The St. Pete's Pitocin Party officially kicked off 8 p.m. Sunday. It is now 8 p.m. Monday. I'm no math major but I'm pretty sure that makes 24-hours of induced labor fun. Fun.

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To hold you over, here's a little ditty from the last go-round.

'Breathe'

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As of Saturday night Sunday morning afternoon... nuthin'.

Zoe is frustrated that her new baby brother or sister is officially even more obstinate and tardy than she was.

Welcome to the fourth trimester.

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All coverage through Jan 2, 2008
Oh my God! Obama isn't black enough! He can't get the black vote!
It's the WORST THING EVER! He's doomed!

Jan 3
Oh my God! Clinton lost Iowa!
It's the WORST THING EVER! She's doomed!

Jan. 8
Oh my God! Clinton cried!
It's the WORST THING EVER! She's doomed!

Jan. 9
Oh my God! Obama lost New Hampshire! And he's black!
It's the WORST THING EVER! He's doomed!

Feb. 21
Oh my God! McCain may have cheated on his wife with a lobbyist or something!
It's the WORST THING EVER! He's doomed!

Feb. 21
Oh my God! Clinton lost 11 primaries in a row!
It's the WORST THING EVER! She's doomed!

Feb. 25
Oh my God! Obama is a secret Muslim!
It's the WORST THING EVER! He's doomed!

Feb. 25
Oh my God! Clinton is the one who told us Obama is a secret Muslim! Voters hate dirty politics!
It's the WORST THING EVER! She's doomed!

March 5
Oh my God! Obama lost the Texas primary!
It's the WORST THING EVER! He's doomed!

March 6
Oh my God! Clinton lost the Texas caucus! And the total delegate count!
It's the WORST THING EVER! She's doomed!

March 13
Oh my God! Obama has a pastor who's black and speaks loudly into a microphone!
It's the WORST THING EVER! He's doomed!

March 13
Oh my God! McCain thinks Iran is in league with al Qaeda!
It's the WORST THING EVER! He's doomed!

March 18
Oh my God! Obama is too black now!
It's the WORST THING EVER! He's doomed!

March 19
Oh my God! Clinton embellished a trip to Bosnia!
It's the WORST THING EVER! She's doomed!

Right Now
Oh my God! It's only March and the actual election isn't until NOVEMBER!
It's the WORST THING EVER! We're doomed!




PS: Oh my God. The baby isn't here yet.

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Sigh.

The due date was the 14th. Do the math.

UPDATE: Here's the latest sonogram of our little mashup.



Introducing Hillack Bararry Ferrari Thomas.

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And suddenly, the Dumbest Soul Rocker in Delmar could no longer blame Sen. Clinton for not wanting to release her White House records - thanks to more crap reporting from the American media.

This. Is. Gross.

Just gross.

Who's the so-called journalist who decided to connect the dots on this?

And excrete nine paragraphs about it?

On the very day that the supposed Candidate of Foreign Policy can't figure out the fundamental who's-who of the Iraq insurgency? On the very anniversary of The Stupidest War Ever? Fast approaching 4000 U.S. soldier souls gone and tens of thousands of Iraqis - and nothing to show for it?

On this day of all days we get to look at some shitty Photoshop hack composite that includes - that dress?

Please. Make. It. Stop. It's. Hurting. My. Soul.

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Or not so happy, as the case may be.

Please rewind to March 2003 for some music to weep by.



Thank you.

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UPDATE: As of the day after, where CNN and others failed, the reviews are in and it looks like the print media actually gets it. Cheers. And onward.

There's missing the point of Sen. Obama's speech on race today - and then there's this travesty of a headline from our friends at CNN.



Might as well have said this:



Completely. Missing. The. Point.

To their credit they eventually changed the headline to "Obama: We can move beyond racial wounds."

But why is it that right out of the gate they presented his speech - his challenge to move beyond racial wounds - framed in such racially charged and anti-patriotic language? Completely betraying an inherent inability to rise to his challenge?

And CNN is not alone.

It's like you can't acknowledge the difference between the ideals of what America professes to be and the realities of what it's been - even if your endgame is a coming together, a positive movement beyond the past towards attaining that ideal.

The focus is always going to be "why are these Negroes so damn angry?"

Here's the CNN headline you'll never see:



That quote isn't made up. It's directly from the transcript of his remarks.

So is anyone going to condemn his grandmother? Ask him to "renounce and reject" her?

Why are these Negroes so damn angry?

It reminds me of the white fellow at the Halloween party wearing blackface.

I attempted to politely inform him that, while he may consider it all just a joke, blackface has an undeniably racist history.

He was offended that I was offended.

Why are these Negroes so damn angry?

Not unlike the woman who claimed there was no racist motivation when her family hurled racial epithets at a black news reporter as they were beating her to the ground.

Also: you'd think that someone as smart as this guy wouldn't refer to the accusations of using racially-charged language as a "mugging." Racist? I dunno. But race baiting? Like I said... he's a smart guy. And remember: he was cautioned to cut the shit two months ago.

Like I said, it's taking every ounce of my being to keep from exploding onto the pages of this blog about how gross and disgusting this so-called election has become.

Back to my hole.

Pleasemakeitstopitshurtingmysoul.

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This is something I cranked out quickly last night. It's my cover of "Know" - a rare, unreleased song by a certain female singer-songwriter. Can you guess who she is?

KNOW (Cover Version)


Hint 1: Legend has it that she improvised the lyric and melody to "Know" on the spot, live to tape in the studio, with her father on guitar. Hint 2: The song does not appear on any album. It's only recently available as a bootleg. Hint 3: It ain't Joni. Which should be obvious once you hear it.

Here's the original.

KNOW (Original by Guess Who)


Hers is better.

So give it up, give it up, give it up...

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... it's because of crap like this:



Thank you, o marketing wizards at CBS, for boiling it down into terms we can all understand.

And thank you, America, for playing along and feeding a steady diet of junk food to the big, stupid beast that is The Media Narrative of the Democratic Primaries.

Yes, America. You know who you are.

At a time when we need to be getting ready for the long, hard slog of undoing the last eight years of stupidity, our national discourse has never been so disgustingly stupid.

And the stupid begets stupid, which begets more stupid and more stupid until the stupid can be distilled into just four words:

"Race. Gender. Ohio votes."

Pleasemakeitstopitshurtingmysoul.

UPDATE 3/11: Just when I started thinking that we, as a nation, couldn't sink any lower: Thanks, Geraldine. Of all people. Jesus.

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With Simple Theory (Maurizio and Brittany Robichaud).

Oh yeah: I think I played a set, too.

• FLICKR: Photo Set | Slideshow


• MYSPACE: Mario Sevayega | Simple Theory

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