With Apologies to Baboons
A little old lady accosted me in the Vons parking lot yesterday, as I was rushing to get the girls in and out of the store before a tantrum erupted. She wanted me to know she thought it was great that I put a Kerry sticker on my car, and said she thought I was really brave. Actually, having such a sticker in Orange County would be truly brave (I was cussed out regularly for stickers of progressive nature there), but here I see so many of them I don’t really worry. I thanked her, and told her it was my hope that people wouldn’t slash the tires of a girl with two little toddlers. “I hope to God we win,” she said as we parted. “Me too,” I said.
As a local friend put it in an e-mail: “George is a fuckin’ lunatic. How can anybody be so stupid as to cast a vote for that shit-spewing baboon? With apologies to baboons, natch. I’m very scared with this election. Very scared…”
During my short walks with the girls, I’ve been taking note of which houses have the Bush signs out front, and which ones have the Kerry ones. It’s hard to detect a real pattern, but it does seem like the Bush ones tend to pop up on the lawns of either A) really new, fancy-ass houses (there’s a duh), or B) old, tiny little shacks (clearly a case of the poor chickens voting for the fox). You see Kerry signs everywhere else. It’s been quite heartening to see JK signs and stickers at least twice as much as the signs for the Evil One. (Or Grand Stupid One, depending on your point of view). Election time was the most depressing time of all to be in Orange County. Half the people didn’t care, the other half that did care consistently voted for the party that celebrated the terrific family-values of divisiveness and pure greed.
We don’t have a lawn, so no signs for us. Maybe it’s just as well.
Not that I need any reminding, but here’s a little clip about the lying liars.
Oh yeah, some new photos are up. I am SO digging Flickr. I didn’t think I would, but the more I use it the more I have been falling in love with it. It’s so much better than a plain photoblog in a lot of ways…there are so many connections you can make with other people, it’s a whole community unto itself. Oh yeah, and I got three comments in less than eight minutes of posting my last batch…that was nice too. With my last photoblog–which was run by Moveable Type–it was more like three comments every few months. Ha. And it always bugged me the way the look didn’t match the rest of the site. So this morning I went for a Flickr Pro account, as I forsee myself spending an awful lot of time there. Flickr rocks.
I’m with you on the Flickr thing. (Literally… I just found your site through your page there.) I’m not entirely sure why I’m so hooked on it, but it just does everything right. I never found much use for photo sites before, I preferred to host everything myself. But it’s just so easy now to push a photo out of iPhoto into Flickr and not have to deal with making a gallery for it. And I love browsing through it to see what other people are doing. As you say, it rocks.