Creative Time is sponsoring a "showing" of Jenny Holzer's work this weekend, around the city...look out for projections and planes with banners flying along the Hudson!
October 2004 Archives
So the elections are in less than five days. And I can't wait for it to be over. (Sort of like the World Series). Frankly, this whole process of electing a President (at least in the United States) is exhausting. It's rather ridiculous that the campaigning starts more than a year before Election Day. I keep asking myself how any incumbent President could possibly do his job during the year leading up to the election? If you're so focused on giving stump speeches and traveling all over the country, who's really running the country? This worries me.
So why can't we run things more like Britain? The nominees don't even emerge until 6 weeks before the election, and then that's it, they have 6 weeks. We don't have to be pounded over the head with back and forth nasty political advertisements for more than a year. Just 6 weeks. Meanwhile, there are important issues that we should be talking about that get left by the wayside because we're so focused on who's going to be the next President.
I agree that this is probably the most important election in a generation, but perhaps we should analyze this process as a whole and change things to make it a little less...tiresome. Make the debates more like debates and less sound-bitey, shorten the campaign cycle, get the media to give exposure to third party candidates, and hold politicans accountable for their actions (damn Zell Miller and his spitball metaphor!)...is that too much to ask?
All I know is that I am waking up early on Tuesday to get in line to vote. And you better be too!
Yay! The Red Sox won the World Series! After being a Boston resident for 8 years, I was pretty psyched that they finally pulled through and won the Series for the first time since 1918. OK, well, I'm not that big of a fan, I never even went to the Fenway for even one game. But I guess you get caught up in the moment.
It must have been the lunar eclipse last night. Maybe they put a hex on the Cardinals or somethig.
My mom did the Avon Walk for breast cancer this weekend with her friend Cynthia. I'm so proud of her! She's been training really hard the past couple of months, and this weekend was the real event. 
The weather worked out perfectly (cloudy and cool on Saturday, and sunny and breezy on Sunday), so we went out on the route to cheer her on. Unfortunately she didn't make it all the way to Central Park, where we were waiting, on the first day, but we managed to find her and Cynthia on Sunday. We walked with them over the bridge with a whole gaggle of other walkers.
Take a look at the photo album. Best of all, she's raised money to go towards research to find a cure for breast cancer...so many of her friends have been affected by it, and it's really amazing to have an event like this to raise awareness about the disease.
