Event: Why I am giving Obama my hard earned cash; because I want you to as well.
To kick this off, I won’t recap the last year-and-a-half of election drama except to say that this, I believe, is more important than any other election I’ve experienced except perhaps 2000. Which may be a tie. I have many reasons for believing this, and I’m sure you have many thoughts on the subject too, but the most eloquent and trenchant observation I’ve heard on this comes from outside of the United States, in an article my mom sent me yesterday.
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Event: Politics 2008: The Blue Skies Falling Plan
Okay… I’m going to attempt to pull out of my hat what I stumbled upon accidentally in 2006:
By writing about local candidates in Michigan, Illinois, and New York that were not extensively covered elsewhere I got a bajillion hits from searches on those names and, who knows, maybe even affected a contest by changing a mind or two.
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Concept: Dune, the movie.
For my birthday my parents got me Dune, and it was the first time I’d seen this film in about eight years. I watched this film constantly in 7th grade, and it became one of my favorites of all time.
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Gloamane 20, 31.
Ate at the Calypso yesterday.
– LINK OF THE WEEK –
For levity in these heady days: The Monterey Bay Aquarium
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Name at least one kind of invertebrate you would like to have as a pet.
Gloamane 19, 31.
I read from Urbantasm at Tuesday Funk with Amy Davis, Don Seidel, and Jotham Burillo.
– PICTURE OF THE WEEK –
Atar, Mauritania
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What vegetable would you least like to see on a pizza?
Gloamane 18, 31.
Watched Dune, ate pasta, listened to the rain, good times.
But the whole political thing has got me shaking these days. I’m really restless: genuinely anxious… it feels a little bit like 2004. But even compared to 2004, the Democrats have a compelling argument.
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Actually, this feast was imported late by the Latin church from the Byzantines. Its origins are supposedly in the 400s, when a man heard angels singing happy birthday to the Virgin Mary. It is a day of veneration, but this story is considered apocryphal.
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Diary: September 1988.
I don’t remember anything specifically from this month, so I will add a memory that may or may not have been from this period.
One autumn in the middle of the time when I was home schooled, my mom made a trip to a store based out of a house where she bought her teachers’ supplies.
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Gloamane 17, 31.
– The first part of last week was uneventful, but during the weekend we went to Michigan! It was the first time I’d been to visit my parents since last Christmas, though they’ve come up to see me a few times.
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