My best friend, opera buddy and former SO had a serious car accident last week. Cutting things short, I spent Friday with his daughter (whom I adore) and him for 8 hours at the rehab. Daughter and I left in time to buy booze and grinders (hoagies, subs — only one per person but I know how you regional people are). Saturday another 3 hours and she was off on a plane — she who had tickets to the NC Springsteen concert for today --CANCELLED! Upset and yet not upset. She’s really solid, sane and progressive. We are waiting for the Dolly Parton high healed boot to drop for her June concert.
Today I spent 5 hours with my buddy’s Marxist friend at the rehab. Marxist friend said he’d try to vote in 3 different states (kidding — but could if he tried). He already voted for Bernie in MA.
I watched the 85 yo Marxist and my 75 yo buddy talk about Brecht, Shaw, Wagner, Wilder, Tennessee Williams, critical literary theory etc. We only laughed briefly about politics. I was watching two old friends and me — 65 — managing our mortalities and intelligence. We all only hated on the Cheneys, Cruz and Trump but that was brief.
I had been trying to keep up with DKos on my iPad — I suck on mobile devices. It really wasn’t worth the effort when one considers listening to truly, truly brilliant people talk of geniuses past and present. Of great talents — my buddy and I were supposed to be at a drama conference where Tony Kushner was the main speaker. Oh, well. My buddy is alive — can remember my phone number when I couldn’t and I had great hummus from NYC from the Marxist. But, really, DKos can be stupid and make hospital coffee seem great.
Many things come into perspective when petty shite isn't like life or death — or more importantly, how to commit voter fraud if you really put your mind to it and give Ann Coulter a run for her money.
To all our DKos members who actually do have real life personal scares, blessings. Ask for the positive energy from this community and others — it helps to know people care about you. To all our DKos members who are dissecting Vatican invites or parsing words of our candidates — get a fucking grip. We have an enemy — it is the GOP at every level of government.