Alderman Bus sits down with mentor and friend, Alderman Burt Natarus to discuss the upcoming trials of running for Mayor. It’s every Tuesday at the Chophouse.

Guest starring: Alderman Burt Natarus.
Guest directed: Steve Delahoyde

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Alderman Ed Bus meets with Deb Matzo to discuss how to “rebrand” the Alderman, and make him more “Mayor-like.” How best to do this? Start hobnobbing with Chicago-elite like Steve Dolinsky (The Hungry Hound) and Stephanie Izard (Girl & the Goat). It’s a long trip, but the Alderman learns a little about himself.

The Alderman holds a press conference at City Hall. Questions were asked, answered, skirted and tempers rose. All in all, it’s just business as usual in the 53rd.

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It’s here – 53rd Ward: Episode 4

It’s just business as usual in the 53rd Ward, and, it seems the FBI is interested in that business. Jason is downloading movies, Alderman Bus is fishing off the back of a train, alone, and who is Martin Cassel? Everything is not as it seems, and it’s going to take someone like Alderman Bus to get to the root of the problem.

Watch this week’s episode with guest stars: T.J. Jagodowski and Alex Fendrich.

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[a selection of Twitter updates so you don't have to check Twitter]

Just got home… long day, getting ready to enjoy cold pizza

Wow, nothing like getting caught up on back episodes of Lost

Family beaten seriously and brother taken away – house destroyed – political uprising shall continue

Unconfirmed – military has refused orders to shoot protesters

We all have our uses for Twitter.

Have you been following this? If not, you should.

These people standing up and fighting for democratic elections are the same ones that John McCain joked about bombing.

If we are a country that says we want to support and promote democracies in the world, shouldn’t we be strongly pushing Iran on this?

I know Obama has to be positioned to deal with whoever is left… but… really, can’t we support these folks?

Adam, maybe you had it wrong – maybe those people in LA were just showing solidarity with the Iranian people

If they made a movie of the Blondie comic strip (maybe they already have, and I’m just ignoring it) they should cast Reese Witherspoon as Blondie. I’ll admit it here and now – I’m a Reese fan. She’s got indie cred (Election). She’s got blockbuster cred (Cruel Intentions – which happens to star another one of my blonde faves – Sarah Michelle Gellar) and she always looks like she’s having a good time.

Seriously – Google her – and she’s always smiling. I like that. There are girls that are hot – the kind that make you drop everything and just want to stare, and although she may not be that (I honestly don’t want to stare at her) she’s the kind of hot that gives you butterflies, and is just hot enough to be approachable by someone like me.

In the classic words of Sandy, “I’m sure that if I were alone with her for just a couple of hours, I could get her to love me.” (of course, he’s talking about Anne Hathaway) That’s the kind of hot we have here. So, it’s not “staring at the heart of the sun” kind of hot, but more like, “putting your hand in the way of a blowtorch” kind of hot. Still gonna do some damage.

So, yeah. Hot.
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Looks like someone needs to get themselves an exciting black man… 

from the Daily Herald

But I can’t imagine any more memorable than this double-feature playing at the New Beverly Cinema tonight.

…until I can stop watching cable news. I can’t wait to stop watching cable news. I can’t wait to stop downloading Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow, and going to Fivethirtyeight.com. Yesterday I was laughing at something Chris Matthews said, and caught myself: “good God, what have I become?” Chris Matthews isn’t funny, the thing he’s referring to isn’t funny unless you know too stupid much about this election. It’s been fun, just like Air America. I retired Air America after the 2006 elections and moved on, and now I’m looking forward to going back to refreshing Superherohype.com in hopes of a new trailer from Punisher: War Zone.

I’ll walk away from this political season with a couple observations, First: there’s a guy named Ed Rogers that represents the weaselly weirdo part of Republicans that really cracks me up, just so cornered and so pissed at everyone, the sort of cocky Office Manager that you can imagine sucking his thumb under the desk if a crisis hit. For a quarter I’ll do my impersonation of him getting pissed at a sandwich. Second: I nomimate Shephard Smith and Steve Doocy for Most Likely To Have Some Seriously Weird Freaky Dad-from-Alf sex stuff going on in their personal lives. I don’t know if they’ve killed anybody, but I’m sure one of them has choked someone.

The best way to get through the next five days is to think of them as a countdown to a new bit. For those of us who recreationally make ourselves look like assholes in public (VENTI!), referencing Sara Palin will start getting funnier on Wednesday. Just imagine, around this coming May, catching someone flubbing some piece of information and saying “Somebody sounds like Sara Palin!!” Or maybe Joe The Plumber will be funnier, he’s truly the Jar Jar of this Campaign isn’t he? We were supposed to love him so much.

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