Entries from July 2008 ↓

I miss summers spent in the pool or at the beach. As a kid, we had a big pool that we practically lived in during the summer. Nowadays, my summer beach experiences usually consist of wrapping up to keep warm on the foggy San Francisco shores. In the spirit of times past, here are some hot pics of boys showing off their booties at the beach. Click through for pics of beach booty!

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This blog post does a great job of telling it like it is:

So Controller John Chiang says the state has enough money to pay its bills until September. Capitol insiders are saying that a June revenue spike has given the state some breathing room. Yet here’s what the governor had to say with a straight face today when he announced his intention to temporarily cut the pay for 200,000 state workers to federal minimum wage:

QUESTION: Do you think that your action today will force the legislature, the added pressure, to come up with a budget solution faster?

GOVERNOR: This is not meant to do that. … the fact is that we are running out of cash and this is an action that we have to take.

In Jim Bouton’s wonderful baseball book, “Ball Four,” here’s how players liked to respond to preposterous assertions: Yeah, surrrre.

QUESTION: Do you think that your action today will force the legislature, the added pressure, to come up with a budget solution faster?

GOVERNOR: This is not meant to do that.

ALL OF CALIFORNIA AS ONE: Yeah, surrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre.

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The Right (and before that, the Clinton camp) have been trying to portray Obama as an elitist who is out of touch with the middle class. McCain’s campaign manager Rick Davis said this recently:

Only celebrities like Barack Obama go to the gym three times a day, demand “MET-RX chocolate roasted-peanut protein bars and bottles of a hard-to-find organic brew — Black Forest Berry Honest Tea” and worry about the price of arugula.

But, if McCain is such an average Joe, why is he wearing $500 Ferragamo shoes? Not that I think which shoes you wear affects how you govern a country. Instead, I would caution the well-dressed multi-millionaire McCain from casting elitist stones.

For any of you in the creative field, you totally know the pain this poor designer experiences. We’ve all had clients like this. Designers and namers (hi, that’s me!) are like peas in a pod. Clients often bastardize the names we create in the exact same ways that they bastardize this poor guy’s work.