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Well, I’m glad that’s over with. Cheney is a far more formidable debater than Bush, and though I believe Edwards held his own last night, the debate was closer to a tie, compared to Kerry’s obvious win last Thursday.

Urgh, I feel like I need to take a three hour-long shower with a steel wool loofah to feel clean again. The sheer slimyness of Cheney… blekgh! Utterly appalling. I’m glad there only has to be one VP debate, because Bush seems a lot easier to catch lying. Good on Edwards for laying the smackdown on Cheney’s falsehoods and distortions; I only wish we had more time.

And I wish Edwards would have explained the reasons why he and Kerry voted for certain things, then against, because I don’t imagine it would take long to do, and it would clear up a lot of people’s worries about their ability to make strong decisions and eliminate Cheney’s favourite “weakness” to exploit.

I could probably write a lot more, but it would just make me all upset again, and I’d rather spend the quiet hours of the morning remembering the way Aaron smiled at me whenever we made eye-contact during rehearsal last night. *happysigh* Life is grand.

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Yay, hopefully this entry will knock the “Banned Book Week” graphic off the main page and into the archive, so the front page won’t appear broken anymore. It’s the little things in life. :D

So this weekend is the Pennsylvania Shindig. I’m still waffling, but I’m now thinking I’m going to go, if I can get transportation. It’s a pretty rare opportunity, after all, and it won’t take up too much of my weekend. Whee!

VP debates tonight. Oh, I hope rehearsal lets out early! *does a little dance*

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He’s a grad student, 5 years older, and a Nice Jewish Boy. He went to Harvard undergrad, and he’s getting a Masters in Linguistics. He loves musical theatre (he assisted his roommate in writing a musical about physics for his roommate’s senior thesis), he’s a big Pratchett fan (Gaiman, too–I haven’t gotten a chance to find out what other authors he likes), he’s very liberal, he’s nerdy, he makes me laugh, he has a delightfully quirky sense of humor, he’s kind of cute, we have a great rapport, and I feel like he’s interested in me, too.

*pause for a moment*

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

This blog entry hereby marks “Baby’s First Crush.”

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WAH I HAVE WOMEN LUSTING AFTER MY BODY.

I almost left the entry at that, because it amuses me, but in recognition of the many people that read my blog who don’t know me well enough to know there must be some delightfully entertaining missing context that merrily explains everything so that they don’t have to leap to false conclusions (you know who you are), I decided to go ahead and explain myself, as I’d probably end up wanting to blog about it later anyway.

I got an email today from a woman, asking for a print of my Young Vetinari vector CG, which I agreed to provide as soon as my school printing priviledges are reinstated. She emailed me back, delighted, and proceeded to gush a bit about her enjoyment of the image.

I could faint every time I look at that picture. Who in God’s name was your model? Can you get them to do any more stuff like that? And what an edible ensemble, especially the boots! And the uniform. And the gloves. Oh, hell, all of it.

Dude, I was the model. Well, in a “my hed is pastede on yay” kind of way (I’ll have to look up the name of the actor whose head I used), but the body is mine. So I have a woman lusting after my body. I’m torn between being weirded out and finding it absolutely hilarious.

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Me: Huh. Project Vote Smart says the President can be emailed at president@whitehouse.gov. So when a new president takes his place, does he get all the old president’s mail?

Ko: They would probably have to forward everything. They’d probably set up a new address for it.

Me: To “loserincrawford@whitehouse.gov”? Or loserincrawford@nolongerinthewhitehouse.gov!

So according to Project Vote Smart, Kerry’s favourite president is Abraham Lincoln and he has a pet canary named Sunshine. Dude, how can you not vote for a man with a pet canary named Sunshine? I wonder if that’s true. I wish I’d known about it in advance so I could have asked Vanessa.

Oh, and much love to Philadelphia Weekly for the cover of their last week’s issue.

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Ko and I have decided that Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is not so much full of gaping plotholes as rather more like a representation of a plot spiderweb. It’s 99.9% holes, but it looks really pretty. It’s a testament to the prettiness of the movie that I didn’t even think about the plotholiness until Ko brought it up this morning, whereupon we went on for quite a while, tearing the movie apart and laughing delightedly at the ridiculousness of pretty much everything. But it’s okay, because it’s pretty.

I’ve realized that I tend to forgive a lot of things because they’re pretty. coughSpikecough. We fangirls are a sad lot, but we’re oh so very happy. :D

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Clearly I am in dire need of culture. People on my flist keep going on about “The End of FMA” and I keep squealing “Yes! The House killed the Federal Marriage Amendment, falling 49 votes short of the 2/3 majority needed to pass! A triumph of civil rights!”

Clearly, I need to get out more. :D

Well, in fact, Ko, M, and I did get out last night! We saw Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, which was so insanely fabulous there are no words. Catching up on my Film History reading assignments this weekend, I have been longing for that delicious soft-focus black and white film noir look, and now my great and tooby dreams have been answered! Ko summarized her feelings with the phrase “dirigible loff!“, which I feel sums it up quite well.

Man, I adored this movie. The cheesy dialogue, the delicious lighting, the really obvious featherline bluescreen residue, the crazy CG backgrounds… and Jude Law and Angelina Jolie don’t hurt either. The only thing that really bothered me was the thing with the assassin. I had convinced myself so thoroughly over the course of the movie of what her involvement in the project had been that I was shocked when Ko reminded me after the film was over that it had ended differently. Hah.

And now, Ko and I must go off and do our College Democrat Hall Captain duties, making sure that 6 floors of Hamilton kids are registered to vote. Man, I really need to make that parody. “Hall Captains and the Electorate of Tomorrow!”, or something else that’s funnier.