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LET’S MAKE INTERNET HISTORY!!!

Why did you start GYWO? What made you decide to use clip art characters, and how do you think they benefit the strip?

I started GYWO because I thought the idea of a worldwide “War on Terror” was dumb. I used clip art characters because drawing comics is—for me—time-consuming and completely unrewarding. I think the clip art benefits the strip because it’s so awesome looking and people get totally hyped when they see the images — PEOPLE TALKING ON TELEPHONES!!! OMG THIS IS TOTALLY LOL, LET ‘ER RIP!!!

Read the interview here!

MUST CREDIT! SIRENS! (C) 2008 MNFTIU POLLS, INC.

The latest round of highly incredible polls commissioned by MNFTIU shows increased tightening of the race. Dems should worry.

Our supercomputer is now modeling the election 100,000 times per upload (beat that, fivethirtyeight, you abacus-using hillbillies). For every 100,000 models, we show a result of 55,000. This correlates with an increased use of:

1. 239962
2. 094483
3. 208955

Question: How can the Dems not worry about this? After all:

2309820986
2039809860
0956098456
3408976049

Which breaks down to:

M: 903
O: 202
J: 950

DEVELOPING . . . MORE INFO SOON . . .

The mail keeps flooding in:

We we were at the bar [REDACTED] when they called the election. When they called it, someone turned down the TV and cranked Move On Up and everyone went nuts. It was great. I will think of that little shrimp whenever I face adversity in my life.

LOL, best shrimp of all time . . . we all love the shrimp . . .

You cannot front on this crustaceous dude, he’s holding it down for life.

Leave it to the great MATT TAIBBI to drop the shortest video blurb in history!!!

LOL, it took us four days to shoot this video blurb . . . craft services ran out of hoagies . . . Wes Anderson stopped by just to watch and learn . . . when the shoot was done, the crew gave us a standing ovation . . . they each bought fifty copies of the book . . . what a wonderful way to end the shoot . . .

TEARS OF JOY STREAMING DOWN MY FACE!!!!!!!!!

TAR HEELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A NORTH CAROLINA NATIVE SPEAKS FOR ME:

TAR HEELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NORTH CAROLINA IS A BLUE STATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(It’s Duke blue, which is bittersweet, but still — GO HEELS!!!!!!!!)

JOY

HOLY SHIT I’M HAVING A TOTAL EMOTIONAL BREAKDOWN!!!!!!!!

PUMP THIS NINA SIMONE JAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last-minute thing: The main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library is displaying some GYWO cartoons (along with other political art) in their here’s-where-we-display-stuff area.

There’s an opening reception tonight and I think I’m supposed to say a few brief words.

Maybe I’ll leak some of my poll data?

6:00 – 8:00 PM

(Free wine and cheese, I think.)

Post-election reaction from a reader:

WE DID IT

AND IT’S ALL THANKS TO YOUR BLOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think this election, as historic as it is for America and the world, also marks the dawning of a new age of blogging . . . one dominated by me and my great blog, mnftiu.cc, which is the most powerful blog on the scene.

It’ll be interesting to see if the mainstream media picks up on this development . . .

Obama’s Win: A Death-Knell For 1960s Cultural Politics?

There’s a tidy symmetry in the fact that Obama defeated, in succession, both the Clinton machine and the Rove-Atwater brand of politics that Republicans have honed for so long.

In so doing, Obama defeated not one, but both of the leading practitioners of that 1960s-rooted cultural politics. More to the point, he did this by quite literally running against politics as both those groups practiced it.

(My emphasis)

My only concern: How will our nation survive without its electoral system being used to process baby boomers’ psychological issues?

No time for analysis; just putting the latest poll data out there for people who can’t wait:

M: 4958274609827
O: 4509845618907
M: 6783649347856
O: 296528e76rw50
M: r978ert70q9869
O: w678529874659
M: 1284576197863
O: 4958762345079
M: 8756196745q65
O: 1231231240468
M: 2084702r73045
O: 7614011789650

Bottom line? Time for Dems to worry.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

The latest MNFTIU poll commissioned by David Rees, the hottest new blogger on the scene, shows significant tightening in the widening spectrum of the closing data relative to the opening according to the latest numbers we found in the data when we ran the numbers.

Our new model has 270 beating 269 at least 1,000 times per p-value. (n = 2)

The toplines:

M: 25
O: 3
J: 60 (unbelievable numbers for mystery candidate J!)

For the true poll nerds, here’s the breakdown:

2345q3948579038
q234689789-7349
q45987345903847
250982000023508
2595885822–09-2
209580982039855

(Can you believe the 235 we’re seeing in 2350897? Unbelievable.)

Ladies and gentlemen, the race is officially NOT OVER.

Still awaiting the fax from my uncle, but in the meantime Dems should start worrying . . .