About last night
By Todd Stadler · Wednesday, November 5, 2008 11:54am
Julia and I watched the election results with Beeman, Kirsten, and Driscoll over at Emma's place.
I was surprised by how early things were called for Obama — I'd forgotten that presidential elections don't always go late into the night or require haggling over voting irregularities. Or that they don't always involve deep disappointment.
Julia and I decided to walk home, since it was a nice night. We talked about the election, the past, the future — all while listening to cars honking on Belmont and Hawthorne. Here's a video of what we saw:
What an interesting night.
5 comments so far
1 Nov 05 '08 12:37pm:
sarah replied:
"gah!!! that video made me SQUEE all over again!
ok, well, that's not exactly true, cos i don't think i've *stopped* squeeing all day."
2 Nov 05 '08 1:36pm:
Robert replied:
"That's pretty amazing.
One question though -- where was the crowd control? There's a fine line between "exuberant" and "totally out of hand". "
3 Nov 05 '08 1:46pm:
autumn replied:
"the highlight of my evening was the dance of joy performed by my offspring at the announcement of the outcome. it involved jumping, spinning, arm-waving, squeaking, giggling, mid-air toe-touching, and falling down. it pretty well reflected my own feelings, but i was pinned to the couch by too many cheese enchiladas."
4 Nov 05 '08 1:53pm:
Todd replied:
"Robert, I'm pretty sure they were largely obeying the traffic laws, given that they only crossed (okay, mobbed) the street when the light changed. And all within the crosswalk, more or less."
5 Nov 05 '08 2:10pm:
amar replied:
"pretty awesome night, i must say. so strange to feel pride/optimism/joy like that. then in the morning i heard prop 8 (ban gay marriage) & some other shit passed. this country, it's always 1 step fwd 2 steps back. but no matter how you look at it, last night was all about dancing in the streets."