It's not that I'm apathetic...

...I just can't get excited about today's inauguration. The election of Senator Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States is definitely a ground-breaking one. I understand the feelings of hope people are filled with by his promises of change. I do.

The hype is just not for me. It hasn't been from day one.

A former roommate of mine from when I lived in DC had a facebook status that compared inauguration to "Mardi Gras for dorks." While I disagreed, I did conceed that DC for inauguration would be a bigger cluster fuck. That's for damn sure.

Best of luck to you, President Obama. Make us proud.

As an aside, my co-worker is watching live on her computer and giving me commentary...

CW: wow, you're not even allowed to ride your bike within 2 miles of the national mall.
ALTL: bikes take up too much space!
CW: its a security issue.
ALTL: everything is a security issue
CW: well, I guess the police get to ride their bikes because I just saw one.
ALTL: clearly they're not a security risk - they are there to keep the peace
CW: They just showed the New Orleans mayor in the crowd of ppl.
ALTL: now that is a security risk
CW: ha ha
but pretty impressive that they chose to show him. everyone else has been presidential ppl.
CW: shows you how hard it was to get in to this shindig. He was standing out in the crowd of ppl.
CW: oh, keep it together Hillary. She's looking a little emotional.

Here we go.

EDIT: Chris Matthews is "not crotchety about change." Wtf.

LAWLZ

I just had to post this. I know the election is over, but this video just reminded me so much of some people.

John Neely Kennedy - one insightful politician!

I love how John Kennedy's #1 criticism of Mary Landrieu is always that she is a Democrat. Like this website, showing that she votes with Barack Obama a lot. Wow!!

omfg

EDIT: Click the pic. Can I not post animated gifs?

Da Barry Roll

ALTL MIA

I know I've been missing in action for the most part lately. Sometimes life happens, ya know? Here are some highlights and short blurbs of all the things I have wanted to say, but never made the time to log out of my work google calendar in order to log into blogger during the day.

• Eddie Fucking Izzard - What can I say, another thing scratched off of my list of things to do before I die. We sat five rows back. He was totally a fly by the seat of his pants sort of guy, and so much of the comedy was in his delivery. He wasn't dressed in drag that night, but DAMN, did those jeans look good on him. The crowd loved his Mac loyalty and making fun of the PCs - turning on a PC was demonstrated as putting all of one's effort into turning a lever, like a jack in the box, but more heavy duty. The auditorium was never short on laughs, except for the few awkward silences where no one knew what the hell he was talking about. Which made it all the more funnier.
  
• This one is just for my partner in crime ALTR - Texas senator John Cornyn is a big ol' fag
  
• The Bridge Lounge is a hopin' bar again. I have tried to go there three times this week and every time there is not a seat to be had. While a crowd can be fun, especially when on the prowl, I am a bar sitter and thus this causes me to be disgruntled.
  
• The guys working on the monstrosity for Lakeside Mall at the corner of Vets and the Causeway have a little fun with their jobs. The painting began with a coat of chocolate brown something on a very light colored surface. Messages appeared such as "The cows have no milk" or "The owls will fly 2 nite." One day I drove past and could only see the "@bellsouth.net" of someone's e-mail that had been plastered up there. The messages lasted 36 hours max, and while not political nor hilarious, those guys made something interesting of their job. My favorite was the little smiley face man with big ears who was up at the top for a full week in white on the brown before the whole building was painted white and began to be covered with panels. I tried to take a picture one day while driving home but almost ran into the guard rail instead.
  
• Speaking of Jefferson Parish, there is some filming going on over in the Lakeway Center. When I inquired to the building management why 6th Street was supposed to be shut down here and there she said it was some filming for some Jefferson Parish tourism bullshit. However, word on the street is it's some sort of movie. The set up isn't huge, but it makes more sense than filming Lakeway One for some tourism stuff - what about that is supposed to lure one to JP?
  
• I've started reading a lot of blogs by call girl types. It's everything I wanted my "sex" contribution to THP to be, but am too chicken to share. It appears, however, that a lot of these blogs have passed their hay day and the girls are now in relationships and have let their blogs, well, go. My faves I have run across is Electrolyte Dating and turnyourselfin. I feel like I have some good material to submit to unfortunate cocks (definitely NSFW), although the legality has come into question.
  
• Bill Clinton says Obama can "kiss my ass" - I love when those in the limelight show that they are real people, too.
  
• And finally, don't fuck with pelicans. Or hang out in their vicinity, apparently.
  

A poor attempt at gathering my thoughts from the last couple of weeks. I'll try to be better.

It's all in the family

DON'T VOTE FOR OBAMA HE IS RELATED TO BUSH!!

Clinton, who is of French-Canadian descent on her mother's side, is also a distant cousin of singers Madonna, Celine Dion and Alanis Morissette. Obama, the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya, can call six U.S. presidents, including George W. Bush, his cousins. McCain is a sixth cousin of first lady Laura Bush.

- Yahoo! News

Knowing that HRC is related to Alanis Morissette AKA God just solidified my support for her. Just so you know.

If you squint, he looks like Barry!

While in the Houston airport over the weekend, I saw a gentleman arriving at my gate who looked just like Barack Obama. He was even dressed like him, suit and trenchcoat, clearly a businessman on a business trip. It must be so fun to look so much like a celebrity, especially in such an awesome place for people-watching as an airport. He didn't have on a wedding ring, so I'm sure he pulls lots of ladies.

And apparently there's money to be made if you're a Barry O lookalike: Barack Obama Lookalike and Impersonator.

Your Potomac Primary CliffsNotes

A thought just occurred to me - what if the BlackBerry crisis had happened today instead of yesterday? That would have been too funny - all those Crack(berry)-happy DC area pols without their security blankets on a big primary day.

So here's a summary of the VA/MD/DC primaries tonight: everyone basically voted for Barry. McCain won too. But in Virginia alot of people voted for Huckabee - mostly in the western part of the state, where most people don't have teeth.

Complete election results at FoxNews.com

It's raining .

I wish it was raining money. Or men. Here's a good joke to start off your Monday.

Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards were flying to a convention.

Barack looked at Hillary, chuckled and said, "You know, I could throw a $1,000 bill out of the window right now and make somebody very happy."

Hillary shrugged her shoulders and replied, "I could throw ten $100 bills out of the window and make ten people very happy."

John added, "That being the case, I could throw one hundred $10 bills out of the window and make a hundred people very happy."

Hearing their exchange, the pilot rolled his eyes and said to his co-pilot, "Such big-shots back there. I could throw all of them out of the window and make 156 million people very happy."