Caucus Suckers

A little while back, I proclaimed the Victory Caucus website slightly less dumb than the We Win, They Lose concept. Reason's Dave Weigel has done some investigating, however, and may tilt the scales back in favor of the Caucus.

Comments

This is all very intresting, but I want more posts on footwear tariffs.

Posted by blah | June 21, 2007 5:36 PM

Oh the irony.

Posted by AJ | June 21, 2007 6:55 PM

Hey Matt:

I came across this interview with Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth) and it reminded me of your Starbucks anxiety:

Pitchfork: Apart from the Dylan track, are Sonic Youth up to any recording at this point?

Thurston Moore: No, no. We kind of need to record a song for this Starbucks record that's coming out.

Pitchfork: For, uh, Starbucks?!

Thurston Moore: Yeah. We sort of devised this idea of a Sonic Youth record where we asked all these different people to choose their favorite song, people like artists and actors and other musicians and what have you. So all these people, from Jeff Tweedy to Beck to Marc Jacobs to Portia de Rossi to Michelle Williams [laughs], they all chose their favorite songs and wrote a little thing about it. So it's a compilation record of artists choosing songs of Sonic Youth. There's going to be one exclusive song of ours that we'll record, so that's something we have to record.

Pitchfork: So it's going to be one of those things up at the counter along with the biscotti and the disc of Elton John's favorite Christmas songs?

Thurston Moore: [laughs] Yeah, something like that. I wish Starbucks would ask me to compile a mixtape record.

Pitchfork: That would be... interesting.

Thurston Moore: I love doing that stuff. But you know, it's so funny, because Starbucks is the new record store, right? [laughs]

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/43622-thurston-moore-talks-solo-album-idaydream-nationi

If Thurston is OK with Starbucks, then you should be too!

Posted by blah | June 21, 2007 10:01 PM

Starbucks tastes horrible. Of course, I live in Portland, OR. and as such, I'm a coffee snob. In other parts of the country I'm sure starbucks seems like the "good coffee", but here it seems like Wallmart.

I think calling them a record store is more accurate than calling them a coffee shop.

Posted by saij | June 21, 2007 10:27 PM