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I just got home from the Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band concert in San Jose last night, and its about 1AM. I’d like to go to sleep, but, well, if you weren’t paying attention, I said I just saw The Boss and it will take me a bit to come down before I can drop off. So I figured it was a good time to write up my take on the show. This is the Kickoff show for the Working On A Dream tour and I suspect that some folks out there with tickets for upcoming shows would like a little preview. I’m here for you.

You may never have heard King’s famous I Have a Dream speech in its entirety (that’s a video link; if you prefer here is the text and audio). Or read his Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Do both today to honor this day before we inaugurate our first black President.

My favorite quote from the letter:

Elections are magical events for revealing all of our filters. As I stayed up late last night marveling that at one point less than 400 votes separated Obama and McCain in Missouri with more than 3.5 million votes cast there, one of the conservative talking heads on CNN made the comment that by any historical standards this was not a landslide win (agreed) and certainly not a mandate for left wing liberal policies. I suspect this particular commenter viewed anything left of the far right of the republican party as falling into that liberal bucket.

Senator Stevens’ ridiculous I-had-no-idea defense went for naught, and he is now a convicted felon.

Will we see a Mavericky call by Senator McCain and Governor Palin for this convicted criminal to resign his Senate post immediately?[EDITORS ADDITION: McCain did indeed publicly call for Stevens to resign. Its good to see there is still a sense of what is right left in McCain after a campaign that I can only believe he will look back on with nothing but regret. Governor Palin voiced regret for Stevens and Alaska, but made no similar call for him to step down. Hopefully the voters in Alaska will do the right thing.]

I don’t know what to say. My family and some friends tried to tell me, tried to help me see. I guess it just took seeing all of this in one spot, so obviously true, to open my eyes. Unfortunately I’ve already sent that ballot in and this election is over for me. But there may still be time for some of you. Please, before you mark that ballot you must read this. I feel so abused. Thank you Jon Swift and damn you Katie Couric and the rest!!

Are you following the polling data? McCain had a small bounce starting just before the last debate that had the republican hopeful projecting the fall of the Obama rocket. But it is looking more and more like something of a dead cat bounce. Here’s some cool info–

I love Jessica Hagy’s stuff. But maybe McCain is right. Maybe we do need just one more politician in Washington to solve this big problem. Yeah, thats all we need…

Earlier today I saw a guy in a shirt that read:

Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don’t make sense
Refrigerator

I laughed.

So Conan did his first San Francisco roadshow last night downtown at The Orpheum. And we loved it. And of course by “we”, I mean those bastards that actually got tickets for the show. Not me. I dutifully filled out the form at NBC weeks ago when he made the announcement. I got my friends to fill out the form. Near as I can tell, nobody I know scored a ticket.

I decided early on to put together an Oscars pool for my new co-workers. Most of them are serious cinematics. So I picked a dozen categories and went in search of a Web 2.0 solution for running the pool. Googling “office pool” brought me piles of links to betting sites. There seemed to be several sites hardwired for NFL weekly pools. But I had a really tough time finding a service that would give me some flexibility to do something besides a sports pool.