Ok, SO, to catch up on that whole "5 minutes a day" vow I ambitiously took, oh, a month ago, I just calculated that I'd have to type on here for 3 hours 20 minutes (!). That, my friends and onlookers, is not happening. BUT this time, instead of wracking my brain for interesting nuggets of conversation, this post is practically written for me what with the past few weeks of election drama and melodrama! "I've been busy" is the most banal and most common excuse anyone ever makes, but I'll join the bandwagon and make it too! BTW, if anyone is interested in literary Modernism check out my other blog --you know, the one I'm compelled to do for class hehe. Far more erudite than this one, far less applicable to everyday life and its minutae. And, you know what, I HAVE been busy: anyone else trying to plan a wedding in grad school? It's done often enough, I know, but as soon as I feel all "caught up" or ahead or excited about one, I get a feeling of encroaching and horrific guilt that I have been neglecting the other. Most often, I neglect the wedding planning actually. I'm excited though, the Hilton I'm planning to have the reception at that I'm visiting tomorrow has had all kinds of food from a "pig picking to a sushi chef", they said. Man, I would love to have both. That's what I'm looking forward to folks -- the food. Not gonna lie. Won't be able to eat much of it, what with my skin-tight fuschia dress (my fiancee reads this and he cannot know the truth!). Also cake. I love cake. Mmm cake. Bridezilla I am not, obviously. If I could write a check and have someone else do all the work and make all the decisions, I sure as fuck would.
But enough about my personal life: I want to talk politics. Namely, my elation that McCain is the Republican nominee!! Huckabee's pleasant enough but too populist-y for my tastes (also too, I dunno, preach-y? hahaha), Romney, as I've said, a creepy asshole, the rest irrelevant. So yay for McCain -- if a Republican's going to win, not that that party deserves it after Great Society Conservative George Bush, it's him. I get this feeling that after 8 years, in which McCain SHOULD have been the leader to rise to our crises, it's his turn. Same way I feel about Hillary, actually, as well!! They say young people support Obama in droves over her; well, not this one. He's a whippersnapper. With no EVIDENCE of cooperating with "independents or Repubicans in a great big happy tent" like he always claims (I'm paraphrasing here). He's a straight, down-the-line Dem with no proof of this mysterious independence of thought he is leading everyone to expect. It would certainly be heart-warming to have our first black president, but preferably our first would be less virginal. How interesting that the far-right nuts characterize Hillary as the demonic, wicked witch of the left, when her own record shows more cooperation, moderation, and independence. Not to play the gender card, but it's because of her gender. Women, throughout history, are either this or that, in this box or that one, virgin or whore, crazed or placid, housewife in mumu or executrix in dominatrix stillettoes. How annoying. Hillary is establishment and middle-of-the-road, with great potential. And yes, I totally mean "establishment" as a giant compliment. How do you think the "establishment" gets to be what it is, other than the hard work of individuals coming to fruition? I hope it comes down to the Tammany-hall style, smoky rooms of the superdelegates: what this country needs is much more elitism. Otherwise, you get the will of the people, voting for which one wears better suits and throws out better nebulous, feel-good abstractions without specifying their goals. And how the hell is poor Hil supposed to run against, um, "hope" in any case? "Oh yes, I disagree with my rival about x, y, z." "YOU'RE RUNNING AGAINST HOPE AND CHANGE!" What does this remind me of? Oh yes, how conservatives co-opt "patriotism" to mean "agrees with us". It is a pretty smart and near-unassailable tactic, maybe I'm not giving Obama enough credit? Speaking of the Democratic rift, David Brooks's article comparing Hillary supporters to "Walgreens", less educated shoppers, and Obama's to "Body Shop, pretentious Whole Foods" shoppers with college degrees was pretty darn hilarious. I, for one, may be a professional student, but I'll be damned if I'm not a Walgreens shopper. I don't look to the prez for self-fulfillment or inspiration or really much of anything, other than get the job done and don't mess things up! Well, that's all I've got for now folks -- see you tomorrow! (mayybee...)
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