Monthly Archives: August 2008

Conan O’Brien On A New York Times Report Questioning John McCain’s Presidential Eligibility

The New York Times once again raised the issue that John McCain may not be eli­gi­ble to be pres­i­dent because he’s not a natural-born U.S. cit­i­zen. Appar­ently, McCain was born out­side the 13 colonies.” — Conan O’Brien on a New York Times report ques­tion John McCain’s pres­i­den­tial eligibility

Jimmy Kimmel On Paris Hilton’s Retaliating Political Ad On John McCain

After John McCain made a polit­i­cal ad that fea­tured Paris Hilton… she fired back with her own polit­i­cal ad call­ing Sen. McCain a wrinkly, white-haired guy, and talked about her energy pol­icy, which until this point, has been vodka.” — Jimmy Kim­mel on Paris Hilton’s retal­i­at­ing polit­i­cal ad on John McCain

The Music Tapes — Music Tapes For Clouds And Tornadoes (2008)

Daniel John­ston would be the eas­i­est com­par­i­son to the lat­est Music Tapes album, but there are sub­tle hints of Koster’s appre­ci­a­tion for Joanna New­som. The bare bones style does suit him well, but it’s also nice to hear more well-rounded music like the clos­ing “In An Ice Palace” that gives you idea of not only his musi­cal sen­si­bil­ity but his musi­cal vision as well.

Argus Hamilton On John Edwards Admitting To Adultery

John Edwards admit­ted Fri­day to hav­ing an adul­ter­ous affair on the cam­paign trail, and he was imme­di­ately replaced as a speaker at the Demo­c­ra­tic con­ven­tion by Bill Clin­ton. The les­son is clear. You can­not act like that when every­body likes your wife.” — Argus Hamil­ton on John Edwards admit­ting to adultery

Outside Lands 08: Parting Thoughts

While it might not have seemed like it, I did very much enjoy Out­side Lands. There is a ton of poten­tial for OT to be a pre­mier sum­mer fes­ti­val that it makes you won­der why it hadn’t hap­pened sooner. Design­ing such a big event isn’t easy and since this is the inau­gural one, I’m going to give the Out­side Lands orga­niz­ers huge credit for both putting the effort and pulling it off.

Outside Lands 08: Day Two (Saturday)

San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park hosted the First Annual Out­side Lands Music & Arts Fes­ti­val to much applause and yearn­ing. With so much avail­able open space, it’s hard to imag­ine that there hasn’t been a music fes­ti­val that has rocked the park past sun­set. Saturday’s fes­tiv­i­ties began at 1:00pm, and fea­tured SF’s lovely cloudy weather.

Outside Lands 08: Day One (Friday)

San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park hosted the First Annual Out­side Lands Music & Arts Fes­ti­val to much applause and yearn­ing. With so much avail­able open space, it’s hard to imag­ine that there hasn’t been a music fes­ti­val that has rocked the park past sunset.