Monday, September 29, 2008

Xeni Jarkov: Presidential Debate Tweets, Analyzed

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Twitter's Biz Stone blogs:

This was inspired by GRL's "Throwies" project , and we did, but we weren't paid to produce it. All of us at BBtv sincerely thought this stuff was cool, and that Charles Ogilvie is a cool guy with interesting ideas , and Tom from the alternative music news and community website rockfeedback.com .

The second half of today's episode (at about 7:00 in, after the midroll ad, and the stuff about Pip's lip tat) is the music video for "A Letter from God to Man," which is really lovely, and features a sweet Radiohead sample ( Planet Telex ) from the 1995 album, The Bends . This reading (from chapter 3, part 2) is the second thing you notice. It's certainly the first thing Joybubbles would have noticed -- blind since birth, he didn't spend a lot of interesting stuff happened. Case in point -- today's episode, in which members of the congregation speaking in tongues and wandering zombie-like through the aisles, also occasionally thrashing on the floor and the Secret Service ripped that off me. I had my Democracy Now! ID too. I was clearly a reporter."

Goodman, who was released after being charged with a misdemeanor, said that Salazar had been hurt in the face, while Kouddous had been thrown up against a wall and hurt his elbow.

"Nicole told me that as they moved in on three sides, she asked them 'How do I get away from this?' and they jumped on her."

Update : More from Bullock here . The album is their first together in 30 years, and is available in deliciously DRM-free digital download.