I'm always looking for new writers who combine the best of Hunter S. and Neal.....

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Sf story about Saddam's Frazetta-dealer. Chris Nakashima-Brown is a hot up-and-coming sf writer whose prose is slick, post-Gibsonian, and funny as hell, like Neal Stephenson meets Hunter S. Thompson. His latest story, about the art dealer who supplied Saddam with his kitschy barbarian-art paintings, is up on Infinite Matrix, called "Script-Doctoring the Apocalypse."

Womack turned to look his guest in the eye. It was only then that Friedman looked closely at the Captain's Hawaiian shirt and realized the pattern was a camouflage design carefully woven from graphic designs of the heads of Seventies action heroes: Mr. T, Bruce Lee, Telly Savalas, Charles Bronson.

"Beautiful shirt," said Friedman. "Postmodern Escher-wear."

"Thanks," he answered. "Got it down the street from your gallery. They've got some cool shops up there. You snuck out early that day to party with your boyfriends, so we figured we'd catch up with you this weekend. What we need is for you to help us get some new memes in front of your favorite client."

"Well, you can't just..."

"It's about time," said Womack. "You didn't think you could spend a year working as the Leader's personal shopper without attracting our attention, did you? You're closer to the man than we could ever hope to be."

Link [Boing Boing Blog]
6:29:11 PM    

Dean's people so get the internet - I recieve several emails like this each week, at the minimum....

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Dear Craig,

A faceless group that the Washington Post calls "despicable" is using hundreds of thousands of dollars to air vicious television ads that use pictures of Osama bin Laden to attack Howard Dean. Don't wait. We're under attack, and we need your help now:

http://www.deanforamerica.com/contribute

To watch the attack ad in Windows Media Player, click here:

http://www.deanforamerica.com/attackad

The secretive group that is running the ads call themselves "Americans for Jobs, Health Care and Progressive Values." The Washington Post condemned the group in an editorial on Saturday:

["Progressive values" apparently] don't include letting voters know who's footing the bill. Under the out-of-sync reporting schedule that governs such groups, donors' names don't have to be revealed until early February. So is the money from unions that back Mr. Gephardt but don't want to be publicly connected to this anti-Dean campaign? Or is it from a few wealthy donors who don't like Mr. Dean -- and perhaps are backing another one of the trailing Democratic candidates? From Republicans who want to take Mr. Dean down a few notches? There's no way for a voter to know, not in time for that information to make a difference.

This outside-group dodge, from those who pose as champions of "progressive values," [is] despicable. "I believe strongly in the view of Thomas Jefferson that an informed electorate helps insure the strength of democracy," [the group's president] said on the group's Web site. Informed, that is, of what he chooses to tell them. What hypocrisy.

Ads like this are the reason half of Americans don't vote. All Democrats should be working to bring people back into the political process -- not turning them off. Please act now by contributing whatever amount you can afford, and send a statement that these type of attacks have no place in Democratic politics:

http://www.deanforamerica.com/contribute

Thank you for everything you do for our campaign.

Joe Trippi
Campaign Manager
Dean for America

PS To read the entire Washington Post editorial, click here:
http://www.deanforamerica.com/wpdec12

To read more about the attack, please read our blog:
http://blog.deanforamerica.com/archives/002665.html

1:56:00 PM    

Great entry by Andrew Sullivan about Hillary Clinton's brilliant political maneuvers.   Thanks, Halley!
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