Grace Jones was good on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, but she’s even better on “Later With Jools Holland”, watch part one and part two. Her latest release “Hurricane” is unusually good and if you’re smart you’ll pick up the handful of amazing remixes posted to Hype Machine.

Just a quick mention, if you are a homophobic hetero-moron living in California, stay home on election day so others can Vote NO on Proposition 8, that’s the proposition which threatens to rewrite the state constitution banning same sex marriage. The days of treating U.S. gays and lesbians like second class citizens are over. If you’re out of state and want to donate to the cause you can do so here.

Barack Obama’s half hour special was (i’m gushing) wonderful. It was real class, the way he left out any mention of McNasty and Caribou Barbie. Seriously, the Republican campaign has been so poorly run, so surprising, so divisive that some smart television writer ought to pitch that fiasco as a sitcom titled Kooks. If McCain gets in as President expect rioting and a mass exodus of brain power.

Blogs are so 2004 and they’re dead according to Paul Boutin in Wired; “Thinking about launching your own blog? Here’s some friendly advice: Don’t. And if you’ve already got one, pull the plug.”

It’s all about the micro-blog these days, everyone’s bursting forth on their favorite micro-service with 140 characters or less. I’m not complaining, I’ve just been accepted as Suzi Quattro’s friend on Facebook.

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