strung out

on The Wire. Last night, #1BB and I watched the final episode of the final season. The screen went to black and I turned to him and said "what's the point of watching any more television after that?" it does seem pointless. what show will compare? what show will make you think and worry over the characters and their decisions? the writers and directors and producers amazed me and shocked me by so eloquently, easily, transparently, and slowly revealing how rotten the core of our charmed city is, yet how it manages to keep going/churning/moving/shaking. this show made me feel hopeful and hopeless. and also incredibly lazy: i don't do alot to help anything around here and barely live in the city. i used to volunteer more. i need to get back to that. and i need to stop saying "i need to get back to that" and actually get back to it.

in other news, i'm trying to get informed about this Palin person. I've read Paglia. I've read Cintra Wilson. I've read the B-more Sun, the NY Times, the CNN, and all the other fluff. send me ideas of stuff i haven't read yet in the comments section.....i'll read it over tea. I've read that blog about the Librarians Who Are Against Her. Who IS this person? I watch with interest and horror as more and more is "revealed." (because, really, there is no truth in advertisting...) I caution others and myself against one-issue voting, but I have to be honest....if her and her ilk can't keep their hands off my sovereignty over my own body, guess what--you don't have my vote. (i'm laughing out loud.....i could no more vote GOP than blast-off from my office chair right now into space.) but seriously, you're registered, right?

i left the Dems in 2004 and became "unaffiliated." I wish this guy would run for the Unaffiliated Party. At least then, it would seem like a real party. and who doesn't enjoy a good party?