I posted this for the first time almost a year ago, at the height of primary season, and then posted it again right before the Democratic National Convention. Seeing as how it’s officially January 20th, 2009 (in my time zone at least), I thought we’d start Inauguration Day off right:

I’m working on a site redesign here at Moue that will hopefully get launched sometime this week. Don’t be surprised if you stop by here late at night and see something funky going on, layout wise. I’m truly learning this as I go so…..I may collapse the universe. My bad.

HBO made it necessary for someone from the Obama side to speak up after the network shifted the blame of the exclusion of openly gay Bishop Gene Robinson from the telecast of the inaugural concert. 
Presidential Inaugural Committee communications director Josh Earnest got to do the speaking (and, yes, I got a mild chuckle out of having a communications guy named “Earnest”): 
“We had always intended and planned for Rt. Rev. Robinson’s invocation to be included in the televised portion of yesterday’s program. We regret the error in executing this plan – …

Large sections of the progressive community did not take well to Obama’s choice of Pastor Rick Warren for the inaugural invocation. It was then announced that Gene Robinson, an openly gay bishop, would be delivering an opening prayer before the inaugural concert at the Lincoln Memorial. A far smaller billing than Warren and it read like a weak attempt to throw the LGBT (and progressive at whole) community a very small bone. 
But Bishop Robinson’s inclusion was more minor than anyone had expected because his prayer was omitted from the television …

Twenty Nine 29 was recommended for an Indie Retailer spot by Cangrejero. The shop’s wares include handmade tin pressed cards, jewelry adorned with origami paper or crochet.  

Fanciful Notecards in Blue, 4 blank cards with envelope for $12.00

I’m surprised that Acallidryas hasn’t done a LNWB on Jonathan Coulton yet, considering she was the one that introduced me to his music outside of the Portal theme song. 
Re: Your Brains is one of the best sing-along, bar songs I’ve ever heard. That it involves zombies just puts it on a higher level of artistic merit than many of us will ever reach. Bask in the glow. 

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