Impulse

The net seems very still in the after­math of the elec­tion. My morn­ing blogs were rather thin (boing­bo­ing had half it’s usual daily vol­ume, as did sev­eral oth­ers). CNN and the New York Times haven’t both­ered updat­ing their elec­tion pages with the final data. Michaelmoore.com and moveon.org are show­ing yes­ter­days news.
I think this is where the word dumb­struck comes from…
My friends, how­ever, are not mute. One of my friends called to tell me that she’s going to pub­lish an open let­ter to the world apol­o­giz­ing for our coun­try re-electing Bush. Old friend, Jay Babcock — edi­tor of Arthur Magazine — will be spin­ning at Amoeba in LA. In his own words: “Let’s move this cul­ture for­ward, on what­ever scale we can do it at, and let’s have a good time doing it.” I couldn’t agree more.
I guess I’m a bit struck dumb as well. I saw it com­ing. Now that it’s here, the thought of four more years feels like a bad dream — that I’ll encounter some friend on the streets who will tell me it’s not true.
Oh well. As I said, Kerry’s loos­ing means he wouldn’t have been effec­tive in office — espe­cially since con­gress is even more right-wing now. Guess I’ll start look­ing for­ward to 2008.

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