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	<title>Total Dismay</title>
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		<title>Should We Try to Keep the Internet Tidy?</title>
		<link>http://totaldismay.com/2008/08/22/should-we-try-to-keep-the-internet-tidy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>totaldis</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Does Karl Rove have a Blog?</title>
		<link>http://totaldismay.com/2008/08/22/does-karl-rove-have-a-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>totaldis</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Karl Rove]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Karl Rove is somebody who has been derisive and dismissive of the blogosphere on occasion.  That notwithstanding, I am 99.9999999999% certain that he has at least one blog written under a pseudonym.  Suspecting Karl Rove of stuff is not a very productive activity.  A lot of people suspect that he is a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Karl Rove is somebody who has been derisive and dismissive of the blogosphere on occasion.  That notwithstanding, I am 99.9999999999% certain that he has at least one blog written under a pseudonym.  Suspecting Karl Rove of stuff is not a very productive activity.  A lot of people suspect that he is a closeted homosexual.</p>
<p>I think the only way to figure out which blogger is Karl is by process of elimination.  I am pretty sure PerezHilton.com isn&#8217;t written by Karl Rove.  He&#8217;s not the fake Steve Jobs either.  If you are a blogger and you are NOT Karl Rove, please leave a comment.  </p>
<p>Oh, while you&#8217;re at it, please comment on my theory that the political genius has chosen to do a stint as a regular citizen at the end of this cycle because he has crunched the numbers and he KNOWS that McCain is going to lose.  If he can find the magic bullet to take Obama down and he hands it to the official McCain team, maybe he can be the Golden Boy of  Evil politics again.  If not, he doesn&#8217;t get any<em> loss cooties</em> on him.</p>
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		<title>An Important Announcement Will Be Made in Springfield</title>
		<link>http://totaldismay.com/2008/08/20/an-important-announcement-will-be-made-in-springfield/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>totaldis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget about finding out who Obama will choose as his running mate.  I am talking about finding out which state the Simpson&#8217;s call home.  I think it really is Illinois&#8230; or Kentucky&#8230;. or maybe New York.
BTW, have you heard that Toby Keith has a come out in support of Obama.  I think [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Forget about finding out who Obama will choose as his running mate.  I am talking about finding out <a href="http://ask.yahoo.com/20060104.html">which state the Simpson&#8217;s call home</a>.  I think it really is Illinois&#8230; or Kentucky&#8230;. or maybe New York.</p>
<p>BTW, have you heard that Toby Keith has a come out in support of Obama.  I think that is kinda cool, but I am a bit leery about the accuracy of my source.  Perez Hilton calls his poorly drawn depictions of cocaine and semen &#8217;satire&#8217; and it seems remotely possible that he is capable of actual satire.  Toby Keith was recently interviewed by America&#8217;s <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/25/beck-shoot-in-head/">worst right wing pundit</a> as voted by his peers and he did mention the fact that he was a lifelong Democrat.  A real journalist would have asked him if he had voted for Kerry, or even asked who he supported in this cycle.  Beck wanted to break the record for most times saying &#8220;boot in your ass&#8221; in 20 minutes.</p>
<p>Ok, I looked it up and Toby is quoted in <a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jRR9_pyEtgHI26tHSsFK_upDc6UAD92LJ6EG0">real news sites</a> praising Obama.</p>
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		<title>thankyouverymuch</title>
		<link>http://totaldismay.com/2008/08/19/thankyouverymuch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>totaldis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a guilty pleasure.  It involves watching illegally uploaded movies on YouTube.  The best way to do this is to just type &#8216;Part 1&#8242; into the search bar and keep clicking through until you get something you like.  I recently watched Man On The Moon with my kids.  I legally [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have a guilty pleasure.  It involves watching illegally uploaded movies on YouTube.  The best way to do this is to just type &#8216;Part 1&#8242; into the search bar and keep clicking through until you get something you like.  I recently watched Man On The Moon with my kids.  I legally rented the movie when it had just come out and I didn&#8217;t let them watch it back then.  The funny part of the story is that I let them watch the intro where Andy Kaufman as played by Jim Carrey complains about the film and proclaims it over before rolling what appeared to be end credits.  They believed me when I told them that that was in fact the end.  They thought I had been ripped off.  They went to bed.</p>
<p>A scene that I keep recalling involves Andy&#8217;s agent complaining about Andy and Bob concocting gags that are only funny to two people on the entire planet.  I identified with that scene.  On that note, here is something that I just spent a few minutes of my life creating&#8230;</p>
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<p>If you are the other human being that finds it funny, please get in touch.</p>
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		<title>Where are the Wild Things ?</title>
		<link>http://totaldismay.com/2008/08/17/where-are-the-wild-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>totaldis</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>

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I used to have a copy of Where the Wild Things Are when I was a kid.  Maurice Sendak&#8217;s artwork had me transfixed on more than one occasion.  The suits in Hollywood have been cashing in on films based on characters from my childhood books for several years now and it&#8217;s not surprising [...]]]></description>
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<p>I used to have a copy of <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Wild_Things_Are">Where the Wild Things Are</a></em> when I was a kid.  Maurice Sendak&#8217;s artwork had me transfixed on more than one occasion.  The suits in Hollywood have been cashing in on films based on characters from my childhood books for several years now and it&#8217;s not surprising that they wanted to mess with this one as well.  What is surprising is that the film has been shelved.  This isn&#8217;t the first aborted work by writer Dave Eggers.  He tried to impress us several years ago by writing a politically charged novel and releasing it to the public in draft form as he wrote.  I was reading it and I was more let down by the direction it was taking than by the fact that it came to a screeching halt. </p>
<p>Being part of a $115 million film project that may never see the light of day is a bigger deal than that novel.  I do not know if his contribution contributed to the decision by Warner.  Spike Jonze is the director of this non-starter.  He filmed a documentary on Al Gore that was slated to play at the 2000 Democratic National Convention.  It was not shown and Al Gore didn&#8217;t win the  election handily enough to become President.  Dave Eggers has connected those dots ( I think that&#8217;s a bit of a stretch).</p>
<p>I couldn&#8217;t think of anything really funny to write to tie this film to the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120890/trivia">WildThings</a> erotic thrillers.  The first WildThings movie features a cameo performance by Kevin Bacon&#8217;s Penis.</p>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Happening Marky Mark?</title>
		<link>http://totaldismay.com/2008/08/08/whats-happening-marky-mark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>totaldis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got home from watching The Happening.  I am married to someone who MUST see the disaster movies, even though we often leave the theater or the couch  somewhat dissatisfied.  This was no exception, although it was largely well acted.  I didn&#8217;t leave feeling insulted, just a bit underwhelmed.  [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just got home from watching <em>The Happening.</em>  I am married to someone who MUST see the disaster movies, even though we often leave the theater or the couch  somewhat dissatisfied.  This was no exception, although it was largely well acted.  I didn&#8217;t leave feeling insulted, just a bit underwhelmed.  I think <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamalan">the man</a> who became famous for plot twists decided to really confound us by not having a twist.</p>
<p>A hip hop soundtrack could have made such a difference.  Turn the sound down on the big movie and play them both at the same time <img src='http://totaldismay.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Norwegians are Less Peaceful than I Thought&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://totaldismay.com/2008/08/06/norwegians-are-less-neutral-than-i-thought/</link>
		<comments>http://totaldismay.com/2008/08/06/norwegians-are-less-neutral-than-i-thought/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>totaldis</dc:creator>
		
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If this argumentative game show contestant is indicative of the national character of these people, I think we should worry about them more than we worry about Iran.  This incident may be the cuase of their drop from 1st to 3rd on the Global Peace Index.
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<p>If this argumentative game show contestant is indicative of the national character of these people, I think we should worry about them more than we worry about Iran.  This incident may be the cuase of their drop from 1st to 3rd on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Peace_Index#2007-2008_Global_Peace_Index_rankings">Global Peace Index</a>.</p>
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		<title>Cover For Me</title>
		<link>http://totaldismay.com/2008/08/06/cover-for-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>totaldis</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Celebrity Relationships]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was trying to make a long string of YouTube videos with each succeeding one featuring someone covering a song written by the last artist.  I got sidetracked by all the misinformation.  People tend to give credit to the performer in their own generation to hit with any given really good song rather [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was trying to make a long string of YouTube videos with each succeeding one featuring someone covering a song written by the last artist.  I got sidetracked by all the misinformation.  People tend to give credit to the performer in their own generation to hit with any given really good song rather than do a bit of research and see who actually gave birth to the song.</p>
<p>There are dozens of amateur videos whose titles indicate that they are a cover of the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=black+crowes+cover+hard+to+handle&#038;search_type=&#038;aq=f">Black Crowes</a> song <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_to_Handle_(song)">Hard to Handle</a></em>.  I was a big fan during this band&#8217;s heyday and, as a fan, I made it my business to educate myself.  This song, and a few other Black Crowes songs are from Otis Redding.  I have to get over my indignation, because all classic rock songs will soon be identified by which version of Guitar Hero they appear on <img src='http://totaldismay.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Worst Youtube Video Ever of the Day</title>
		<link>http://totaldismay.com/2008/08/05/worst-youtube-video-ever-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>totaldis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[She was a girl, he was a boy, could not make it anymore obvious&#8230;
The Evolution of Dance guy deserves to have the most viewed YouTube video of all time.  As of recently, he doesn&#8217;t.  An Avril Lavigne fanclub colluded to use auto-refresh to get her lame video to the top.  The Avril [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>She was a girl, he was a boy, could not make it anymore obvious&#8230;</p>
<p>The Evolution of Dance guy deserves to have the most viewed YouTube video of all time.  As of recently, he doesn&#8217;t.  An Avril Lavigne fanclub colluded to use auto-refresh to get her lame video to the top.  The Avril Lavigne fan club sucks and their dads should demand to have their ties back after this travesty.</p>
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		<title>The &#8220;I&#8217;m Feelin&#8217; Like I&#8217;m Fixin&#8217; To Die&#8221; Widget</title>
		<link>http://totaldismay.com/2008/08/03/the-im-feelin-like-im-fixin-to-die-widget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>totaldis</dc:creator>
		
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Baby Tickers are all the rage on blogs these days.  I can never know what it is like to feel another person growing inside of me and so I decided to make my own widget.  I have lived more days than I have left.  That&#8217;s a happy thought.
Credit goes to Babystrology.com for [...]]]></description>
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<p>Baby Tickers are all the rage on blogs these days.  I can never know what it is like to feel another person growing inside of me and so I decided to make my own widget.  I have lived more days than I have left.  That&#8217;s a happy thought.</p>
<p>Credit goes to <a href="http://Babystrology.com">Babystrology.com</a> for the widget design and the <a href="http://cdc.gov">CDC</a> for the estimate of how many days I have left.  I might make an animated gif out of this the next time I get really bored.</p>
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