Grateful Dead

(the Google won't let me embed vids that aren't mine since I'm an AdSense publisher)

I think I'm allowed to link to them.

[UPDATE: This one captures it too... and I think I might have been at this showwith Bruce Hornsby at... where was it, again? Philly? This one was before my time but it was their best period... except maybe '77 or '66 .... aw, hell, do yourself a favor and go to YouTube and get lost in it for a couple hours. All those years... all those shows... all those blissfully blown minds... yea, I was lucky to have been there, and if you were there, you know what I mean, and if you weren't, unfortunately, you never will... sorry kidz, ain't nothin' like a Grateful Dead show. Never was, never will be.)

It has taken weeks to get this post together. It started off like so many others -- disjointed scrawling and doodling in a notebook like some weird extraterrestrial glyph shopping list, seemingly disparate elements being linked together with circles arrows, and comments whose lettering grows smaller to keep them within page margins and other space constraints.

I voted today and, for the first time since Bill Clinton's first term, actually felt good about it. Obama is incredible. He is exactly what our country needs after these past seven years of incompetence, rot, and corruption: a true unifying force bearing a powerful message of hope.