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Back to Journal  « Mind Racing | To Which Chopped Liver Always Replies... | Telltale Audio - October 2008 » To Which Chopped Liver Always Replies... October 23, 2008 Collecting (probably final) pre-election thoughts... (a PSA we did in 2004) Was in Barnes & Noble for the first time in a while (had a gift card, needed a magazine). There were at least five magazines turned backwards, which of course prompted me to pick them up, see what they were, and what was so provocative that someone might not want his or her kids to accidentally glance at them. Huh. They all had photos of Obama on the cover. See, I love petty in my fiction. Damon Wayans keying the bad guy's car in The Last Boy Scout is one of my earliest childhood memories! But in real life, petty is just sad. I mentioned it in passing to the clerk. "Yeah, that happens all the time," he said. Reminds me of my experience last year (also with a gift card!), hearing about Vonnegut theft at B&N. Another reason to shop independent. I voted early for Obama and a bunch of other nice looking people. Disappointed that there wasn't a Green or Libertarian candidate up against Lawson and Price, because I wasn't too pleased with either. Long lines in Carrboro even this early, indicative of a healthy voter turnout. Which is fitting because I wrote a short satire this year extrapolating on voter apathy reaching all time highs and turnout hitting the single digits. I've also never voted for a winning presidential candidate before, so McCain fans can take heart! I wish Molly Ivins was still with us. Though I did vote for Gore and Kerry (as a votepair anyway, where I voted for Kerry in NC, and a Democrat in a non swing state said he'd vote for Cobb; no idea whether he actually did), we actually gave money to a major party candidate for the first time this year. So if Obama wins, that's gotta say something positive about the value of the American dollar. Or ours anyway. Still officially unaffiliated, and I still think Obama's too conservative on most issues, but I'm with him on more issues than I ain't, and like more things about him as a leader than I don't. I do think the Green and Libertarian candidates are quite solid this year. If NC wasn't in play, I'd probably vote McKinney, and Barr isn't the cringe-inducing ass he used to be. And there are other third parties. I firmly believe the only way to throw your vote away is to not vote. If you don't like either major party's guy for president, voting for someone else (real, not animated) is how you can make it known. I'd like to see Obama publicly oppose CA's Proposition 8. He doesn't need to actively campaign against it or decide it's a national issue instead of a state one right this second, but the silence is disappointing. One year, when I was getting my license renewed, an old man cut in front of some thirty-something guy who neither asked him to go to the back of the line nor simply shrugged it off. Instead this ass made passive aggressive comments for fifteen minutes about how the rest of us had to wait in line, "but sure, you just go right ahead, because you're more important," which the line cutter appeared to not hear. I remembered this while watching the final debate. McCain started out on fire--which I found impressive and engaging--then spent the rest of the night making snide comments. If he woulda stuck with angry or matched Obama's eery calmness, he might've made even me a little less leery of a McCain presidency. But the middle of the road here just means being a passive aggressive ass. I think my favorite talking point of all time has to be the one where Republicans call the Democratic P and VP candidates the "first and second most liberal members of the senate." I remember variations from 2000 and from 2004. To which Chopped Liver always replies "What am I? Dennis Kucinich?" Don't forget to vote, America. Woah, hold up. America? That name sounds kinda foreign, dontchathink? |
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Alex Wilson writes fiction and comics in Carrboro, NC. His work has appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, LCRW, Weird Tales, The Florida Review, Futurismic, ChiZine, Pif, and Dragon. Locus Magazine has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say. Alex runs the audiobook project/podcast Telltale Weekly and the writer wiki Guidevines. He publishes the minicomic/zine Inconsequential Art. He is a 2006 Clarion graduate.  
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