It's entirely probable I've played for more people in Central Park this summer than...

Wait! I'm getting ahead myself. I wanna have some fun getting some things into a little perspective in a minute. But first I wanna say I'm so sorry I missed the update yesterday. I was slammin' busy, and I was actually kinda overwhelmed by your email responses to my initial commentary about Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin.

This weekend.... oh man! Keep your fingers crossed sot at we can get out to "The Hill" on Saturday. I'm kinda hoping that Hannah either slows down, speeds up, or makes a sharper right turn out to sea. (But, we'll hafta wait and see.)

Now... if you missed that commentary I was talkin' about and you wanna check it out and voice your thoughts and feelings about the subject, just click on this link to visit the update. (Besides there's a great shot of Governor Palin riding her dinner home.)

I watched that speech last night, or most of it. I had to flip back and forth between that and the end of The Yankees game.

BUT... I'm sure like so many people have already pointed out, there's something really unfortunate going on there for SNL now that Tina Faye has left the cast. Lorne Michaels just gonna hafta give her anything she wants for a 4-month contract. Nobody else in that lack-luster cast is gonna be able to pull off the new character. Y'know? After each of Palin's sarcastic remarks last night, I kept waiting for a hand-held camera to suddenly zoom in as she yelled, "LIVE! FROM NEW YORK! IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT!!!"

Tina Palin and Sarah Faye

But... here's the "FWP" section.

FUN WITH PERSPECTIVE!!!

Sarah Palin's "experience" includes being in the PTA and then seven years as Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska - - population estimated generously at around 9,000

Now, picture that last time you were in Madison Square Garden for a concert. You could fit the entire town of Wasilla, every man woman and child inside Madison Square Garden for a concert or a Bible meeting... and then invite another town of exactly the same population... and still have between 500 and 600 seats left for your closest friends.

She then became the governor of the state of Alaska. (She has now held that job for about 21 months.)

Alaska: population 670,053

There are more than 3 TIMES as many people living... in Brooklyn!

And yes, I'm pretty sure I've sung "People on the Hill" for more people this summer than live in the entire town and surrounding areas of Wasilla.

The island of Manhattan has an area of 22.7 square miles.

Wasilla... 11.7 square miles. About 4 or 5 times the size of... Central Park. (Hell! I could practically be the Mayor of Wasilla.)

Uy!

But y'know what? Approximately 1/3 of this country would vote Republican even if the world was on fire and the country was in the shit hole. Which they are. And if you're in that one third... I blame you as well as the 50% of the people in this country who don't pay attention or who don't vote.

But, I just wanted to have fun with these numbers. They don't mean a whole lot in many regards... but, it's amazing isn't it!?

So we're gonna have some fun with... Right-wing Conservative, anti-choice, abstinence-only sex education, anti-birth control funding, gun-owning, hunter, moose-burger-eatin', pro-oil-drilling, ex-pageant contestant, nearly-2-year governor of Alaska... Sarah Palin.

Here she is, just riding her dinner home.

Y'know, in yesterday's update (Besides finding a very early photo from Joe Biden's pageant days.) I posted a link to what I wrote about Barack Obama's acceptance speech lat week .

Now, I know there are always people visiting here who have NO idea what I do! So, let me once again make a few songs available as FREE downloads. Here are a few more...

CRAZY ON THE SAME DAY
WHERE'S THE VOICE
TOM CRUISE SCARES ME
JESUSLAND

And, if you're new... here's a Super Update from a couple of weeks ago with a full gallery toward the bottom of the page! Knock yourself out...

Okay. I'm outta here.

See you back here tomorrow.

Thanks for everything.