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| Thursday, December 29th, 2011 | | 4:09 pm |
Dream Journal: 12-29-11
Two nights ago, I had the thought of trying to better remember my dreams. The night before last, I experienced surreal dreams involving people from my past in strange circumstances, only remotely connected to anything I've experienced in life. Today, I've been dragging ass on account of awaking earlier than usual on account of some particularly disturbing apocalyptic dreams. The narrative or sequence of the dream is too bizarre to recount, but the final bit involved a classroom setting exposed in a larger building, and, essentially, the devil, materializing in an anteroom while I ran out of the building, and woke up. The final bit of my dream was a girl screaming "Ahhhh, it's the Devil!" Also, relevant, was the fact that there were multiple apocalyptic scenarios being simultaneously played out. It was as if every apocalyptic myth I've heard was present. Strange, because I'm the last person to think of such things... | | Wednesday, April 27th, 2011 | | 11:37 am |
My Lily -- Poem
Wandering through a valley, I came across a peculiar lily. Without a thought, I drew it from the ground, carried it with me, and planted it in fresh soil. In time, with care and on its own accord, it grew into a beautiful and serene presence in my life. Its velvety curves soothed my soul, and its scent stirred me. It seemed to smile at me, blissful; it countenanced me, and I it. It was no longer a presence, but a part of me. It was an emanation of myself, and I it, an invisible dimension of my being. When the soil dried and the cold came, I did nothing. I awoke to discover that my lily had gone. My pain silently gnaws, an impression on my soul, like a cat leaves upon a blanket or an empty bird nest, my invisible lily-self present, but no longer inhabited. My soul cries for it. - Stephen Menendian, 4.27.11 | | Tuesday, April 26th, 2011 | | 11:39 am |
The X-Files
It's no secret that X-Files is probably one of my favorite television shows of all time, if not my favorite, next to The Prisoner, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and I, Claudius. The X-Files arrived at the perfect moment of my life. I began watching the X-Files when I was in middle school. The X-Files aired on Friday nights, which was suited me as an 8th grader, since I spent every Friday evening at home. The first episode I caught live was the 4th, and it was unremarkable. The episode that "hooked" me was Genderbringer, a story about an Amish-like community. Fearing what we don't understand, the X-Files tapped into a deep fear I had of the Amish at the age of 13. Then, when the season one finale arrived, and Deep Throat was murdered, I shed tears. In the last year and half, I have had the opportunity -- thanks to Netflix -- to watch the entire series again, straight through, from Season One to the second film, "I Want to Believe." I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to pen some observations on the series as a whole, it's parts, and to make a gratuitous Top Ten favorite episodes list. The general reputation of the series -- and one which I probably held since I stopped watching the series religiously when I went to college -- was that the series suffered a quality decline after Season 5 or 6, depending on who you ask. Upon review, this reputation is actually unwarranted. If anything, the first season has more weaker episodes than any of the later seasons. In watching the series through, there is a major disjuncture in the series, but it is when the series moved from Vancouver to LA. The moody settings and environments of Vancouver could not be replicated in the US, and that marks a shift in feel, if not quality, in the series as a whole. The second thing I would say is that the later seasons, particularly season 6, hold up quite well. A big reason for that is both the performance of Gillan Anderson, who really steps up in the absence of David Duchovny, and Robert Patric, who does an underappreciated job at John Doggett. I should also mention James Pickens as FBI Deputy Director James Kersh, who is just as phenomenal, if not better, at scene chewing as William B. Davis was as The Smoking Man in the earlier seasons. Pickens put on an unbelievably great performance. I think the problem -- and a big reason why people think the show "jumped the shark" after season 5 or 6 -- is that the so-called "mythology" arc sort of collapses under its own weight. The conspiracy that was so sinister in the earlier episodes disintegrates, and the replacement isn't as enigmatic or interesting. Nonetheless, the non-mythology episodes are just as strong as earlier seasons. Finally, I was struck by the unbelievably acting of so many guest-stars. In fact, in Season Nine alone, two major "Lost" stars appear: Michael Emerson (in Sunshine Days) and Terry O'Quinn (in Trust No1). Michael Emerson's performance as Ben Linus in Lost is probably the most outstanding in the series, and he does a great job in the penultimate episode of the X-Files as well. Most people like to list the triumverate of Clyde Buckman's Final Repose, Post-Modern Prometheous, and Jose Chung's From Outer Space as the most critically acclaimed episodes. Those episodes are each great, and to them I would add quirky episodes like Improbable. But these episodes don't make my top 10 list. Not because they aren't great, but because I don't think they are the best. Without further adieu, my Top 10 X-Files Episodes: 10. Invocation (Season 8) This is one of the creepiest episides of all time. I actually had to turn it off, watching it late at night, because it was too scary. It's not creepy like the earlier episodes, it's just more terrifying. 9. Bad Blood (Season 5) Luke Wilson stars in this one It's a funny and scary episode, and it's highly entertaining with many twists and turns in the plot. 8. Terms of Endearment (Season 6) This episode has Bruce Campbell, a demon, trying to impregnate a woman and have a healthy human boy, rather than a demonic child. It's hilarious, scary, and creepy. 7. Humbug (Season 2) This is the circus episode. Hilarious and unforgettable. 6. Irresistible (Season 2) People think of Eugene Tooms as the classic X-Files villian. I would submit Donnie Pfaster, creepy fetishist, and implied demon. Great episode. 5. Beyond the Sea (Season 1) The best episode from the first season, starring Brad Dourif, as a condemned psychic playing a Silence of the Lambs role to Scully. The opening sequence is haunting, and the ending is poignant. Brilliantly acted; unforgettable. 4. Drive (Season 6) The "Speed" episode, where Bryan Cranston plays a man who is very ill, and will die if he stops driving. The end is one of the best endings of any episode of X-Files. 3. Small Potatoes (Season 4) Eddie Van Blundt is a human chameleon, and impregnates a bunch of women while disguised as their infertile husbands. This episode is hilarious, dangerous and poignant. 2. Home (Season 4) Commonly regarded as the greatest episode in the series, this episode also embodies the qualities of great episodes: it's creepy, funny, and horrifying all at once. The premise is brilliant, although the execution is sometimes muddled. The awesome Johnny Mathis song at the end really drives home how great this episode is. 1. Die Hand Die Verletzt (Season 2) This is what the X-Files is all about. It's creepy as hell, witty, and funny. The opening sequence is arguably the best in the entire series: it's a seemingly conservative school board debating whether to allow a production of Jesus Christ Superstar. That is, until they begin praying to the devil. This episode is scary, and just plan awesome. I'm not sure if it deserves to be my "number one" episode, but it sort of fell here by default. It's a great episode. Honorable Mentions: * All Soul's. This is the absolute best opening sequence of any X-Files episode. Family adopts and loves quadropolegic disabled daughter, who is stricken in the middle of the street by an angel (?), with her eyes smote out, as the father rushes up in the pouring rain to embrace his daughter. Utterly unforgettable. WATCH this episode just to see this sequence. It's chilling every time I watch it. * Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose: Named by TV Guide as the 10th Best TV Episode of All Time. I wish I could fit it into my top 10. I probably will if this is revised. * The Rain King (Season 6) This is part of a sequence of just top notch episodes in the first half of Season 6. This episode is deeply entertaining about a huckster who can make it rain for a drought stricken town. * Elegy. This would have been 12th on my list. It's about an autistic man who can see ghosts. Creepy and scary. * Hungry: poses the question of what it means to be a monster. Does so better than a later episode "Lord of the Flies." Some interesting twists in this one. Creepy and funny. * Je Souhaite (Season 7). This episode very nearly made my top 10. It's hilarious and brilliant. It's about a genie that grants three wishes. Watch this to see Mulder's three wishes. Also, the bit between Scully and the Harvard researchers is sickeningly tragic. * The Host -- arguably the most iconic X-Files monster of all time. Really unsettling episode. Probably among the best "monster of the week" episodes of the entire series. * Folie A Deux -- Unbelievably creepy metaphor for modern life. Man who works in a cubicle thinks his boss is a monster. * Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man. Really entertaining. * Little Green Men. With Anasazi this may be one of the best mythology episodes. The opening sequence is scary as hell, and the whole episode is terrifying. *X-Cops was actually laugh-out-loud hilarious. * Darkness Falls (season 1) No other episode epitmizes the creepiness of shooting in Vancouver. Great episode. Could have easily made top 10. Final Thoughts: What's interesting is how little attention the major mythology episodes got in my Top Episode list. They don't seem to hold their own against the other episodes. | | Monday, April 18th, 2011 | | 5:05 pm |
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Yet Another Wild Weekend
So.... this weekend, I: * went to the gym Friday night, after a rather long symposium. * Went to The Lounge in Gahanna for a drink, only to discover that it was Latin night. Instead, I went to Onyx and had a drink. The place was actually not dead. * Woke up Saturday morning around 8:15 to run in the Akita 5K. I did. I ran 27 minutes. I am still sore. * Went to lunch with my mom at Bob Evans. * Watched part of Empire of the Sun (boooorrrring), and did some housework. * Went out with Travis to Mynt, Gasworks, and Cantina. We had a great time. * Woke up Sunday, pretty tired, and met john for lunch, went to my great Aunt's 99th birthday party (she's doing pretty well!), and then to the gym, and then cooked dinner, and watched part of Clint Eastwood's "Hereafter." Sleep | | Monday, March 15th, 2010 | | 9:05 pm |
Why Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, and Alien: Resurrection is the ‘Best’ Alien Movie
Why “Alien” is the Best Alien Movie: Alien is a masterpiece, and a landmark in American cinema. Reference to it can probably be found in any major cinematic textbook on American or even world film. It’s one of the highlights on Ridley Scott Hall of Fame resume. Unfortunately, the film does not get the credit it deserves for one simple reason: this is a film that must be viewed in the theatre (I had that pleasure thanks to the 25th Anniversary re-release). When viewed the way it was intended, it draws you into itself. Scenes that seem slow on a television are intensely enveloping. Details are imperceptible on a small screen that become riveting in a theatre, such as the scale and grandeur of the alien ship, and the desolateness of the alien world. The film is full of brilliant turns. The chestburster scene was filmed in such a way that some of the actors weren’t even aware of what was going to happen. Their horror was in large part genuine.
This films message is one that is reiterated throughout the quadrilogy, but most first and most brilliantly made here: the real monster isn’t the alien, it’s us and corporate greed.
Why “Aliens” is the Best Alien Movie: James Cameron. ‘Nuff said. This film is an experience, and one that upended the themes of the first. The first was a horror film; this film upped the ante. This was a science fiction action blockbuster, like most of Cameron’s films. It carried through the themes of the first; corporate greed and death, but it juxtaposed testosterone-filled marine sequences with Sigourney Weaver’s maternal care for the orphaned Newt. This film was primordially about life and death; about survival and the instincts of motherhood amid carnage. This was carried to the heights in the final sequence in which we encounter the Alien Queen egg-layer. Unforgettable, this is the most powerful of the quadrology, and is by far the most popular. Why Alien 3 is the Best Alien Movie: Alien 3 is easily the film most people regard as the weakest of the four films. The irony is that it’s actually the best. This is the debut film of David Fincher, and the script is by far the most intimate. It derives its power from the themes of the first two, from the knowledge of Newt’s death and the desire for motherhood, from the greed of the company, from the experience with the Aliens, but crescendos. The first film was as much about the Aliens as it was about us. This film, more than either of the first two films, centers on us. The filmmakers strip down the film rather than try to top James Cameron’s scenery busting action blockbuster. Instead, Charles S. Dutton and a cast of british theatre actors provide heft and gravitas to a portrait of penal isolation and desperation. It’s consequently the best acting of the quadrilogy. It’s a stirring film about life and death that only builds from the opening shot. Lance Henrikson’s reprisal of his character in the final sequences is by far the most compelling and emotionally stirring scene of the entire quadrilogy. Denied her maternal role, Weaver’s sacrifice is as a mother for a species – us. She is literally a Christ figure for the sin of corporate greed. Alien 3 is the most intense psychological journey of the entire quadrilogy. It’s what Alien: Resurrection hoped to be. But it could not work without its predecessors, and that’s what makes it the best of the four. Because of the incredible, nearly unparalleled success of the first two films, this film remains overlooked, misunderstood and completely unappreciated. Too many people who get off on the second film were poorly primed to appreciate this film. It’s as different from the first two as the first two are from each other. That’s the beauty of it. Why “Alien: Resurrection” is the Best Alien Movie The Alien quadrilogy is probably the only film series where the imprint of each film is found in the director, with each film a unique director, and consequently a totally unique experience. No where is that more true than in Alien: Resurrection, a product of the vision of French auteur, Jean-Pierre Jeanet. Jeanet weaves a truly bizarre tale of greed and militarism in the far-flung future. The same tropes exist: an unexpected android, a greedy corporation/military, scientific arrogance, motherhood, and life and death. Because Jeanet brings the most unique vision, it is the most enduring of the four films. Ripley’s moment of reflection where she comes to understand the nature of her revival is a scene of horrifying knowing. The Alien films have great casts. Alien has John Hurt, Ian Holm, Tom Skeritt, Veronica Cartright, among others. This film has the greatest overall star power for a cast and overall ensemble of the quadrilogy. Ron Perlman, a favorite figure in Jeanet films, and more recently known for his portrayal of Hellboy, makes a star turn. Brad Dourif is probably the greatest living American character actor. | | 6:48 pm |
Highlights from this weekend: Friday Night: Sarah Jones performance, at the Lincoln Theatre! Check out her TED talkSaturday: I presented on a 9AM panel on the Recovery and the Stimulus Then, I went home, took a nap, went to the gym, and watched Alien 3
I started to Indy, but ended up turning around.
Sunday: Went to the Wexner Center , then for a swim. | | Friday, February 26th, 2010 | | 5:02 pm |
Rewind: "Philadelphia"
I finally summoned the courage to watch the film "Philadelphia" again, a film that had deeply affected me as a youngster, perhaps in ways I'm beginning to appreciate. The film stars the duo of Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, both attorneys pursuing justice in their own way. Hanks is the big-firm anti-trust plaintiff attorney. Washington is the ambulance chaser with courtroom flourish. Hanks contracts HIV, conceals his illness, and sues his former employer for wrongful dismissal. The film's themes resonate today as powerfully as they did when the film was released with the issues of gay marriage and Don't Ask, Don't Tell in the headlines. The greatest line in the film is a line that every aspiring law student should remember. On cross-examination, Tom Hanks is asked what it is that he loves the most about the law:
"What I love most? Is that every now and again... not often, but occasionally... you get to be a part of justice being done." | | Monday, February 22nd, 2010 | | 12:03 pm |
This Weekend
Friday night my family had dinner at the Worthington Inn to celebrate my sister's birthday! Saturday, I woke up with a headache :p I rented Man On Wire. It was great! I went swimming at the gym, and worked out for a while. Then, I watched the film Adam, about a young man with Asperger's Syndrome. Finally, Nikol and I went out to Onyx. Yesterday, I play cards :) | | Sunday, February 21st, 2010 | | 9:59 pm |
Provocative Title: What's So Great About Being Nice, Anyway?
There is a great book by Ralph Keyes called the Post-Truth Era. He documents the ways in which we constantly lie to each other. The average person lies dozens of times a day. We do it for many reasons: to grease the wheels of interaction, to curry favor, to gain advantage, etc. What's more important? Being nice or being honest? What is it we value more? I'm actually wondering. Sometimes I wonder if our values are wrong. Our politics has been rightly criticized from the left and the right for being more about a popularity competition than technical competence. What would you rather have in a brain surgeon, excellence in skill or a nice bedside disposition? As a shareholder would you rather have a CEO you like and is good with people, or a great strategic and financial mind? Would you rather work with someone who is cold and distance, but highly competent, or someone who is less competent but you like personally? I also think we confuse being a 'good' person with being 'nice.' What if someone dedicated their lives to helping people in poverty, but was, interpersonally, very difficult to get along with? It would be difficult to say that that person wasn't a good person. What made Scrooge a bad person was that he wasn't just; he didn't pay his employees fairly, etc. The problem with Scrooge is that he wasn't just *and* he was interpersonally intolerable. We have too many people we let off the hook who are interpersonally great, but unjust. I'd rather have the opposite. People say that James Cameron is a jerk. But look at what he's done. Is "Nice" overrated? Are we too sensitive in this society to other people's feelings? Should people be more indifferent, and less sensitive? I'm not suggesting -- even remotely -- that we should be mean or rude to each other, but I do wonder if we compromise more important values in the interest of being sensitive... If we value 'goodness,' competence, and honestly, then why do we so often compromise these to people we think are cool or nice? | | Monday, February 1st, 2010 | | 5:42 pm |
TV: Lost
A friend lent me the first season of LOST on DVD, and I just finished watching it this weekend. I had seen the first few episodes live, so I knew the premise. This show is about the enlightenment. It strikes me as no coincidence that many of the main characters share the names of major enlightenment thinkers like John Locke and Rousseau. The show poses the possibility of a return to eden, a pre-enlightenment paradigm of myth and magic. In the final episode of the season, this issue is raised directly: Jack as the man of science versus John, the man of faith. I don't know how the producers of the show will ultimately answer this question, but there can only be one answer. There can be no return to eden. We have been cast out forever. But that doesn't mean that science is, and always will be, the answer. | | Friday, January 22nd, 2010 | | 11:45 am |
Obama: A Year In Review
A year of hope wilted. The ambition of the young Obama administration has been, by and large, thwarted. Worse, steady governance and a competent administration has not turned around the economy or brought two wars to an end. What happened? The Obama administration is a technically proficient organism. It ran a brilliant campaign with discipline and panache. It tried to govern in the same way: technical brilliance. It retreated into the White House to begin the job of governing, the business of running the government day-to-day. And that's where it failed. It stopped campaigning 14 months ago. The right never stopped campaigning. The conservative radio, the right wing pundits, fox news, and the Republicans never stopped campaigning. They were the loudest voice, and have been for the last year. Even the euphoria and good will that Obama still had from a powerful campaign could not sustain itself. The turning point? The turning point was the disastrous health care town halls this summer. The Dems opened the door to let all of that bile and anger, stirred up by the conservative right, a platform. Before that, the tea parties were a joke. They were a fringe laughing stock. The town halls gave them not only a mainstream voice, but mainstream attention. They became a news story. The Obama administrations response? Has it been to launch ads in support of its programs? Rev up the campaign? The exact opposite. It has retreated into the world of governing, the opaque legislative process and technical administration. Obama has failed because he and his administration ended their campaign and the right never did. | | Monday, January 4th, 2010 | | 11:35 am |
Friends
This is sort of a pre-New Year's resolution, but it's one that couldn't have come at a more appropriate time. One of my goals this year is to create more friendships, nurture friendships I already have, and tend to them. I will take opportunities to meet new people as they arise, and use that to live life to the fullest! May 2010 kick butt! | | 11:19 am |
New Years Resolution
In the new year, I'd like to get back to journal writing. It's cathartic and it allows me to brain dump ideas and thought roaming around inside me. I had a wonderful new year's eve, and rang in the new year in a relaxed atmosphere. I went to First Friday's at Club Fire and had a wonderful time. I saw Sherlock Holmes this weekend, and watched "Friday" for the first time on DVD. I hit the gym pretty hard this weekend as well, and had my first workout with Joe Bushman. | | Monday, July 27th, 2009 | | 9:48 am |
This Weekend
* Tried to go to the jazz/rib fest this weekend. Waited in line for 40 minutes when they shut the whole thing down at 10pm. I was half way through the line and famished. * It poured Saturday. Got to the pool around 7pm. Cooked ribs on the grill. Went to Onyx later on. * Picked dad up from Sunrise, took him to Wyandot Park, dinner at Bravo for my Aunt's birthday, and then to his house to play with Kipper. | | Friday, March 13th, 2009 | | 2:03 pm |
Nightmares 3/13/09
Last night, I had a succession of nightmares, a very rare occurrence. I first woke up around 2AM and there was this very strange pulse in the deep middle of my head. As I sat up in the darkness, I felt this brain pulse flicker. As I stared out over my bead, a shape looked like a face in the black sheets, and it became more vivid -- more dreamlike -- with the pulse. I flipped on my bed lamp and it was just a box of tissues. Of the many dreams I experienced last night, here are some of my remembrances: * Someone shooting campers in a summer camp I used to work. Me criticizing the camp director, and being told to leave. As I was walking out I loudly said "It's time for someone else to run this camp," and some light applause from fellow counselors as I walked out the door. * Me running down a dark tunnel in a very large, but dark structure trying to escape the camp/prison, which has now been taken over by criminals. * An escape attempt as I ran out into a street begging people to give me a ride out of town. I promised 50 dollars to anyone who would give me a lift. Someone let me in their tiny, crowded red car. * Another escape attempt (I think I woke up, fell back asleep and resumed the previous dream) as I ran along a corridor/tunnel attempting escape, along the edge of a road or railroad track, getting some additional traction off of a scooter, skates, or some sort of segway-like devise. Just around the bend the gang was waiting for me. One pointed a gun at me and I flicked up my up just as the bullet was being fired and smacked the gun. I continued my flight. That's all I can remember... but the dreams were vivid and intense. I only wish I could remember more! | | Monday, January 26th, 2009 | | 3:12 pm |
Movie Reviews: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire
Benjamin Button is an adaptation of a F. Scott Fitzgerald short story. The film traces the life of Benjamin Button, a man who ages backward. The film is beautifully acted and skillfully shot. It had difficulty getting over that Forest Gump and "Big Fish" feel, both of which are films of similar quality and scale. But unlike those films, I had to ask: what is the point of this movie? To a certain extent, it's merely the intrigue of a man who ages backward. That's not enough to sustain a film, even as it weaves a web of relationships that are shattered by time. One of the things I really enjoyed is the attention to detail, especially the old-timey scenes from the early 20th Century, since the movie so powerfully conveyed that era's aesthetic.
**1/2 of 4
Slumdog Millionaire
The narrative structure of this film follows a young, Mumbai resident as he answers trivia questions on the Indian analog to "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire"? The questions are the frame for the story, and each question triggers a flashback explaining how the protagonist discovered the answer. This is probably the best movie I've seen in 2008. It does so much, it's hard to know where to begin.
The movie so vividly and effectively conveys many of the horrors of modern life, not simply in India, but as manifested in India. It touches on them, and moves along like a frog leaping from lillypad to lillypad accross a pond. Things such as the mutiliation and exploitation of children, ethnic violence, extreme poverty and childhood prostitution, government corruption are all forced down the pallet, and they are done in such a matter-of-fact way of reality that it never felt like preaching or emotional manipulation.
The story is entrancing, almost lyrical. It is not simply one of the most beautiful and best films I saw from 2008, it might be one of the better films I've ever seen.
**** (of four)
| | Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 | | 11:42 pm |
OSU v. Michigan!
I have tickets for the big game this Saturday! Can't Wait! Go Bucks! | | Thursday, November 6th, 2008 | | 12:28 pm |
A New Birth of Freedom
I first heard Obama in person over a year ago here in Columbus (http://smmenen.livejournal.com/78404.html ). But I was already on board well before that. I read his second book, “The Audacity of Hope,” in 2006. I watched with great emotion when he announced his candidacy for President on TV beamed into my living room from frigid Illinois in early February, 2007.
I did some phone banking for Obama in the primary, but became part of a neighborhood team by the general. I canvassed as much as I could and even held a BBQ in my yard, which ended prematurely thanks to our preternatural windstorm caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ike. But on November 4, I had the opportunity to run two major sweeps through a northside neighborhood as part of a GOTV (Get Out the Vote) effort. After completing our packets of running through trailer parks and through apartment complexes and driving around neighborhoods, we were instructed to just cold knock in some neighborhoods. We even managed to find some voters who just needed rides to the polls. I was very disappointed to discover that over 25% of the voters in our precinct, a heavily African American ward, were being improperly told to vote on provisional ballots. We arrived back at the Obama office around 8PM to begin hearing the results come in. Ohio wasn’t called until later that evening when I arrived at the Dem headquarters at the Renaissance hotel.
I knew that we had it. After walking through Columbus all day, I could tell that our turnout was going to make the difference. People whom I doubt have ever voted, let alone paid attention to politics before, had already voted in this election. People were milling around in the streets, the air was electric and the sense of anticipation was palpable. The conversations that were had that day are memorable and striking, and someday I will recount some of them.
It’s still an incredible feeling. My entire adult life I have supported losing candidates. To have the best man finally win is an incredible vindication. I realize that there may never be another moment like this in my life, where the person I so fervently admire and respect wins the highest office. Obama managed to weave a story of America and her values into a coherent campaign for the Presidency. Little wonder he won. | | Monday, November 3rd, 2008 | | 11:44 am |
Precipice of History
I'm allowing myself to feel the possibility that tomorrow will bring. Can you feel it? |
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