my hiatus is so perfectly timed (or not)...
So, The Indiego has chosen me as their weekly spotlight!
So great, since I'm supposedly taking a break, lol...
But, that's really, really cool - I love the folks at The Indiego and I'm happy to continue to get the word out. As well, I received an alchemy request from a potential customer - her custom request is rather inspiring, as it does give me some ideas for (moderately) new work.
Man though, I need a fan, at least for the few hours I'm actually home right now - it's been very, very hot and sunny here and I've been out in it - and my fashionable large-lens sunglasses have given me quite the case of "ski slope tan". My room gets the evening sun which in Portland, Oregon, is the hottest - i think our hottest hours here start around 4pm, although earlier today you never would have known it. It was hotter than hell outside, and there I was with 70,000 (yes!) other people listening to Barak Obama.
My personal opinions aside, Obama is inspiring as a charasmatic statesman. Most politicians won't ever get much more than a grumbling okay from me as my politics have become a lot more radical, but oh, you know - it's AMAZING to me to see a black family on their way to the white house. that rules, just about as much as it would rule to have a woman running this place (just not the one going for it right now).
I'm happy he thinks he can get the Iraq war done and the troops out by 2009. I'm not thrilled about his thoughts on Afghanistan as I believe 911 was an inside job - if he wants to go after the real criminals, well, those guys are very easily found at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, no cave hopping in the third world required. (Part of my reason for believing this is because I watched the entire thing go down from my waterfront rooftop in Brooklyn that day - I know what a military cargo plane looks like and I've actually seen more than one building implosion in my life, and that's where I'll leave that). I think Obama is overly ambitious and, like everyone who has ever run a political campaign, makes a lot of promises he probably won't be able to keep, grand and lovely as they may be. I also believe he's going to be our next president and I'm okay with it.
Anything is better than what we've got now and if he can accomplish even an eighth of what he claims he can, we're doing alright. Barack and Roll, y'all.
