Go Vote
- story THE FADER
Okay, people. This is it. This is the last time you’ll have to hear about it from us for another four years. Tomorrow, after voting ourselves, it’s back to corny jokes about T-Pain’s hats and posting videos of dudes with beards. If you are 18 years of age and able, please go out and vote tomorrow. It is not hard. We are especially reminded today after hearing that Marilyn Dunham, Barack Obama’s grandmother and the woman who helped raise him, will not have the chance to cast her vote, that we are lucky to have this opportunity.
So use Google’s US Voter Map to find your polling place, put some jams on the iPod, go meet your neighbors, have a good time and pull the lever. And on Wednesday we will start working things out.
Twenty-Four Hours to Go!
- story THE FADER
Maybe it’s just us, but if we had to wait any longer than the roughly twenty-four hours that exist between now and our votes being cast, there might be some permanent mental damage. We are frazzled. We are frayed. We drift between absolute catatonia and manic anxiety. Don’t get it wrong, we are excited to get out there and pull the lever, but we are almost equally excited to get back to freaking out about things other than who is running to run this great land of ours.
However, this past weekend provided quite a few choice election-related celebrity appearances, and we have collected them all in one post, starting with Jay-Z’s appearance in Virginia for Obama above, to save time. Enjoy, and then go out and get your umbrellas, collapsible stools, reading material, energy foods, solar-powered personal media chargers, suitcase barbecues, jump ropes, changes of outfit, look-alike lineholders and hydration liquids because we don’t want to see one single person drop off the line tomorrow.
Post-Election Sadlibs and Electoral Coloring Sheet from Sweee__t Zine
Bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley for Obama
McCain on SNL’s Weekend Update
GOOD Magazine Presents: If Mos Def Were President
Video: Freeway, “Change”
Download: Q-Tip f. Barack Obama, “Shaka”
Video: This Election Needs to Happen Already
- story THE FADER
Everyone of course remembers the Whassup dudes from Budweiser’s 1999 ad campaign, a series of commercials which eventually led to Grandmama saying that shit when we called her on Christmas 2001 (late pass). They were the definition of cultural ubiquity, memes, viral advertising, internet takeover, etc etc that was the big talk of pre-gnarlytimes USA. Those same dudes are back and have created a darkly comic remake for our present day America which has each of them representing an issue our next president will have to face. And then they give their endorsement. A friend of ours told us about this commercial over the weekend and then he and his 4-year-old son said Whassuuuup back and forth for several minutes. Some things change, some things don’t. Vote in ONE WEEK, PEOPLE. (spotted at The Stencil)
You Can Ignore This Video, But Definitely Still Register to Vote
- story THE FADER
We actually just watched this whole video and all it made us want to do was stay in New York City forever—except for maybe a week or two of faceslapping in Hollywood—but we are already registered to vote. Then again, maybe whoever made this knew that so many actors (you’re excused, Jonah Hill) in one commercial would actually make viewers want to go to another site just to get away. Either way, the message is clear: actors are terrible people… no… register to vote. That’s it. You can do it at Declare Yourself, where the web strategy is Jessica Alba in bondage. THIS SHIT IS GENIUS. Deadlines for registration in many states begin as early as this Saturday, so check your state here. And don’t forget to watch the VP debates tonight at 9pm EST.
