I hope I don’t oversleep. I’m supposed to wake at 4:00 a.m. tomorrow to roll out of Manhattan on The Huffington Post‘s pre-dawn party bus to DC. I’m going to the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or March to Keep Fear Alive. Yay Stephen Colbert! (Watch him tell congress he doesn’t want his fruits and veggies picked by Mexicans, or buy his book I Am America (And So Can You!).) Yay Jon Stewart! (View his Obama interview; buy his book Earth: A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race). For those of you not going to DC, I’ll take pictures, videos and post tweets of the rally to take you along. Good times to be shared by all! By the way, if any of you know of other not-be-be missed events, exhibitions or other shindigs in town during this weekend, let me know. I’ve heard about a couple Halloween costume parties, and I might attend. A friend of a guy friend is throwing a yacht party, and I’ve stopped just short of threatening him with physical harm if he doesn’t take me along ;) I’ve never been on a yacht. I’ll let you what, if anything, happens with that invite. In the meantime, since we’re talking about political stuff, here are a few reader favorites from the news & politics section of FUNKY BROWN CHICK® over the years:
- I’m Twanna, And I’m Running for President. If you were to run for public office, what would your platform be?
- Divorce & the Nip Tucked Kidney. Samirah said one of her coworkers gave her sickly husband a kidney, but then the dude left her. I joked: “In the divorce settlement, I would have asked for my kidney back.” I figured I’d never actually be in that hypothetical situation. No one would. Well …
- Would You Raise an Intersex Child? A mini-documentary from Current TV. It’s short.
- I’m Straight, And I Say Fuck Hate. “If you don’t want gay marriage, then don’t marry someone with the same fucking junk in their undies. Pretty fuckin’ simple.”
- Do I Sound Black? A fellow black woman in media casually told me black people don’t have sex.
- In Pictures: Tuesday, November 4, 2008. Election Day.
A yacht is really nothing more than a scaled-up rowboat. I know because when I was a kid, I was part of the deck crew on a small one (60 footer). Try to have fun anyway, bu don’t forget the Dramamine.
Didn’t go on the yacht, but had tons of fun in DC. I’ll post the video this weekend!
Twanna, you are amazing!  i love the articles you wrote that were in the Huffington Post and i think  you would make a wonderful President too. You are so social and have so many jaw-dropping stories to tell. i love it. If you do wind up on that yacht i’m sure you’ll manage to enjoy it, be entertaining and diplomatic even as you enlighten some of the yachting crowd you meet.
THANK YOU for the kind words! :)
I am jealous. Not of the yacht, I’ve been on one (a friend has a 65 footer, it looks pretty big to me), but of the Rally/March attendance. I wanna go! I’ll just have to catch the highlights oon the Comedy Central web site afterwards. Have fun!
If you watched the highlights on Comedy Central, you saw and heard more of the rally that most of us who attended :)
The rally was crazy! Hope you had a great time =)
It was fun!!! Not as cold as the inauguration, but similar sensation of dealing with crowds.