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For the past two nights, there have been lightning strikes over my house, periodic downpours, and fog as thick as pea soup… and this morning I woke up to a hours-long hail storm and snow thunder (high up in the sky with a reverb that sounds like it can be heard across the entire planet). The smell in the air has changed as well.

This pleases me.

Recently I finished the latest of 100 Famous Views of Philadelphia: Sunset at Independence Hall. I hope you enjoy it!

The video is pretty self explanatory. I remember doing stuff like this in high school before it was all over the internet… and now that you can see stuff like this every day I feel like I’m not the only crazy person out there.

Obama and McCain – Dance Off!

I know this is a little late, being post-election and all… but holy awesome! These guys did a great job.

OBAMA IS BEAUTIFUL WORLD!/エニワン・ブラザース・バンド

I’m sure you’ve heard of Obama city, Japan in the news lately. It’s a small hamlet near where I live that has recently become quite famous. They revamped their town after Obama launched his candidacy, making Obama t-shirts and chopsticks and weird papier mache statues they prop up all over the town, next to stinky hanging fish carcasses. We’ll the town has been all over the news again now that Obama has won… here is the “official” Obama city theme song. With authentic clips of historic downtown Obama.

It’s not often that I find online videos to be brilliant… or even enjoyable for that matter, but when I do I try to post them here. Enjoy.

I’ve been pretty silent this year on the election, at least on my blog I’ve written almost nothing about it (compared to the last presidential election where I ranted quite a bit on the blog, and about 10,000 times more to people in real life). Partially it’s because living in Japan I have very little opportunity to talk about politics in a situation where people can understand a) my English, and b) what I mean.

However, the little talking I’ve done has been as passionate as ever, and I still get butterflies in my stomach from thinking about the risks this time around — and, particularly, from the ignorance I see in such a large percentage of Americans. (And before you go off on me for being flametastic there, try to understand what I mean — it will be explained in the link below.)

I feel a little guilty for not taking the time to put my political beliefs (as well as many other things) into writing on my blog this year, but my friend Dave sent me a link that pretty much covers my hopes and fears from this election. I hope you’ll take the time to read it:

http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/10/why-i-support-barack-obama.html

If you haven’t thought about those issues yet, please do. As I’ve said many times (though not on this blog yet), this election isn’t about Obama vs McCain, or Democrats vs Republicans, it’s about changing the culture of the United States, and what kind of people do we want to be, and what kind of world do we want to live in? Obama and McCain would both be competant leaders — and infinitely better than Bush — but they represent two very different cultures; two different futures. The future that is better for the US should be obvious.