PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!!

A pretty remarkable, HISTORIC day...despite the fact that I wasn't (surprise) really feelin it all day long. I'm well aware of this day's significance, though. I just hate the hype and delusion. SHOW me change...THEN i'll sing your praises till the cows come home. Empty rhetoric doesn't inspire me...though the fact that you're black and now the President of the United States does. It's rather frustrating feeling out of step with popular opinion...though, thankfully, i'm a bit used to it...and use it to my advantage. So it's all good.

My grandmother would've turned 92 today...if she didn't die in 1981. She would've seen a black president on her 92nd birthday. I know she'd be impressed. As would Auntie Rae. I'd LOVE to hear what they both had to say about this. Heavy sigh. Man, my ENTIRE life, though, would be different if my grandmother were still alive. There'd be a party tonight! Like there always was. Like in 1978, during a blizzard. I remember being pulled to her house in a sleigh. Jesus Christ, i'm now old enough to have vivid memories of 31 years ago! Shoot me. Unbelievable. It's ALL just unbelievable. So I'll have some Bailey's before bed and toast Grandma, Obama, and my 4-year-old ghostly self. Cheers to all!