If you were watching ABC's show Good Morning, America today (and I'm quite sure you were), then you got to see another appearance of hottie Center for Media & Democracy researcher Diane Farsetta as she discussed a new video making fun of Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth. (The video looks like a slacker basement project, but it was actually produced by DCI Group, a PR firm representing -- among others -- ExxonMobil. You can read all about it on the CMD "Spin of the Day" site.)

Go D!

They're Scanning Me

The people at the coffee shop have been reading my blog. I can think of no other explanation for the fact that on two separate occasions this morning -- after weeks and weeks where the bell has been silent -- in which customers and children of customers rang the little bell over and over and over.

This is my theory: The Man has found out about the brilliant and subversive novel I'm writing, and in an attempt to corrupt the magnificent quality of my writing (especially the cleverly bad-on-purpose chapter in progress, which will lend the work a tremendous mass appeal), He is sending people into my workspace in order to screw with my head.

I'm onto you, The Man!

TimeWaster™

This actually is a TimeInvestor™: Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land, an 80-minute documentary about how the media covers (and doesn't cover) the Middle East. Includes interviews with a wide variety of folks, including Noam Chomsky and Robert Fisk. I can't remember where I heard about it.

Today I'm listening to: The fan next to my desk!