.dear Ondine.

I forgot
(because I'm a partial ditz like that)
to thank
Jeffrey Ford
for giving me a beautiful
shout out on
his blog
(dude, people, I made the link huge, click it)
earlier this month.

He wrote the book
The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque
which I was addicted to and
think,
and by no means is this an insult but for most authors it would probably be,
would made a sweet movie.

But seriously, thank you.

.here's pope.

Some things are
too cute
for me to handle.

This:














(Sasha Obama during the inauguration)

may be among them.
Along with
both girls
doing the
"hang ten" sign at the Hawaii
high school marching band.

This and a puppy on the way?
WTF?!
I can't handle this level of
cute.

And Obama became president and I still have to go to my crappy job and my skin stinks and I smell and I'm not a millionaire and Gregory Crewdson doesn't want me to be his friend and I don't have eight Inky clones. What gives "change" team? Damn you politicians and your broken promises!

.they go.

It's here.
Today.
All the bumper stickers
and the countdown clocks.
all the jokes about
01.20.09: Bush's Last Day.
Well,
here we are.
It's happening.

In 2005 (or 6, I can't remember)
I made a shirt
and it said
"Barack Obama 2008"
(it used up all my A's)
and I was wearing it
at Philadelphia 30th Street Station
going back to college after break.
I was standing there and people were
coming up to me
and saying "Yeah!"
In excitement.

On Saturday,
I headed back to Philadelphia
for a brief trip
coming into 30th Street Station
at the same time as
Obama.
I was cranky about the security
but really I wanted to see him
and it was closed to the
general public.

So there I was
and there he was
4 years later.
I'm out of college
and he's the President.

And I know I think almost
too highly of him
he is a politician
but I think highly of the
American people
to change
to help others
to be better.

I see him and see a
female President
a Latino President
an Asian President.
I see everyone getting married
and opportunities opening for so many
different people.

Not because of him
but because of us.

I'm still in shock. I didn't dance in the streets on November 4th because I assumed someone would pinch me and I'd wake up. Nope, it's real. Just, you know, don't fuck it up Obama.

.just how high.

Okay,
so a plane went down
in the Hudson
but why is it is
interrupting
Jeopardy?

Seriously.

From my reading, I was
directed
to this great article
(you can click and see a pdf of the original publication)
about the first subway ride.
It's great but the
greatest line
is (circa: 1904)

"It is hard to surprise New York permanently"

.you wonder.

I know I haven't been really talking about New York or the MTA because we are in the middle of a storm in this nation. I really think that. Every day is bringing something different and crazy and mostly I sit in front of the TV and ring my hands together. Here, at this blog, I don't want to be held down by those feeling, so I'll talk about the following....

I love crazy politicians. I L.O.V.E. them. Not crazy like Cheney where people's lives are at stake but people like Ron Blagojevich, Ronald Burris and Rahm Emanuel - essentially everyone from Illinois (like Ileana Ros-Lehtinen who hung up on Barack Obama because she thought it was a prank call - you go girl! Don't be taken like a Sarah Palin-fool). I am following this like a Philadelphian on the playoffs. I can't get enough of it. I think I might be addicted.

I love hearing about this Blagojevich guy - he's batshit crazy. He goes jogging when he's about to be impeached. He hired a lawyer who's defense is essentially, Stop it guys! You're being mean! He once said, "This is the kind of thing that I think frankly separates the men from the boys in leadership. Do you have the testicular virility to make a decision like that knowing what's coming your way? I say I do" to his father-in-law. Bahahaha.


Ronald Burris. I honestly don't know much about his politics other than what's on Wikipedia. He doesn't seem too crazy on the surface and probably no one outside politicians in Illinois had heard of him until a few weeks ago. But then that business of the Trail Blazer monument came into light and I haven't been able to stop hearing about him. As everyone knows now, he erected a monument to himself and his "accomplishments" in a Chicago cemetery. I'm sorry but first African American to attend an exchange program to the University of Hamburg just seems like filler. But the best part is that he essentially has charmed everyone in the US Senate into letting them keep his job. Brilliant.

And then there is my all time favorite. I mentioned Rahm Emanuel a couple posts ago because he's a pretty attractive guy but I honestly can't get enough of him. He's hella crazy and I absolutely love him for it. He won't stab you in the back, he'll stab you in the front and now he's going to be Chief-of-Staff - brilliant! He almost came to blows with his brothers about the movie the Deer Hunter (see the Charlie Rose interview with all 3 brothers - it's quite funny, they should be on more often). He's most infamous for stabbing a knife into a table and calling for all of Bill Clinton's enemies to be dead and also mailing a dead fish to a political rival. These aren't exaggerations - these are facts. This is why he is amazing. There's a whole site of these facts and they seem like those Chuck Norris facts, but they are 100% true. Brilliant! I mostly love him because, let's be honest, Democrats are like sad, skinny puppies who have been kicked and don't bark at anything and sometimes just hide under the sofa (I am so looking at you Harry Reid). The Republicans, although I'm not too fond of them (to say the fucking least), have nasty barks and can back it up with fierce bites. You gotta give them that. They know they're wrong and still fight to the death. Rahm Emanuel will kill you. He will bit your head off. Rahm-bo. Loves it.

So I loves me some crazy politicans (who don't blow up people for fun - have you read thisVanity Fair article? scary) . That is all.

.magic marker row.

Can someone please explain to me what's going on in this photo?
You know what? Don't. I'm enjoying the giddiness of creating stories in my head to accompany this image.

.S&M queens.

Hello,
first post of the new year
and all that jazz.
Have a lot to say but
most importantly......
this year and this administration is turning into the most
attractive in human history.
Really.

Apparently, Obama wants CNN's
Dr. Sanjay Gupta
to be the new Surgeon General.
Yesssss.

Most people who know me know
I have a massive schoolgirl crush on him.
Cause, like, he's so totally cute.

And yes, I think Rahm Emanuel is quite handsome as well.
And yes, my grandmother has offered herself to Obama.
I wish I was kidding.

And on a similar note(-ish),
thank you, thank you, thank you Greg
for fixing my blog/link code.
Sweeeeeeeet.

(yeah, that's Right Said Fred)