Google to my building: "You exist"

The big news from this weekend is not that I started Improv 101 at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater,* nor that The Incredible Hulk was better than it had any right to be,** nor even that Vincent Bugliosi is such a bad-ass that his book "Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy" was 1600 pages long and still had to come with a cd-rom containing his endnotes and sources.***

*my proudest moment was convincing my improv teacher that "prawn is freshwater shrimp, and shrimp is seawater prawn." She actually interrupted the game to ask if that was true.****
**it still got boring whenever the Hulk was onscreen
***his book came out in 2007, but I only got it this weekend
****it isn't

No, the big news is that Google acknowledged my apartment building's existence via Street View:

Fig. 1: Click for more detail, but not much more

I blurred out the street names because a few of them are distinctive enough that they'll be right at the top of any Google search results, and you'll be able to discover where I live and I'm not accepting any more stalker applications at the moment. Interestingly, these aforementioned Google search results point to the Huffington Post's FundRace 2008, where you can find out how much your neighbor donated to political candidates. It's pretty sweet, until you see that David C. Bushnell of Short Hills, NJ, donated $2300 to Mitt Romney. And then it's perplexing-ish, because you see that David C. Bushnell of Short Hills, NJ, also donated $2300 to Chuck Hagel, $2000 to Christopher Dodd, and $1000 to Hillary Clinton. That's some fine fence-straddlin' there, guy. According to the listings, David C. Bushnell of Short Hills, NJ, is a Senior Risk Manager at Citigroup, so maybe he knows to hedge his bets.*

*Is that how you hedge your bets? I gave up gambling after I lost $4 at the Saskatoon racetrack so I've forgotten a lot of the lingo.

I'm much more a fan of Myra Bushnell of Clermont, FL, who donated $375 to Fred Thompson's campaign. Myra Bushnell apparently is a comedy fan and is willing to pay top dollar to see it.

I personally considered buying a bootleg McCain hat from a sidewalk vendor this weekend, but now I'm thinking I should check Ebay to see if I can score some Thompson swag. Because come on, McCain can't even put on a hat himself, so wearing one with his name is just taunting him. You wouldn't like him when he's angry; he's like the Hulk, only waaaay more in favor of the Iraq war.