Friday leftovers.
*If you live in New York, I learned that there is a hot super secret tranny party every Saturday at Fusion at 54th & 10th. I was surprised because Hell’s Kitchen is a black hole and a terrible place unless you like faux Irish taverns, but apparently this thing is huge. Also Montel Williams goes to this bar sometimes. The two don’t overlap though: Montel Williams is not trans.
*Today is Good Friday. As a Jew I didn’t know what that meant, but my intern explained it and it’s pretty massive. Today He died. Sunday He rose. This is a huge weekend for the son of God.
*A Republican candidate for Senate in Idaho changed his name, legally, to Pro-Life, and will appear on the ballot so that voters have an easier time, you know, voting pro-life. You can’t make this shit up, and Pinko will be covering this extremely important story in more detail over the weekend. He is running to replace Larry Craig, who is leaving office because he got a b-jay-jay in an airport bathroom. Craig is also staying on the ballot, having legally changed his name to Pro-Job. [Awkward laughter ending ... now.]
*Bill Richardson endorsed Barack Obama today, which will be good news for Obama’s efforts to win the massive Latino vote in … Oregon. And North Philly er Carolina. And Indiana. This might have been helpful a few weeks ago in, you know, Texas, but it’s still a boost.
*Shameless self cross-promotion: The radio show I produce, RadioNation with Laura Flanders, is airing a special show this weekend all about the 75th Anniversary of The New Deal. We have an extended interview with Howard Zinn (who totally emailed me omg); a great panel discussion with Frances Moore Lappe (who wrote Diet for a Small Planet … still a great book almost 40 years later) and Eric Schlosser; some old archived audio of FDR, and a great discussion on political propaganda. It’s on 2-3 Saturday and 1-2 Sunday on Air America affiliates around the country or at their website. Next week Bill McKibben is on to talk about his piece touting a new “green job corps,” which is one of those awesome and hopeful ideas we started Pinko.
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*today is also purim, so while the jesus people are being pensive and atoning, jews get points for making lots of noise, praying loudly, and getting so drunk we can’t tell our friends from our enemies: it’s like freaky friday - with religion!
Bill Richardson was also nominated for the nobel prize 700 times and has more foreign policy experience than anyone else, ever. Primarily thogh, he is a mexican, and in a race defined by ethnicity erm…”micro trends” nobody votes for mexicans but other mexicans. And there are no Mexicans in important states.
So yeah, not that big a get for obama.
I looked out the window of our plane as it flew away from your fair city, but saw nothing except this fair web-sight and the Chrysler Building. Also, a big lady jammed her elbow in my rib-cage throughout the flight and I knew what it was to suffer for 4 hours on the day Jebus died so I could be saved 4-ever.
You have a nice site, here, Mr. W. Thanks for showing us around town and providing us with the opportunity to rub our filthy hands all over the set of a celebrity person’s tv-set desk and drink bourbon in a swanky bar in Manhattan.
Next time we come, you should take us over the bridge so we can find real pizza like all the locals reported to me.
Also, Christianity is nuts. Seriously. Jesus died, so I need to be at work at 9:00 AM on Sunday so all the fat baptists can eat bacon after their dumb sunrise church service. Goddamn Pensacola anyway.