Courage and

I'll tell you what would take true courage at this point: go to drinking liberally and be a vociferous Hillary supporter. Who wants to go and play devil's advocate? I would definitely go to that. I actually looked into that group a while back but got the impression no one was actually attending.

Bobby, good catch on the cartoon. And I agree with David, xkcd is awesome.

Various

The only plan I know of to go out of town was this weekend, when I was planning on going up to Seattle. Next weekend my sister was supposedly coming down from Seattle, but I am pretty sure that is not happening now.

I am not a fan of sports that utilize round balls.

Definitely down for egg shots.

Political drinking sounds good, I've put it on the calendar so we remember (at least Bobby and me).

xkcd is awesome

Misc.

Brian would probably be up for a March Madness pool, he is kinda apeshit about basketball. Jack too.

Hell yes to Easter.

Tangentially related to Obama: I think I'm gonna go to the next one of these, which is on the twentieth. I'm one of those mutants who actually likes talking about politics, and it does go well with beer. Anyone interested? David?

And Dan: that comic you posted is actually from xkcd, one of my very favorite webcomics (and probably the geekiest one there is).

March Madness pools?

Heck yeah!

P.S. Bike pub crawl anyone?

Easter

The reason I'm asking about Easter weekend is of course---- I've got our annual Jello Shot Easter Egg Hunt in the works- I am tentativley holding it on Easter Sunday as a brunch/bloody mary kind of deal.
Just throwing it out there, still haven't checked with the fam to see if I have some other obligation.

I'm Going To Go Out On A Limb Here

But I'm assuming that people here aren't too exicted to jump in on some March Madness polls, or am I hopefully wrong? If you are interested, I'll even set it up. I won't do some lame one where the winner wins everything, probably more of a tiered pool. I can already tell I'm getting ahead of myself, but the offer is on the table.

Seattle was the Rumor

I believe that rumor is off for me. It was going back and forth a few weeks ago, but I'm eager to get some eggs and do some Easter shit that weekend.

Rumor Control

I heard a rumor that some of y'alls is going out of town NEXT weekend (March 22-23) is this true?

Smashing and Obama

Wait just one more week and I'll be playing SSBB along with the world. I'll be having tournaments and what not at my house for it, just give me one more week.

Ross, I'm so happy you said that the HD version looks good because I've been kind of confused why it actually did look good on my TV in widescreen even though the Wii doesn't actually output into widescreen. I thought everything was being stretched and I just didn't notice. After reading, I realized that everything is A-OK. I'm happy for the day that all AV stuff is just 3 HDMI cables in the back. Almost there.


About Obama, I've heard a few delegates say that they will switch if the other candidate wins the popular delegate vote. I think Obama will get it. While the super delegate idea seems dumb, I think that they know that and don't want to piss people off. Especially since they're kind of known as the people's party and all.

Laugh... and politics

Sorry David, I completely missed everything, even the $1 pints. How was "Guys With Feelings?"

Turns out, the Oregon primary might actually matter. That assumes, of course, that delegates still matter by May 20, that Team Clinton hasn't brainwashed everyone into thinking vague notions of "electability" trump delegates in the nomination. God she is a craven politician. Anyhoo, here's the link.

Based upon Obama's leaked delegate chart, it appears that Obama will likely lock up the pledged delegate lead on May 20, 2008. Obama is 242 delegates short of the 1627 pleadged delegates needed to be the winner. Obama projected that he would win 20 delegates in Mississippi, 75 in Penn., 1 in Guam, 60 in North Carolina, 39 in Indiana, 13 in WV, 23 in Kentucky. The 23 from Kentucky would give him 251--9 over what he needs. But Oregon also votes on the 20th, and Obama projects that he will gain 28 out of that contest. So, Oregon will put him over the top even if Obama does a little less well before May 20th.

And finally (originally from here.)

Brawlllll

Hey people, this is Ross. While it seems some people are waiting, I would just like to point out that the game is out! Ive played it, its tons of fun, some of the stages are ridiculous. If you have an HD, more power to you the game looks sooooo good in HD. Anyways hopefully we can all play sometime, Wario man power!

Comedy Tonight

This is mostly aimed at Dan since he mentioned an interest in attending. Tonight is 'wristband only' at the Mt. Tabor main stage, which is where I intend to be all night. So of course you can attend the other areas and there is lots of good stuff - but I won't be there.

There are at least 4 reasons for my intransigence on leaving this venue:

a) it is the most comfortable,
b) it has $1 PINTS of Busch,
c) i got totally soaking fucking wet last night wandering the streets and don't want to do that again, and finally
d) the first two chunks has these comedians who I want to see:

Guys with Feelings
Patton Oswalt
Rylee Newton (even though she picked on me last time...)
Richard Bain

Plus at Mt. Tabor you get the Lounge going too, which I wanted to check out without having to move anywhere. Plus my Chucks look really awesome in black light.

Anyway, that's my excuse.

LOST: The Other Woman

This is a spoiler-free zone.

I thought this episode was unpleasantly predictable. But it redeemed itself to me in two ways: Firstly, and most importantly, it made Ben super-scary in a whole new way. And secondly, it all but confirmed two of my personal pet theories about the show. Ask me about them sometime.

Comedy

I caught some sort of bug, and was feeling pretty lousy last night (fever, feeling lethargic), but have been feeling somewhat better today, so...I'm still thinking about going tonight. Not sure. I definitely plan on going Saturday night. David?

Comedy Show: Who All is Coming?

Dan, should we expect to see you somewhere? I have absolutely no clue about which people to see so I'll just be following people around. If anyone has a plan, I'll tag along.

IMing for comedy

You know how when you start a new job there's always a new kind of culture to get used to? And you know how when you start a new job, the company always gets bought out the second week of work?

Yeah. I mentioned the Bridgetown Comedy Festival to a coworker via IM (she keeps IMing me - I guess that's the culture), and suddenly she invited 5 coworkers to the chat and tells them to come to it. And also calls them hookers. Yeah. So, we'll see, I did my part.

As for the second part, I can't talk. But I think I can probably link. http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/3/comcast_buying_golfnow_com

You thought it was a busy week before

Now how can we pass this up? A Mr. T inspired art show (put on by a 10-year-old no less):

http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2008/02/i_heart_mr_t_art_show_in_portl.html

For the first time ever, twenty of Portland's finest artists will come together to present "I (Heart) Mr. T" - a show of art based on America's favorite Mohawked Messiah. Levi Pitters, a ten year-old artist and Mr. T enthusiast, came up with the idea and recruited some of his talented friends to create artwork dedicated to his idol. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of art in this show will be donated to a scholarship fund to help send 5th graders in Levi's school to Opal Creek - a three day outdoor education program held in June. Mr. T would approve!

Turns out, women really are inferior

We Scream, We Swoon. How Dumb Can We Get?

I keep re-reading this to find the part that confirms it's irony, but I'm not finding it. It's also not posted on the Onion. The last paragraph:

So I don't understand why more women don't relax, enjoy the innate abilities most of us possess (as well as the ones fewer of us possess) and revel in the things most important to life at which nearly all of us excel: tenderness toward children and men and the weak and the ability to make a house a home. (Even I, who inherited my interior-decorating skills from my Bronx Irish paternal grandmother, whose idea of upgrading the living-room sofa was to throw a blanket over it, can make a house a home.) Then we could shriek and swoon and gossip and read chick lit to our hearts' content and not mind the fact that way down deep, we are . . . kind of dim.

Time to write my letter. :)

That Sounds Great

I really don't know who any people are at all, so I'll just come along to wherever people suggest. Wow, March is really looking like an exciting month. Two visitors, two concerts, board game and comedy festival, damn. I think I'll just buy everything tomorrow and just know that all of my future weekends are paid for.

Bridgetown Comedy Festival

This is pretty cheap entertainment folks. Friend Andy is putting on a 3-day comedy shindig this coming weekend, and all three days can be had for $20. On top of that the final night's show is only for those who buy the 3-day $20 pass.

I am probably going to go at least some of the time, so maybe we can get a gang together, eh?

In Andy's words:

Just a quick reminder the first annual Bridgetown Comedy Festival is less than a week away! Your festival wristband, on sale for the low, low price of $20, gets you access to all venues, all three nights, and lets you see ridiculously funny comics like Patton Oswalt, Morgan Murphy, Eddie Pepitone, Chris Fairbanks, James Adomian, Howard Kremer and dozens more! Check out the schedule and start planning your weekend now.*

I also wanted to let you know that in the interest of fairness to all the festival-goers, and because of the demand to see Patton Oswalt, the Mt. Tabor main stage shows on Saturday will be wristband-only. That's still quite a steal, as the 8:00 show features a live taping of the hit podcast Guys With Feelings featuring guests Patton Oswalt, Eddie Pepitone and Howard Kremer, and the 10:00 show features standup from Patton, along with Jonah Ray, Chris Fairbanks, Rylee Newton and Portland own Richard Bain! And that's not to mention the midnight show that closes out the festival, which includes Eddie Pepitone, Moshe Kasher and many more!