It looks like the kids took my advice and didn’t vote yesterday.
This Is Not The Most Important Election Of Your Life
This is not the most important election of your life.
Though I too would hope for an end of sorrows,
We’re stuck forever between love and strife.
Raise your voice and glass, bang drum, play fife.
Tell your friends that you believe in new tomorrows.
This is not the most important election of your life.
Pretend, if you must, to prefer the spoon to the knife,
But both are for eating, that’s just how it goes.
We’re stuck forever between love and strife.
With the delusion of difference, politics is rife.
From this poison seed, faith in democracy grows.
This is not the most important election of your life.
Politics makes for the strangest midwife,
Birthing only twins. Perhaps only a broken heart knows,
We’re stuck forever between love and strife.
Life will go on, as will friends and foes,
Curses, blessings, smiles and sorrows.
This is not the most important election of your life.
We’re stuck forever between love and strife.
(November 3, 2008.)
I was looking for the address of this West Village Italian place where Charlie Gasparino is having his book party tomorrow night when I found the Yelp page. I thought I’d skim it to see what to expect.
Weirdly enough, I know two of the reviewers. I’ve never seen anyone I know on Yelp so this was totally shocking.
Whiskey, The Girl, Tattoos & The Secret Of Life
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Whiskey Soaked Lad:
Do we have any more?
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Girl With Tattoos:
I think you've had enough.
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WSL:
Let's have some more and then I'll tell you the secret of life.
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GWT:
I know the secret already.
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WSL:
Oh really? So then you tell me.
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GWT:
Well here it is: there are actually three secrets.
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WSL:
I was told there wouldn't be any math on this exam.
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GWT:
Sssh. You are not as cute as you think you are when you try to be clever.
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WSL:
Yes I am.
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GWT:
The first secret is that you have to forgive people, every day. All the time. Forgiving them is the only way of respecting them as fellow members of the human race and the only way of being human yourself. People, especially your people...
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WSL:
My people?
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GWT:
Your internet people. You know who I mean. They aren't good at forgiving. It makes them unhappy. They need to forgive more. They should ask themselves every night, "Who did I forgive today?"
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WSL:
I forgive you.
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GWT:
The second secret is endurance and predation. Humans are endurance predators. Animals are only happy when they are doing what they were built by evolution to do. For us it is predate and endure.
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WSL:
"We'll be a legend and we won't grow old." You're thinking of vampires.
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GWT:
What did I say about trying to be clever?
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WSL:
What did you say or what did your eyes say?
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GWT:
Do you want to know the third secret?
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WSL:
Of course I do.
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GWT:
Would you like another glass of whiskey or the third secret?
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WSL:
That's not fair. You know which I'll chose.
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GWT:
Yes. Yes I do.
I remember that day well. People were talking about the amazing sunset that we’d missed because we were in the office and the clocks had just been set back so it was dark really early. You know how it goes.
Then, suddenly, someone put a picture of it on Tumblr. We were all like, “Whoa! That really is a nice sunset.”
It made us feel worse about being in the office but better about having the internet to show us beautiful things.
strle writes: “Gruh! It was AWESOME. And you were totally invited- consider it a standing invitation :D”
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Ha. Thanks.
I guess I’m too forgetful for standing invitations. I’ll put it in my calendar now so hopefully I’ll remember next year.
