Unfortunate Epiphany

[crisper]

Yesterday evening I drove up in the late afternoon from Cupertino to Berkeley to say hi to mistersleepless before he flies back to England. It being rush hour in the Bay Area, and also a rainy day in California, every inch of the way was a hellish battle of emergency vehicle lights and jam-packed gridlock. At about the hour and a half mark, I was threading my way

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[mister_borogove]

Can you help me get this beam out of my eye?

[crisper]

Actually, now is the best time of all to have beams in your eyes. Laser beams! Fire beams! Frost beams! Radioactive beams! Spank beams!

[wyldkyss]

So, did you have fun speaking with Warren?

[crisper]

He had signing and folks-talkin' to do and he needed to split right at 7. I got there much later than I hoped (fifty miles, two full hours) so we didn't have much time to chat this time around. He caught a cold on Election Night and it was really starting to set in last night. Wasn't even feeling well enough to drink the 17-year Ardbeg that was handy, apparently. And I expect he's on a plane right about now which is probably going to settle it into his system even worse.

[pfarley]

Hey, nobody hates Berkeleyites more than me, an 8-year resident of Berkeley. Self-absorbed, condescending, sanctimonious bourgeois fucks who cut in line, are rude to waiters, micromanage service workers, and chug around in their SUVs (with "Free Tibet" bumperstickers) wearing a perpetual suspicious frown on their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces. I can only despair to think that these are "my" people.

[crisper]

Maybe it's time for us to get back to the conservative roots of our youth-- the ones we worked so hard to overcome-- and help the rest of the country destroy these people, along with the economy and the stability of the world. I mean, you know, it's one of the greatest tragedies of world history that the Library of Alexandria was destroyed but, come on... don't you think maybe, at the TIME, maybe it was a whole lot of fun and felt really good?