This Is Not An Election Blog 1

Two for you
(or if you prefer, two for ya, doggone it *wink*, *mug*):

Chuck Todd, Political Editor, NBC;

Murray Hewitt, Flight of the Conchords.

And also:

Fictional maverick

Fictional maverick

Do all Navy pilots want to be Tom Cruise? And does this make Sarah Palin Goose? Heaven forbid a President McCain ever take part in a topless oiled-up volleyball game or poke Vladimir Putin in the chest while drawing out the name "Icccce...mannnnn".

Hey John; those poll numbers that looked so good after your stunt- and negative ad filled August? I checked yesterday and they "were inverted". You'd better eject...

"We are not about to do a free form jazz exploration in front of a festival crowd"

Some internet parodists are subtle and clever. Others (like this Finnish lunatic) just make me laugh like a drain:

Jon Swift, drier than a good martini

Ladies and gentlemen, I humbly offer up the funniest parody of all the learned prognostications on last week's Iowa vote, courtesy of blogging satirist Jon Swift:

Iowa caucus results explained

Blockbuster

From a show called Monkey Dust, well known to hipster members of the "British Reeesch" but alas unlikely to penetrate these shores, I offer up an imagining of a film adaptation of "The Diary of Anne Frank" in the same vein as Hollywood blockbusters like The Patriot, Braveheart, U-571, and Michael Collins:



Also, Rick of Arguably So has his toboggan championship photos up...

Get In On The Ground Floor....

Plays 'Hunka Hunka Burnin' Baghdad'

Do you own a cellphone with camera or streaming video technology?

You do???

You lucky bugger!

Forget about polyphonic ring tones or whatever and all that bother; that's soooooooooo 2006. You have one of them nice phones mate, with the pictures and the video and all. You don't need sounds when your phone rings, you need:

images!!!!

And what is the most talked about series of images of our short year so far?

No, not those shots of Brittney's hoohaah. Or Howie Mandel lying on his side smiling, as we call them in these parts. Here's a clue: even world leaders are a-talkin' about them. Everyone thinks they are a bit iffy.

Got it yet?

Nice work genius- yep, it's

The hanging of Saddam Hussein!!!

Say no to ring tones, and instead download a:

Swing-Tone!!!

By the envy of your friends and be the first on the block to be alerted to incoming calls with video of the botched and barbaric dangling of a despot!

(First ten subscribers get a free bonus selection of personal voicemail notifiers: choose from Saddam's guards shouting "kick those feet, you sunni pig!" or any track from the Clash's Give 'Em Enough Rope).

Only $2 a download; don't delay....