Heading back to The Great Big Freeway today...
The year end seems less decisive this year... kinds rolling rather than just coming to a stop. Perhaps it's because I was at a bowl game yesterday, anticipating the college national championship in 9 days, the same day as tje BFCAees, with Sundance just a week later.
Perhaps it's because we are really down to 6 legit Best Picture candidates and ballots just went out. (Reminder - Though my sense is that it is really Slummy vs Frosty for the win, Phase Two is always a separate race and no one should forget that... including me.)
2009 is almost here... and scary as things are, hope is just 22 days away. There are no magic tricks, but as all of us have experienced at one moment or the other, it is small victories that keep us going through adversity... and I expect that the new president will offer that.
At least we are not Gaza Strip civilians caught between two very brutal political war machines, both of whom are sincerely convinced that they act out of survival instinct, both capable of doing terrible things towards that end.
Read the complete post at http://www.mcnblogs.com/thehotblog/archives/2008/12/byobirmingham.html