Today is the last day to join, so if you want in on it, be sure to read over the rules and PM Shakespearicles!Rain Rain · 5:44pm Jun 8th, 2016
Come and stay
Boom and roar
And cleanse the day
I miss the rain. I like California, expensive as it is, but I do NOT like its drought. Last night there was a small drizzle leaving everything sort of damp and miserable. A poor imitation of real rain. I still remember the booming thunderstorms of Georgia--the wind howling so hard our brick house creaked and the cracks of lightning shook me down to the bone. I slept best on those nights. I liked the din. And in the morning? The world felt clean.
I bought A Slight Case of Overbombing by the Sisters of Mercy on Google Play. I only did it on there because my ex-sister-in-law gave me a gift card. I do so love this band. Perhaps more than Bauhaus, as deliciously spooky as those lads were. Sisters makes me think of future dystopias. Bauhaus makes me think of nightmares in modern life. Sisters makes me think of steam and gun metal. Bauhaus makes me think of fire and blood.
Sisters makes me think of rain.
"It would be so nice if it rained," I think, as I listen to Lucretia My Reflection for the bajillionth time. Husbando is home for the first time in ages. SmallCaliber is watching Dragonshy (again.) It's the aftermath of the California primary election, and there is a heaviness over this house. I didn't vote yesterday. I didn't feel it was right to just close my eyes and throw darts when I sincerely feel a lack of confidence towards both Democratic candidates. Just about the only thing I'm sure of is that I don't want Trump in office. (...I just got deja vu. Did I say that before on this blog? Word for word? Probably.)
Husbando is depressed. He really wanted Bernie to win. Like a fool, I go on some spiel about how it was inevitable. How he should try to find it in himself to support Hillary so that Trump stays out of office. He's sick of picking the "lesser of two evils" he says. I agree, but we're ants in a big machine. I think Bernie would have done better if he'd: 1) been more aggressive toward Hillary in the beginning (he was strangely tentative about engaging her in the beginning, and that lost him his chance to win over those undecided voters who had yet to commit to a candidate. It's harder to change minds late in the game when everyone has put their chips down); 2) softened the extremity of his platform (you can talk about revolution all you want, but extreme change comes at great cost, and you have to convince enough people that the cost is worth it to change the status quo--Bernie failed to); 3) strengthened his foreign policies (because seriously, even Hillary, with her shitty record, had him beat--people will still prefer some experience to none).
This is the only day that husbando will be off this week (as far as I know) and I'd hate for him to mope around the house all day. I don't really know how to cheer him up though. He's such an idealistic person. Sometimes, just once I wish the universe would stop disappointing him. That his faith and good nature would be rewarded.
But then, if I could wish the universe into doing such things, I could also make it rain here... and that has yet to happen.
I suspect, alas, this will be one of those areas we agree to disagree on. I don't think of Hillary as the lesser of two evils, personally; I find her to be a better progressive than Bernie. I always did on intersectional issues, and reading Bernie's legislative history really turned me off on him, especially finding out that the AUMF was the first war he voted against, you know?
You could get ice cream.
The only politician I could put hope in. I'm probably going to write in Richard II, and say--for god's sake let us sit upon the ground and tell tales of the death of Old Gunslingers. I'm pretty defeated today myself. She's going to lose. Her voters would have gone the other way, but a lot of us who liked Bernie will find voting for the symbol of everything we were against from the beginning to be hard going.
I guess in the end, I'm as hopeless as I was before about the whole thing. Come the Wasteland and the End. Sometimes I dream about the world after ours and how much better it would be. Maybe. Probably not. As long as there are humans everything will be awful.