It's not easy being Green
Nov. 16th, 2006 01:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coffeesnob318Last Tuesday, I voted. Not because I believe that any candidate who was running would make any big difference (although Kinky Friedman made the race pretty entertaining, as did watching the other candidates’ heads spin every time he spoke). But the only two issues discussed in the campaign that were important to me are education and immigration – none of the candidates even promised (much less proposed action toward) anything worthwhile in education and only one of them even hinted at what I would like to see happen with immigration law. I knew going into it that there wasn’t anybody on the Texas ballot whose political ideas come anywhere close to mine. But I voted anyway, if for no other reason than to have the right to bitch when we re-elected everything that’s wrong with Texas government.
Then I read The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
I don’t necessarily agree with everything he says. But he’s brilliant. He writes as he speaks – with humility, respect and empathy for others, admitted and unapologetic bias and (dare I say it?) honesty.
He had me at "Anybody willing to work should be able to find a job that paid a living wage." I’m really so very easy to please.
As well as he writes, the book still dragged a bit for me, as most political rhetoric does. So I followed it up with a little Sedaris.
I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence by Amy Sedaris
This book quickly made it onto my Amazon wish list. If you accuse me of snorting, I’ll lie until I’m dead, but I must admit to some very nasally influenced laughter during this little read. To be fair, it wasn’t a long read because I mostly skimmed the recipes. But what there was to read was hilarious. She basically talked about entertaining guests and how to be an entertaining guest. The pictures were just as funny. I like funny pictures.
Especially the one of suggested fare for a children’s party with open ham and cheese sandwiches where the cheese slices were cut into shapes on top of the ham slices. Fun shapes, like hearts and stars and bunnies…and a machete poised over a squirrel.
Yeah. She has an intense obsession with squirrels. And she seems to harbor some animosity toward them.
But other than that, the book was just lovely. Someone needs to buy this for me. I’ll perform monologues from it if you do.
Then I read The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
I don’t necessarily agree with everything he says. But he’s brilliant. He writes as he speaks – with humility, respect and empathy for others, admitted and unapologetic bias and (dare I say it?) honesty.
He had me at "Anybody willing to work should be able to find a job that paid a living wage." I’m really so very easy to please.
As well as he writes, the book still dragged a bit for me, as most political rhetoric does. So I followed it up with a little Sedaris.
I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence by Amy Sedaris
This book quickly made it onto my Amazon wish list. If you accuse me of snorting, I’ll lie until I’m dead, but I must admit to some very nasally influenced laughter during this little read. To be fair, it wasn’t a long read because I mostly skimmed the recipes. But what there was to read was hilarious. She basically talked about entertaining guests and how to be an entertaining guest. The pictures were just as funny. I like funny pictures.
Especially the one of suggested fare for a children’s party with open ham and cheese sandwiches where the cheese slices were cut into shapes on top of the ham slices. Fun shapes, like hearts and stars and bunnies…and a machete poised over a squirrel.
Yeah. She has an intense obsession with squirrels. And she seems to harbor some animosity toward them.
But other than that, the book was just lovely. Someone needs to buy this for me. I’ll perform monologues from it if you do.
