Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Mouths of Babes

Tonight, as Mr. S and I stood transfixed by CNN, our older son announced, "I'm tired of Obama." Poor guy. Obama, that is. Li is so skilled at obsessions, I feel back that Barack doesn't have what it takes to be the next airplanes or pirates or dinosaurs.

The rest of you might be tired of Obama too; at least, hearing about him from me. But my Obama overkill is due, in large part, to my dismay about this season of The Wire. I am just not feeling it. There have been some great scenes. Dukie and Cutty? Bunk and Randy? Ohmigod. But generally, the plot is too Without a Trace or something. Just not feeling it. So unless the last three episodes just explode, I am afraid you are stuck with my political obsession until some other thing comes along.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Perhaps he's read the following article/letter in Slate:

http://www.slate.com/id/2184536/

If, like me, you chose to support Mike Gravel, you'd never run into a situation where everyone else falls in love with him and thus renders him and everything appurtenant totally lame.