tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550315839527219940.post6258055086173340739..comments2023-10-11T02:43:45.437-07:00Comments on CASAMURPHY: The Playing Field is Not LevelLaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11202742050661813668noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550315839527219940.post-58838713988189453722008-07-19T13:33:00.000-07:002008-07-19T13:33:00.000-07:00I have no idea who to vote for. My "choice" has on...I have no idea who to vote for. My "choice" has only won once since I registered, and that was in '92, not much of a contest. I wish we had viable third parties, as I harangued on my Green Party post last week, but as we don't, I get despondent. Oligarchies and plutocracies don't inspire me to wear a flag pin.<BR/><BR/>As to music, Layne's venting about my off-hand crack relates to the background music The Hold Steady plays. She accurately pegged it as the way that you "want" to hear music as a soundtrack of (y)our lives, and how the "bar-band" to me generic style of many of their tunes gives a plainer foundation upon which Craig Finn can bluster, howl, moan, emote, and, well, vent.<BR/><BR/>It's simply, to me, more interesting on paper than on record for this reason. I did not think that this casual observation or my similar ones on Obama and the soccer mom brigades who venerate his every utterance deserved such opprobrium in this public forum, but that's the price of being Himself. I look around, I ponder, I sneer, and I too long for idealism beneath my cynicism.<BR/><BR/>As a curvaceous gal stood waiting for the Red Line yesterday, I stared at her chest. Only to figure out, as Mr. Intellectual, what her pink t-shirt proclaimed in an elevated portion of her fabric. I guess it fits our theme here as well as it did her torso, with its Segar-era ballooning font, Loraxian allusion, and New Leaf vibe, the spirit of a better place where even politicians bow to idealism in its Californian varietal. (Except for Reagan and his redwood comment.) "Love, Peace, and Humboldt." xxx to all, meJohn L. Murphy / "Fionnchú"https://www.blogger.com/profile/16616876266772470719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550315839527219940.post-73033071677553720112008-07-19T13:05:00.000-07:002008-07-19T13:05:00.000-07:00Of course Obama is a politician, duh. That was my...Of course Obama is a politician, duh. That was my point about the useless panty-knotting (if you can relentlessly talk about dicks... big dick religion, limp dick music... guess I can do panty knots) abou Wright and the Congregationalists in Southside Chicago. It was the perfect, calculated choice for a budding politico in that environment. Two years ago there was an article in the Atlantic that was very similar to this New Yorker article (with a perfect cover, hilarious) that profiled BO as a brilliantly controlled and calculating politician. And EXACTLY as people would attack Hillary as calculating my response is, well yeah, let's have a smart and calculating president who knows what the fuck he/she is doing.<BR/><BR/>And trust me, I know silverlake Obama mamas and you are not even close. More kinda cranky old school reactionary....harryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15094676660514962306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550315839527219940.post-37575276896929467572008-07-18T20:54:00.000-07:002008-07-18T20:54:00.000-07:00ps...lorax is the aka of someone in norcal near th...ps...lorax is the aka of someone in norcal near the new leaf in felton...i'm blogging about something that shouldn't be traced to me...and everytime john links to us...we end up as the first hit on google!!!Loraxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18272018576228772318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550315839527219940.post-52757639674830387962008-07-18T20:52:00.000-07:002008-07-18T20:52:00.000-07:00Ok...but who the hell is John going to vote for? ...Ok...but who the hell is John going to vote for? Isn't it better to be suckered by someone smart and liberal?!Loraxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18272018576228772318noreply@blogger.com