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I haven't been doing much if anything in the way of comment on the election. I provide quotes and links sometimes to various other items of political/social note, but the election . . ? Not my bag for this place. This is a place for sharing words and images related to the Art-Stuff I do, even tangentially in terms of feeding me in some way to make the work. This does include political things, if they have some relation to how I think about the Art-Stuff or can use it in some way. Usually, that means constitutional infringements or other outright criminal/traitorous acts from the Administration.

This quadrennial farce is not artistically interesting in any immediate way to me.

I will be voting, I hope you will, too. I will not vote Democratic or Republican if I can avoid it - I despise the two-party system we've devolved to, and I despise the two parties themselves. If I feel I HAVE to vote for the candidate running as a Democrat (or even, yes, as I have in some areas, usually small county positions, Republican) I will vote for them, where possible, in another column - in the case of Democratic candidates, usually under the "Working Families" party. It's a small thing, but I'd rather not throw my support behind one of the corrupt and corrupting Big Two. If, like . . . well, many people, you feel you have to vote for the Democratic candidate this year, might I suggest the Working Families Party. If you're in New York or Connecticut, that is - the Party is only on the ballot there as yet.

And if you're going to vote this way - for a Main Candidate but on another ticket but the Big One - check your state's rules -- in some states, the votes aren't added together if, say, a candidate is on both the Republican and the Conservative tickets, and even if he gets enough votes under those two parties combined to win a state, it won't matter because only the bigger number will count, and if an opposing candidate gets more votes under one party than that bigger number, they win. In New York State, all votes for a candidate are added together, for all tickets that candidate might be on. Good.

I only have one last comment on the election for now, a photocropping inspired by an identical one created by capthek I saw (along with the full original photo) on urbaniak's blog:

Well, to get the bad taste out of my mouth, two more new favorites that have shown up on the LP Cover Lover site. First, one that . . . well, yet another example of a perfectly good title subverted by time and the change in the most common usage of a word:

And, judging from this cover, the sermon contained inside maybe REALLY stretches a metaphor a bit far:

I dunno . . . Jesus' team looks a little light to me. Maybe he should bring in Joseph to the lineup, with Lot batting cleanup.

The Bible verse noted there that apparently inspired this sermon is "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people." I'm not sure quite how this applies to the National Pastime in any useful spiritual way, but maybe I'm just not enlightened enough . . .

Ah, time to catch up on videos and links collected as of recent . . .

First, as I've now seen mentioned on Boing Boing and Gothamist, a surprising animation from the vaults of Sesame Street: Geometry of Circles - no indication of who the animator is, but the music is an original piece by Philip Glass! And from my favorite, classic period, the mid-to-late 70s, with the Ensemble (and vocal group)! It was shown on SS in four parts, but here some nice YouTuber has weaved them all together into the longer piece they must have originally been (are there more?):

A new song by DEVO created for a Dell commercial, and released as an internet single, which I found as part of an excellent overview article on Mark Mothersbaugh, DEVO, and his soundtrack company Mutato Muzika in the L.A. Weekly:

Meanwhile, in last night's Special Comment (and thank you MSNBC), Keith Olbermann reminds us - if we needed reminding, and apparently we do - that The President is a liar:

And Jack Cafferty (thanks for this, at least, CNN) reminds us as well - any everyone should be constantly reminded - that the Administration is a pack of actual, literal criminals:

Enjoy. If that's the right word . . .