Mark Pike

Chicken in the car and the car won’t go, that’s how you spell Chicago.
We started a tick sheet to show how many cars honked for Kerry. It was well over 30. We did not, however, keep track of how many cars gave us thumbs down. Or how many truckers (1) who honked, then sped up [...]

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The Continental Breakfast is too common nowadays so they had to step it up and offer free Wireless Internet. I had to see if it actually worked. It does.
We are in Somerset, Pennsylvania right now. I don’t know where that is. We’ll be in Chicago by tomorrow night. It was too dark to test the [...]

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You know what the Midwest is? Young and restless…
I’m driving cross-country to Milwaukee starting right now at 10pm on Friday. I’m convincing my friend Mari to come with me. Right now we’re on hold trying to find her a cheap one-way flight back from Chicago. The plan is to stay in a motel in Hagerstown [...]

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Recently, when knocking on doors with mezuzahs, I’ve been saying to the jewish residents: “Fo shizzle mezuzah”. I’m kidding. I do, however tell the family, “L’Shana Tova”(Happy New Year).
Historically, for the past 5765 years, the Jewish demographic has been very liberal and progressive and votes the straight democratic ticket. Things have been weird lately. The [...]

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Yesterday I was drawing parallels between hip-hop and grassroots political organizing. Well, to continue with the comparison, today we had a straight up turf war in the streets of Baltimore. Like, East Coast vs. West Coast style. Bloods vs. Crips. Sharks vs. Jets. This was no joke… We were wearing rival colors and everything.
You see, [...]

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I like to listen to Notorious B.I.G. on the way out to turf. We usually have a crew of about 5 kids packed into a car. On average, maybe one other person likes to listen to hip-hop in the car. Inevitably, I take control of the radio dials and force everybody to listen to either [...]

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Laughter is often prescribed as the best medicine. Bill Clinton’s friends were all recently asked to submit a joke to help him with his recovery from quadruple bypass surgery. While canvassing in Norfolk on Sunday I met one of Bill’s friends. He told me he had already given all he could give to the [...]

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Journalists are silly. So are people.
Parrots rule. So do pirates.
Click the link in the title of this post to read the article…
If you want to read my rebuttal, holla at me… The DNC asked me not to post it on the Internet. It’s that good.

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In the next week I will be traveling to Milwaukee to train for a national get-out-the-vote campaign being run in conjunction with MoveOn.org. After the training they will send me somewhere to be determined to work until the election. They recommend that you take your car with you as it will help you with the [...]

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