The Campaign - Day Three
Hey! Will Stabile here, reminding you that, if you've come to visit us, please leave a comment. Poor Elias is getting lonely down there. You don't need a Blogger account or anything. Yeah, I probably should have made this a Myspace or something.
Anyway, today was also the ASB Cabinet speeches, and, while my mind was somewhat elsewhere (damn Gatsby journals!) I also tried to concentrate on our future cabinet. You know, sometimes some people don't really appreciate all the work the ASB puts in to making these things seamless. Getting the balloons, making the little "time's up!" signs for the candidates, setting up sound equipment for the mikes and (unfortunately) background music for more than one contender, stuff like that.
Okay, I get messing around when you're running unopposed. Sheel "Choksizzler" didn't really have a speech, but he also had no opponents, so I forgive him. Sharon "Robim Hood" had no opponents, and showed willingness to dress up as Robin Hood for no discernable reason, so cool on her. Luke wore a little Luigi suit and stomped on "Abstention", and kept it short and sweet enough that I was vaguely interested in voting for him, even though I know he's sort of the only choice. And it was nice how he tied in to Jackie's "Ninchendo" Secretary thing. Whatever. They're going to win. No one will oppose them.
But when you actually have opponents, I really think it's time to drop the cutesy stuff and get down to brass tacks. I would have figure some cutesyness for the "Dances and Assemblies" race, because, you know, they have to be cutesy to put on dances and assemblies. But full costumes and dance numbers for President and Vice President? I think everybody from Sean "Puffy" In on had a singalong (that's four candidates! Four!), and Janice Joo had audience-participation "Joogling".
Guys, I get pandering to the seventh-graders and whatnot. But seriously, we go to Whitney, we're not stupid, we can figure out who to vote for without musical accompaniment. Just tell us where you stand and we'll figure it out from there.
I plan on no dancing during my Class Officer speech. Just warning you guys, figure I wouldn't insult your intelligence by doing something overly silly like that. The other candidates, they can do what they want in the dancing arena.
Today's Helpful Hint From Will: I was going to put something about the tastiness of Spam, but I'll save that one. Instead, watch The Colbert Report Monday through Thursday at 11:30 in the PM on Comedy Central, right after The Daily Show, which does a better job of reporting the news than any "Channel One" nonsense. Colbert is the source of the word "truthiness", which you may have heard me talk about, and is also the visual inspiration for my campaign. Watch the intro, then go look at one of my posters. You'll get it. And, don't worry, the one-hour Daily Show/Colbert Report block runs most times of the day on Comedy Central. Try 8:00 PM.
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Anyway, today was also the ASB Cabinet speeches, and, while my mind was somewhat elsewhere (damn Gatsby journals!) I also tried to concentrate on our future cabinet. You know, sometimes some people don't really appreciate all the work the ASB puts in to making these things seamless. Getting the balloons, making the little "time's up!" signs for the candidates, setting up sound equipment for the mikes and (unfortunately) background music for more than one contender, stuff like that.
Okay, I get messing around when you're running unopposed. Sheel "Choksizzler" didn't really have a speech, but he also had no opponents, so I forgive him. Sharon "Robim Hood" had no opponents, and showed willingness to dress up as Robin Hood for no discernable reason, so cool on her. Luke wore a little Luigi suit and stomped on "Abstention", and kept it short and sweet enough that I was vaguely interested in voting for him, even though I know he's sort of the only choice. And it was nice how he tied in to Jackie's "Ninchendo" Secretary thing. Whatever. They're going to win. No one will oppose them.
But when you actually have opponents, I really think it's time to drop the cutesy stuff and get down to brass tacks. I would have figure some cutesyness for the "Dances and Assemblies" race, because, you know, they have to be cutesy to put on dances and assemblies. But full costumes and dance numbers for President and Vice President? I think everybody from Sean "Puffy" In on had a singalong (that's four candidates! Four!), and Janice Joo had audience-participation "Joogling".
Guys, I get pandering to the seventh-graders and whatnot. But seriously, we go to Whitney, we're not stupid, we can figure out who to vote for without musical accompaniment. Just tell us where you stand and we'll figure it out from there.
I plan on no dancing during my Class Officer speech. Just warning you guys, figure I wouldn't insult your intelligence by doing something overly silly like that. The other candidates, they can do what they want in the dancing arena.
Today's Helpful Hint From Will: I was going to put something about the tastiness of Spam, but I'll save that one. Instead, watch The Colbert Report Monday through Thursday at 11:30 in the PM on Comedy Central, right after The Daily Show, which does a better job of reporting the news than any "Channel One" nonsense. Colbert is the source of the word "truthiness", which you may have heard me talk about, and is also the visual inspiration for my campaign. Watch the intro, then go look at one of my posters. You'll get it. And, don't worry, the one-hour Daily Show/Colbert Report block runs most times of the day on Comedy Central. Try 8:00 PM.
I WILL - STILL
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posted by Will Stabile at
8:08 PM
7 Comments:
Good luck on your campaign! We love your posters =)
Not that we're endorsing anyone...
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Anonymous, at Wednesday, March 08, 2006 9:03:00 PM
Thanks. I like the posters too.
By
Will Stabile, at Wednesday, March 08, 2006 9:19:00 PM
Yay for Will Stabile!
Where's there's Will, there's Stability!
Haha!
Wheeee!
By
Anonymous, at Thursday, March 09, 2006 3:29:00 PM
Hey Will, just wanted to say good luck...
-Anum
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Anonymous, at Thursday, March 09, 2006 5:41:00 PM
Thanks, people who left comments. Well, except for that one guy. He's gone now.
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Will Stabile, at Thursday, March 09, 2006 7:54:00 PM
Hey Will it's Sean In here. I just thought I'd leave my opinion on the singing and dancing aspect of the campaigning. Don't worry, I'm not offended by your post and I understand we just have different approaches to campaigning. I have to bring up the fact that once you run for an ASB position rather than a class officer position, you run into the problem of meeting lots of kids that don't care much about the elections and will put very little effort into remembering your name or what you're running for. Too often you'll be campaigning and be interupted by, "uhh what are you running for again?" Not only would the singing and dancing especially in my case help those remember by name and position, but also if you look closely at the lyrics there also is a message behind the song. I think that through these efforts, candidates remember who you are, and also appreciate the creativity and effort put into the campaign. And not to offend the many that do care very much about elections, but I think we can all use a good laugh sometimes and hopefully if anything I entertained you. Well best of luck on the campaign trail Will.
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Anonymous, at Sunday, March 12, 2006 9:43:00 AM
Hey Sean, sorry on getting back to you so late. I agree, with a full-fledged ASB position, sometimes it's necessary to sing a little song and do a little dance to get people's attention. But, since I'm running for a class office, I respect the intelligence of my classmates enough to tone down the gimmicks.
And, yes, we all love the song.
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Will Stabile, at Monday, March 13, 2006 5:56:00 PM
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