Quick Note: Hock & Spencer

So, as you have likely noticed, I have a few more introductions to make today.

The first is Hock, my lovely performing arts & motion picture critic, who has graciously consented to make periodic posts in this blog despite the fact that she is busy honing her own acting skills out in California. She has a comprehensive academic understanding of critical film analysis, plus her taste in movies is pretty much flawless, if a little heavy in Woody Allen flicks. She'll update you on movies and actors new and old, plus she might throw in some stuff from the theater or television. This being said, I should note that her taste in television is as bad as her taste in movies is good. This means that you risk hearing more about the Real Housewives of New Jersey than is necessary and/or appropriate*.

The second is Spencer (Post name Perez Motel6--don't ask me why). Spencer took a gap year between high school and college and lived abroad for a year in Belize. The experience taught him Spanish but, more importantly, it whetted his interest in world affairs. The issues with which he tends to concern himself range from human rights, to environmental decline, to other hippie shit that I don't even know about. He was a Political Science major in college and spends his spare time hanging out with his Great Dane-Labrador giant of a dog, making bets that he can't possibly win, and Skyping his mom.

Spencer has kindly agreed to join Miz Weenie as 50% of tweedle's political team. I couldn't have asked for a better set of political consultants. Weenie deems Spencer's viewpoint idealistic and harebrained, whereas he says her politics and money-grubbing and Zionistic. My hope is that between their viewpoints, my readers can gather enough information from both sides of an issue to appropriately develop their own thoughts on political matters. As I said in Weenie's introduction, I don't necessarily agree with Spencer or Weenie's opinions, but I feel that because I've never had the kind of political "bug" that they do, they are far more qualified than I am to talk about the political scene**. So again, you don't have to agree with Spencer, but take a second and listen to what he has to say. If nothing else, he keeps it interesting.

* In case you wanted to know, I have deemed the appropriate and/or necessary amount of knowledge of the Real Housewives of New Jersey to be zero.

** Plus, I want to maintain neutrality in such matters. There's nothing worse than a debate moderator who is unable to dismiss his or her personal biases.