I'm all right. I'm just gagging on all the all right

So I was having a smoke by the old Martini's when all of a sudden, Paul Shaffer walks by



I was going to yell something funny and clever like, "Hey Paul you bald fuck, if you're looking for lunch they got a great sandwhich on 53 at the Hello Deli, you know the place!" But he was on the phone and last time I said something to a 'celebrity' (Jimmy Johnson, Christmas Day 2002 on 52nd) I got a real nasty look (then contemplated following him and heckling till the cows came home -- get it> cows, cowboys? nevermind.)

So that was some very mild excitement today... kind of like getting worked up about having your days off on Monday when every holiday this year falls on one.

Speaking of not working on Mondays... Kat got a new and much cooler job recently and no longer works with me Tuesday thru Saturday*sob*. And although I didn't see her off proper due to extenuating circumstances, these are her two sentences.

In Political news:
Although you wouldn't notice by the coverage... the Bush Administration has suffered two embarassing discoveries. Those dispicable Swift Boats for Profit ads that so brutally and falsely decry Kerry as a liar, cheat and unworthy and incapable of holding the highest office in the world (next to the Pope, which Bush has already begun campaining for) WERE coordinated with the Campaign, directly. Despite the attempts made by the neocon fascists currently residing in the White House, the connections between the administration, the campaign and the Swift Boat Vets are more solid, current and verifiable than those of Saddam and Al Qaeda. Two integral members of Bush's reelection campaign have been forced to resign this week.

Benjamin Ginsberg, an election lawyer working for the Bush Campaign, was moonlighting for the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth depite White House claims of there being zero coordination or involvement in the false ads. Ginsberg represented the Bush campaign in 2000 and became a prominent figure during the Florida recount.

And although Joe Sandler, a lawyer for the DNC and a group running anti-Bush ads, MoveOn.org, said there is nothing wrong with serving in both roles at once, there certainly is something wrong when the ads are rooted in lies, smear, and gross dereliction of duties.

The other person to resign this week -- no no, calm down, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Rice and Bush are still there -- was Ken Cordier. Mr. Cordier appeared in at least one of the Swift Boat Vets for Profit ads and was forced to resign after it was learned he was on the reelection team.

So, when the White House and Campaign said they had nothing to do with the ads, they were lying through their teeth, again.

There are some great pieces that I've come across. The 10 Ways Bush Screwed New York, from the new Village Voice issue is a scathing and indicting littany of reasons why Bush has no part in being in this city. His gross neglect, empty promises and incessant bumbling and fumbling are expounded upon in this littany of incompetence.


"Kerry is sending to Crawford former Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia, a frequent companion of Kerry's on the campaign trail and a fellow Vietnam War veteran who lost three limbs during the war and former Army Green Beret Jim Rassman, whose life was saved by Kerry during a Vietnam war firefight," to Bush's 'ranch' in Crawford, Texas to insist the President openly condemn and demand the cessation of the Swift Boat Ads.

The two men were sent to the Ranch, but they were refused by the Secret Service and a State Trooper before being able to hand off the letter.

"The question is where is George Bush's honor, the question is where is his shame to attack a fellow veteran who has distinguished himself in combat?" Cleland asked. "Regardless of the political combat involved, it's disgraceful."

Encountering a permanent roadblock to Bush's ranch, Cleland left without turning over the letter to anyone.

"I have a letter signed by nine members of the U.S. Senate, all of whom have served honorably and I'd like to hand it to a responsible officer here on the gate," Cleland said as he tried to deliver it to security personnel at the roadblock. He accused a member of the president's security detail of trying to evade him.

"I am just going to return the letter and make sure it gets in the mail," Cleland said as he returned to his car.

In their letter, the senators said, "This administration must not tacitly comply with unfounded accusations which have suddenly appeared 35 years after the fact, and serve to denigrate the service of a true American patriot."