Tonight we’re going to see a special concert production of “Jerry Springer: The Opera” at Carnegie Hall.
How bad a gay am I, and how big a political junkie, that I almost wish I could stay home tonight and watch the Florida Republican primary returns instead? Returns for a party I’m not even going to vote for?
So the TiVo is set to record MSNBC starting at 7:58 p.m., a couple of minutes before the polls close. (Florida polls close at 7:00, but the Panhandle’s on Central Time and they don’t start announcing returns until the whole state is closed.) When I get home I’m going to resist the temptation to go online and I’ll turn on the TiVo instead.
This is just more evidence that politics is my version of sports. Since I don’t care all that much about actual sports.
OK, I guess I’m not a bad gay.
My mom lives just outside of the very Orwelling “Villages” where Giuliani and McCain were campaigning this week. Thankfully I missed Rudy, but I did see McCain when I was down there this past week. It was a damn sight more interesting than anything else going on that day (although I was shocked how much older McCain looked than when the Straight Talk Express came to my college in 2000).
I was more disturbed by the omnipresence of Huckabee signs, though. Although what do you expect in a region where the main strip is nothing but churches and liquor stores and the only gay bar in 20 miles got torn down to build a Walgreen’s.