Waking up on a Sunday morning is always a sensory overload. Especially here: a damp basement where mold and dust marry each other, and erupt into an unsavory odor of their own microbial consummation. Debris ejaculate smells like mildew. The air becomes an expansive womb that carries little dust-mold fetuses, bellicose zygotes that take absurd amounts of delight from being my nasal disasters.Compound this with the fumes from oil paint still drying on haphazard canvasses, cigarette smoke, and the toxicity of my own breath, and you have the perfect recipe for respiratory apocalypse quarantined within these four walls.

It must be at least noon. The sun has managed to force its way through the army of dust that stands guard on the window pane. Morning sun cannot do that. Morning sun is lethargic, nursing its malaise at having to break the stratosphere. No, this was definitely noon sun. Or later, even.

I squint at the tiny window buried a few inches next to the door that gives out to the sidewalk. The frequent vroom of cars outside affirms that the world had not died in my sleep.

I still can’t manage to string coherent words together into some modicum of expressing exactly what’s going on in my head after Obama’s incredible victory.

Instead, I’ve put together a quick video from stock footage to maybe articulate the thoughts a little bit:

“It’s been a long time since I left you, Without a dope beat to step to … ”

So, without further ado: behold the most well-done grassroots pro-Obama video I’ve seen thus far:

Obama ‘08 - Vote For Hope from MC Yogi on Vimeo.

Wherever you are, if you are a registered voter, please go out there and vote! Early registration has already begun in more than 30 states, including D.C., so you do NOT have to wait till Nov. 4th to let your voice be heard.

Meanwhile, The New York Times officially endorsed Senator Obama this morning, saying:

Mr. Obama has withstood some of the toughest campaign attacks ever mounted against a candidate. He’s been called un-American and accused of hiding a secret Islamic faith. The Republicans have linked him to domestic terrorists and questioned his wife’s love of her country. Ms. Palin has also questioned millions of Americans’ patriotism, calling Republican-leaning states “pro-America.”

This politics of fear, division and character assassination helped Mr. Bush drive Mr. McCain from the 2000 Republican primaries and defeat Senator John Kerry in 2004. It has been the dominant theme of his failed presidency.

The nation’s problems are simply too grave to be reduced to slashing “robo-calls” and negative ads. This country needs sensible leadership, compassionate leadership, honest leadership and strong leadership. Barack Obama has shown that he has all of those qualities.  Read Full Article Here.

ThatOne ‘08!