| November 7, 2006 | Turning Away from Jackson's Breasts for a Moment... |
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For this Election Day, I turned my focus away from topics such as purses and Janet Jackson's breasts to something slightly more important -- and political -- for the Yahoo! Top 5 segment on ABC News NOW. In today's special political video segment, I spoke about the Top 5 Political Blogs and the Top 5 Hot-Button Ballot issues. This wasn't my best segment. I was talking way too fast, and also my neck and chest broke out in a rash from the heat. (It was 92 degrees yesterday in Los Angeles when we taped this segment and there's no make-up person on-hand to save me from unsightly redness.) I'll try to look past my disturbing appearance, and take comfort in the fact that we got some more serious info out there. Did YOU vote today? Why or why not? What's the big issue for you this election? Labels: abcnews, elections, politics, video, vote, yahoo, yahootop5 posted by Jess Barron @ 1:23 PM 
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| November 6, 2006 | The Politics of Searching... |
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Tomorrow's U.S. midterm elections look like they're gonna be close. Please go out and vote. And if you need to do any online research about the ballot measures in your state, check out the Buzz Log post I wrote about the hottest ballot issues, according to the searches people are doing on Yahoo! What do YOU think is the most important issue this election? Labels: ballot, buzz, elections, politics, voting, yahoo posted by Jess Barron @ 2:17 PM
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| December 10, 2003 | SF Mayoral Milkshake |
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"Matt Gonzalez's milkshake is better than mine. And Larry Harvey's Harvey Milk-shake may be the best damn milkshake of all." -me (who else?) Owen and I voted together this morning. We walked across the street to our polling place (an elementary school) at 7:45 a.m. When we put our ballots into the counting machine, he was number 24 and I was number 25. And then the polling people offered us donuts. It was so cute. Matt Gonzalez's milkshake just might might bring all the girls (and boys) to the yard. One of my male friends (somewhat jokingly) said, "I like Matt because he's a hipster guy, and he kind of reminds me of myself." And Selena, who was visiting SF from Los Angeles for Thanksgiving, noticed all the Gonzalez posters hanging up as we walked around the Mission and said, "I wish I lived in San Francisco, you guys have such a cutie running for mayor!" I was listening to one of the big local alternative rock radio stations over the weekend and they were talking about the mayoral race. "This race seems to be all about hair," the DJ said. "I don't feel like I really know anything about where the candidates stand on the issues. It's really more like 'Gavin Newsom has slicked-back short hair, so he's a total Yuppie big-business guy' and 'Matt Gonzalalez has cool messy hair and he's in a band, so he's into supporting San Francisco's artist community.'" Labels: gavinnewsom, milkshake, owen, politics, sanfrancisco posted by Jess Barron @ 10:21 AM
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