A good day
Jan. 21st, 2009 12:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grinninfooleToday I took a vacation day, and watched the Obama inauguration, and then celebrated my friend Suave's birthday.
The inauguration was the best I have yet seen. The music before hand was moving, and the Benediction at the end by Joseph Lowery was great (I loved the colloquial language and rhyming structure at the end), even Rick Warren's invocation was pretty good. I thought Obama's speech was moving, too. Perhaps not a timeless address for the ages, but a thoughtful, well-written invocation of national ideals, a repudiation of Bush, and a call to collective action, all of which is what we need right now. So, a great kick off to the Obama presidency, and not a moment too soon.
Suave's party in the evening was OK. Lots of 20 something hipsters with whom I had little connection, though I did meet a guy who used to teach computer animation at UMass who apparently knows![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
anzovin, and had a long conversation about why Fringe is wretched, the politics of tyrrany, stuff I didn't know about my old college, and the wisdom of grad school with Ranger.
The really cool bit was the four hours Suave, K, Ranger, and I spent playing Arkham Horror. Man, that game is fun.
One thing I have to wonder: how can Christopher Hitchens be so smart and yet SO STUPID.
In light of all the comparisons between Obama and FDR and/or Lincoln, this article from the Nation in 1933 seems apt.
The inauguration was the best I have yet seen. The music before hand was moving, and the Benediction at the end by Joseph Lowery was great (I loved the colloquial language and rhyming structure at the end), even Rick Warren's invocation was pretty good. I thought Obama's speech was moving, too. Perhaps not a timeless address for the ages, but a thoughtful, well-written invocation of national ideals, a repudiation of Bush, and a call to collective action, all of which is what we need right now. So, a great kick off to the Obama presidency, and not a moment too soon.
Suave's party in the evening was OK. Lots of 20 something hipsters with whom I had little connection, though I did meet a guy who used to teach computer animation at UMass who apparently knows
anzovin, and had a long conversation about why Fringe is wretched, the politics of tyrrany, stuff I didn't know about my old college, and the wisdom of grad school with Ranger.The really cool bit was the four hours Suave, K, Ranger, and I spent playing Arkham Horror. Man, that game is fun.
One thing I have to wonder: how can Christopher Hitchens be so smart and yet SO STUPID.
In light of all the comparisons between Obama and FDR and/or Lincoln, this article from the Nation in 1933 seems apt.
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