What must be done…………….
Annette | November 9, 2008
Today, in Italy,
Annette | November 6, 2008
my beloved Gil went to work at the high school where he teaches kids English.
This is what he wrote to me:
When I got to class today I found that I was going to be reading Obama’s speech to two classes! It was a wonderful and strange experience. We did it line by line, and explained [...]
From Larry, today …………..
Annette | November 5, 2008
He said, “An abandoned gas station in Kalamazoo never looked so good.
“Gone the next morning, but it was enough.”
Good manners
Annette | November 5, 2008
If we are properly raised, we understand and applaud the practice of thank-you notes. The proper kind, personalized and timely. We are nothing but Bush partisans without good manners.
Today, we got a thank-you note.
Waking up in a different America this morning,
Annette | November 5, 2008
I felt like I’d had ‘way too much to drink, but, in fact, there’d been no drinking at all. It was just the headiness of the events of the night before, the day before, the year before. All of it came together at 11:04 pm last night when CNN said, “Barack Obama is [...]
My home commonwealth went for Obama,
Annette | November 5, 2008
my adopted Commonwealth of Virginia went for Obama, adding yet another Democratic Senator, no less.
The whole world is watching. The silliness is over, and the work can now begin in earnest.
The world is happy.
Your dream came true today, Martin………
Annette | November 5, 2008
And now it begins………….
Annette | November 4, 2008
He asked me to call him, because he was going to be where he couldn’t see TV or be online, and so I’ve been leaving messages for him all night, once talking to him when he had a moment.
Just now, I left him the sweetest message of all: “We won, honey. Barack Obama [...]
This one’s for you, Chimpy Fucknuts,
Annette | November 4, 2008
the former (and forever) Fuckface:
In 1968, in Chicago,
Annette | November 4, 2008
during the Democratic National Convention, a chant went up as the police beat up the people who were there, demonstrating against the American presence in Vietnam, the corruption of the whole political process.
And a chant went up and up and up.
As the police savagely beat the kids, the other demonstrators shouted, “The whole [...]
Where Larry wants to be tonight,
Annette | November 4, 2008
where everyone wants to be tonight.
They say there will be a million people in Grant Park tonight. A million people. I would not have believed 90,000 in Manassas, VA at 10 pm on a Monday night, and yet, last night, that’s what happened.
A million people……………..
The most beautiful Obama supporters………….
Annette | November 4, 2008
This morning, on this day of days,
Annette | November 4, 2008
Princess Ava received a gift of a couple of magic wands. No true Princess would be complete without her wand, and someone just happened to have some lying around. So little Sleepyhead was presented with her wands, and now, with her Mommy, is on her way to the voting place so that Mommy [...]
Good Morning, Election Day 2008
Annette | November 4, 2008
The skies are cloudy, there’s a bit of a chill in the air, but it’s not cold. They’re calling for some drizzle later this morning, but not much. Unspectacular weather. People in long lines everywhere, waiting to vote. Millions have already voted. Someone referred to our current squatter in the [...]
Obama’s grandma died last night ……..
Annette | November 3, 2008
He spoke about her at a rally in Charlotte, NC today.
He cried.
Consider these words…………
Annette | November 3, 2008
“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt.
“People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”
[...]
From Leonard Cohen, a Canadian…….
Annette | November 3, 2008
Today, tomorrow, we need all the hope we can get………..
My Norwegian friend……..
Annette | November 2, 2008
We were discussing, online, the book, “Bush On The Couch,” a brilliant dissection of the psyche of this utter fraud who’s currently squatting in the Oval Office. My Norwegian friend, whose English is only slightly faulty and a lot better than a lot of natural-born Americans, has that book, has read it, in English. [...]
An Inaugural Address…………..
Annette | November 2, 2008
WHEN four years ago we met to inaugurate a President, the Republic, single-minded in anxiety, stood in spirit here. We dedicated ourselves to the fulfillment of a vision—to speed the time when there would be for all the people that security and peace essential to the pursuit of happiness. We of the Republic [...]
Who was the most beautiful princess……….
Annette | November 1, 2008
………. on Halloween?
Why, Tippy Toe Princess Ava, of course.
