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SECOND PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE LIVEBLOG-THING

2008-10-07T18:03:00.000-07:00

SECOND PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE LIVEBLOG-THING

6:03 PM: Obama and McCain just entered. Obama's wearing a t-shirt with William Ayers on it. Bold move.

6:07 PM: McCain tripped on an inadvertantly placed banana peel and fell down. Nobody is helping him up. Brokaw is just pointing and laughing at him

6:11 PM: McCain just tapped Tom Brokaw to be his new running mate?? what is going on

6:13 PM: Obama is just smoking a huge ass blunt while McCain is answering a question about the economy

6:16 PM: For some reason the C-SPAN cameraman is just filming close-ups of their feet.

6:18 PM: McCain: "I also wrote an ineffectual strongly-worded letter"

6:27 PM: Brokaw just left while nobody was looking?? everyone's just sitting around in awkward silence now

6:31 PM: McCain twiddling thumbs, Obama drinking lots of water

6:35 PM: they are whispering to each other now. my lip-reading is a bit rusty, but basically they are discussing whether or not to sneak a peek at brokaw's question list

6:39 PM: obama accidentally dropped his glass of water and it shattered. "did i do that?" he asks in urkel voice. audience cheers wildly

6:42 PM: not to be upstaged, mccain has started doing an archie bunker impression. keeps referring to obama as "meathead." he's pretty good

6:45 PM: mccain: "idk my bff joe?"

6:48 PM: FOSSIL FUELS??? WHAT IS THIS, THE FUCKING FLINTSTONES??? YEAH LET'S ALL JUST PROPEL OUR CARS BY MOVING OUR FEET. THAT WILL TOTALLY SOLVE THE GAS CRISIS. JESUS CHRIST

6:53 PM: audience getting restless now

6:58 PM: audience and obama just left. it's just mccain now

7:01 PM: brokaw just returned. "sorry about that, everyone, my bowels have been acting up a lot lately. hey where'd everybody go"

7:04 PM: mccain: "i am more than happy to play by the rules, tom." what a sycophant

7:06 PM: one of the debate people wrote "barack obama" on a piece of cardboard and put it on obama's chair, i guess to represent him?

7:07 PM: brokaw: "hey where'd my questions go?" mccain winks at the camera

7:08 PM: mccain just said american blood is our most precious asset. is he a vampire???

7:10 PM: brokaw is asking the piece of cardboard what it thinks about palestine. cut to close-up of cardboard. so awkward

7:13 PM: audience and obama are back. "we went out for some smokes"

7:15 PM: brokaw said he's just "hired help." is he a mobster???

7:16 PM: damn, sending punches via telegraph would be awesome

7:20 PM: obama just brought out a guitar and started shredding it

7:23 PM: now he's taking requests. one guy in section e shouts out "freebird"

7:24 PM: SMOKE IS LITERALLY COMING OUT OF MCCAIN'S EARS. HOLY SHIT

7:26 PM: mccain likes to talk about "big sticks" and "naked agression"

7:27 PM: now theyre all popping off their pants??? brokaw is taking out a tape measurer

7:29 PM: looks like brokaw wins this round

7:32 PM: last question: 5-letter word for "alteration"

7:34 PM: mccain: "reshape?" obama: "hope?" barr: "hey those directions you gave me were wrong"

7:39 PM: SARAH PALIN JUST RODE INTO THE AUDITORIUM ON AN ELEPHANT AND CARRIED MCCAIN OFF INTO THE SUNSET

7:43 PM: technicians are powering down brokaw. bob barr is shaking hands with people. obama is lighting up another blunt. on closer inspection it's an american flag

7:54 PM: everyone has left the building. they turned out the lights. cspan cameras are still running though?

8:00 PM: a bunch of ghosts just materialized. i can recognize richard nixon, adlai e. stevenson, teddy roosevelt, and abraham lincoln. not sure who the others are

8:08 PM: according to talking points memo they are earl warren, john adams, jeanette rankin, and thurgood marshall. they are all playing badminton

8:15 PM: the presidents lost

posting quotas

2008-10-02T00:00:00.000-07:00

I hope you've enjoyed me updating every other day for the past month. Unfortunately, this has fulfilled the site's posting quota for the rest of the year, so my next post will be around Christmas. See ya!

olbermaddow

2008-09-30T00:00:00.000-07:00

I like Rachel Maddow's new show on MSNBC for a number of reasons

The biggest reason is that she doesn't co-opt Edward R. Murrow's sign-off after spending half her show ranting about "Fix News" and doing wacky vocal impressions of "bill o the clown"

adventures of president palin

2008-09-28T02:39:00.000-07:00

MOVE OVER, ADVENTURES OF PRESIDENT GORE

HERE COMES THE ADVENTURES OF PRESIDENT PALIN

johnmentum

2008-09-26T14:52:00.000-07:00

operation: pitbull

2008-09-24T01:37:00.000-07:00

ive managed to infiltrate the republican party at the highest levels

operation: pitbull is a go :-D

excellent work yuliya

wait hang on a second are you using a secure frequency

im using yahoo messenger via wi-fi

god damn it

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3:42:00

Cowabunga!

2008-09-22T00:03:00.000-07:00

I know it's hard to believe, but it's rubbercat.net/simpsons's 10 year and 10th month anniversary!!! During the past ten years, the site has been fortunate enough to win two awards, get mentioned on JoBlo and Channel Frederator, receive Simpsons Monopoly in the mail and score press credentials from NBC Universal - and that's just in the past two years. Here's a screenshot of the first version of the site, back when it was known as geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Rubber_Cat247/Simpsons.htm:

(click for larger version)

Here's to another ten years! GO TEAM USA~

Insightful Commentary on the Financial Crisis

2008-09-20T01:37:00.000-07:00

robert cat

2008-09-18T00:00:00.000-07:00

This was on The Colbert Report the other day:

coincidence???

2008-09-16T00:00:00.000-07:00

LATEST NEWS FROM TECH NEWS RUMOR INSIDER

Many Mac users were understandably peeved when Google's revolutionary new web browser, Google Chrome, was released as a Windows-only download. The tech giant was awfully mum on when to expect Mac and Linux versions of Chrome; admitting that the lack of a Mac version was "embarrassing," Google co-founder Sergey Brin said it could be "months" before one is released.

So what's the hold up? Well, no word yet on the Linux version, but a top-secret source tells me things aren't going so well over in the Mac division at Google HQ. Some of the killer features of the Windows version of Chrome, such as the "omnibar" and the new tab page, had to be ditched entirely because they were just "too hard" to implement on the Mac platform. Despite these setbacks, Google's Mac engineers are determined to make Google Chrome the best it can be and are diligently working around the clock to bring the cloud computing operating system of the future to the Macintosh.

I managed to score an exclusive sneak preview of the current beta of Google Chrome for Mac. My source warned me it was a work-in-progress and that there are still some bugs to be worked out. Boy, he wasn't kidding. Design-wise, Google Chrome for Mac is going in a completely new direction from Google Chrome for Windows. All I've got to say is, Google is definitely "thinking different" when it comes to the modern browser.

CLICK HERE FOR EXCLUSIVE SCREENSHOTS!

bangkok dangerous

2008-09-14T00:00:00.000-07:00

POSSIBLE SEQUELS TO BANGKOK DANGEROUS

Saigon Menacing
London Deadly
Peoria Precarious

an observation

2008-09-12T14:03:00.000-07:00

the way I see it, there's only two types of people in the world

people named Logan and people who aren't

minestrone

2008-09-10T00:50:00.000-07:00

I've replaced the old web 2.0 junk page with this new page using some Austrian site called soup.io, after a couple weeks of trying to mess with the css and finally giving up. Despite my inability to make it look halfway decent in internet explorer 6, the page still managed to get featured as part of a css showcase by the people who run the site, which is totally mind-blowing. Anyway, this new junk page jams all my internet crap onto one obnoxiously vain web 2.0 page. It includes posts from rubbercat.net, news items from rubbercat.net/simpsons, links I bookmarked on delicious, shared items from google reader, videos I uploaded to youtube, songs I liked on last.fm (you can even listen to 'em!), my weekly top artists on last.fm, photos I put on flickr, entries from my twitter thing, other people's twitter things that I thought were funny, comics I uploaded to stripcreator, as well as some stuff I might occasionally throw in every now and then. Sometimes things don't work and stuff will look all wonky but that's the price you pay for living on the CUTTING EDGE of technology.

In short, this is basically the most narcissistic thing I've ever done. Now I know what it feels like to be tech blowhard Robert Scoble.

corn syrup experience

2008-09-08T12:27:00.000-07:00

I love that "Big Corn" felt obligated to start making pro-high fructose corn syrup propaganda

I'm getting a mental image of a group of old men in suits sitting around a long table in some Strangelovian war room discussing what should be done about this "corn syrup situation"

the mighty b

2008-09-06T15:13:00.000-07:00

The Ramones, The Velvet Underground, and Phil Collins were all just namedropped in a Nicktoon

glass ceiling

2008-09-04T02:11:00.000-07:00

hillary is a pervert

BREAKING NEWS

2008-08-31T00:39:00.001-07:00

BREAKING NEWS: John McCain has withdrawn Sarah Palin as VP nominee and replaced her with Samuel Alito... Developing...

my favorite doug moment

2008-08-27T23:34:00.000-07:00

MY FAVORITE DOUG MOMENT

"a giant batch of chocolate chips are about to crash into the fans, what should we do???"

"why don't you let the chips hit the fan"

YYYYYEEAAAAHHH

hog & dog #188 - 200

2008-08-25T04:00:00.000-07:00

Everybody's favorite comic strip, Hog & Dog, has been updated with thirteen new installments, including the 200th strip. The astute reader will note that most of these were made in March, hence the multiple references to early 2008.

3:27:00

2008-08-24T03:26:00.000-07:00

we're getting a text message from the obama campaign

patch it through

hey this is joe biden

aw fuck

just wanted to let you know torture is illegal and im gonna be all over your ass if i find you torturin' when im vp

txt u l8r qt ;)

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3:27:00

explorer

2008-08-23T07:11:00.000-07:00

explorer

press the red button

2008-08-18T04:55:00.000-07:00

I don't usually do this

2008-08-17T17:17:00.000-07:00

(abridged)

R: go back to camp
B: they kicked me out because i wet my pets
B: uh
B: pants
K: you wet your pets?
K: sick fuck
R: oh my god
R: i've been waiting all night
R: for the right segway for this story
P: a) segway
P: b) segue
A: segue, idiot GOD
P: c) either a or b
P: d) neither
P: e) branndi
K: scooter
K: E!
R: i'm talking about a segway you condescending jerks
R: ok segue
R: who cares
R: anyway i accidentally pissed on my dog this morning

PRINT

2008-08-11T01:59:00.000-07:00

The print section, which catalogues most of our print publications, is now live, although the links are not yet active. Take a look!

simpsons ride

2008-08-05T23:52:00.001-07:00

alright so long story short 3 months ago I got a press invitation to the opening of the simpsons ride at universal studios hollywood (back before it burned down) because apparently my joke simpsons site makes me a member of The Media or somethin'. I took some some pictures of "famous people" on the "yellow carpet" from behind a bunch of photographers from the Real Media and also some clowns and stuff. you can check 'em out here on this flickr (??) photostream (??) set thing

featuring guest appearances from anna nicole smith's baby's father, bart simpson, matt groening, james l. brooks, some clowns, fred willard, and pre-heart attack kelsey grammer