You can almost hear the collective sigh of relief across the ocean.
Like a besmirched Christmas morning, eagerly hunched over a blue-lit laptop awaiting trepidatious results, like Schrodinger's Election, the future waiting outside our London door neither concrete nor ethereal, non-existent without our consent.
I would have consented for a little less blue, I suppose, but this was sure all I could have hoped for. As well, my home riding in Edmonton made a stupendous splash of orange amongst the sinister sea of conservatives. (That's right pop, downright sinister. Grrrr.) Linda Duncan, the formentioned ndp victor, spoke with me on the phone when I was at home, about fighting the man and making the world a better place, so she had my vote.
Sad of course when we accept a darker world instead of an absolutely blackened one, like kitchen products called I Can't Believe It's Not Better. Jess said it best though, if it wasn't for our specific anti-conservative politics, one glance at the Canadian political landscape and you can't blame a single person for voting Tory, they seem the only party with an idea of what is going on. I mean, their idea is namely to kill foreigners, reduce the Canadian quality of living, and make having a general societal conscience illegal, but hey, it's a plan.
The job hunt, so deliriously dismal it has often become comic, has been reduced to begging for warehouse and call center jobs. And in this endevour I somehow am considering myself lucky, should I manage to obtain a fairly lackluster job to which I can assign my waking hours unfruitfully.
Oh! In a note of amazing, I am without even a single drag of a cigarette since the day I left Chicago, three weeks ago. I know for Team Smoke, (for whom I am a proud founder), this betrayal stings as much as breathing oxygen through our tattered lungs, but I promise it won't be permanent.
Right-0, got some culture jamming, alternative-cross stitching, and parkour to get up to. Life is just so damn Prolific when you're unemployed.
-nick
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ya think it's a good thing the National Dummy Party got in?-SNORK!
the rinos were smarter
TRUE BLUE POPS
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