You and Andrew have helped to ease the turmoil of this past year, and I am glad to have found your blog.
Nineteen days until the nightmare ends and the Dream begins!!
]]>I hope and pray that this year I can find a way to ignore all the political news. This past year was incredibly exciting, but somehow I feel I got too personally involved in the election. Involved not in the physical sense but more in the emotional sense. Like being obsessed with a sports team, hanging on every pitch.
The Obama/Hillary rivalry was amazing and truly historic - but it drained me. It was like one World Series game, that went into like 50 extra innings, and lasted six months! It was like two seven game Yankees vs Red Sox series played in 2002 and 2003, an epic battle among the most charismatic and powerful rivals, the most incredible drama imaginable...
And I can't handle this shit anymore. It wears on the nerves.
My resolution is to trust that Obama will do the best he can, and to ignore the rest of the bullshit as much as I possible.
That means I'm quitting reading tons and tons of blogs. Because most are regurgitating the same bullshit.
But I ain't quiting this blog. Ta-Nehesi's blog is hands down Top 5 Dead or Alive, and that's just off one LP.
I'd like to see him take it to the next level. On this blog. But also with a new book. And not some collection of essays, though I'm sure he could do that fine. But rather a novel. Beautiful Struggle is evidence in these eyes that Coates has got a fantastic novel in him. A Fitzgerald meets James Baldwin meets Junot Diaz kind of book. I just hope we get to read it some day.
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Happy New Years!
Peace and Blessings to you and yours.
Yes. We. Can.
]]>At this point, an Obama administration is the only good thing I'm expecting 2009 to bring.
]]>At this point, an Obama administration is the only good thing I'm expecting 2009 to bring."
My father's about to turn 81, and he's seen better days, and I'm worried. But I don't think he regrets his life, and I know I don't. He voted for Obama in November, and believe me, that was a miracle I never thought I would see on multiple levels.
I hope good things surprise you in 2009. Just think of the good surprises we had this year.
]]>That sounds terribly hard. Here's hoping some good surprises show up while you're working through difficult times.
]]>Happy New Year, to you and everyone here. This is a great crowd to be part of.
]]>Thanks for making it happen, T-NC.
The only thing Andrew has on you is his compulsive/incessant posts - always something new to read (which I love). I guess kids take a little more attention than Beagles! Happy 2009.
]]>Hope 2009 goes well for you.
]]>2009 will be a very interesting year. I know many things will not pan out the way we dream --they almost never exactly do-- but I am sure we will start getting out of the hole we got ourselves in. Having a real president matters.
Be good and be well.
]]>Happy New Year. Have a good one.
And since you already mentioned it, I hope you're blessed with a daughter this year. :)
]]>We are very pleased to have made your aquaintance with your ideas and community via this blog. 2009 gonna bring more of the best!
]]>Nothing like a good father:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A2Ap3DyvLg
]]>Prosecco and cucumber sandwiches for the house.
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I so appreciate the poetry, the music, the from-the-heart reality checks. And the focus on the children.
xoxo
Kathleen,Ben, John and Julia (the whole famn damily)
p.s. check out Invincible (album name Shapeshifters), a female Detroit rapper who kicks it.
]]>All the best to you TNC and all the folks here for a great 2009! Thanks, T, for one of the best blogs around!
Almost a year ago to the day, January 3rd, my little state in the midwest shocked the world...Yes.We.Did. I celebrated a little last night but will celebrate even more (and with a few more bottles!) on January 20th -- the beginning of our *era* and the end of an *error*!
]]>"two heavily armed men in a bunker fighting extradition"
lol
Happy New Year!
]]>Having just spent much of the last two days in the arms of a smart and lovely new friend from Missouri by way of Chicago, all I can say is, here's to this post-racial age. I can't help but think I owe you all, in some vague way. So thanks, gang. 2009 is looking better already.
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