About a week-and-a-half ago, Darcy and I watched ‘Recount’. First of all - this is a very good film. Danny Strong definitely knows how to write, and a movie that can hold your attention for 2 hours when you know how it’s going to end is quite something. Of course the reason it’s so compelling brings me to my next point: Dear American friends - your system is completely insane!!!! Just... all of it. What's wrong with writing an X in a box?
Aaaaanyway, I've been sucked into the black hole that is the US presidential election. To explain where I'm coming from I'm going to quote![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
selenak, who (when asked about the enthusiastic Obama reception in Berlin) replied:
it struck [me] as less being about Obama himself - who at this point has no acts affecting the rest of the world either to praise or resent - than a desperate wish to fall in love with America again. Over here, we grow up with American movies, American tv and American music. Of course we romanticise the country. Or demonise it, as the case may be, absolutely, but I think most of us start out with the romanticising and falling in love part, and in addition to horror evoked by the policies of the Bush administration summed up with the name "Abu Ghraib", there is your everyday divorced couple type of bile and bitterness.
Also of course the election will affect the whole world, of which I am a part... ( I doubt that anyone cares what *I* have to say, but I have links. Dear Republican friends, you might want to stay away. Sorry. )
Outside the cut, because it's too funny to miss - Michael Palin for President:
Aaaaanyway, I've been sucked into the black hole that is the US presidential election. To explain where I'm coming from I'm going to quote
selenak, who (when asked about the enthusiastic Obama reception in Berlin) replied: it struck [me] as less being about Obama himself - who at this point has no acts affecting the rest of the world either to praise or resent - than a desperate wish to fall in love with America again. Over here, we grow up with American movies, American tv and American music. Of course we romanticise the country. Or demonise it, as the case may be, absolutely, but I think most of us start out with the romanticising and falling in love part, and in addition to horror evoked by the policies of the Bush administration summed up with the name "Abu Ghraib", there is your everyday divorced couple type of bile and bitterness.
Also of course the election will affect the whole world, of which I am a part... ( I doubt that anyone cares what *I* have to say, but I have links. Dear Republican friends, you might want to stay away. Sorry. )
Outside the cut, because it's too funny to miss - Michael Palin for President:
