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Change is coming… but normalcy is returning
November 10th, 2008 · No Comments Yet
The election being over is… odd. Of course, there’s a transition to over-analyse and the future Obama administration to wildly speculate about. But that sense of urgency - the sense that it really is my duty, as a concerned citizen of the world, to spend an hour or so each day catching up on the latest Sarah Palin scandal / Joe the Plumber appearance / McCain campaign infighting / outrageous slur against Obama - is gone.
There is an upside - more time for pointless web crazery such as, for example, finding my-name-as-a-face:
Disapointingly dull, you may agree. But I like that it appears to have a moustache.
In other Web News, Metro’s Tom Phillips has pointed out that the forgotten (or in my case, never-on-the-radar) indie lot Johnny Boy produced a 2004 hit (ahem) that, as well as being pleasantly jangly in a sort of Retro Bar way, presciently predicts the current ongoing Collapse Of Everything:
“You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes & You Get What You Deserve”
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