Proposed Obama Ad, Etc.

EXCUSE OF THE DAY: (In honor of Hillary)

Sorry I'm late for the status meeting. The sniper fire on my commute was heavier than usual.

REVELATION OF THE DAY: (In honor of David Paterson)

Even blind guys have a wandering eye.

LFAQ of THE DAY:

Yes, it's a terrible thing. But why is it that we know 4000 times as much about the pregnant marine who was killed in the U.S. than we do about the 4000 troops who've died in Iraq?

PROPOSED POLITICAL COMMERCIAL OF THE DAY:

Moveon.org is challenging people to submit 30 second commercials that communicate why Obama should be the next president of the United States. I tried to avoid messages that were bitter and negative or that merely preached to the choir and I came up with the following idea which I submit in roughly scripted form for your feedback.

"America in the Mirror"

We open on a slightly stooped, run down, disheveled looking Uncle Sam walking down the street. He gets a glimpse of himself in a full length mirror and does a double take. He isn't proud of what he sees.

He adjusts his hat--so it's no longer askew.

He straightens out his off-kilter bowtie.

He sees some food stuck in his white beard and removes it.

He realizes a few buttons on his shirt are misaligned so he re-buttons them correctly--then tucks in his shirt.

He adjusts his jacket, shaking out the wrinkles.

Now he likes what he sees. He stands up tall and gives himself a little "That's more like it!" nod.

TITLE CARD: America, Let's feel good about ourself again.

TITLE CARD: Elect Barack Obama.

Cut back to the new, high self-esteem Uncle Sam giving himself a little "Hey, you're looking pretty good!" look in the mirror.

OBAMA: (Unseen audio). Yes. We. Can.
/>CONFESSION OF THE DAY:

I always feel like a nut--at least when it comes to the choice famously offered by 2 iconic American candy bars.

UNDER-REPRESENTED GROUP OF THE DAY:

March Fools.

CONCEPTUAL ART IDEA OF THE DAY: (The following words written on a mobius strip.)

still running river running still

PROPOSED HEADLINE OF THE DAY:

Conspiracy theorists claim second shooter in Kurt Cobain suicide.

COMEDY OBSERVATION:

In comedy, chaos tends to be funny--except when manufactured by Robin Williams.

SARTORIAL/POLITICAL OBSERVATION OF THE DAY:

Saw Bush strutting out to a chorus of boos in his bright red Washington Nationals jacket to throw the first pitch of the season. It reminded me of seeing him in that now infamous "Mission Accomplished" flight jacket in 2004. It strikes me: The guy loves to play dress up and make believe--although he's not really interested in or competent for the real thing. It's a shame the presidency doesn't have a uniform. Cause he'd probably like to dress up and pretend to be doing that job too.

CARTOON WITHOUT ILLUSTRATION OF THE DAY:

VIS: Someone has clearly just sneezed...really loudly.

MAN: "Jesus!!!!....I mean, God Bless You."

RANDOM THOUGHTS OF THE DAY:

a)

It's be really strange if I heard a cell phone ringing from inside of me. And the people around me heard it too. And I had no recollection of swallowing a cell phone. It might be enough to get me to believe in the supernatural. Or at least to get me to visit a doctor.

b)

It's be really strange if a man (who was, it should be noted, not an OB-GYN doctor) walked over to a woman and broke the news to her that she was pregnant with his child!

CULTURAL OBSERVATION:

Leonard Lopate after long absence: Just too insufferably calm and reassuring. He'd make the apocalpyse sound like a warm bath.

PROMISORY NOTE OF THE DAY:

Some brief comments about Denis Johnson's "Tree of Smoke" which I'm almost done reading.

SENTENCE OF THE DAY:

In the last 22 years, not a single day has gone by when I have not not thought about you.

PEEVE OF THE DAY:

Those Taco Bell "Melty cheese" commercials...where the phrase "melty cheese" is used ad nauseum. Melty Cheese; The final breakdown of reason, civilization and the articulate order.

UNCANNY EXPERIENCE OF THE DAY:

There is something incredibly creepy about opening a door or turning a corner in tight quarters and stumbling upon a still and silent person--who just stands there--failing to acknowledge your approach or warn you of his or her presence. Very Blair Witch. Also very Teddy's hallway.

BILL MAHER HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DAY:

"Bush the uniter has united the middle class with the lower class."

"The corporations believe in the free market for profits but they want to socialize losses."

EXCHANGE OF THE DAY:

Man sees woman in 32 t-shirt.

-Magic Johnson?
-No. Old Navy.

Commentary on the death of meaning (and general reduction of signification to fashion) to follow.

ACCOUNT OF THE DAY:

Getting out of a train by the river at dusk. Walking in the gloaming towards the just-after-sunset on a wide and empty downtown street. An alternate dream topography of a somehow familiar place. I start to run then decide to believe I can fly and I lift off the ground--at first so precipitously that I am afraid it is a metaphor for my death but then in a more controlled way, leaning forward into the unknown, soaring in some manageably giddy angle of ascent. Before i know it my interlude of weightlessness has ended and I am back on the ground in strange but not unpleasant encounters with the dead. My father, in a little boat he is paddling around and a woman I once loved, on some side street. Things that can no longer be remembered were said, and shapes I can no longer inhabit were assumed. Upon awakening, I bear within me a trace of the memory of flight and loss; familiarly twinned in half familiar places.

DESCRIPTION OF THE DAY:

It is a space where all the givens are no longer given. Where all the givens have been taken back.

RANDOM SINGLE SENTENCE PORTRAIT OF THE DAY:

He liked to moderate every conversation he was in.

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