Opie and Andy and The Fonz endorse Obama

Dude. As I watched this, my eyes were watering and I experienced emotions that were probably best left unexperienced. You should really watch this; Andy Griffith is a true American saint.

"Well, Ope, people are funny...Sometimes change scares them, and they'd rather keep doing the same ol' thing that's been messing them up than change to the thing that can help them."

http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/opie_and_andy_on_obama

Generations F through M

I've got a few prints in this show that's opening at the Long Beach State on Sunday:


There's always free snacks and wine at these things. Let's hope this time is no exception. There'll be, like, four different adjacent galleries with other shows, too.

Incidentally, I make prints, yes.

Ink2 Printmaking Exhibition
Opening Reception - Sunday, October 26, 5 to 7 PM
Cal State University, Long Beach
Dutzi Gallery

Yes, Virginia: (To Be Continued...)

Here are the main vague criteria that I use when I'm determining who to vote for:

1. The candidate has to have policies that more closely reflect my own beliefs than the other guy's policies.
2. I have to be ok with the idea of the candidate "representing (us to the rest of the world)."
   

There's lots of other details, but who cares. I'm mainly just trying to paint the picture that I'm voting for Obama, but not because he's black. I'm voting for him because of lots of stuff.

But I'm just saying, as an extra, extra added secret bonus: How can you resist helping elect the first black president ever, for christsake? You're cool with the idea of being 90 and having people ask you if you voted for the first black president ever, and you have to tell them that you voted for the cranky old white guy and the bimbo?

Dude.

The Boot & The Bonnet of It All

I'm sort of happy for the moment because, well, to make a long story short: The phone company didn't want to "credit" me back money that they fully were supposed "credit" back to me (or whatever, is credit even a verb?), and they completely were not going to do it at all, even after three emails back and forth where I was like, "Dude," but finally (because I knew I was right and I knew they had nothing on me) I was like all, "Sigh. This is taking waaay too much time, I'm totally just contacting the Better Business Bureau if you don't resolve this by Monday," (this was Friday, and I was actually paraphrasing, not quoting myself directly) and I had no idea whether or not that carried any water whatsoever, honestly, and I thought my threat might even elicit some hearty chuckles around the phone company water cooler (trying to keep the metaphors aquatic), but lo and behond, here it is Monday, and THAT's right.

I got a very polite and apologetic email from them saying they were going to undo all the charges and so sorry and jesus christ and everything. Who'd have thought it?

So, I'm just saying: Better Business Bureau. Right? Apparently.

(Insert prostitute-themed one-liner here).

Sense and Sensibilitude

Hear ye, hear ye: Here's a new Underwear Lane comic, which was made entirely from 100% love.

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