the phenomenology of hope, de tocqueville revisted, etc

right, so i havent much time, packing etc. i can tell you some things though. i watched obamas train trip on cspan on the weekend. cspan because it was covering obama inside the train, not talking heads outside of it. (build a metaphor into the previous sentence). fascinating. the first time i think perhaps since ike that weve had a president who can truly connect on a 1-1 level with people. interesting conversations, oh youre from cleveland, i know i guy in cleveland, do you know him? turns out the lesbian couple did. etc etc. herein lies another issue. without a doubt the first president to pay any attention to lgbt rights, and it goes without saying this issue has not been addressed. tuesday will be moving (i will be liveblogging on wonkette.com, so tune in), obama has written his own speech. dunno when that happened last. etc etc. if we truly want change, its time to buy into it. we of course do not live in a county where such a thing is deemed appropriate nor effective so, we'll see nothing and have a new president in four years. the phenomenology of hope, redux. oh and watch closely, cause it might be a body double on tuesday. dunno what to watch for really.

on de tocqueville. oh the irony. of course it has been discussed so i will not. perhaps the man to stamp america's seal of approval was not the most appropriate. i saw simon sharma on pbs the other night, was half asleep, so i didnt catch all that i should have, but it was another one of those journey-around-america wankfests where they happen to fine the one black school with children allowed to achieve, the one native american community able to subsist, the one reformed blood able to keep his block off the streets, etc. its as if to say the election has retroactively solved all these problems that have plagued america since de tocqueville's time. no, sorry, nothing is suddenly better now. nor will it be unless we allow ourselves to work again. a financial sector should not, and as we've proved, can not, comprise a fifth of our economy. volunteer your ass. work for free every once and a while. it feels good.


what will he get done on wednesday?


white collar crime-how can stealing 50 billion dollars land you house arrest? ->burglary lands you a decade in jail.



a bit power poppy. but hes a mcsweeneys person, so represent.

there are two ways to bring the fuzz. 2008 was all about noiserock so heres a quicky. track then bring the fuzz. fuzz then bring the track. 1 is hipster, 2 is sellout.