2004-10-28..1:55 p.m.

File this under days/weeks late, but still need to be said:

Right now at this very moment there are two things of MAJOR IMPORTANCE happening in the new, both of which have/will affect EVERYTHING as we know it.

1. John Peel. I couldn�t eat all yesterday for worry that this now means radio, the last bastion of outlets for decent non-top 40 independent brilliance (because let�s face it, there is no hope in NME, etc.)?(though if I start getting paid by them to write, I could be persuaded to change that opinion)(or more likely not, but that looks better on a CV, doesn�t it? Suggests a modicum of flexibility? Adaptability?), it means that radio is now utterly hopeless unless they can find someone to fill his enormous shoes. I�m very sceptical and saddened by this loss.
2. The upcoming elections. The only thing I�ve done is to pester all my American friends into NOT voting for Bush, into actually voting and into arguments. It�s worked fairly well so far. I actually think that, since the revelation that that stock pile of bomb/weapon making equipment has gone missing, Kerry might just do it. I�m not placing too much hope on the genius of the American people to chose a safer/fairer/better world over abject soap opera politics and idiosyncratic lingual blunders, but I do have a bit of a hope. Just a smidge. I�m fighting it. Trying to. GAH! KERRY SO COULD WIN TH� Fighting it.

****meep