first off, if you’re any kind of friend of mine and reading this, you better be voting today, or have voted already. i’m proudly wearing my cheesy little sticker and bugging everyone i talk to today and you blog readers are no different.

if you’re still trying to decide and you’re a los angeles or at least california voter, there’s a nice list of various endorsements from lots of newspapers and organizations in the LA times. i also found this LA weekly ballot proposition rundown extremely helpful. anyway, get on it, people.

the only one i will personally endorse is Yes on 87. clean energy initiatives are gonna be so hot in the future and if we get in on the ground floor the whole state benefits, even if there’s a small short-term sacrifice. and if people say it’ll drive away oil industry jobs, that’s bullshit. as long as there’s any oil in california, companies are gonna stay here to get at it. it’s not like there’s lots of other places for them to go instead.

in non-news-related-news, don’t expect much else out of me this week. other than some breaks to watch serial television programs — new heroes! two new episodes of the sure-to-be-terrible fourth season of the O.C which totally jumped the shark last season! the ‘so much better it’s like night and day’ freaks and geeks on netflix! — there’s really only one thing i’ll be doing this week, thanks to the early arrival of my pre-ordered guitar hero II. i got to spend all last night with it, and it’s great, but you don’t really need to know the depths of my obsession with nailing solos in the video game version of ‘carry on my wayward son’, for example. just know i’ll be in a state of fingertip-numbing nerd bliss for the next several days.