Obama Time

I'm very excited. I'm very excited for America. I'm very excited for us up here in Canada. It feels like we are getting a long lost friend back. I'm very excited for the world. We are on the brink of something here and it's important that we (the planet) move this in the right direction. There have always been dividing lines both internationally and within countries themselves and I hope that this man and America can inspire the world with its ideals (like it used to before torture camps, reduced rights and such). We need to start looking beyond dividing lines to find common ground and we need to look at the world as if we're governing with future generations in mind.

It's going to be fun to watch everything today. The Dead are playing one of the inaugural balls at Obama's request. Here's a funny quote I read at Rolling Stone online from percussionist Mickey Hart:

- Another pitfall of political rocking: a background check. “It gave me pause when I had to get a security clearance to play a gig!” Hart says. So did they get past the security scan? “Oh, yeah, we don’t look so bad on paper. It’s not as bad as you might think.”

"We don't look so bad on paper." Classic.

-mrjackstraw