~ an acquaintance who knows of our erstwhile penchant for desperate postings and even more desperate perusals of various cities’ craigslist missed connections sent us the following link, presumably to aid in our pathetic endeavours:

“Missed Connections coast to coast” [w]

here is an edited version of our furious response:

that’s interesting!
i’m surprised that trader joe’s or whole foods didn’t show up.

with that sort of winner-take-all plurality, though, i think you would be mistaken to use this as a guide to find a place where you are most likely to get mc’d. i mean, if there were 20 mc’s in your city, and 2 were at wawa while the other 18 were at various individual coffee shops, very small array would plaster ‘wawa’ on that map, which would mislead you in to thinking that the majority of mc’s are at one place. they should have a bar graph with various locations per city/state, or one of those maps that came out post-election where the republican and democratic areas of the nation were displayed as blobs of red and blue that were sized according to voter representation instead of geography. hmm, i do ponder other issues than missed connections.

like this, but for posts about guys on blue bikes:

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“Bill Clinton open to role in Obama administration – Politico”

wow! that is actually a big surprise. bill clinton will accept a political offer. we sympathize with the torment clinton must have undergone before he decided: ‘yes, ok, i guess i’ll take a free job, since i’m not allowed to take free money from foreigners for the next four years.’
if anyone at politico wants to give us a call, we have a list of roles – amongst other things – to which we would be open, also. all you have to do is ask.

“ATLANTA – Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss enlisted Sarah Palin to rally conservatives while Democratic challenger Jim Martin pushed to activate black voters, as they grappled for advantage in a Tuesday runoff that will shape Democrats’ hold on power in Washington.

Palin, the Alaska governor who was John McCain’s vice presidential running mate, was to arrive in Georgia for a private fundraiser Sunday night, followed by rallies across the state Monday.”

that’s excellent. even a fucking clown like sarah palin understands the importance of going down to georgia to support some cartoonish oaf from her party in his reelection bid. similarly, one would think that during the last four weeks, barack obama could have pulled himself away from disappointing his supporters for a few hours to go to hiram or macon and get some attention for jim martin. instead, he hasn’t done shit, and on the final day of the campaign, when palin will be spouting who knows what lies and getting saxby reelected, apparently obama will be throwing hillary’s state department coming out party and stroking off all of the pumas who feel he owns them payback.

but i’m sure obama is more broadly minded that we are; by letting saxby continue to hold georgia’s seat fits in with his rhetoric about ‘reaching across the aisle’ and ‘rewarding your rivals’ or whatever equivocating, pandering, douchebag nonsense defines ‘change’.

‘i don’t celebrate bullshit thanksgiving‘

-ice t