Hey hey hey hey good bye!

I’m equally certain that we will continue to pray for justice to roll down as waters, and for that day when there will be peace in the valley, and for that day when every man and every woman will sit under his or her own vine and fig tree and none will be afraid, and for that day when black will not be asked to get back,
brown can stick around,
yellow will be mellow,
the red man can get ahead, man,
and white will embrace what is right! Amen!

tags: politics

#15 Jeffery Local

Now Until Further Notice
Buses are operating via Hyde Park, Woodlawn, 47th, Drexel and 51st Street.

Allow extra travel time.

Permanent Bus Stop Change
The bus stops at Hyde Park and Greenwood and Hyde Park and University in both directions are no longer in use. Board buses at 51st/Woodlawn, or at 51st/ Ellis.

The bus that would normally go straight from the 51st Green line stop to half a block from my apartment now takes a detour 4 blocks north. I found this out yesterday when I went to see if the Save-a-Lot grocery store in Kenwood would really save me 40% on groceries (not quite). While I was walking back from 47th St. to the 51st/Woodlawn stop, a motorcade came sailing down the street and turned on Greenwood. I used to see motorcades all the time when I lived on 19th St NW in DC, but there they seemed like part of the scenery. It is surreal to have this kind of presence in such a typical residential neighborhood.

Speaking of DC, the Post had video of an impromptu rally outside the White House at 1 am Wednesday morning singing “Na Na Hey Hey Good bye” and yelling “Who’s house? Obama’s House!” DC voted went for Obama 93-7. (For a point of comparison, Chicago was “only” 85-14.) Maybe with a Democratic president and Congress their Eleanor Holmes Norton will finally get a freaking vote in the House.

tags: politics, video

I saw Crystal Castles last weekend with McComas and Xixi. I enjoyed the performance a lot. I think that the singer is two years younger than me, which makes me feel old in a way that famous actresses and actors who are younger than me don’t.

A lot else has happened since I last wrote. I have discovered the joys of Tom’s Lemon-Lime Flouride Mouthwash for Dry Mouths. Mummy visited and we saw Second City (funny, but not as funny as I expected, possibly because by the end of the show they are performing for a largely inebriated crowd) and the Museum of Contemporary Art. I saw Fears of the Dark which was surprisingly scary and gruesome for a film made up of black and white animated shorts, although by the end the fear had turned to mild boredom.

I also have a new bed, because my old bed has returned to what it was truly meant to be: a sofa. For a couple weeks I slept on my little foam mattress on top of Laura’s little futon mattress. I got my iGo membership packet and card this weekend so I went to IKEA. I have to say that it is a bit awkward going there by a shared car. I had to guess how much time I’d want to spend at the store trying mattresses out, and how long Laura would take finding the things she wanted. We made it back just in time, and everything fit easily in the Honda Element, but I was pretty anxious the entire drive home because traffic bad even though it was a Sunday afternoon. It doesn’t help that the two Chicagoland IKEAs are both 30+ miles away, compared to the College Park IKEA which is only 9 miles from home in Maryland. Still, I want to go back there next pay period and get an actual bed frame, but maybe I can borrow someone’s car then so I can just pay for the gas and not worry about time constraints. And maybe I will go to the Bolingbrook one instead of Schaumberg and the traffic will be better because I won’t be going anywhere near O’Hare.

Can you believe that the election is a week and a day away? I barely can. I am actually kind of sad that it is coming to an end. This election year has been a thriller, so for once it’s not just me and one or two nerdy friends who are interested in it. It doesn’t seem that long ago when I was talking to Mike and who to vote for in the Democratic primary (I didn’t end up making it to the polling station but I think I liked Howard Dean because of his blog) and when I filled out my first absentee ballot in my dorm at GWU. This is the first election year where I haven’t concurrently been in an political science class. (NSL, ninth grade: we made up Greek tragedy skits about the unresolved election in which Tennessee and North Dakota(?) seceded from the Union.)

I updated the homepage for the first time this morning. It went more or less smoothly, except for a Web Comment from a grad student who was upset that some of the students in the photograph weren’t wearing bicycle helmets. But the photo selection wasn’t my fault, and the powers that be deemed it a non issue, after all, Illinois doesn’t have a helmet law.

tags: live, movies, politics, purchase

I went to watch the debate at the Chicago History Museum last night. It was the most fun I have had in Chicago so far, even though the panel wasn’t very original. Not as good as some of the PTP/Janus Forum events I have been too. But the audience was very enthusiastic and I felt pretty much at home.

tags: chicago, politics

After she graduated from Brown, my mom spent a year as a community organizer in Providence. Accordingly, I took special offense to Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani’s derogatory remarks at the Republican National Convention. It’s embarrassing and kind of painful to see how many people in the audience laugh along with the remarks.

tags: mummy, politics

I’ve been watching the news all morning, like everyone else – and i keep hearing about the issues related to ‘teen pregnancy’- It’s all related to Sarah Palin and her 17 year old unmarried pregnant daughter. Well, I think the real problem comes from the fact that we are taking the focus off of getting to know Sarah Palin and her political views, and what she can do to make our country a less destructive place. Its distracting from the real issues, the real everyday problems that this country experiences.

I am concerned with the fact that Sarah Palin brought the attention to her daughter’s pregnancy, rather than all world issues and what she believes she could possibly do to change them-if elected. I get Sarah Palin’s views against abortion, but i would much prefer to hear more about what she can do for our country rather than how her daughter is going to have a child no matter what.

Maybe focus on delivering some words and policy with stronger impact like Joe Biden.

tags: politics, webloggish