Tuesday, November 11, 2008

It's Been A Long, Long, Long, Long Time

It's been a long time since I posted. I've been very busy helping with the new Fairfield Playroom (hauling, scraping & painting, installing rubber flooring, etc.), working on our house & on our new garage (building shelves & a cat condo, hanging bikes & such from the ceiling, caulking & painting, fixing/replacing baseboard heaters, etc.), working at my job (I had a 3 month dry spell & a lot of bad luck at my job after my dad died), dealing with my dad's estate (lots of bullshit with one of my dad's investment companies), worrying & obsessing about the election (donating money to Obama's campaign, ordering & displaying t-shirts, bumper stickers & signs, sending emails, buying flags, reading Salon.com, TheStranger.com, FiveThirtyEight.com, Gallup.com, etc.), being a (generally) good & dutiful father & husband, and also endlessly blathering on & on re: how very busy I am.

Anyhoo, I just wanted to offer a few final thoughts on this election.

First of all, it feels so amazing, moving & great to have voted for & helped elect the first African-American POTUS. Also, the first Muslim POTUS, the first Socialist POTUS, & the first Terrorist POTUS.

YES WE CAN! YES WE CAN! YES WE CAN!

Incidentally, Obama stole "Yes we can!" from Bob The Builder. ("Can we do it? Yes we can!") But Bob The Builder is, like Joe The Plumber, not licensed & does not pay taxes--so fuck him.

I bought my wife an "Obama Mama" t-shirt, & our 2-yr-old son loves to say "Obama Mama". I might create & sell t-shirts that say: Obama Llama, Obama Comma, Obama Dalai Lama, Obama Brahma, Obama Musical Drama, Obama Pajama, Obama Fujiyama.

YES I MIGHT! YES I MIGHT! YES I MIGHT!

I think it's hilarious that there are so many wingnut whackjobs out there who think that Obama is not a Christian, that he is the Anti-Christ, that he used his Anti-Christ powers to get people to foolishly vote for him, etc. (Check out SNL alum & crazy religious freak Victoria Jackson's website.

I think it would be equally hilarious if it turned out that Obama is actually the Second Coming of Christ. (After all, Christ was a non-white & a Socialist.) Then Obama would smite all of these stupid, non-believing whackjobs. Oh the irony.

Speaking of irony, I think it's such a shame that some of the biggest Democrats died this yr & didn't live to see Obama elected President--namely George Carlin, Studs Terkel, Kurt Vonnegut, Paul Newman, & Madelyn Dunham (Obama's grandmother). Also, my dad.

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