I was digging deep again, as I do every year or so, into my box of keepsakes and relics that I really don't know why I kept them but did. Stuff I wrote as a kid (some of that, I must say, rather disturbing), old letters of the real life mailed sort, newspaper clippings of miscellany, that have strangely yellowed and gotten brittle already and that shit just ain't right since it seems not so long ago ... whatever, I'm getting old. From the Kansas City Kansan , newspaper that we got delivered daily, Friday, July 25, 1975, I had cut out and kept this one particular article headlined "Youngster completes first novel." I was always writing as a kid, so I remember very well snipping this one item, on account of the twelve-years-old youngster was my same age, and I very much wanted my own novel published. Of course I hadn't written it yet, but I figured this proved I could do it, too, kept it for an affirmation thingy. Over the years I've remembered saving that s...
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ReplyDeleteYes, it is absolutely hilarious that with our nation in the shape it is in 6,000 of the blind faithful could still muster the enthusiasm to show up to hear McBush. (I betcha Palin would have drawn a larger crowd - she's a lot easier on the eyes and much more charming to boot.) Can it be more clear that Americans are ready to try something different now?
ReplyDeleteUsually crowds scare me because of the sea of white faces. Or if the crowd is in China, the sea of Chinese faces. Or if the crowd is in Mexico, the sea of Mexican faces.
ReplyDeleteThere is something unsettling about seeing people who all look alike and think alike in one area.
And then we have the Obama rallies. Wow. A sea of different faces and different philosophies (Democrats and Republicans) who share a common goal: restoring America.
It doesn't get any more beautiful.
Doug - I betcha you're right about the Palin factor. Seems to be his only draw these days, although even she seems to be as of late helping to tighten his noose mostly.
ReplyDeleteFan - Yeppers, we have quite a mix around here, which is a beautiful thing, I agree. Missouri is apparently a swing state and usually goes red, but at least here in my county we're blue through and through and very diverse.