The Lex Files

Presidential Predictions

• Barack will score at least 340 electoral votes.
• John McCain’s concession speech will contain the phrase “my friends” — more than once.
• McCain’s audience will boo Obama during the concession speech. McCain will half-heartedly stop them.
• Sarah Palin will never again appear on a presidential ticket.
• Barack’s audience will not boo his mention of McCain; it will applaud respectfully.
• Obama will prove himself not to be a secret Muslim while in office.
• The race will be called by the major networks before 1am Eastern, for the first time in three presidential elections.
• Obama staffers will find keyboards with missing O’s when they enter the White House.
• John McCain will continue to be both old and obnoxious.

Shameless Promotion of “Weird Al” Yankovic

For the first time in his career, Al’s been able to release a song nationally literally just two weeks after conceiving the idea. To hear his new parody if TI’s “Whatever You Like,” celebrating today’s economic crisis and uniquely also titled “Whatever You Like,” rush over to iTunes.

The cheap can hear it here, but that doesn’t help with chart position.

Update

Even though I didn’t achieve my economic goals, I am un-suspending this blog, having realized that was being a douchenozzle pathetic.

Thus, with Lex’s permission, I, The Lex Files, am reclaiming my role as Official Writer of The Lex Files.

Suspending

Note: This post was posted by Lex’s blog, and not Lex himself.

I know I only recently resumed blogging. But I need to temporarily suspend my blogging, so that I can focus on the economic crisis that has been ongoing for an absurdly long length of time already. I can only focus on one thing at a time.

Aaron Sorkin scripts Bartlet’s pep talk to Obama

Fine.

If Lex is going to ignore me, his perfectly robust and eye-pleasing blog, I’ll just handling blogging duties myself. Call it, “The The Lex Files Files.”

Anyway, here’s my first post w/o Lex. (He was dead weight anyway.)

Maureen Dowd gave her NYTimes column over to Aaron Sorkin, and he wrote this brilliant convo between Barack and the fictional president from The West Wing.

PS: People who are voting for McCain/Palin are voting for folks who believe that life begins at rape.

Lex, Dr. Fitness, and the Fat Guy

I was interviewed on yesterday’s episode of Dr. Fitness and the Fat Guy, an Atlanta-based radio show.

If you have a lot of time, and a bit of patience, you can check it out on iTunes. I appear a little more than 12 minutes in, and am on for about 20 minutes. The interview was fun.

The hardest part was that some of the questions required long answers. As they were asking, I tried to think of the simplest way to give some of the answers, but knew that they’d be wordy nonetheless. Next time, I’d work even harder of the Cliff Noting.

Maybe it’s the first name.

Oh, John Edwards. You cheated on your wife, whose health was failing, and who had steadfastly devoted herself to you for years. You sound like a Republican.

That is one handsome devil…

… in this Internet interview.

Randy Pausch

I’ve been a big fan of Randy’s since his initial Internet burst of fame with his “Last Lecture.” I’ve since watched all his online lectures, bought his book, and saved that Last Lecture for my kids to watch when they’re old enough to appreciate it.

Randy finally died yesterday. But I don’t think the cancer won.

I like my iPod touch

The subject really says it all. But I’m quite pleased with the purchase, and already find that I’m using my laptop measurably less. It (the iPod) is a great little device. One day I will no doubt be a true iPhone owner, but given how rarely I leave the house and our existing stellar contract with TMobile, I just can’t justify that purchase of the phone right now…