Aunt B. has another eulogy meme for WKRN, this one following the departure of our political blogger Adam Kleinheider. I responded there, so go chat it up. Her post comes as we launch the new WKRN.com and Nashville Is Talking.

I should have spent more time in the yard today. Instead, I came across an MSNBC documentary on prison life that had a segment on the importance of booty.  The Kentucky State Penitentiary inmate in this clip likes prison booty a lot. 

Here is Barack Obama’s ad running on Nashville television stations. Here is Hillary Clinton’s TV ad that starts running on Nashville television stations next week. Which one speaks to you?

I just saw this commercial for Mirapex on cable that appeared to use their disclaimer for side effects to sell the drug to the American people. The drug is for Restless Leg Syndrome and the commercial warns the customer of sudden urges to gamble, have sex or other intense urges. I’m sold.

Here is a live webcam view into the studio space I’m setting up in the media room upstairs. I’ll put this in a better location later and place the live camera on the sidebar. You might see me and some friends later taping something in response to a [kicks] David Lynch screed against iPhone that Brittney Gilbert posted on her YouTube channel.

You can refresh the page to see the latest image, but I’d prefer you click the image which takes you to a cleaner page for now. If you’ve been with this website since 1999, you might be surprised to know the camera I’m using is the same one from way back then!

UPDATE 6:02pm - Neil couldn’t make it and was going to bring a mic stand. The lights didn’t arrive anyway. Vince and I are headed to Franklin for sushi and may pick a stand up there, so I might try to tape this tomorrow using the crappy lights. We’ll see.

Last night, Vince let me order a light kit for the studio I’m setting up in the media room. The green screen is already hung and in place. Last weekend we made a silly test video using the green screen with Vince talking about little shirts and several bags of different doggie treats he’s gone through so far with Mimi and Trudy.

My biggest challenge with our new HD video camera is that it really needs a lot of good lighting. To shoot the test video, I literally had to open all the windows and use a powerful hallogen flood and four other lamps. You can see it still wasn’t enough. I’ll post some pictures of where the studio is being set up later tonight.

Once the lights come in, one of the first things I want to shoot is Mimi and Trudy spending time with us in the evening. It’s pretty much the only time we have with them through the week, and seeing them fall asleep on Vince is the cutest thing ever.

As NBC called the New Hampshire primary in favor of Hillary Clinton last night, NBC’s Tim Russert and Brian Williams immediately began talking about some “cataclysmic shift” in voter opinion that “must have occured” in the last day or two. It was as though the picture the media painted was challenged by a different reality and the only explaination was that reality had changed.

Has it ever occurred to Russert and Williams that reality for the people of New Hampshire had not changed and that the media’s exuberance over Iowa caucus victories and confidence in polls was wrong?