Turkeyfest, '08

Happy Thanksgiving! It has been a great day. We made an awesome dinner... I think it might our best meal yet! And now I am slowly drifting peacefully into a food and wine coma. Glorious. Anyhow, I was just doing a little post-dinner net surfing, and I came across this great post re: Obama. I think this puts it all rather perfectly. Enjoy!

Let Obama be Obama

so far it's totally G-rated...

webcams kinda freak me out, and whenever i have had the occasion to view a live stream(not often, mind you) i always feel a little uneasy, like at any moment something totally messed up is going to happen. i don't know where that fear comes from. add it to the list, i say.

just this weekend i read a story about some dude who killed himself via pill overdose while he broadcasted his suicide via webcam to a bunch of weirdos watching from their parents basements or something... what is wrong with people?

anyhow, i was a bit hesitant to check it out when cw told me about this adorable puppy webcam thing that i am about to give the link for, but so far it is just a bunch of super cute puppies doing cute puppy things. i mean, right now they are sleeping in a giant pile! you can watch their little breathing! one of them has his arms(legs?) around the other ones! i am still concerned that all of a sudden some unseen chainsaw-weilding figure will start hacking them to bits, but i am trying to work through the fear.

PUPPIES!

i need to remember to bring this webcam issue up to my therapist one of these days...

don't miss out!

So... when is the next time we are going to elect a black president for the first time? yes, that's right. NEVER. so as i have said in the group email I sent around to many of you, i think you should really consider joining CW and i on our trip to DC for the inauguration on Jan. 20th.

here's the thing: i know that there are gonna be forty gajillion people there and it's going to be cold and hard to see and the public transportation is gonna be nuts and blahsity blah blah blah, but you know what? i can guarantee that it is going to be worth it. there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that roaming the streets of DC that day is going to be the experience of a lifetime, and i, for one, am not going to overthink the logistics of participating in such a momentous occasion.

i mean, once-upon-a-time i used to subject myself to "showering" at a knee-high spigot, poo-ing in porta-potties, braving monsoon-like rainstorms that drenched every peice of clothing and gear i had brought on the 500 mile trip to northern maine or wherever, and living off of grilled cheese prepared by kids who had not stayed anyplace with indoor plumbing for three months. and that was all just so i could take a bunch of acid and see phish play concerts three days in a row! this is history, folks! i can squeeze on to some trains and be cold for a few hours.

someday i will get to tell the seed* about how i ran the streets of DC with daddy and _______(insert your names here) the day we inaugurated our first black president. i plan on racking up a significant amount of anecdotes and stuff, and i can only do that from in the thick of things.

so basically, i am posting this to implore you to think about how much this event means and how much you will thank yourself later for taking part in it. it's gonna be super awesome, i promise.

*the seed is what we are hereby referring to our unborn child as until the day he or she is born.

oh, nike, you are an advertising juggernaut

i know i must be watching waaaaay too much tv when i can say that i have a favorite commercial, but i have a favorite commercial. and here it is.

FATE.

dream come true.