Cement Postcard with Owl Colours
Jul. 31st, 2010 11:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rinueToday mostly unremarkable. Worked, read fanfiction, punched back an episode of Charlie Rose that felt alternate reality white is black disorienting. Not in an entirely bad way, but . . . strange. It was with Ehud Barak, currently the Israeli defense minister. I don't know whether to believe him and be hopeful or to be angry with him for jerking me around. (I leave aside the comments that were casually inflammatory.) I don't know why I should have a personal stake in the Mideast peace process, but for some reason I do take it personally. (You can watch it or read a transcript here, if you're interested.)
(It is strange to me that I am so emotionally affected by politics, but don't have an impulse to put energy into it -- to run for office, hand out fliers, volunteer at polling stations, or even write letters to the editor about it. I suppose one could argue what I'm interested in is not politics, but Extremely Contemporary History.)
I also left the interview process with a sinking feeling that Barack Obama could pass healthcare, restore the economy, fix education, fix entitlement programs, fix the deficit, end two American wars, and negotiate peace in the Middle East, and then lose reelection to some postmodern Republicans appealing to what "everyday Americans" know. The fact that such a thing seems plausible to me is horrifying, and I will have to lock it away in my "things not to think about" file. I have so little faith to fall back on these days.
Fortunately, the day ended with "Acadia Sessions," a Maine public television program that profiles local bands in Portland, Maine. Their quality is mixed, as you might imagine, but I always feel like I'm getting away with something, and I get to casually behave as though of course I know the lineups of local bands in Portland, Maine. Today it was Phantom Buffalo, some pretty fun indie neo-psychedelia by art school grads.
(It is strange to me that I am so emotionally affected by politics, but don't have an impulse to put energy into it -- to run for office, hand out fliers, volunteer at polling stations, or even write letters to the editor about it. I suppose one could argue what I'm interested in is not politics, but Extremely Contemporary History.)
I also left the interview process with a sinking feeling that Barack Obama could pass healthcare, restore the economy, fix education, fix entitlement programs, fix the deficit, end two American wars, and negotiate peace in the Middle East, and then lose reelection to some postmodern Republicans appealing to what "everyday Americans" know. The fact that such a thing seems plausible to me is horrifying, and I will have to lock it away in my "things not to think about" file. I have so little faith to fall back on these days.
Fortunately, the day ended with "Acadia Sessions," a Maine public television program that profiles local bands in Portland, Maine. Their quality is mixed, as you might imagine, but I always feel like I'm getting away with something, and I get to casually behave as though of course I know the lineups of local bands in Portland, Maine. Today it was Phantom Buffalo, some pretty fun indie neo-psychedelia by art school grads.
