on.

To recap, here is a list of 2 people who ARE better than Dane Cook in those commercials, followed by a list of people who WOULD BE better than Dane Cook in those commercials:
Stewie Griffin
That guy at the Desk during the TBS broadcasts
Everyone

Stupids.

I'm supposed to like Of Montreal, right? They've got some songs I really enjoy, like "Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse" from Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? and "Disconnect the Dots" from Satanic Panic in the Attic, and they certainly deserve some kind of award for their quirky song names. And yet, I just can't seem to get into a groove with them—perhaps they're just a little too weird for my conventional tastes.

Gail Collins:

And they’ve moved on, too. None of their effort during the debate was for those of us who have been with them since the beginning. At this point, they only care about the small chunk of undecided voters in swing states. That means a handful of people in Ohio who have managed to avoid noticing that Obama and McCain disagree on virtually every important issue facing the nation and continue to insist that they are torn between them.

Plus, of course, a couple of folks who got picked for a long-running television panel of undecided voters and don’t want to admit they’ve made up their minds because they’ll get thrown out.

This is one of the reasons why the last few weeks of a presidential campaign tend to be so awful. The candidates are gearing their remarks to people who have managed to completely ignore nearly two years of news about the 2008 elections.

(Edited to add: here's a review I did of the talk and the exhibit.)

Shepard Fairey is going to be at the ICA in Boston for his first solo museum exhibition from February to August, 2009. To celebrate, he was in Boston today laying some groundwork including the below at Grand in Union Square, Somerville. Right around the corner. I'm going to go check it out when I take out the garbage. Right now.

Day Time by Hargo.


Night Time by me.

Second in the series of albums bought after liking a single track. In this case, the song was "So It Goes" which may be my favorite new song of 2008: perfect indie-pop-rock-whatever. The rest of the album is a little uneven, but it's still pretty good.

There's only about 2 weeks left, but Bon Jovi and Gretchen Peters become latest to tell McCain "Don’t Play My Song

Also, when I saw this Bon Jovi post on Rollingstone.com, there was a a link to a post they put up in October called "Stop Using My Song, Republicans!". Aside from Don't Play My Song being put up more than a month earlier, it's got a much better name, doesn't it?

It's so ridiculous, I couldn't help it.

Blah blah blah.

Sullivan hates the politicization of kids, whether by overbearing parents forcing their beliefs upon their children, or by, well, overbearing vice presidential candidates using their kids as cheap props. And then a reader of his writes in to say that their kid really does love Obama without any prompting as they voted for McCain in the primary.

And then on a personal level, I've heard from 2 different friends with very young children being raised in, ahem, more homogeneous areas of the country who have taken to calling any black strangers Obama.