November 01, 2004
Who will win?
Watching the media whipsaw back and forth in their slant on the election, desperately trying not to offend the next president and risk being "cut out" of the acceptable news core. Two weeks ago they couldn't say enough about Kerry's "momentum," last week it was Bush's "consistent lead" in the polls, the last two days the "eroding lead" of Bush's security numbers. And all with a kind of forced bafflement: "You mean Osama bin Laden's tape might actually be helping Kerry's chances?" Uh...well, bin Laden's alive and active, isn't he, when Bush's folks have been suggesting he's dead or disabled...
[not to mention the dissappearing explosives story -- bush's flacks repsond to the question of "how do you explain the missing explosives?" with "you don't seem to understand, the explosives are missing..."]
Molly's onto a funny story. Apparently Bush can't get any music for his rallies. Even the writer of "You're still the one" won't let him use it, let alone the preponderance of pop musicians. He's down to, like, Toby Keith and "Hail to the Chief." The main web news, meanwhile, is Eminemn's Mosh video slamming Bush and encouraging young people to vote. (You can almost hear anarchists across the country furrowing their brows).
[well, bush's folks are seeming sweaty and desperate, and my dad reports that he is "rather confident" of a kerry victory, but I don't believe in counting chickens, so...]
holding tight...
Posted by Sam at November 1, 2004 04:28 PM
You have to admit even from a pure theatrical perspective that the end result was an extremely weak let down. The build up, the angry mob ducking out their windows with their black hoodies on, taking over satellite dishes, blasting the cops with fire hoses, storming the building....why is all of that necessary if all you're going to do is line up nice and orderly to vote?
Posted by: eric at November 2, 2004 12:16 PM
the word on the street
out here in hollyhood
kerry's gettin
the turkey rope
so warm up the jesus jocks
the kulturkampf iz a komin'
Posted by: meat me at November 2, 2004 12:51 PM
kerry took communion this past sundee
jesus to johnny
"bite me "
Posted by: pink at November 2, 2004 12:53 PM
On the contrary, eric, I thought it was moving. I believe that hope in actions that are right at hand is lovely. It gives me hope for the next generation: maybe the cult of the "extreme gesture" is coming to an end.
Posted by: sam at November 2, 2004 05:43 PM
I thought it was pretty moving too sam. The first 99% of it a lot more than the last 1%.
I got my black hoodie out of the closet.
What is the cult of the extreme gesture? I would consider voting to be a pretty extreme gesture. A matter of semantics I guess.
Posted by: eric at November 3, 2004 04:53 PM
(more extreme than fighting with the police?)
I'm trying to get at the over-refined sensibilities all uz patty-burgers is raised from seed to have. Only the most-most is suppozed to impress us. Nothing simple or straightforward, nothing at face value. Voting, if it is to be done, has to be freighted with weighty social imperatives and mean much more "to me" than it does to some yahoo.
This weighing-down of the senses produces as it's correlate a fantasy of extremity -- outrunning or overpowering or annihilating the nobless oblige rather than just letting it lie, like you would any other pile of shit...
Posted by: sam at November 8, 2004 11:59 PM
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