Vindication

All the years of hard work. All the sacrifice. The visits to IT. The cultivation of a rabid fan base. Chasing leads, breaking stories. Spreading blame, offering praise and dropping knowledge. TCD has arrived. We're breaking out of the blogosphere, off of your computer screen and onto your local movie screen before we straight up invade your 50 inch flat screen in your living room.



BOOM!

The scoop from the New Yorker: In theaters on November 5 (and on Magnolia On Demand October 1) is Client 9, Alex Gibney's much-discussed documentary on the fall of Eliot Spitzer. For the movie, Gibney had impressive access to Spitzer's allies and enemies, plus — amazingly! — the former New York governor himself.

Thanks for the look, Uncle Jesse.

Global Energy Consumption...this might make you vomit

As Client 9 is currently in his bunker writing a dissertation that's likely too depraved to print - even on The Coughing Dog - or playing Mario Kart on his iPhone (not sure which but I know he's busy), he passed this gem on to me to post in his absence. Below is a screenshot of a phenomenal interactive graphic from CNN today. Follow this link, watch the circles expand and pray for our future. Or, if you're anything like me, just become increasingly angry with the policy makers. Pretty amazing to compare Africa's statistics to those of North America or Asia.

http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/environment/energy/

Happy Black Friday

The NY Football Giants really put the kibosh on the tryptophan party that was raging in my brain last night, pretty much from the first snap of the football. November 2009 will close with the NY Yankees having won as many World Series clinching games as the Giants have won games this month. Is this the first sign of Crash's Coughing Dog Curse (a la the Sports Illustrated cover jinx, just with more alliteration) befalling the beloved GMen? Thanks buddy.

In order to selfishly share some of the pain that is my football and turkey hangover, here is a cartoon courtesy of The Economist that appeared earlier this month. On a day that represents what the prime driver of the US economy has become - i.e., the over-consumption of foreign made goods - this seems particularly poignant.

Also, check out this really interesting interactive map that charts the geography of the recession in terms of job loss by county in the United States from January 2007 to September 2009.

Wow. I am in a good mood today. Not.