Good morning, America, how are ya?
There will never be an election day as fun as the one I had in 1992. On that first Tuesday in November, I managed to get extremely intoxicated and invite myself over to the next door neighbor's apartment. This neighbor was a friendly guy but happened to be a fairly staunch Christian Conservative. I thought the discourse would be lively, but I managed to pass out on his couch for a couple of hours only to be startled from sleep by his angry wife. She was angry not that I had melted into their furniture but at the fact that Bush the Elder had lost the election to a pot-smoking, draft-dodging adulterer. She wanted a liberal's head, but I calmed her down by saying that I had voted Libertarian (lie) and that Clinton was indeed all of the things she claimed. Her husband, who by this time was playing some war-simulation video game on his Playstation, kept laughing and quoting Bible passages, most of them coming from the southern end of a northern-bound New Testament.
By comparison, today will be pretty boring, I'm sure. I did decide to take a day off from work, so stay tuned for continuing coverage of "How I'm spending my Election Day, 2004." No polls, no breaking news, nothing fair or balanced. Just me, my camera, and a couple of dogs. We'll be watching the sky to see when it starts falling.
Au contraire, Jeff. This is going to be a very fun and painful evening. Nobody's going to get any sleep. My only advice is to refrain from sexual intercourse until the last possible moment. That's what ravenous democracy is all about.
Posted by: Ed | November 02, 2004 at 10:59 AM
Remember, Ed, I'm married. Know what I mean?
Posted by: Jeff | November 02, 2004 at 01:05 PM