Hollywood Elsewhere has been re-designed and will go “live” with the new look sometime this weekend. The architect is the brilliant Brian Walker, who’s been with HE since the August ’04 launch. A few things are being modified, tweaked. I’m going to add a feature in the archive drop-down menu called “Yellowing with Antiquity” that will feature scans of print articles I wrote for the L.A. Times, Entertainment Weekly and other outlets in the early to mid ’90s.
The delegate situation is very good for Barack Obama, but today’s electoral drama feels dicey to me. As HAL 9000 said to Dave Bowman some forty years ago, “I can feel it…I can feel it.”
Security moms have bought the “3 in the morning” TV ad bullshit, I fear, and the other anti-Obama hits — the Muslim Manchuran Candidate myth, Hillary’s “as far as I know,” NAFTA/Canada confusion, Somali garb in ’06, Reszko mist — have sunk in among closet racists looking for an excuse to vote against him, and, as always, among the insufficiently educated over-40s, who are regrettably abundant in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island.
The beauty of Democracy just falls apart when professional liars and pot-stirrers like Mark Penn and Howard Wolfson can intimidate and give pause to none-too-bright fence-sitters.