*snerk*

Batman at Buckingham

Over 9/11?

From The New York Times Sunday Magazine, emphasis mine:

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But wouldn't you know that just when I'd moved on, the presidential candidates (especially one of them) would ask me to rekindle my memories? Once, it had been my duty to calm down and re-enter the economic hurly-burly; now it was my duty to get worked up again before re-entering the voting booth. So which was it? Forget? Remember?

The signals were mixed. What the politicians wanted, it finally seemed, was the right to revive 9/11 on command, whenever it served their own ambitious purposes. If they could, they'd implant a 9/11 chip deep in the limbic region of my brain and activate it by remote control.

Getting over the attacks is my way of refusing them access. Sure, I feel guilty about it, but so be it. Some emotions, some memories, some pictures are just too combustible to walk around with, especially when certain people are waiting to toss a match into my soul. That's why I've begun to bury that awful morning in a spot that only I can locate, under layers and layers of pop ephemera. I'll dig up those images if and when I choose to, but not before then. The passage of time has made them truly mine -- mine to bring out and mine to set aside.

- Walter Kirn, a frequent contributor to the magazine, is the author, most recently, of ''Up in the Air,'' a novel.

To which I add, "Amen".

That was weird

Driving down 18th today a guy who looked to be in his early 20s blew me a kiss and said, "Oh baby mine". Kinda yelled it, actually. I don't know how he managed to look so sexual while walking, but he did.

I was totally flabbergasted. I don't think that's ever happened to me before. Perhaps the more 'fitted' outfits I'm wearing to work are more different from my usual oversized look than I thought?

Washington State Primary

King County has a Video Voter's Guide. No, not all of it requires realplayer. They also have PDFs here.

The State Voter's Guide is also available - including various FAQs on voter's rights.