High, everybody! What’s goin’ on?
It’s FRIDAY!
It’s PAYDAY!
And it’s Mojo Friday!
Come on and make the jump... ALL the cool people are.
(You ARE cool, aren’t you?)
Meet Doc Zombie
Please allow me to introduce myself...
Call me Ishmael "Doc".
The "xxdr zombiexx" thing began as a joke ID I crafted back in 2000. Don’t bother trying to pronounce it.
I’m neither a doctor or a zombie, nor do I play either on TV.
When I started commenting online and began what has become "my online activism", I used it because it was already my Yahoo! Messenger ID as well as my e-mail. It was simply easy.
It never got changed because I never thought of anything better. Now I have been online with it – unchanged – for about 8 years. 4 of those years (I think) have been here (as well as Smirking Chimp).
I do enjoy a bit of respect here and elsewhere on the InterNets but some seem to know me as "some stoner dude always trying to get pot legalized" or some other such flattering portrayal.
I am a bit more complex than that, of course. I have a master's degree in education and counseling, I specialize in child and family mental health and have spent my "professional career" in public service. I have applied for a professional counseling license and await a letter in the mail. In addition to this, I play a very mean guitar, I love camping and hiking, and dogs.
Hey... it’s Mojo Friday and we’re here to have FUN, I’ll save all that serious stuff for later.
No.... the honest truth is, at any given time, all other things being equal, I’d rather be having fun!
And that's what's gonna happen here in about one moment. First, some important news:
I was asked if I wanted to do this today because TexDem's wife was sent to the hospital and his attention is righteously on her. He may be offline a lot this week.
I have been wanting to do a Mojo Friday and it's all the better for me to get to do one AND pitch in and actually help out.
So, folks; in addition to mojo-spreadin', beam some thoughts, prayers and healing vibes in Ms TexDem's direction, please.
Now....On with the show!
Candidate diary rant
This has to be said.
I KNOW I am not alone on this: the "candidate diary" frenzy-thing is/has been utterly off the chain.
I know a lot of "politics junkies", people who are just breathless about stats and bumps and strategies and those sorts of things, specifically congregate here; and I know that Daily Kos is all about electing Democrats.
I'm all for that, but really... in all honesty...the ceaseless sputtering frenzy of candidate diaries makes me think of AA meetings High School Yearbook Committee Meetings gone horribly awry. It's a painful thing to watch.
I feel like the Candidate Diary Grinch, high atop my mountain, staring down on the Whos down in Whoville.
The Whos need a leader
The Old One is toast.
So the Who people write diaries
about which Who
They like most.
They drive me nuts.
With their stat-taculars
and Woo-warblers,
their troll-haters
and pedantic upraters
and their Ifs, Ands, and Buts.
All that harp-harping
the whole spastic sound
coming from the Big Clinbamwards-Vibratorium
Drives me nuts nuts Nuts Nuts NUTS!.
Something must be done...
I scowl.
Do you know what I mean?
Today, My Fellow Kossacks, we will not let this happen.
No.
We will fight back!
We will Recommend Mojo Friday!
We will NOT bogart the Mojo and we will push Mojo Friday up into the Recommended List and we will WASTE a perfectly good spot that COULD HAVE been used detailing some candidate’s minor stat bump in some backwater on the outskirts of East Whoville.
Whew. All better now.
Can I get a RAmen?
Oooh... Mojo Apparel!
You GOTS to check this out.
Mojo Friday has taken on a life of its own with the introduction and availability of "Mojo Apparel.
Now, how is it that Mojo Friday came to have a line of apparel you ask? Well we have quite a few dedicated mojo givers. So, when on of them designs a Mojo Friday Logo, someone else immediately yelled; "I want a T-shirt with that." And off we go.
The link takes you to TexDem's original write up about Ninepatch's work and here's the direct link to Mojo Friday & Dailykos T-Shirts and Gifts.
When your name is plastered across t-shirts and coffee mugs, you have arrived.
This stuff is COOL and you know you want some, man. I do.
Mojo Friday Guidelines
- If you comment you have to recommend all comments. (in order to recieve mojo you have to give mojo. It's only good mojo manners.)
- Everything you say may be taken as a joke (so if you ask a question, expect a silly answer)
- You must recommend the diary (and pimp it unapologetically)
- You don't have to comment to recommend.
- You can't steal my idea (right, like that ain't goin' to happen)
- Please, no pictures or YouTubes until after 300 comments
- Mojo mojo mojo mojo, mojo mojo mojo.
And our Mojo Friday Goals; gots to have goals....
A. at least 200 different commenteros and 1000 comments by 8:00 PM EST Friday Night that it's posted.
B. 100 recommends for each comment, at least.
C. Stay on Recommend List at least five hours (this requires some strategic planning by you guys, refer to guideline #3)
D. And always, fun fun fun.
E. Have at least 75% average participation rate as seen here in the Mojo Friday Postgame Show by goffnews.
F. (New) Have at least 20 kossacks over 90% participation (see here for some tips).
G. Overload the servers with recommends, not to mention dominate Top Comments Mojo list. (we do tend to mess with the site with all of our recommends at one time)
H. That's enough for now. (Have a suggestion? Post it.
Pot humor
When I post serious cannabis reform articles, the inevitable "pot shot" comments - witty little clichés - concern me more than the minority of people who will post disapproving comments (invariably betraying their absence of expertise on the issue). Pot Shots disrupt the proper discourse far more than open disagreement.
I tend to lose my humor about it.
They make me turn into Toker Carlson. Oh... the horror.
I don’t always want to seem like the bow-tie-wearing doofus who rants and raves pedantically about obscure (but important!) matters. Alas...that's what activists do, I am afraid.
And cannabis activists have it sort of rough. It gets tiring repeating the same old facts and truths day in and day out. The money, of course, is in lying about the Weed. Billions and billions. Your tax dollars. (Hey....wait... that's NOT funny...)
So, today, I say "let 'em fly" if you got 'em. Your best pot joke, story, or non-specified anecdotal comment.
And, for me, as well as a large part of global pot culture, sharing the Herb - the act of sharing - is important. Sharing the Mojo today is quite the same thing in spirit.
For those who don't know - and I imagine that's more than a few Kossacks - to bogart is to
keep something all for oneself, thus depriving anyone else of having any. A slang term derived from the last name of famous actor Humphrey Bogart because he often kept a cigarette in the corner of his mouth, seemingly never actually drawing on it or smoking it. Often used with weed or joints but can be applied to anything.
The term was made famous by a band called Little Feat: Don't bogart that joint, my friend". (Pass it over to me)
Share it, people. Be good to each other.
Music, anyone?
Here’s some mood music while you spread the Love.
Ever hear of Lewis Taylor?
Now you have. When you stone me, I get stoned forever, don't ask me how.
Are we having fun?
If that is simply not your bowl of herb, check out one of my Pandora Channels.
One of the youngin’s I work with turned me on to Pandora and I created the following "stations". (Pandora lets you determine what plays.)
- Painkiller Lounge - Trip-hop and chillout music. I may be a loud guitarist, but I like some laid-back chillout tunes.
- Higher Ground - not quite smooth jazz. Focused on serious bass players and female vocalists.
- Blues Radio - just like it sounds. I love the Blues.
Well, that's enough of me.
Check out the Mojo Apparel and thanks for joining in!
Remember....Don't Bogart That Mojo, my friends... pass it all around.
See ya downthread!
Peace, Love, Soul, and Impeachment!
Doc
PS. I knew you were cool.
Update [2008-1-25 12:10:20 by xxdr zombiexx]: I have a general suggestion to add to the rules:
Especially after 300 comments, please make sure to start rec'ing comments from the bottom of the comment list.
All in favor say "Aye" (like pirates do).