Okay so I’m not going to be doing much more with the Presidential Debate stuff unless somebody emails me this morning and wants something specific before I erase it from my hard drive. There’s too much else to do. (Oh, alright, I’ll get the Dean clips separated out and uploaded first — I’m not heartless…but otherwise I gotta MOVE ON, so to speak.)
I say this because Dick Cheney was on Meet the Press yesterday morning in rare form, dodging questions with answers that don’t make any sense, as per usual, about the war mostly — and I think putting those clips up has to take priority right now.
So that’s how I’ll be spending my day after I catch up with an old friend over lunch.
But first, the rest of last week’s
Daily Show clips. My friend Jeff Suttor is going to loan me his camera next week while I’m sending mine away to be serviced, so I won’t miss a beat.
So you can all say: “Thanks, Jeff!”
Back in a flash!

So this is your warning ahead of time that today’s going to be one of those “slinging hash” kind of days. Grad school is kicking in and if I don’t catch up today, I’m not going to.
It also seems kind of stupid for me to go through all the trouble of capturing video and making movies out of it and uploading it and then forgetting to link to it on my archive, which is what I’ve been doing a lot of lately. So I need to link to that stuff and move on…
ALSO, I need your help. I’ve been working on my video index and it’s actually starting to look like something useful. However, it’s been really hard just sitting around and thinking about all the stuff that needs to be linked to from it, so I ask you: is your favorite video from my site on this list? If not, shoot me an email and remind me to put it in there. I’m adding links at the rate of about 10 a day. There are, of course, hundreds to go, because it’s been a year now that I’ve been doing this. But that means that in a couple months, I might actually be up to date and to the point where you can see something on my blog and know that you can always just go to the index to look it up. (Like a real library!)
My email’s lisarein@finetuning.com. (And I’m not afraid to put that on my site because I’ve got an awesome spam filter.) I like hearing from you anyway, and I’ve been getting a lot of great suggestions from you folks that will also be going up today.
Sorry for the hold up folks! Thanks for making this so much fun. You’re the reason I do it, and it’s been very gratifying lately.
Peace,
lisa

A very sad morning indeed. I went from tearing up over the beginning of last night’s Nightline (sept 11 remembered), to crying over the afghan locals working for a Danish peace organization that were shot it the head in Afghanistan on Monday (more nightline), to momentarily freaking out about Ben being in Afghanistan (yes — he’s fine — entry included below), to outright bawling at the news of Johnny Cash’s death.
Anything else? Come on! Let it at me.
I’ll pull it together because I have a lot of good stuff to bring you today…

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Wow I’ve got so much stuff in the kitty I’m a bit overwhelmed. I’m trying to get some of it up before I have to leave to teach class today at USF…
Last night’s Daily Show was a keeper from beginning to end. I’ve already prepped everything — Al Franken was the guest!
Then, for you Deannies, we’ve got Howard in SF last weekend and Howard raging on the Shrub’s sunday night begging session for more cash for Iraq.
Next, I’ve got the EFF talking about the RIAA’s Shamnesty program on three different channels.
Lemme try to at least get the Franken stuff up…(Yeah, like, quit yapping and start linking already….I know…I know….)
thanks!

Today’s going to be all about quantity, hopefully. I’m so backed up.

Maybe if you’re in the bay area, you’ll
check it out.
See you there!

Okay, lemme see here…looks like I’ve got quite the back log of goodies here, but I’m ready to tackle them.
I’ve got the rest of ILAW, the whole Spectrum conference from March, Spam Tech Cybersalon, more SXSW 2003, more Etech 2003, lots of great “Where the f&*^% are the WMD” clips from reputable-type news sources, more Bill Moyers, more of the Democratic Candidates, more Daily Show…
More, more, more!
And I just got a new hard drive! So that will speed things up a bit!

Yikes! Tragedy strikes! Multiple disk failure!
And then the backup kicks in! (YES!)
So things are back up!
Thanks to Kelly, Shaun, Brad and Brak at the Internet Archive!
But we need to do some more maintenance before I can upload more stuff.
So hold tight!

I’ve got some ideas about what might make some nice reading for the July 4th weekend, but I’ll have to expand upon such ideas after the final morning ILAW sessions…
I did want to say, however, that I am feeling a little better about the future of my country this Fourth Of July. People are really starting to realize that taking care of each other and looking out for each other, not just ourselves, is really the way to go.
Hopefully, by this time next year, we’ll be well on our way to taking our country back and becoming world citizens again.
Have a great weekend, everyone!