Vote! (Updated)
The current plan for the next 48 hours or is for me to be volunteering, doing some non-blogging work, and hopefully recovering from an Obama Mega-Victory party, so blogging may be nonexistent for a bit.
But, just in case you have any questions about voting, go here. Voting is your duty (unless you tend to disagree with me politically, in which case it’s more of an easy-going suggestion).
And now, some words from our sponsor…
(This a classic short subject I’ve posted here before — but if you’re feeling impatient at the first part, which is a sort of very early music video for one of the young Frank Sinatra’s less memorable tunes, you won’t be missing much of anything if you skip to about 2:45 or so.)
And and old FtY favorite…
UPDATE: Two pieces of sad news, the first one not unexpected, which is the death of Senator Obama’s grandmother (Here’s a Reuters obituary.) Also, the 44 year-old director of the Nevada Obama campaign died suddenly today, as well. There is a price.
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I’m a huge Frank Sinatra fan (at the ripe old age of 25), and I’ve always admired “The House I Live In.” The only thing is, I always cringe when he refers to ‘the Japs’ in what otherwise is an amazing short that is years ahead of its time.
By Jamie on 11.09.08 8:16 pm
I hear you, Jamie. It’s kind of an ironic moment that gets me cringing slightly as well — but when I mentioned that moment to a Japanese-American friend of mine, he kind of shrugged. There was a war going on and the term was so widely used at the time that it had probably lost all meaning right then through sheer overuse. (Although, obviously, a lot of wartime talk and propaganda was deeply racist.) Still, unconscious racism was huge right then, and I wonder if Albert Maltz and company might have been more sensitive if it had been a battle over Germany and involved “Krauts.”
By bob on 11.09.08 8:54 pm
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