politics in nyc
I knew voting was a mistake when I did it, and now (as Malcolm X might say) my chickens have come home to roost. Now Mike Bloomberg thinks I am the kind of person who really likes to vote, and he has fallen head-over-heels in love with me. He sends me full-color love notes printed on good paper almost every day. Every other website I visit has an eye-catching banner telling me how much he cares about me. How do I get him to stop? How do I get the message through that he’s just being creepy at this point? I was never going to vote for him to begin with, and now that he’s launched this full assault on the city I’m just getting angry. How much money is he throwing into convincing us that he’s the only person in the world that can restart the New York economy? I mean, I guess it’s something that he’s putting all this time and energy into paying lip service to the middle class and insisting that we need to reduce our dependence on Wall Street, but where was this attitude when it could have done some good? This whole thing just smells desperate to me. If he wants to piss on term limits, that’s his business I guess, but the way he’s steamrolling his way into a third term with the most generic, boilerplate campaign promises is just pathetic. Really? The five-borough economic recovery plan? No-one else could have thought of that? Even if I liked the guy and could think of a single positive thing he’s done for the city, I’d want him to step aside and let someone else implement his ideas.
Sorry, I really don’t like to talk about politics, but these glossy magazines are under my skin. Incidentally, am I the only person who is confused by the phrase “head over heels?” It’s a children’s cartoon trope that one character will wish for another character to fall head over heels in love with them, and then the second character will contort into a literal approximation of the phrase. Except I was always confused by this, because it seemed like what they were implying was head under heels, or maybe head on heels. Strictly speaking, in most natural upright positions your head will be over your heels. Even if it’s supposed to communicate a tumbling motion, it seems like you’d need to extend the phrase, like, head over heels over head. Am I missing something?
Sorry, I really don’t like to talk about politics, but these glossy magazines are under my skin. Incidentally, am I the only person who is confused by the phrase “head over heels?” It’s a children’s cartoon trope that one character will wish for another character to fall head over heels in love with them, and then the second character will contort into a literal approximation of the phrase. Except I was always confused by this, because it seemed like what they were implying was head under heels, or maybe head on heels. Strictly speaking, in most natural upright positions your head will be over your heels. Even if it’s supposed to communicate a tumbling motion, it seems like you’d need to extend the phrase, like, head over heels over head. Am I missing something?