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Presenting the annual posting of "Do They Know It's Halloween?" (featuring Beck, David Cross, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, members of the Arcade Fire, Islands, Wolf Parade, and more people we really like):



You can read the backstory on the song in this article from the New York Times. If there's one thing I love more than the elite media, it's the elite of indie rock.

Also, here's a scary story from Slate to keep you awake at night: a study by a group of forensic economists shows evidence that U.S.-led coups didn't just benefit multinational corporations like United Fruit Company in Guatemala, Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in Iran, or American Sugar in Cuba—they also lined the pockets of unidentified government insiders.

Which brings us to Halliburton, the latest corporate beneficiary of U.S. government intervention; when (or if) the decisions behind the Iraq war become public, it'll be interesting to see what happened to Halliburton's stock price in the weeks leading up to the invasion, especially on days when meetings inside the White House took place.

Happy halloween!

les poissons, les poissons, how i love les poissons

Since this might be our last October living on the central coast, we decided that we ought to take advantage of our chance to attend the Santa Barbara Harbor and Seafood Festival on Saturday.

It was really windy, so that was kind of annoying, but the food was fantastic. We had clam chowder from Brophy's, fish tacos, and fresh BBQed albacore. We also had some of Arne's ebelskiver, which I think was my favorite of the items we tasted and it isn't even seafood. I've been dreaming about it...just another reason I need (or don't need) to get the ebelskiver pan that I've been eyeing at Williams-Sonoma.

a mob named gob

Supporters of McCain just took a page out of Gob's playbook. In the Arrested Development episode Immaculate Election, Gob tries to help out George Michael with his campaign for student body president by implementing some dirty tricks. Here's a excerpt from the transcript.

(After Indian candidate's video)
Gob: (hiding in crowd) Go home, you terrorist!
Michael: How stupid do you have to be to say something like that ...?
Gob: (revealed) You're not wanted here!

If you listen closely to the video below, you will hear similar attacks from McCain supporters about Obama.



What's next? Is McCain going to rip up Obama's posters like Tracy Flick did in the movie Election?