Riba Rambles:
Musings of a Mental Magpie

Posted by Lis Riba at 12:40 PM

Some of the coolest campaign ads I've seen recently (I'll spare your bandwidth the embeds).

Three celebrity pitches:

• Ron Howard's Call to Action, with Andy Griffith and Henry Winkler
• Whassup 2008, reuniting the original creative team from the Busch beer ads.
• Natalie Portman and Rashida Jones Speak Out on the Global Economic Crisis

Meanwhile, via Ezra Klein, some "No on Prop 8" ads modeled after the "Mac vs. PC" series:

• Don't Worry Everyone, You're Safe
• And She's the California Constitution

And, finally, a nonpartisan Get Out The Vote PSA:

• North Carolina: Your neighbors are voting

Posted by Lis Riba at 10:25 PM

Going thru my archives, I have thrice managed to blog a post a day for 30 or more days:

• 10/15/2006 - 11/25/2006: 137 entries in 42 days
• 10/13/2004 - 11/20/2004: 170 entries in 39 days
• 3/28/2007 - 4/26/2007: 105 entries in 30 days

So, what the hell. With ninety minutes left to spare, I've signed up for NaBloPoMo November:

Posted by Lis Riba at 9:55 PM

Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I

Probably one of Shakespeare's most famous poems -- moreso because most people don't even know it's Shakespeare.

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog...

In honor of Halloween, NPR presents a rendition of the famous passage... recited by second-graders

Adorable

Posted by Lis Riba at 6:24 PM

Seems somewhat drastic, but maybe I should give it a try to help me overcome this dry spell...

[Also makes me want to determine the longest streak of daily posting I've done...]

Posted by Lis Riba at 7:37 AM

From Ezra Klein

Posted by Lis Riba at 9:00 PM

My thoughts lately haven't been worth the effort of writing them down.

So, here's a meme making the rounds:

Copy this sentence into your blog if you're in an opposite-sex marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

I live in Massachusetts, where same-sex marriages have been performed and recognized since May 17, 2004.

It's been over four years, and our marriage is as strong as it ever was.

I found an Associated Press article from early October which states 10,400 same-sex marriages in Massachusetts and 11,000 in California.

Should California's Proposition 8 pass, it will dissolve 11,000 actual marriages.

Those families are the ones which deserve our protection -- real people, not hypothetical constructs.