Interesting news from the LATimes today. Gary Truedau is the creator of the comic Doonsebury. He penned a strip to run on Wednesday that predicts an Obama win. The article is about editors across the country hemming and hawing as they decide whether or not to run it. (Since the comics pags goes to press in the afternoon, there’s no way of knowing if it will be accurate or not, for sure.) I like the story just because it is an interesting take on the election and as Trudeau himself says, he’s putting himself on the line, not editors.

The editor of the LATimes talks about his thoughts on the subject on his blog. He’s got the right answer, I think, and Trudeau makes an excellent point in update response:

If Obama wins, I’m in the flow and commenting on a phenomenon. If he loses, it’ll be a massive upset, and the goofy misprediction of a comic strip will be pretty much lost in the uproar.

But my favorite bit of the piece is the reaction of the McCain camp (never mind the fact that they even GAVE a reaction comment):

From the John McCain camp, spokesman Tucker Bounds said: “We hope the strip proves to be as predictive as it is consistently lame.”

That’s not pathetically angry at all, is it? Kinda sums it all up in a nutshell.

Who would have thought that pool reports of lavish fund raising dinners for presidential campaigns (which I imagine are themselves tedious in the extreme) could be so entertaining?

There are oaks and Chestnut trees and then there’s the house, with four
Ionic columns and a slate roof and 17 windows across the front and the
Rockefellers apparently suffer no critical shortage of guest bedrooms.
It is a useful reminder that before the Gates and Bloomberg and Warren
B., there was old man John D. Rockefeller, who bequeathed successive
generations of descendants a truly astonishing boodle of money.

But I digress. The fundraiser was standard issue, if it’s Tuesday night
aren’t we dropping $28,500 per to dine with Barack? Your faithful
scribes sat outside in an air-conditioned van whilst drinks were
sipped. Then a staffer led us to an ante-room, where we noticed “The
Reclining Bather” by Pablo Picasso. Just a thought, but I’d place a
mid-two figures wager it was not a print.

Read more of last night’s pool report from the Obama fundraiser at the Rockerfeller’s and enjoy.

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So I do a work trade with Office Nomads, which is a Seattle coworking space. I write for them, they let me work there so I have a reason to put pants on everyday. I think it’s a fair trade. Anyway, the owners got contacted last week by a reporter from a local station who wanted to do a story on coworking. She came down on Friday to do some interviews including one with yours truly. The piece aired yesterday and instead of it being all about coworking, it was mostly about Office Nomads, which is really nice. Also, they used a lot of the interview with me.

Go and check out the KING 5 story on Office Nomads.