Category: Quick Hits

Sebelius Response to the State of the Union Is Pitch-Perfect »

Traditionally, the Democratic responses to President George W. Bush’s State of the Union Speeches have been a reaction. They haven’t set agendas so much as they have explained their disagreements with the President’s agendas. This was, in some ways, an important strategy for enabling Democrats to vote against the President on issues where [...]

PeruseMe.com: The Best of What Interests You »

I’m up to my old tricks, making new web sites and virtually biting off more than I can virtually chew. But still, please start going to PeruseMe.com, a project of the two people who live in my house (including me!). It’ll start getting updated really, really often in a few weeks; but it [...]

Leading This Blog Forward »

This has certainly been a hiatus — another hiatus, I should say — of somewhat-epic size and magnitude. For I began work in June as a paid political operative: one of those people everyone generally doesn’t like the sound of but is often too polite to say so. But I was a successful [...]

Feistiest Concert of 2006 (And Maybe ‘Best’) »

On Monday night, I went to Ames (which was given a new, exotic pronunciation as part of a segue into a Kings of Convenience song) to see Feist and Jason Collett. It was pretty phenomenal.
Jason Collett (right) began the show with his six-person (up to nine at some points) act. He seems to [...]

Detransatlanticism »

Well, in a few hours, I’ll be heading back to the U S of A. With a little luck, I’ll avail myself of several different forms of transportation flawlessly, and I’ll stop blogging and start cleaning my room. Also with a little luck, the United States will have gotten a lot cooler in the last [...]

New Design and Address, Same Bat Channel and Questionable Colors »

Well, as you can see, I’ve switched to a new URL. Please set your bookmarks to CMondisplay.com. I had outgrown the old URL (largely because a lot of people mistook it for a spammer URL or didn’t understand that it was a URL), so that’s why I moved. That said, old links will [...]

Mac Lethal »

Well, I’ve said nice things about Mac Lethal about a million times before, but I’m going to say them again: for what he is, Mac Lethal put on a great rap show two years ago when I saw him. The following song knocked my socks off, although it admittedly loses a little of its [...]

Lali Puna s’nacht »

On this night, I saw Lali Puna. Wow. Really, it was pretty cool. It was in a theater with seating, which changed things. But yeah. Wow.
Oh, and that is a picture of them (above).

Inspiration: When It Strikes, It Strikes »

It
has
strucked.
Stay tuned for some awesomeness of awesome proportions. It’ll happen, as soon as I decide to make it happen. That’s because I make it happen.
Oh, and tomorrow I think I’m going to Utrecht. That’s in Europe, too!

This Is Not The Right Picture »

That’ll teach ‘em. It’s disappointing, I know.

  • Chase MartynChase Martyn observes and analyzes politics from Des Moines, IA, capital of 2008's first caucus state. He is also Managing Editor of the Iowa Independent.
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