super tuesday expatriate blues
ever since the 2004 elections, which i spent on the sofa in our old waterloo flat drinking stella, feeling jealous of the people queued up to vote, and praying for kerry to win before falling asleep and waking up to the saddest bbc reporters in the world, i have been missing the american political world. i know, i know, i hate it too, but i fucking love voting. i love the old ladies in the polling place. i love the fact that in chicago somebody named jerry orbach ran for like sewer commissioner, i love the process of voting and i miss it. i even miss the horrible assholish campaign ads.
when i was 15 i won the voice of democracy speech contest at my high school. my speech was about the importance of voting. i won a $100 US bond and i quoted depeche mode.
i didn't even know then how much i would like the physical act of placing my vote (i had a hunch though) and obviously i will be sending in my absentee ballot soon, but man, it's no replacement for the rinky dink experience of voting in a jr high school gym or the church basement or the field house of a local park. i'm serious, i actually like that. i love it. i love the transformation from normal to civics in action.
maybe i should be a civics teacher. i bet i could be a good civics teacher. like mrs martindale who used to give me tootsie rolls every morning because i almost fainted in her class.
have fun voting super tuesday states. think of me while you wait in line at your grubby bingo hall polling places, think of me as you stand behind moth eaten curtains, i'll be thinking of you and sending out a silent prayer to the gods of voting machines to ask that they not be rigged (at least not by the republicans)
OH and if you still aren't sure who to vote for, how about some tips from the music dept at the guardian
Want to see Will Smith get jiggy with Arcade Fire? Your only hope is to vote Obama. Prefer the idea of 50 Cent and Tony Bennett? Vote for Hillary and perhaps come November we'll hear a new version of Fly Me To the Moon, with added gunshots.
http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2252760,00.html
when i was 15 i won the voice of democracy speech contest at my high school. my speech was about the importance of voting. i won a $100 US bond and i quoted depeche mode.
i didn't even know then how much i would like the physical act of placing my vote (i had a hunch though) and obviously i will be sending in my absentee ballot soon, but man, it's no replacement for the rinky dink experience of voting in a jr high school gym or the church basement or the field house of a local park. i'm serious, i actually like that. i love it. i love the transformation from normal to civics in action.
maybe i should be a civics teacher. i bet i could be a good civics teacher. like mrs martindale who used to give me tootsie rolls every morning because i almost fainted in her class.
have fun voting super tuesday states. think of me while you wait in line at your grubby bingo hall polling places, think of me as you stand behind moth eaten curtains, i'll be thinking of you and sending out a silent prayer to the gods of voting machines to ask that they not be rigged (at least not by the republicans)
OH and if you still aren't sure who to vote for, how about some tips from the music dept at the guardian
Want to see Will Smith get jiggy with Arcade Fire? Your only hope is to vote Obama. Prefer the idea of 50 Cent and Tony Bennett? Vote for Hillary and perhaps come November we'll hear a new version of Fly Me To the Moon, with added gunshots.
http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/st
posted by carolyn says @ 8:12 pm
4 Comments:
At 6 February 2008 at 18:26,
Dr. Kenneth Noisewater said…
Am i supposed to know what the music department is talking about? Have the candidates promised band collaborations? I'm so out of it . . .
At 7 February 2008 at 06:48,
carolyn says said…
they haven't promised collaborations just endorsed particular candidates so the Guardian was doing a little wishful thinking (and hoping) that collaborations might come out of political like mindedness
At 8 February 2008 at 14:58,
Alannah said…
Right now my main goal in life is to live long enough to become a little old polling lady.
At 12 February 2008 at 16:35,
5 of 9er said…
For quoting Depeche Mode they should of taken $50 back. :)
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