rock over London. rock on, Chicago.

edit: speaking of Dave, his brother, Jay, is coming to DC. I know this guy!

I’m watching a movie called ‘BloodMonkey’ with F Murray Abraham.

I’ve been laying off writing about politics for a while.
going back, at stretches, I’d write something every day, whether it was worth it or not. but in the last few days politics has devolved into stupid rednecks feeding off the political energy, screaming oaths against Obama. Williams Ayres. this ACORN bullshit.
McCain’s campaign is thrashing about like a wildebeest that just took a sideful of buckshot at close range. a dying animal, surprised and terrified by its impending mortality. bleating as it kicks up a cloud of dust on the living Savanna. desperation in its huge, wild eyes. if the wildebeest manages to get its legs underneath it, it might make it for a few more weeks … shit, it could maybe even win the election. but it’s very close to requiring a mercy killing.
John Kerry is on MSNBC right now. Kerry is an incorrigible asshole, but he’s a hilarious political attack dog. they come so easily to him, his rants on Republicans. it’s because these rants are paraphrases of everything he desperately wanted to say to George Bush in 2004, and now he can say it; you can see that he’s an intelligent man, albeit also stiff and vanilla, and he’s less detestable in this role. “catharis, John. let her rip.”

but tomorrow — or more precisely, in about eight hours – I’m taking the train up to NYC to hang out with Phil. in my phone, his number is listed as “Phils dumb ass”. this makes me laugh whenever he calls. this trip was kind of planned around the debate, so I need to get my ass in gear and start enjoying politics again.
so, with that, I’ll say that I saw Kathleen Parker talking to Stephen Colbert the other night, and while I have hated virtually everything I’ve ever read by her (I literally used to read Townhall.com regularly just to keep my boiliing distaste for conservatives at a boiling fever), I must say she’s a lot more likeable now. it probably had something to do that I thought she was pretty hot for a middle-aged woman. but politically, she’s still swine.

I also informed Smith that I’m installing myself on the White Sox bandwagon. I’m putting my goddamn foot down. baseball has grown on me this season, and after the last couple of weeks of hitting doubles and watching the playoffs, I gotta have a horse in the race. 
I back Chicago sports, Bears, Bulls, etc. so, when I was in Ind. a few weeks ago, I was talking baseball with Dave, and he said, “which Chicago team do you back?” Dave is a huge Cubs fan. and before I could answer, he said, “don’t say both.”
around there, you gotta come down on a side. alright, then, Dave, fuck it. White Sox. I’ve always leaned that way anyway, I’ve never just drawn a line in the sand about it.

I should be sleeping.
so I will take a lot of pictures in NYC. I bought a bunch of batteries so the thing doesn’t die on me.
and I’ll be back directly, in two days.