More dense harmonic structures
October 26, 2008
Debussy kicked ass, as did Najinsky. But Bakst doesn’t get nearly enough credit for this masterpiece. Does art move in hundred year cycles?
The warrior mindset
October 26, 2008
The weather is so beautiful and the winds so favorable I have decided I’m like a lean Navaho warrior instead of a plump white guy. It is a good day to die. I will kick ass at early voting.
In ear park
October 25, 2008
Department%20Of%20Eagles%20-%20In%20Ear%20Park.mp3
I haven’t bought an album in three years. Buying this one, though.
A Wash
October 23, 2008
I haven’t posted much over the past couple of days because I’ve been too tired to be coherent. I know this hasn’t stopped me before, but I thought I’d give y’all a break.
Today, at least, I can give you the results of a snap-judgment poll I’ve been taking while handing out sample ballots at one of our early voting locations in Person county.
I’m basing my judgments on a few assumptions about behaviors that professional pollsters and politicians would be wise to avoid, or at least, pretend to avoid. Here they are, so you can take them into consideration:
1) There are four black McCain supporters in Person County, one of whom may be leaning Bob Barr now.
2) The Republican shuffle – known by a short shuffling gait and an occasional upward tilt of the head to grimace at blacks or whites draped in a surfeit of Obama gear holding clipboards. Spittle. Pronounced facial tics.
3) The guilty white liberal slink. These people, when they’re not standing at the polls with clipboards, are so convinced of impending redneck voter suppression efforts involving fat, shaven-headed goateed men spilling from the back of a pickup truck with baseball bats, they arrive in Kevlar beanies and vests, sometimes even with a weapons-grade guitar slung over their shoulder. Person County has sixty of them.
4) The intransigently pissed off lifetime Republican voter. An older person who suddenly remembers the great depression with stunning clarity. The tell here is the watery eyes from reading their latest 401K statements.
5) Spontaneous dancing and celebration.
Based on these criteria, I’m seeing (corrected for the common visual disturbances brought on by heavy drinking) Obama: 6. McCain: Nudging 1.
Bye, Lucy.
October 19, 2008
Lucy the emu died last night. My wife is currently setting the bonfire for her. She knows I tend to remember the bad visuals, and how much I loved that silly bird. I married well.
I like to think we improved her little life.
The Killing Floor
October 18, 2008
These are some pictures of the Obama operation in Roxboro, NC.
We first started meeting at Miracles Barbershop on August 9th. The owner, Derrick Pettiford, generously offered us the use of his parking lot as a staging area for canvassing. This was about the time our field organizer from Chicago (a senior at The University of Iowa) showed up, and we began to intensify voter registration efforts.
Miracles is located on the hill where lynchings were carried out from the end of the Civil War up until the early sixties. This tree is probably fairly close to the spot where the atrocities were carried out.
The current phase of the campaign requires wi/fi, phones and printers, so we were offered additional space at “Designs by Gloria”, a small flower and gift shop near the old railhead of the town.
Person County For Obama Office
helping a man from Virginia find a local field office
another interior view
We got word just yesterday that Person county and northern Durham county had the highest first day early voting turnouts in the state.
The McCain campaign’s neck might be broken in little places like this.
Shorter John McCain
October 15, 2008
” I tied my own shoes this morning, and I have the scars to prove it.”
Closing arguments
October 15, 2008
slightly harder to steal
We watched a guy steal our small plastic Obama sign yesterday, so I set this one out on a creosote post. It’s surrounded by IEDs and wired to a motion detector and heat sensors, and I’ve set up a pup tent where I sit at night with a B.A.R. trained on it while I’m throttled on amphetamines and hashish. I am deeply committed to the preservation of this sign.
Well. Not really. But if someone bothers to take this one they deserve it. It’d be work.
Person County for Obama Early Voting Kickoff
October 12, 2008
Not bad, for a redneck town:
A bit of a mess
October 11, 2008
I read somewhere once that farmers and artists are the two most untidy groups of people. What happens when you combine them?
Check this shit out:
Another view:
And finally, the donation tally board that doesn’t look like a dick:
