political theater, distilled.

i confess, i haven't bothered watching much of the conventions or even much tv news lately. pretty much all i've been seeing is the occasional youtube link and whatever's on the tv news at the gym. i've been mostly using text news and speech transcripts.

but if you, like me, missed the video from both conventions... here, via evwhore, is the democratic and republican conventions distilled down to about a minute each.

it's pretty awesome.

oh, and for extra fun, a look at the word frequency per 25000 words from each convention from the new york times

i rarely nap.

but apparently i have been saving up my nap-fu.

most of this afternoon, and soon much of the evening. NAPPING. ALL NAPPING ALL THE TIME. NAPFEST. NAPAPALOOZA.