check out my bleached out manhand! don't matter though, i voted and i got proof! yeah, i know i need a manicure.
so yesterday i worked my didyavote like a pro. i ambled around philadelphia's center city and told people that they had an exciting election going on and they needed to get out there and well, be a part of cnn's breaking news. new york's election - we have known the results of that one for at least a year now, but pulling that lever is totally worth having no surprises. and the election support staff - priceless icing.
my co-worker's machine broke while she was using it. a bunch of people in various states were lined up for hours trying to vote and then some judge wouldn't keep the voting centres open so that those people could vote. that's what democrazy is about - judge's decisions. okay so the machines weren't working but if you can't fix it by 7 pm then your vote doesn't count for diddly. my neighbour asked me first "didyavote?" and i smiled, knowing that i was not alone in my campaign.
massachusetts elected its first african american governor - 30 years after a white man stabbed a black man with an american flag. it takes time to learn how to use the american flag - it's not like it comes with an instruction book.
and coop was on all night long. he was running things - going from "so black and so poor" wolf to immigration expert lou dobbs, from republican pundits to democratic pundits, all the while in a fetching red and blue tie(because coop says he doesn't take sides. he tells the whole story... all three hundred and sixty degrees of it). and today the one race that is too close to call is the senate race in virginia involving george "macaca" allen and jim webb - the people of virginia appear to be torn between an alleged racist and an alleged sexist (you gotta love campaign ads). i don't blame them i too would be wondering what part of me would be more offended.
but finally i had to call it quits. me and my purple finger hit the sack and woke up to, wow, a surpise. i knew the democrats had won a majority in the house but 33 seats? just well, yesterday, the republicans had a 23 seat advantage. how quickly things change. you think the people were trying to say something?
i am not sure, i can't hear anything over the sound of another electronic voting screen being shattered.
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I was glued to CNN all election night, far superior in coverage to the other news channels. They've got Coop, plus that nice Hollywood set and the giant wall-sized screen from the 2000 election. You can't beat the giant screen!
OT but your comments on the 2nd picture are very interesting, I was using a hand as a starting point.
However I gave it a title for the sake of a title of 'Form'. It sounds somewhat pretenious but the shapes have no particular meaning but make some sort of sense in my mind so the titles are quite arbitrary.
stomping around my house
becasue the world is my family
baby and i am singing singing
today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
erikku - i adored those giant screens. it was all so hi-tech and exciting with constant updates and glorious colour!
fb - thank you and i must say that i am facsinated by your pictures. thank you for sharing a little background about where it came from. i guess that i too must find titles arbitrary because i can never come up with titles for my work (not drawing, all written).
sophie - i'm stomping and singing too, until my neighbours complain - but they'll only do that after they have finished stomping and singing themselves.
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