Lordy. If Kucinich, Sharpton, or Lieberman, but especially Kucinich, becomes the Democratic candidate, whatever advantage television gave to handsome Kennedy obviously will no longer be a factor. Can't a representative either own his baldness or get a better hairpiece? No, now I feel bad: a department of peace? If a Department of Homeland Security is possible, certainly one of peace is.
Wesley Clark, the most attractive of the bunch, just said, "There's not enough forces there." So he's out. I require my president to match his verbs to his predicative nominatives. He said Bush decimated the EPA, but honey, he destroyed more than 10% of it. He's not really out.
Al Sharpton was never in, but he's out even more. "I disagree with he and Governor Dean and Senator Kerry." "Their children has gone to war." Plus he's just a showman, as much as Schwarzenegger.
Lieberman was a lousy running mate for Gore because neither of them ever spoke in other than a monotone. At least as veep Gore didn't speak often, and Lieberman wouldn't've had to. Connecticut or not, I can't get behind Lieberman.
Gephart--well, I'd have to rewind to hear whatever his first grammatical mistake was. His second speech was fine. He should dye his eyebrows darker. He's too much inside the beltway
Kerry's not Kennedy. Does he know that? Oh, he cracked a joke! He gets points for that.
Edwards's accent is too strong. Also: "Every one of us are against George Bush." Someone, I think Clark, said, "Each of us want to be president."
Carol Moseley Braun speaks well and isn't freaky looking. But seriously speaking, the first black Usan president will not be a woman, and the first woman president will not be black.
Which leaves me with Dean. Of course.
I went to a Dean Meetup last Wednesday. I brought 6.5 years of professional Dot Org knowledge to bear when, as the organizers gave addresses of representatives whose support of Dean we were to solicit, I spoke up to give, and advocate using, the proper etiquette in both address and salutation.
Later. Fuck. Dean, solid Yankee that he is, just said "idear." Three times.
Oh, fine. Last night RDC asked what I was doing that Blake couldn't help with. I was priming, and primer fumes are bad. Also I was up a ladder. But I wanted to surprise RDC when he gets home. I didn't tell him. So he decided I had jacked up the house and was replacing the lolly columns. "You guessed!" I protested.
Tonight I told him. I'm painting the back landing. A really nice pale blue. Behr, because it occurred to me to do this quite impulsively standing in the middle of Home Depot, "Ocean Air." I pray it's not at all a shade of violet, though it might be a paler indigo than a blue. (I have never understood indigo's role in the spectrum. Is it there because "Roy G. Bv" is not pronounceable?)
The main wall has behaved thus far. Lots of tack holes in the drywall, but only tack holes, and drywall not plaster. Patch, sand, okay fine. It's not a pristine stretch, but it's okay. I primed and put on a half coat with a brush, and today put on a thorough coat with a roller. The stepladder can only go along a diagonal on the landing, and I have to lean way over the top to get the far corner, but it's not scary.
The interesting, slightly scary bit is the other wall, around the corner. The staircase starts down along the main wall, turns left, and continues to the basement. So the side wall is 9 feet plus the descending staircase tall: I set up the extension ladder on either of the first two stairs. It's a perfectly stable situation, not too steep an angle, the ladder on a tread against a riser where it can't slip, but the height is enough to cause painful damage to some of my favorite parts.
At least it provided more satisfying scraping than the water closet. It had been primed part way up, and brown--I thought the brown of drywall--above that. But as I scrubbed with a stiff brush and TSP-substitute, the brown came off, showing green underneath. I have no idea what material that wall is made of. It feels like plastic under the scraper, under my nail, but it sounds like metal. It's part of the built-out closet in the bedroom. The main wall is regular drywall, so why is this... green plasticked metal? Will primer stick to it, and paint after that? Lots of green still shows through after one brush coat. It looked neglected before, and now it looks shoddy. I have until Sunday afternoon.