Ecstatic Gaucho

Here’s a slightly overwhelming page to keep you updated on what’s going on now. It’s so dizzying that after a couple of seconds I felt like switching it off… and getting into the moment.

This morning’s ride ride into work seemed a bit sunnier than normal, although the London sky was as grey as ever. Perhaps this was because today, unlike yesterday, I didn’t having a screaming match with a reckless driver. But I think it was the news on The Today Programme, a radio show which though informative, rarely sends you off with a grin.

Someone had already sent me The Onion’s wry reflection: ‘Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress‘. This was soon followed by the more cynical slant of the British pretender to Onionyness, the Daily Mash: ‘America buys all that change bullshit’. Hmmm.

I confess I’m not familiar with the finer details of Mr Obama’s policy, nor the actual potential for change in a country in dire financial straits. I’ll also try not to think about the bright hopes when Blair was elected, or even the entrenched power structures. But surely Barack must be better than the maniac Bush. History has been made, and at least for now, black is the new black and I too am Obama Barmy.

One day to go until the US election. Barack must be a dead cert, mustn’t he. But what if he gets pipped at the post? What if the reason is a single lazy so-and-so who forgot/couldn’t be bothered/was too busy gettin’ stupid to cast their vote? What if that person is the very bad (verging on evil) Andy Ward?

Meanwhile in Gotham, the cheeky Mr Banksy opened up a pet store filled with curious animals. So strange were this creatures that the shop has already packed up and moved out. Luckily they were caught on video before being released into the wild.

 
Stillness Road, Honor Oak Park, SE London

Poem 42

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– e. e. cummings
from 73 poems

See Psalm 46:10 and Dennis Wilson’s Be Still.