politics

I watched an orson welles film last weekend, the stranger, about an ex-nazi who tries to hide in a naive community and comes to a pretty goofy (I thought) end. orson was one crazy bugger. I think what he did with "war of the worlds" would be crazy enough to qualify, but a few months ago I saw citizen kane on the big screen, and thought it was absolutely nuts. this was part of a double feature whose other half was the maltese falcon. an extremely enjoyable evening. the crackling of the screen, the organ man with his levitating pedestal, and the booming of kane's voice as he stood in front of his adoring public, infinitely hopeful, a fool of a man, horribly admirable.

the other day my boss decided that we should ignore work for forty minutes while he talked about politics, and fuck if it wasn't interesting. he covered afghanistan, the kennedy assassination, malcolm x, foreign dictators we've supported, iran contra, and of course the '08 campaign. I told him I wasn't voting for hillary just because she's a woman, because that's sexist, and he just stared at me so long that I wondered if what I'd said had actually made sense.

also another time I was teasing him about eating meat all the time and he started talking about how he eats meat because he's addicted, like smoking, and that humans have evolved so far that we don't even need to eat meat, we could just be vegetarians and still be completely healthy. so that time it was my turn to just stare and blink.

"exactly," I said then. "that's exactly what I think."

the idea of hillary becoming president kind of depresses me. that's probably an overreaction, but I'm still on the obama bandwagon. hillary's experience is not more appealing than obama's intelligence and obvious idealism.