celibacy day

if you don't know, read this and this and read this:

if you haven't already gone or sent out your absentee ballot, go out and vote today.

it's sooo serious. i'm not gonna bite off sid and do any subliminal messages (altho that's a fine idea). i have the feeling that of the people that read this blog, i'm preaching to the choir. nonetheless, if any "undecidededs" do happen upon my little side of the universe, lemme make the choice easy for you:
go ahead and pull that lever/punch that chad/touch that screen for kerry. *especially* if you're a woman. *especially* if you're a minority. *especially if you're gay. *especially* if you're anything other than the top 10 percent of income.

it's serious guys.

dude, i was talking to my mom this morning and she said that never in her life did she think she'd go to the polls one day and have police patrolling the polls. it's sooo serious. do you see where we are? we have denegrated to the point that we have to have people patrol the polls to make sure that our democratic process goes through?
it immediately made me think of a lyric/line in the ani difranco song/poem, "self evident":
cuz take away our playstations
and we are a third world nation
under the thumb of some blue blood royal son
who stole the oval office and that phony election
i mean
it don't take a weatherman
to look around and see the weather
jeb said he'd deliver florida, folks
and boy did he ever

and we hold these truths to be self evident:
#1 george w. bush is not president
#2 america is not a true democracy
#3 the media is not fooling me

the fact that we have so many issues with registration and voter disenfranchisement (sp? is that a real word) just makes me think that our country is acountry of contradictions; we are supposedly the richest country in the world, but we still have people struggling to have healthcare, food on the table and we can't even get through an election these days without trouble.

the whole song is the shit. in tribute to election day i may post an mp3 later, if i figure out how to do that.

i just hope that after today, the whole thing is over.

beyond election mess,
i went and saw i heart huckabees last night. very very cool movie. an actual comedy on existentialism! the image of caterine vauban following the existential detectives following albert markovski was soooo funny.
i felt smart watching that movie, as they were weaving all these concepts about existentialism into this madcap funny movie ... add that to the fact that these two women sitting in front of me walked out halfway through.
::dons snobby intellectual cap::
i guess it was too deep for them.
::takes off snobby cap::
heee. at any rate, it makes me want to read up on these concepts, but i have a feeling i'd zone out after an hour. i'll just wait till this movie comes out on dvd.

in the same sort of off-beat/indy movie vein, another wes anderson movie is coming out in december! and it has lots of the same folks from the royal tennenbaums -- bill murray, anjelica houston, the crooked-nosed brother of owen wilson -- i'm excited. :)