Holy smokes, it actually turned out okay! Somehow, the shadowy coalition of Finnish hax0rs and Diebold necktie-wearers failed to enact Taskmaster Rove's nefarious bidding, and an insufficient percentage of votes got routed to the bit bucket! What's more, the worst of the game-riggers from the last couple rounds lost their bids. We're sure their crew will try harder next time. But for now, it's seeya to the forces of eeble while a (very) slightly less pro-war, (almost) equally oligarchical bunch of rightists takes the reigns. Isn't it cute how ravingly out-of-touch our MC seems? What, did he vote green again? Oh fer crying out loud.

At least our man Don is getting kicked to the curb. Just in time for Iran-Contra '06!

In awesomer news, Blak Lotus is in Berkeley this month to rock this Jukebox Stories show that he's doing with Prince (no relation). Go see it if at all possible!

Speaking of seeing things, here's a 3-step process for Shin-Chan: 1) view it; 2) deem it awesome; 3) go mouth off on the adult swim bbs about how awesome it is, so that Dorkin and Dyer get more work scripting hilariously subversive nonsense for the existing characters to say in the new dubs.

Hey, buy some Frontalot tickets! Bowery Ballroom is on sale for December 18th at 7PM. That's Front's big-ass super megashow with MC Lars. For the first time in NY, you can be sixteen years old and attend anyway. Plus: if you miss this show, Santa will bring you a lump of camel excrement instead of a pocket calculator that shoots lasers.

Front and The Sturgenius spent an evening at the chillingly awesome Slaughterhouse Studio in western Massachusetts recently, to lay down many a funksome track for the upcoming album. Proprieter Mark (known also as Out Out) engineered. Wait, new album? You can barely stand the anticipation. Afterwards, Jeff fed Front beers.

Are you in NY this Thursday (the 9th)? If so, see Front's key man Gm7 performing in a 2-man show called "Songs That Don't Suck (And Are, In Fact, Delightful)." It is an evening with Joe Iconis and Gaby Alter, 11pm, Thursday November 9th at Mo Pitkins (34 Avenue A, Manhattan), $5 cover, Free Pie. You heard that right. Free pie. Who wants pie?

In other news: hospitalized children. It is not all fun and games being a hospitalized child. But it ought to be! Therefore give your most gigantic moneys to Child's Play immediately.

Greetings, o devotees of the Evening of Terrors. Who goes a-treating clad as Karl Rove? It is too fearsome a costume to imagine. Stay instead safely in the realms of zombie, pirate, ninja, monkey, and knife-wielding hobo. Perhaps for further inspiration, you will investigate the newly released Rhyme Torrents Halloween EP. It will not rot teeth.