I loved Election when it came out. It’s portrayal of a high-school election contest between an obsessive-compulsive, tense girl and a laid back jock was pitch perfect. When the folks at Slate V realized there were some parallels with the Democratic candidates, this video was born.
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Came across the above via techPresident, posted by Joshua Levy, here; 1/18/2008; embedded vid via BrightCove, here.
Several other vids were posted within the same post, so make sure to follow the above link, yet for my part I thought this particular vid was both the best as well as funniest among those and, thus, received my full attention when I saw it.
What would happen if every blog published on the same topic on the same day? Blog Action Day aims to find out. On October 15 2007, bloggers around the world unite for one day to change the conversation. To find out more and get involved visit blogactionday.org.
An article published within this morning’s edition of the Boston Globe leaves one to wonder if the Douglas administration’s new motto is something along the lines of:
Party On Dude, Just Do It In Vermont!
[emphasis mine]
Saturday, September 29, 2007 Boston Globe
Business News section Northern hospitality N.E. states try charm to lure graduates back
By Kristi Ceccarossi, Globe Correspondent | September 29, 2007
The state of Vermont, which is losing its young people at an alarming rate, wants them back.
So on Wednesday, a crew of state employees and headhunters boarded a bus in Montpelier headed for The Living Room, a swanky bar in Boston’s North End. There, they hosted a party for 75 young professionals who live and work in Boston, all of them alumni of Green Mountain colleges and universities.
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The $33,000 networking event is the latest strategy by Vermont’s Department of Economic Development to woo college-educated twenty-somethings. Since 1990, the number of 20- to 34-year-olds in Vermont has shrunk 19 percent, according to US Census data. To stanch the outflow, the state has allocated roughly $5 million in the last seven years for events like the North End gathering.
Democrat Cheryl Rivers, left, stares at Liberty Union party candidate Peter Stevenson, who wore a Halloween costume, as Stevenson speaks during Vermont Public Television’s Lieutenant Governor candidates debate Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004, in Colchester, Vt. (AP Photo/Alden Pellett)
via Mike Hicks, here, who — within his blog post on the subject — opined:
Political debates should always be held on Halloween
[by the way, for the sake of full disclosure, having met him sometime after the 2004 election cycle through a mutual friend — Patricia Henjy (Pat Political), deceased December 13, 2005 — whom wanted me to help him with some Blogging 101 coaching so he could get started with blogging a blog of his own, I happen to know Peter Stevenson (Illuminati Slayer) and consider him a friend. In fact, he has recently informed me that once he is able to do so, he hopes to get his blog going once again as it has been somewhat dormant for a little while now. — mwb]
If you live or work in Vermont, please read and consider signing onto the VCDR Letter of Support, here [via Vermont Protection and Advocacy (VT P&A) Website]
About VCDR
The Vermont Coalition for Disability Rights (VCDR) is a cross-disability advocacy organization that seeks to increase awareness of disability issues and effect systemic change through legislative and administrative processes. VCDR staff work closely with member organizations to empower people with disabilities, thus enabling them to directly participate in legislative decisions which will expand their civil rights.
Originally established as the Vermont Coalition of the Handicapped (VCH) in 1974, VCH changed its name to the Vermont Coalition for Disability Rights in 1990. VCDR is comprised of 28 member organizations including local and statewide organizations of Vermonters with disabilities, parents, advocates and service providers.
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[excerpts via About VCDR page; logo via VCDR Website]
If you are interested in disAbility issues, especially within the state of Vermont, visit the VCDR Website for more information.
X10 has created “CO2” featuring C$, Run Rhymz, and P Nasty in an effort to overturn VT Governor Douglas' veto of H520 ,a bill towards cutting Vermonter's energy bills and cutting green house emissions, CO2 is to inform people about the dangers of global warming around the world and in Vermont.
*Updated*
[see below the fold, toward bottom of post at *Update*]
Found the following blog post on a recently created blog that calls itself Montpelier Pillow Fight!!! — a public pillow fight for you and your friends — blogged by bloggers named Nadia and Caroline, yet featuring just one lone and brief post thus far (here):
Where: State House Lawn, Montpelier, Vermont
When: Saturday, July 28th 2007, 3:00 PM (listen for the signal)
Who: anyone and everyone
What: massive, public, free mayhem
[via Montpelier Pillow Fight, here (Wednesday, 20, 2007)]
Thus, at least if this is for real, it seems the gauntlet has been thrown down.
Does anyone know anything about this particular upcoming event?
An example of such an event can be viewed in this brief video clip of a public pillow fight held earlier this year in New York City (NYC) as well as yet a different and longer video following it:
Feathers Flying at NYC Pillow Fight 2007
Feathers fly as hundreds engage in a pillow fight in a public park in New York City.
Find out more about the NYC public pillow fight, here [via newmindspace].
For additional information concerning the trend of public pillow fights, check out Pillow fight flash mob [via Wikipedia].
*Update*: Check out more information concerning the upcoming Montpelier Pillow Fight scheduled for late next month, here [via a comment post posted by Caroline within the comments section of this particular blog post], as well as, here [via Montpelier Pillow Fight blog].
*Note*: last updated on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at 1:49 AM [EDT].
When I moved into my Winter quarters last October 22nd (here), the arrangement agreed upon was that I would be moving out on the 22nd of either by April or some following month to be decided upon later by my kind and generous hosts, which ended up being June, just like what turned out to be the case last year as well.
Was informed last evening (Tuesday, June 19, 2007), however, that I could stay until next Monday (June 25th). Thus I will have this weekend to stay put, rest and relax prior to becoming mobile (read: houseless aka homeless) once again; at least until I can either make arrangements for next Winter or hopefully find permanent housing of my own with which to reside instead: Which means that come Monday I will basically be in couch surfing mode.
a home is a garden of life
let people find a place
where they can plant
fertile seeds — that contain
their own hopes and dreams,
from which they may then
draw harvests of plenty to
share with others and,
which they will call home,
for it is a garden where
lives thrive and are grown.
by Morgan W. Brown
August 13, 1999
Montpelier, Vermont, USA
On Monday of this week I began the daily process of gradually moving items into town to the place where I will once again be able to store and have easy access to them. This way come next Monday I will not have to end up hauling too much all at once and, when I do leave that morning, will be grabbing my hat off the door from where it has hanged since I had moved back in last Autumn.
P.S.
With apologies for the rather light posting for these last several months; especially given that most of my blogging efforts have been concentrated at the Montpelier Matters blog for some time now.
[cross-posted at Norsehorse’s Home Turf, here; as well as Affordable Housing Matters in Vermont blog, here]
The Barre-MontpelierTimes Argus currently has a reader poll available on the pages of their Website listed within the right-hand side-column that asks: Should affordable housing be the Legislature’s top priority next session? [scroll down the page and look for the poll listed under the Vent Zone].
If you are able to do so, please visit the site and cast a vote in the poll and also help to spread the word with others you know within the state whom might be interested as well.
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