Vote, People!
I know I don’t have to tell you all that. You know. This is the last couple of days…of the free world. Possibly.
I’ve done what I can. I voted. I gave money. I tried to comfort myself and others. I have spoken out. Now, we wait.
I’ve gone through many phases of terror and anxiety over the last four years. The full spectrum from fearing for my life to fearing for all our lives. Now, I am at some kind of peace somehow. Maybe it’s total panic that’s taken on a calming feeling. The Ritalin effect of the world ending. I don’t know.
I think I have some clarity. It could go either way. One much worse than the other and possibly the end of our political system and the beginning of an Authoritarian America that will usher in the end of the species. I really didn’t want to live through the end of reality and life as I knew it. It is happening though. I imagine I will adapt and react to whatever happens somewhat appropriately or collapse into soul death and perpetual fear. I don’t know.
Let’s hope for new management.
I do know I am going away and I am actually going to try to disconnect for a few days and re-enter on the 4th. I know I’m going to miss all the fireworks and explosions and battles and the beginning of the civil war but it will be here when I get back. I feel like I have done what I can and sitting and watching numbers and maps all day interspersed with stories about fascistic chaos at polling places and on highways doesn’t sound great to me.
Today I talk to my old friend David Cross. It’s always good to talk to him. He makes me laugh. On Thursday I talk to Heidi Schreck about her show ‘What the Constitution Means to Me.’ That’s barring the necessity to address a current shitstorm that renders regular WTF content tone deaf or useless. So, I’m hoping for Heidi.
See you all on the other side, probably. Godspeed.
Enjoy!
Boomer, Monkey and LaFonda live!
Love,
Maron