tonight's random thoughts...

...kurt and i froze our asses off down on the National Mall for today's concert / event: will.i.am (love love love), U2, mary j blige, john legend, queen latifa, springsteen, mellencamp (COUGAR!!!), stevie wonder, james taylor, usher, tom hanks, rosario dawson, george lopez, steve carell, jack black, sheryl crow, pete seger, etc. OH! lest us not forget the fact that biden and obama both spoke. oh god, that was so hot. over the past 19 yrs i've been involved in several events that culminated on the Mall: never have i seen so many people there, let alone in any one place at a time. i will post pics ASAP.

quick shout out to the city for how amazingly organized things were down there, and for everyone's patience in traffic, lines, and set-backs. it was cold as shit, but how amazing to see what we saw!

this just in:
my college roommates/friends and i used to convince one another to skip class so we could hang out/party/watch TV/sleep/gorge on food, whathaveyou... we had a series of questions that we would ask in order to entice one another to stay home. "how many times have you missed [this class]?" "what's your grade so far?" "do you know anyone in the class?" "can s/he give you notes?," etc.

i learned yesterday that i once convinced elaine to stay home from the library (this is pre-internets and pre-PCs in the dorm) by offering to write the paper she had due the next day. i wrote the paper in all of 1/2 hour. a couple days later, elaine's professor called her aside after class to hand her back the paper (complete with an A+), and to wage a full-on campaign to try to get elaine to change her major to English!! based on that paper!! maybe elaine coulda told me this back then so i wouldn't have wasted the past 20 yrs, but i'm just excited to be able to tell my mom that at least SOMEONE got an A+ using my work.

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i feel as tho i am part of something BIG!! it started last sunday with fenty and obama bumping chests and patting shoulders outside of ben's chili bowl: that's our PRESIDENT! he's a homeboy! fucking priceless....

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a pink good n plenty, 1/2 of a rolds gold, and a small spiced gum drop (preferably purple/black or white in color) make a surprisingly lovely combination.

see you on the flip side!