A Dark Day in Ohio

I suppose its a happy day for humankind. Wes Anderson's new movie, The Life Aquatic opens today. So I suppose that's great.

Just great.

Unless you live in OHIO! who said that it was okay to treat the red states like red-headed step children, anyway?

We've got to wait until Christmas!? I'm a big proponent of not shaking one's Christmas Gifts in advance nor digging through closets. I think that surprise is as great as the next guy....

...but this is just the sort of thing that's gonna make me shrug my shoulders and say:

What choice do I have! I live in a red state and I'm getting treated like a redneck. I might as well vote for GW next time around!

(yes, its true, there was a small, not well-discussed clause in the patriot act that clarified that third-term presidents would be permissible if the terrorist alert had fallen anywhere below magenta in the pre-election year.)

So if you're looking for me today, I'll be up at tinseltown-on-the-strip sitting in whichever theater is dark and bleak and unoccupied at the moment....

call it my way of celebrating advent....