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Giant anti-Republican satire posters have gone up in my neighborhood:

poster 1:
One God.
One Party.
Republicans for a disention-free theocracy.

poster 2:
Bush + Cheney
It's Armageddon in America.

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In other news, I realized that one of the reasons I like the Harry Potter books is that in it students realize that school is supposed to teach them how to function in the world, and when the people who should be teaching that (teachers) fail at it, they take it upon themselves to do as best they can. I _get_ that, I just wish I'd had peers growing up who weren't dangerously insane or afraid of everything (including me). Anyway. Put another long boring rant about my childhood here.

Am currently making dinner, and writing out postcards, and working on a monologue for yet another audition for yet another production of The Laramie Project. Well, and some other stuff too, but I've discovered goal focused is the only way for me.

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There was almost a tornado earlier. The sy got green like I've only seen it twice before in my life, and kids in the office came running upstairs freaked out because someone they were out smoking with told them there would be a tornado. I explained that occassionally they do happen in the outer boroughs (or even the very north of Manhattan), but they are there and gone, the tall buildings don't really allow for them. They were really scared though, and it was sort of funny, especially because I've no great experience of the things, but come on. They are fucking terrifying, and it's a wonder to me they inhabit our imaginations here at all.

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I don't know--your relationship with your own childhood has always fascinated me--partially because you talk about it as though it crippled you or cheated you, yet it also gave you some of your incredibly strong personality. To me, who didn't live it, your rants are parts of a story that fascinates me. It's not that I want to understand it--it's that you've lived through and thought about more intrigue, variation, and extremes than most people could dream up. I wouldn't have minded a long boring rant.

This years seniors, including my neighbor, graduated from my hs today, so the sense of "school, idealized" is hanging around, even without your comment. Not the best time of your life, but a stage and setting meant to prepare you for the world. You're very right about Hogwarts, to an extent. I don't think that's the sort of thing commonly found in schools outside of the fictional world. It's not that your peers were insane or afraid, but that most children aren't that aware. And most teachers aren't that prepared.

One thing I love about St. Louis is that everyone has tornado stories. That particular green is an awful shade for the sky, though. Here it's just storming.