Not to get overtly political with you this morning, but I know a great many of you have expressed your disgust with the political process. You're passionate, active citizens. You put in all this energy campaigning and get excited about the prospects of your candidate winning, only to have your vote rendered meaningless by countless herds of stupider citizens with much worse taste than you. It almost makes you want to give up voting at all. Why bother if you're just going to lose in the end anyway?

Look, it was only a Hanson show. You've got to get over it, people.

In fact, you should get right back on that voting horse by heading over to the Noise Poll, the annual Best of Boston-type thingamajig. This year, Scamper is nominated for:

Album of the Year (Leave Your Glasses On)
Song of the Year (The Proof is Altogether Too Late)
CD Cover Art (Leave Your Glasses On)
Disappointment of the Year (Scamper doesn't open for Hanson)

Needless to day, we're particularly excited about being nominated for "Disappointment of the Year." If we win that one, we'll advertised it everywhere... and not mention the Hanson part. Scamper would officially be the 2005 Disappointment of the Year. It would look great on a poster.

While you're over there, our producer Tom Polce is up for (ironically enough) Producer of the Year. Tom is not only the guy-behind-the-guys, but also a big cuddly teddybear that gives out cinammon kisses and poops toy trucks for underpriveleged children. He deserves your vote is what I'm saying. So get out there and vote, Americans!