I'm a forty-seven-year-old attorney stuck in a hotel room in a major American city. For over two decades, I have practiced law. This has included suits and ties every weekday. On Mondays, I wear a suit. On Tuesdays, I wear a different suit. Wednesdays are suit days. Thursdays are huge suit days. On Fridays, suits are mandatory. But this Tuesday morning at 3:00 a.m., I plan to practice Hope without a tie.
There's a highway down the road from the hotel and an overpass. That overpass is begging for a giant Obama sign. I've bought the giant bedsheet and the paint. I've got special fabric ribbon with wiring embedded to hold the sign to the chainlink fence. Total cost: under $20.00.
I've scouted the site and began painting the sign. I don't think hotels like this usually host people who paint giant political bedsheets, so I've had to take care with ventilation. This is what it will look like on the morning of the election on a major interstate going into a major American "battleground" city:
I voted absentee in my home state already, and I've donated and been making calls. Now, I just need some helpful hints on how to pass the bedsheet through the usual-sized hole provided by a standard chainlink fence!
UPDATE: Karl Rover, in the comments, has provided a wonderful (and very helpful) link to a site providing tips for Freeway Blogging. Here's the link and a great quote from the site's "How To" section:
Safety First: Like anything else, free speech is fun until someone gets hurt. Signs should be placed on the INSIDE of fencing, NOT suspended directly over traffic. So long as your letters are at least six inches tall, they'll be perfectly legible through the fencing.