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Arrived in Charleston, South
Carolina this morning. Sunny skies followed me all the way from Seattle to
Chicago to New York to sunrise over the south but as soon as I got off the
train the clouds rolled in and stayed. Sarah and Rebecca met me on the platform,
we got in a blue Volvo wagon and hit the grocery store. Back at Rebecca and
Jeff's--they're married and expecting twins--we masked the molding and painted
the living room walls and hall two shades of yellow. I hadn't watched TV
in months, maybe years, but they have cable and I got sucked into
Fear
Factor,
The
Apprentice, and the
presidential
debates. (No drinking here in SC so TV was a good substitute for that
mellow alcohol detachment.) FF had me saying again and again, "I could do
that!" and The Apprentice seemed a mixture of greed and blind obedience.
(What I really would have liked to see is the behind-the-scenes wheeling
and dealing with UPS and QVC that made this particular episode possible.)
Debatewise, it was refreshing to hear John Kerry say tax the rich
but his darting lizard tongue made a bad impression and that's what rules
the medium and all the suckers like me who sit glued to the tube waiting
for whatever's next. |
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