Along Came Kinky… Texas Jewboy for Governor by David Hartstein premiered on Thursday, March 19th at SXSW after much of the film industry had headed out of town. That slot implies that the film would have local appeal but maybe shouldn’t take up a slot during the official Film festival. I might take some heat for saying that, but the reason I’m saying it is because I think the film deserved more. In talking to the filmmakers after the screening, I was dismayed to hear that the film hasn’t been offered other fest slots. Really?

Politics in America is fucked. I don’t usually say stuff that that, but come on… Obama was a welcome glimmer of hope that perhaps, just maybe, we might start making a few good decisions to get ourselves out of the total mess we are in, but if anyone is thinking we are out of the woods, all I can say to that is No Way! Not even close. Budget crisis, healthcare crisis, employment crisis, foreign relations crisis and rampant greed and corruption. We are just at the tip of the iceberg. The Great Depression was worsened by The Dust Bowl, and we’ve gone ahead and nurtured the possibility of environmental disasters to rival anything that has happened in the past, just to define what a fine precipice we stand on right now.

Via WIRED, “A report released Wednesday by Scarborough Research reveals that Austin, Texas has the highest percentage of residents who read or write blogs. In Austin, 15% of adults had read or contributed to a blog in the past 30 days, while #2 Portland followed with 14% and tied for third was San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose (an odd clumping, we must say) and Seattle/Tacoma, both with 13%. Other top cities: Honolulu, San Diego, Dallas, Columbus, Nashville, Colorado Springs, and Washington D.C.Where is the creation of consumption of blogs the lowest? Only 2% of the population in Buffalo, NY and Pittsburgh has anything to do with the blogosphere. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Pennsylvania and Roanoke/Lynchburg, Virginia fare hardly better with 4%.”