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- What song do you never want to hear again?: "hello seattle" by Owl City
- What keeps you up at night?: Insomnia
- Frank Gehry or Rem Koolhaas
- Dan Savage or Charles Mudede
- What song or movie makes you cry?: Babette's Feast
Nov 17
Kevin Erickson commented on Don't Get Your Ayn Rand Panties in a Bundle.
Ayn Rand's ideas influenced Alan Greenspan caused the economic crisis and the recession we're in.
Nov 11
Kevin Erickson commented on "Ladies and Gentlemen, Our First Ever Stage Diver": The Mountain Goats, Final Fantasy @ the Showbox.
Also: lyric is "babies want to have publicists because better babies make best-of lists. Babies don't want neighborhoods; they just want to live in pits. Independence is no solution for modern babies; they don't know how to use free minds. Independence is no solution; it makes no sense, 'cuz babies only want to dance".
Nov 11
Kevin Erickson commented on "Ladies and Gentlemen, Our First Ever Stage Diver": The Mountain Goats, Final Fantasy @ the Showbox.
The "Theodor Adorno cover" was actually a cover of The Blankket (Steve Kado of Toronto, Blocks Recording Club, remember him? http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Conte…) covering Sylvesterboy (Schorsch Kamerun of Berlin, Chicks On Speed records). Owen's cover used Kado's new lyrics, taken from "Pegatively Nositive" an wholly brilliant and criminally overlooked album of confrontational dance songs inspired by Adorno. It is brutal and uncompromising and didactic and deeply funny--I cannot recommend it enough.
Nov 9
Kevin Erickson commented on Americablog Launches Boycott of DNC.
correct title: Americablog launches fundraising drive.
Nov 6
Kevin Erickson commented on Bitch-Slapped by Boeing.
Hooray! a smart pro-union article! Kudos, Stranger!
Nov 6
Kevin Erickson commented on That's It: R-71 Wins!.
This is good news! The whole state, on a county by county level is trending towards LGBT equality! http://pamshouseblend.com/diary/13979/al…
Nov 4
Kevin Erickson commented on What He Said 3.
Mixner also blamed the result on "non-white" voters.
Maine is something like 97% white.
I don't disagree that the DNC should have taken a bigger role, but frankly, Obama's efforts in VA and NJ seem to have inspired more of the teabagger vote to come out than the the cool lefty progressive vote, and I don't see any evidence that further involvement from him personally would have helped in maine--his popularity isn't necessarily transferable.
Nate Silver essentially concurs. http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/11/w…
Maine is something like 97% white.
I don't disagree that the DNC should have taken a bigger role, but frankly, Obama's efforts in VA and NJ seem to have inspired more of the teabagger vote to come out than the the cool lefty progressive vote, and I don't see any evidence that further involvement from him personally would have helped in maine--his popularity isn't necessarily transferable.
Nate Silver essentially concurs. http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/11/w…
Nov 4
Kevin Erickson commented on Election Night: Winners and Losers.
Please stop using that map. It's way misleading. It gives us no useful information about depth of support/opposition. A county could be at 49/51 and still be labeled the same way as a county that was at 25/75.
Nov 4
Kevin Erickson commented on Addendum to the Morning News.
Paul, I remember a while back you complained about the title of the Thomas Frank book What's The Matter With Kansas--but i'm wondering if you ever ended up reading it, and if so, if you think there's some resonance with your experience growing up in Maine. The fundamental idea is that we lack the discursive space to really consider economic populism, so conservative social politics are largely a mapping of economic anxieties onto issues of sexuality and religion.
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