I found love in a book and now I'm looking for someone to share it with.

the thinkings of a lili brings me to Text Appeal:

"Looking for love this summer? Bring a favourite or recently read book to literary speed dating at the State Library of Victoria. As the wine and conversation flow you may begin your own chapter with that someone special.

Dec 6 2006, Jan 17 and Feb 14 2007
7 – 8.30pm
$20 per session (drinks included)
THREE people for the price of TWO
E XPE R IME D I A
State Library of Victoria
328 Swanston Street
Melbourne"

Now THAT'S the kind of dating I can get behind!

except. er. it's in australia.
oh yeah, and i'm dating someone.
(and i can hear my friends' voices right now: "you'd probably think everybody else's choices were crap." not all of them, i swear! just .. yanno. most. but.)

BUT OTHER than all that...

Turkey Takes a Stroll on the Triborough Bridge:

The New York Times reports:
"A wandering turkey briefly tied up traffic on the Triborough Bridge yesterday afternoon as it walked through the Manhattan toll plaza. The bird was spotted about 3:45 p.m. on surveillance cameras and it took about 15 minutes for two sergeants, four officers and a construction worker to capture it, said a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. “They finally cornered it in a section of the plaza,” said the spokesman, Tom Kelly. The construction worker grabbed the turkey while an officer subdued it by putting a blanket over its head. After that, “he was released on Wards Island to freedom,” Mr. Kelly said. It is unclear how the turkey got onto the bridge — whether it fell off a truck or wandered up the concrete pathways from Wards Island, beneath the bridge. However, Mr. Kelly did say emphatically that the turkey would be having a happy Thanksgiving. “They do know he won’t be somebody’s dinner,” he said."

in case anyone wonders whether the voting situation is FUCKED...

CHELSEA CLINTON: "turned up to vote at the West 20th Street polling site in Manhattan shortly after the 6:00am opening, only to be told that workers could not find her name listed in the book of registered voters. The book containing her name was apparently forwarded to the wrong district, denying her the ability to enter a polling booth."

let's go over this again. Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of the former president, had to cast a provisional ballot. (in Chelsea.)

Thank you, New York!

Election Day

"The state can't give you free speech, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Like old cambell said, freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free."
- Utah Phillips, citing Joseph Campbell

Go Vote.
Election Day by Michael Kinsley:

"The great flaw in American democracy is not electoral irregularities, purposeful or accidental. It’s not money (which, even under current law, cannot in the end actually buy votes). It’s not even the inexplicable failure of all other Americans to vote my way or of politicians to enact my own agenda. It’s not the broken promises and the outright lying, although we’re getting close. The biggest flaw in our democracy is, as I say, the enormous tolerance for intellectual dishonesty. Politicians are held to account for outright lies, but there seems to be no sanction against saying things you obviously don’t believe. There is no reward for logical consistency, and no punishment for changing your story depending on the circumstances. Yet one minor exercise in disingenuousness can easily have a greater impact on an election than any number of crooked voting machines. And it seems to me, though I can’t prove it, that this problem is getting worse and worse.

...

Of all the things Bush did and said during the 2000 election crisis, this having-it-both-ways is the most corrupt. It was reported before the election and is uncontested, but no one seems to care, because so much of our politics is like that. And no electoral reform can fix this problem. Intellectual dishonesty can’t be banned or regulated or “capped” like money. The only way it can be brought under control is if people start voting against it. If they did, the problem would go away. That’s democracy."