So how can Obama best take advantage of this to ensure that he wins Colorado?

So how can Obama best take advantage of this to ensure that he wins Colorado?

Return the crystal skull to Acator.

"Pitches claims directly to media ..."

Return the crystal skull to Acator.

Thanks for ruining it for those of us who haven't seen it.

"Authentic" here meaning something like "not doctored obviously a muppet,"

4: Sorry, but that movie already ruined itself.

Seriously, I'd bet a nickel this is a publicity stunt to announce Signs II.

Hey, guess who's gotten blogger press credentials to go to the Democratic Convention?

8: Dude! Cool.

Fantastic, B!

I was kidding when I said those things. Really!

Thanks! I won't find out how *many* credentials we get until sometime next week, apparently, so for now all I can say is that Bitch PhD's got 'em, but not which of the bitches will be going. Still, make sure and congratulate [Sybil and m. leblanc] while you're at it....

(Also, ironically [m. leblanc] and I were just agreeing this morning that our chances of getting credentials were probably zero.)

That's great, B. But wouldn't it be more fun to give people shit at the GOP convention?

11: Wow to all of you. Well done.

Dude, you are using a real name and a jacked pseud in that previous comment.

The byline will be fun, that's for sure. Will you lose your feminist street cred if you don't disparage Obama enough, B?

Oh fuck. Someone please correct??

13: I'm mildly considering doing that as well, since it's in Minneapolis....

And also, wooot!! Bitch(es) in Denver!

That's awesome, guys. Congratulations.

Woo! Awesome! Did you apply for it, or did they, like, pick your blog? (You should buy an eeePC to use because it's portable!)

The Eee really is great. This effect will probably only last about a month or two, but using it in public is pretty much like walking a golden retriever puppy in terms of making people want to talk to you -- I think I've sold a dozen for them.

B, that's great!

Hook 'em, B! That is totally awesome!

Yo, Apo, since you're the only main page guy around at the moment, can you change M. LeBlanc's real name in comments 11 and 12 to "M. LeBlanc"?

I got it.

20: I applied. There were reams of forms! And after seeing the state blogger picks, LeBlanc and I totally thought that they were not only actually being selective, but selecting "real" political blogs to boot. Go figure!

(Judging by the names on the list, I actually am surprised that we got picked. But I'm not looking a gift donkey in the mouth.)

8: Matthew Yglesias?

17:

B, am I reading this right? Do you live "near" Minneapolis?

I figure I live about 75 minutes from the the GOP convention so I'm taking requests. Anyone have anything they would like me to do around the convention that won't get me in jail? Maybe some kind of weird street theatre?

Thanks LB. And sorry for forgetting you were a main pager! I suck.

27: Almost certainly, because he's a boy.

28: I do not, but my boyfriend lives in the warehouse district. I'll be there for the upcoming Media Reform conference next week, though....

LB, you missed the name in comment 11....

Congratulations B!!! You all deserve the credentials. I can't wait to read about it.

All clear? I think I've got everything.

I must say, I was wondering why the pseuds in 11 were bracketed.

Rock on, Bitches.

I'll be sure and ask the candidates what their stand on overpriced strollers is, JRoth.

What I'm looking for is an $80 voucher for child transportation use - you can buy 4 crummy umbrellas, or 1 good one. Or save a minor bit on the Buggy of your choice.

BTW, no more masturbating to Harvey Korman.

Thanks LB. And sorry for forgetting you were a main pager! I suck am sexist.

Re 37 etc., Some of us have been frantically masturbating to Ariel Sharon for over two years now. When will the window close?!?

That's pretty great, B. Should be a blast. You should just party and gossip. Seriously.

Hey, congrats to B, that's neat.

Speaking of reporting and reporters, I wonder if there's anyone with some teevee journalism experience lurking around here; maybe they could shed some light on an interesting scene I witnessed today on today's commute, when a team of what were clearly Investigative Reporters boarded the train and seated / distributed themselves right next to me. It became apparent that they were doing one of those expose type stories where one of their number, in disguise, was following some dude while carrying a concealed purse cam and they in turn were filming his reaction to her, or some damn thing, I couldn't quite make out the point of it. Their spy was dressed up as a Fashionable Hott Young Thing, so I guess maybe they were on the trail of a heterosexual dude.

The thing is, one of them was carrying a very large, conspicuous camera and pointing it rather conspicuously at things, and they were all talking about the progress of their clever sting operation if not quite at the top of their lungs, then far from sotto voce. And they were, like, half a car down from their spy and her quarry. I couldn't understand how whomever they were supposed to be following wouldn't know what was going on. At one point, their quarry spotted their spy and starting to exit the train, according to our camera crew because the spy had accidentally looked directly at him and gotten made, though it seems to me he might just have noticed them... and then they all bustled loudly and frantically out of the train in pursuit.

Is this... normal? I somehow envisaged these sort of "caught on camera" film operations as having a bit more finesse. Or are these people just rubes?

I guess that's more of a blatant threadjack than a smooth segue, isn't it. Well, okay then.

I was on TV once. Briefly, in the audience at Jerry Springer. True story!

Can't help you, DS.

Congrats, B. Sorry about your feverish imaginings, DS.

Maybe it's all meta and the target was supposed to know what was going on. The more subtle camera people were filming the people watching the filming.

Using mirrors.

45: The joke'll be on them when they discover that my shoe-cam was filming the people filming the people watching the filming.

I have a webcam permanently pointed at your shoecam.

Will Geraldo be curating this event? If not, I'm not watching.

in the audience at Jerry Springer

That's totally embarrassing.

For you, maybe. For me: awesome.

I think it depends on whether or not any part of the screen had to be blurred when you appeared.

That's totally embarrassing.

I also deem that awesome. In L.A. there were good times to be had in the audience of wingnut extraordinaire Wally George.

Emerson style trivia moment: Wally George is the father of Rebecca De Mornay.

51: I meant for you. It's awesome for us, because now we can look down on you.

Now?

More. I mean, Jerry Springer really is a new low.

I am sure ogged was just interested in gaining insight into municipal politics from a former mayor.

What I want to know is if he shouted and screamed at the guests. I'm assuming that if he was on tv, he did.

Of course I did. I take my obligations seriously.

Now who's trashy?

Trash collectors.

I and my entire band got front row seats to a filming of Maury Povich a while back. We knew some production assistant and were instructed via placards to be "more emotional!" and "sadder!" or "oooooooooooh!".

And we got free pizza.

No one should underestimate a free meal when on the road on a budget. Obviously, ogged's secretly joined bpl's band.

Oh, and it was, of course, one of those "who's the daddy?" episodes.

You know your soul is going to rot in hell, Stanley.

Free pizza is even warmer in hell, B.

In hell, the pizza is all Domino's.

Once it gentrifies it will all be brick oven baked.

Y'know, there's a big brick oven pizza place at the shopping center nearest our house that's been out of business since we moved here.

You must have worked some dark magicks indeed.

One of my classmates in 10th grade geometry appeared on the Jerry Springer show as a member of a sex-for-points club. It wasn't a very big club--only three members, and my classmate was in third place. A girl brought in a recording of the show the next morning and our teacher let us watch it while he graded papers. He looked up at one point and said, "Aren't you at least worried about diseases?"

I'm saddened that no one's taken up the idea of ogged having joined bpl's band. I presume he swims in some endless-pool-type treadmill set-up with a solid underwater mic recording the splurshy splurshy of it all.

Don't be ridiculous, Stanley. Ogged plays the ney.

Or the oud, through a cranked Marshall.

no he doesn't

in the audience at Jerry Springer

A friend of mine was in the audience for a taping of Jerry Springer on the day they filmed the scene for Austin Powers. I don't known whether he can be seen in the crowd shot.

Oh, and congratulations, B!

Ogged plays the ney.

Surely there is an opening in the band for a cock-theremin player?

OK, I've been lurking for a while now , but the cock-theremin actually made me "LOL."

Some college acquaintances of mine got together and ginned up a story about a love triangle of the 'he's sleeping with a guy who's sleeping with a gal who's sleeping with the first guy' variety in order to appear on Springer. They wanted - and got - a free trip to wherever it's filmed. After it was all over they said, "Oh, everyone knew we were lying but they didn't care." So trashy.

78: Aw, shucks, it warn't nothin', ma'am.

Springer really is an interesting cat. There was a good This American Life segment on him. He really does get rave reviews as a politician. Here is a write-up on his recent speech at graduation at the Law School at Northwestern, the announcement of which was not greeted warmly by many.

70:

Placing third in a teen sex-for-points club? Doesn't everyone pretty much tie for third in that club?

"Everyone else" I mean. I didn't mean me. Why my teen years were just one wild swinging 60's party after another, baby. That goes without saying.

Springer knows that show is trashy. He says so whenever he's interviewed by liberals about politics. He didn't behave at all trashily on his Air America show.