From Jim Lileks...

From today's Bleat (the link will likely not link to the installment with the quote, but to whatever today's 'bleat' happens to be):

If Pat Buchanan had said the Democrats woke up at 11 AM every day and tried to figure out how to screw white people today, I think that would get press. Moore says the Republicans wake at six and figure out how to screw minorities, and it’s ha ha colorful commentary from the merry prankster, and besides, Ann Coulter said some awful things, and besides, Pat Buchanan was a politician who actually got votes in the GOP primaries.

The last point is true, and relevant; it was made by a Democrat guest on Hewitt’s show. But it shows how things have changed. What makes a greater impact – getting some old flinty cranks in Vermont to pull the lever for you, or putting out a movie in every multiplex that practically accuses Bush of supplying box cutters to the 9/11 hijackers? Moore is a new-media politician, and just because he doesn’t stand for office doesn’t mean he’s not as much of a political operative as the people who prowl the hustings and grimace their way through a New England flap-jack photo-op. And spare me the Ann Coulter parallels. The day Ann Coulter shows up in the presidential box with a former POTUS, like Moore showed up with Jimmy Carter, we can talk.

I myself wondered about Moore sitting with the bigwigs. A reward, of sorts?

Cheers...

Too much stuff!

I spent an inordinate amount of time today looking for a manila folder with some important papers in it. I could not imagine where I could have put it. I really got into a bad mood over it, when I wasn't trying to spend some quality time with Huntür and Galina.

The translation end of the world has been fairly slow this past week, although the previous two weeks provided an almost normal tempo of work. That made July something of a mediocre month in terms of billings, but that's offset by a first half of the year that was pretty darn impressive. As of this evening, I have about 1000 words for Monday and a transcript of unknown final length (it started out at 18 pages of stuff, but I whittled it down, trying to save my client some money).

Drew is going to be headed up to Denver with Shannon and Huntür tomorrow (I believe in the second half of the day), and they'll be back on Sunday. Hopefully, we'll be able to restore my Civic to some semblance of order (the passenger's side seat is missing, as is the console between the seats and the area where the radio is supposed to sit).

Too, Drew wants to start selling paintball supplies in the store (which I suppose will fall under the "Plus" part of the store's name), and we need to talk seriously about that.

Time to get down to work on the transcript.

Cheers...