Because of what I do, I get asked a lot about how the “MSM” — I’ll call it the “traditional media” — approaches blogs in Iowa. Because I think that over the past few months I’ve developed an interesting answer to the question, and because at cocktail parties I am not always as articulate [...]

Tonight and tomorrow night, the band Third Eye Blind will play concerts in Council Bluffs and Des Moines, IA, to crowds that are expected to be quite large. (Where all the people are coming from, I’m not sure.)
But that’s not the story. The story is that, according to rumors, they’ll be sporting Barack [...]

Chris Matthews and other MSNBC shows have featured Obama girl, Giuliani girl, and Hillary girl multiple times — both via their YouTube exploits and in live, in-studio appearances. Why isn’t this video getting any attention? Should she have worn hot pants?

Hat-tip: Common Iowan

The haircut story once again rears its ugly (but really quite pretty) head in Iowa yet again — this time at an Edwards event in Ft. Dodge.  When will the story go away?
A woman first asked him if he would consider living on the “food stamp diet’ a few members of Congress are trying. He [...]

When Register columnist Ken Fuson wrote in 2005, “Perhaps you have not heard of blogs. The name derives from a combination of ‘blather’ and ‘logorrhea’,” he probably did not expect his fair paper to have dozens of bloggers spewing their thoughts through the series of tubes we have constructed while sitting in our underwear watching [...]

Well, it’s been the best and worst of times. Also, I have started being a little melodramatic. Just now, I mean, when I started this post.
Yes, it’s true, I haven’t been the most faithful of bloggers. Since my last post, Michael Jackson has given away 1,273 cans of Jesus Juice. Not [...]

Well I haven’t posted in a while, but I wanted to give a quick Valentine’s Day message. Actually, I don’t want to do that; but I do want to tell you all about my new radio shows. Tuesday mornings from 9:30AM until 11AM, I’ll be playing slow music and emo music and sometimes [...]

Well PopMatters’s Adam Williams started it with his feature last week, and I’m going to keep the dream alive. In the spirit of introspection, I asked myself the following questions and, without any cheating, accurately predicted his answers. Also, I answered the questions, but my answers were generally the same as his. [...]

Well, the United States is certainly a country, and I’ve now driven across a lot of it (with Alec). He was a little surprised by certain aspects of the Midwest — especially a very overweight woman in a Dennys in Effingham, IL, at 2AM, who was wearing a church softball league shirt proclaiming that [...]

Well, I mean, I’m kind of high-speed I think. Not really in a literal sense, since I drive a hippy girl car with only 90 horsepower, but there’s a sense in which some might consider me nimble and quick around proverbial candlesticks. (”Hit the road, Jack-be-nimble!”)
The itinerary:

Tequesta
Starbucks in Jupiter
Starbucks on Turnpike
Starbucks on Turnpike (again)
Starbucks [...]