Tim Cavanaugh | August 27, 2008
I haven't been impressed by the strength of dissent at this convention, but it's good to see that old fashioned Dada still plays:

The flipside is written in the Cyrillic alphabet, and the pranksters handing these out were calling on Obama to make his position on birdwatching clear.
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Orson Wells|8.27.08 @ 1:49PM|#
This sounds like a good plot for a movie.
Ironic|8.27.08 @ 1:56PM|#
Me thinks you have the wrong director
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056869/
|8.27.08 @ 2:09PM|#
Orson Welles
|8.27.08 @ 2:11PM|#
Alfred Hitchcock.
|8.27.08 @ 2:29PM|#
Daphne Du Maurier.
Xeones|8.27.08 @ 2:40PM|#
Michael Bay.
|8.27.08 @ 2:44PM|#
Roger Christian.
|8.27.08 @ 2:45PM|#
Dada... during live convention coverage the other night on MSNBC, someone was waving a "bring back Crystal Pepsi" sign in the background.
|8.27.08 @ 2:54PM|#
Poltergeist and The Birds are both being re-made.
I can haz anti-depressants?
|8.27.08 @ 3:01PM|#
One of the classics:
http://info.interactivist.net/node/3244
"From the archives: The best, most appropriate, and mysteriously prophetic comment about the late Ronald Reagan was made by J.G. Ballard in 1967, an innocent time when the idea of a lousy B-movie actors running for political office was still considered an utterly ridiculous idea
[At the 1980 Republican Convention in San Francisco a copy of the Reagan text, minus its title and the running sideheads, and furnished with the seal of the Republican Party, was distributed by some puckish pro-situationists to the RNC delegates. It was accepted for what it resembled: a psychological position paper on the candidate's subliminal appeal, commissioned by some maverick think-tank.]
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WHY I WANT TO F*CK RONALD REAGAN [1967] by JG Ballard [excerpt from "The Atrocity Exhibition" ]
RONALD REAGAN AND THE CONCEPTUAL AUTO DISASTER. Numerous studies have been conducted upon patients in terminal paresis (GPI), placing Reagan in a series of simulated auto crashes, e.g. multiple pileups, head-on collisions, motorcade attacks (fantasies of Presidential assassinations remained a continuing preoccupation, subject showing a marked polymorphic fixation on windshields and rear trunk assemblies). Powerful erotic fantasies of an anal-sadistic surrounded the image of the Presidential contender.
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Continues at the link above.
|8.27.08 @ 3:04PM|#
I can haz anti-depressants?
Just start drinking heavily, because it's gonna get worse.
|8.27.08 @ 3:28PM|#
My new girlfriend says she is bird watcher.....COOL!!!!!!
|8.27.08 @ 5:26PM|#
Birds--->Poultry--->Breast meat--->what a bunch of sex obsessed perverts.
|8.27.08 @ 7:23PM|#
I am not really impressed;
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=31890740&l=5d21b&id=33404058
|8.27.08 @ 10:12PM|#
So, is this supposed to also be a reference to how McCain is an avid bird-watcher, or just random?