William Gibson, voting, book club.

[featherynscale]

I had William Gibson dreams last night. Man, I hate that guy. Mostly I hate him for building such interesting cities, and making such dull things happen in them. I hate him for misusing the aesthetic. And I hate him for Johnny Mnemonic. (Rollins was cool in the movie, though. Gibson can eff up a lot of things, but nobody can make Rollins look bad.) But anyway.

Somehow, it was election day today. In my brain, elections happen in April. I'm a little confused as to when I am. I voted anyway. If it should turn out that these were not real elections, and the real elections are the first Tuesday in April, like always, I suppose I'll vote again next week.

Druid book club was lightly attended last night (Peter B. Ellis' "The Druids"), but still a wretched amount of fun. (At one point, saffronhare said, "You know, I read this book, but I was not as critical as you guys. It's good to be in a room with people who are smarter than me." agrnmn told her we weren't smarter, we were just bigger dicks. Saff concurred, or was at least willing to allow that we were more likely to wave our dicks around.) Any book club meeting in which a fair amount of time is spent parodying the author is a good use of my time, I think. Also, I learned where Transalpine Gaul and Cisalpine Gaul were. Note to authors: if you are going to talk about countries that do not currently exist, it is okay to include a map. Nobody will confuse you with Tolkien. And we uneducated bastards will thank you for it. KTHXBYE.

Comments

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

As long as my voting location continues to be a church -- any church -- I'm going to do my best to vote by mail (or early, at the county election office). It's a matter of how I feel about separation of church and state, you know?

But I hate the constant switching of voting locations for what (it seems to me) it does to access and participation. There are many things about which I think people need to seek out their own solutions, but having to hunt down their Sekrit Voting Lokation is not one of them.

Okay. Getting off my soapbox now.

[capriciouslass.livejournal.com]

I agree with you completely about churches not being appropriate as polling places. I appreciated the satellite office they opened at the old Metcalf South mall for the last election. For this one I may or may not make it to the election office for early voting. I'll just have to see what the week brings.

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

I have had the exact same thoughts. When I found out my first voting location was a church I was not pleased. For good or bad though, my new location is the Quindaro Community Center, chain link and barbed wire fence and all.