Oh, you don't get me that way...

The always rather amusing Tom Burka suggests me, along with several other bloggers, as a candidate for Governor of California. Regrettably, despite this interest, I must decline this invitation to join the race on the grounds that most of California is just too damn hot and too damn close to Nevada. I don't think that I can best represent the people of California if I'm continually leaving the state to gamble next door. However, should there be a major wibble in the space-time continuum and I do get elected, I would like to state that I will attempt to close up the state's budget deficit by gambling what's left of the state's income on the blackjack tables in Vegas.

Of course, I'd like to know why the tiny Peace And Freedom Party, didn't nominate their most famous supporter, Larry Hagman, for Governor. Then we'd have had Arnie vs Arnold (from Diff'rent Strokes) vs JR Ewing. All it'd need to complete the world's first 80's pop culture retro election would be the entry of David Hasslehoff into the race.

Update: Nominations have now closed, with over 100 candidates, though seemingly no Hagman or Hasslehoff according to CNN. And there's a great line in the comments to this Daily Kos post on the situation: 'the volatility of the situation at the moment makes the Indonesian stock market look positively placid.'