Waving Hello

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Thirty thousand people showed up to apply for Section 8 housing in East Point near Atlanta day before yesterday. Thirty thousand people. Wow. Just… wow.

I’m still alive but in Deep Hunker mode. Feel like Sara Crewe in the attic. Trying to come up with a plan. Rewrote the Decennium story so it’s now about art. Covered with mosquito bites; trying not to scratch. Agonizing over money but probably not as much as those thirty thousand people in East Point.

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“I hear these people saying [Obama]’s like George Bush”, says Robert Gibbs, White House press secretary. “Those people ought to be drug tested.”

Mi orina es la orina, Bobby.

wlotus advances the very interesting and original theory that Obama is the political equivalent of one of those black Pentecostal ministers whose sonorous catchphrases have the hat ladies fainting in the aisles.

(Is it racist of me to qualify “black” there? wlotus said "black", she is black.)

This is such a pivotal time. Mike K-L – a man I admire immensely – signs every email with a quote from Gandhi: We must become the change we seek.

But I don’t even know what change I seek, let alone how to become it.