This'll probably be the last one of these for awhile.
Per uploader dannen59, "It's from an Austrian documentary called "Das Beste von Frank Zappa - 20 Jahre Extravaganza 1969-1989"."
In a parallel universe somewhere, the 1992 election featured Bush, Clinton, Perot, Zappa, and Nader. A man can dream...
So that's two terms McCaskill has won now entirely because a Republican said something monumentally fucking stupid.
She really should send fruit baskets to Akin and Limbaugh.
Watching election coverage. Appears that a truly ridiculous number of voters are being asked to fill out provisional ballots -- very close to 1:1 in may precincts, and some locations are even reporting twice as many provisional ballots as regular.
Hispanics are disproportionately affected -- quelle surprise.
This state, man...
I don't think we'll know the outcome of the Arpaio/Penzone race tonight. And probably not a number of others, either.
I was going to link to where you could buy this most excellent T-shirt, but it appears that Barko-Swill has sold out. I suppose it's probably in pretty high demand about now.
But fortunately, I could still get these good photos of it, courtesy of Kozmic Dreams.
Go vote. Tomorrow. Tuesday the 6th. If you don't, the wrong lizard might get in.
Today I saw a man walking down the street in a tricorn hat, powdered wig, and other assorted revolutionary garb, waving a placard explaining how our Founding Fathers really love Romney and Flake.
I decided not to make any banal jokes about Halloween being last week, mostly because that's so blisteringly unoriginal but also because really, wearing that getup in 92-degree weather is its own punishment.
Posted one of these back on 9/28; here's the whole set, complete with banter in-between takes.
It's too late to register in most places, but check your locale anyway to see if same-day registration is available.
And get out there and vote. Even if you're as dissatisfied with the choices for President as I am, there are local candidates and ballot initiatives where your vote does matter. Find something to support and go do it.
The election's on Tuesday.
Sofa, Montana, Easy Meat -- called due to rain. Mannheim, Germany, 1982; uploaded by br1tag.
Binghamton, NY, 1988. Appears to be the same show as my Lucille/Who Needs the Peace Corps? post from July.
I just switched from Kubuntu to OpenSUSE. I plan on writing a bit about my experience, but it occurs to me -- people may wonder why I went with OpenSUSE.
Well, the answer is because I've seen various reviews saying OpenSUSE is the best KDE-based distro -- so the question then becomes Why KDE?
I've preferred KDE over GNOME since about the KDE 2.x/GNOME 1.x era. And I think the bottom line is customizability.
I never much liked the look-and-feel of GNOME, not even in 2.x. The Apple-style system bar across the top of the screen without the Apple-style integrated menubar -- that's just wasted space.
But it could be worse. It could be GNOME 3.
I liked KDE3 better than 4, but 4 got to the point of being passable. Even if it's still missing basic functionality like being able to right-click on a launcher to change its shortcut settings. In fact the whole "Show a Launcher When Not Running" feature (an overly-verbose version of MacOS's "Keep in Dock" and Windows 7's "Pin to Taskbar") is pretty damn broken -- I can't get it to work at all with LibreOffice. (Well, I mean, I can get it to show a launcher. Just not one that works.)
So okay. It's pretty far from ideal. But XFCE and LXDE aren't exactly rolling in GUI-based configuration options, and the simpler WM's are worse still. So KDE it is, for now.
Grand Wazoo Orchestra plays Grand Wazoo, September '72. Uploaded by Whoaduderighteous.