Posted by m1s1n (153.90.114.188) on November 04, 2004 at 19:55:50:
A two part summary of his thoughts--Warren Ellis.
Misery still clings to the streets here. The sun hasn't come out,
as everyone is saying, since George Bush was re-elected.
I have decided that I really don't like Air America Radio so much. Al
Franken is a shrill little fucker, and he's beginning to annoy me. It's
the same shrieky upitsownarse tone that Moveon.org had. Maybe it's just
that I'm far too English, but I'd like a little less OMG and teenagey angst
with my political horror. Bring me some more of the funny and some more of
the newsy and less of the squeaky. No-one needs to hear radio
personalities piss their pants.
Maybe I should go into radio. Diepunyhumans FM with "You're All Doomed."
I'm suddenly put in mind of a TV show Takeshi Kitano used to do (may still
do), the title of which roughly translates as "Japan, This Is Where You
Went Wrong."
I got recognised on the street yesterday. Creepy.
More coffee. Bring me the coffee, Jen. I am using thought power to compel
you to bring me the coffee. I have Famous Powers now, and I telepathically
demand you bring me the coffee.
...
Shit.
___
And San Francisco collectively said "aaah, shit," opened a bottle
of whisky and lit up. Natasha's good champagne stayed in the fridge. Bill
slapped everyone on the arse and passed out. Melissa, artfully bombed on
cocktails, commented at one point, "Are we hurting America, or is America
hurting me?" Laurenn, black thunderclouds of doomy presentiment clustered
around her head, gave up and curled up. And the sky today is gloomy, for
the first time since I arrived. Nothing but grey over a subdued Castro.
The only happy people I've seen today are two staggeringly stoned lesbian
hippies who appear not to know which country they're in. And while they're
inside the coffee shop managing their munchies, the cops are ticketing
their hippiemobile on the street.
Game over. No extra life. Not for another four years, anyway.