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could anyone really care about chelsea clinton’s fucking wedding?

jesus.

i’m going to reiterate a point christian made earlier about the – how do i say this? – perceived shallowness of the lovely bride to be and her beau.

chelsea clinton, daughter of a former president, daughter of a former senator, daughter of the secretary of state. raised in the white house. born. of. privilege.

fine.

nothing wrong with that.

here’s where i get confused.

you’re born to two people who – on the surface at least – have made it a point to at least speak to the plight of working people. bill clinton was born poor, hilary wasn’t anything fancy, they had to earn what they have. they spent a good deal of time and energy in their lives in public service at least attempting to do right by people less fortunate.

then their daughter – the recipient of all their hard work and success – gets a first rate education and when she enters the work force she takes a job at … wait for it … avenue capital group, a hedge fund. her husband-to-be is the son of a former congressman (an ex-con who spent time in the fed lock-up for fraud) and a former congresswoman, and he works for … wait for it again … goldman sachs as an investment banker.

now, sure, work is work and they’re both free to do whatever they want with their lives and everything else. and the world needs hedge funds and investment bankers, evidently. can’t get enough of ‘em.

but … come on, man. i mean, these two were born with silver spoons in their mouths and have apparently decided that their purpose in life is to see to it that their children will be born with diamond crusted silver spoons in their mouths. i don’t know. it just seems like the easiest, shallowest, most lucrative, least imaginative, safest, most decadent path to take from two people who could have done anything with their lives.

boring and unoriginal.

lame.

they’re probably giving all their money to charity or something, but that’s not even the point here. the point is, you could have done _anything_ with you life, and you chose to work for a hedge fund?

stunning.

to each her own.

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recording with flatbed. we tore through it’s getting hard and iron rails – fucking mega, really – but got a little lost in colorado. don’t know. the lap steel and the shaker seemed to help, but we’re still moving on to something else next time. might just need to let it … sit.

lefty did this to himself. i came in the room and he looked up and i saw this:

these are pictures of people in baton rouge trying to look like people from florida. for a yankee like me, the subtleties of this were difficult to grasp:

this is what third place looks like. jimmy’s costume was to pin a bunch of food on himself in plastic bags and to go as “jimmy buffet.”

this is kurt cobain and a kitty:

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in other news, a lizard just ran across my desk. i’m letting him be.

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times are a changin’. for the better, i reckon.

in the end, all is always forgiven.

and time’s wasting.

and you’re not gonna live forever.

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feeling like slowing it up a touch before hooch’s! next weekend. i’ve been on a bender.

should be a ball up in makanda. i’m bringing fireworks and boudin and maybe schmitty and lindsey. and we’re slaughtering chickens (to eat, not for fun) and riding on party barges.

vegas is on for matador 21, although our ticket situation is fuzzy. me and paco and scotty are gonna try to share two tix to the shows. but dh and nader and paco and kd and scotty and chin and george and our ralph are all gonna be there ticketless, so it’ll be a lot of stupidity regardless.

flights from nola are down under $200.

yes!

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finally, here’s two brilliant clips from the stern show recently.

first, a little swap shop fun courtesy of richard and sal. they email these poor dip shits at swap shop who mindlessly read everything live on the air. priceless.

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next, the stern show visits comic-con and interviews this guy whose idea for a super power is amazingly fabulous. pardon the less than pristine recording, i made it while driving.

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