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back from a 6days in vegas helping out homies for Pool and Magic. Standing around selling artistic t-shirt designs to shops like urban outfitters and enterprising father/son teams out to rid high school and college kids of their disposable income to look fresh in tees that match their sneakers.
Pool is a hipster convention, bright neon colors, girls in vintage dresses with hairdos to match, american apparel girls passing out free thongs with their asses hanging out, Japanese girls straight out of Fruits, Japanese guys with much better hair than the girls, hot girls with full tattoo sleeves, tight jeans, etc etc ad nauseum.
Nothing seemed that cool or looked like it's going to be the next hot thing. Although, I'm going into a mod phase now rocking more ben sherman shirts. Aside from that I ain't paying over $100 for a shirt of any kind...
Off to the library for a catering gig.
Oh yea, Obama Obama Obama.
I watched the speech on PBS free from all the pundits. I think I may have been the only one listening to the song that played after the speech, a country song mind you, quite an odd choice so I had to listen to the lyrics.
"Only in America
One man can go to prison,
One man can be president
Only in America"
I cried. As cynical as I am, I realized at that moment that I truly never thought I'd see this day in my lifetime. So soon. Sure, he's got to win first, but to see how much people are putting their hopes into him, I'm amazed.
His running for president is a referendum on race, change for the future, the American dream, and the idea that we can hope for a better America. I like the way he started out his speech, acknowledging this idea, that it's not about Barack Obama, it's about everyone that's been rejuvenated to vote, mobilize and moved to take back this country.
I'd be the first to tell you that change does not come easy, but watching that speech, thinking about my parents, my personal history, american history, all of it. I do want to hope, I do want to dream, I do want to think that all of us are here to create something better...
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Pool is a hipster convention, bright neon colors, girls in vintage dresses with hairdos to match, american apparel girls passing out free thongs with their asses hanging out, Japanese girls straight out of Fruits, Japanese guys with much better hair than the girls, hot girls with full tattoo sleeves, tight jeans, etc etc ad nauseum.
Nothing seemed that cool or looked like it's going to be the next hot thing. Although, I'm going into a mod phase now rocking more ben sherman shirts. Aside from that I ain't paying over $100 for a shirt of any kind...
Off to the library for a catering gig.
Oh yea, Obama Obama Obama.
I watched the speech on PBS free from all the pundits. I think I may have been the only one listening to the song that played after the speech, a country song mind you, quite an odd choice so I had to listen to the lyrics.
"Only in America
One man can go to prison,
One man can be president
Only in America"
I cried. As cynical as I am, I realized at that moment that I truly never thought I'd see this day in my lifetime. So soon. Sure, he's got to win first, but to see how much people are putting their hopes into him, I'm amazed.
His running for president is a referendum on race, change for the future, the American dream, and the idea that we can hope for a better America. I like the way he started out his speech, acknowledging this idea, that it's not about Barack Obama, it's about everyone that's been rejuvenated to vote, mobilize and moved to take back this country.
I'd be the first to tell you that change does not come easy, but watching that speech, thinking about my parents, my personal history, american history, all of it. I do want to hope, I do want to dream, I do want to think that all of us are here to create something better...
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