{"id":387,"date":"2008-02-04T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T05:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=387"},"modified":"2008-02-04T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T05:21:00","slug":"musings-on-voting-and-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/musings-on-voting-and-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Musings on Voting and Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in one of the Super Tuesday states, don&#8217;t forget to vote. There&#8217;s no excuse not to vote because Buffy the Vampire Slayer is off the air. Some years ago, a woman I worked with went to her disorganized voting place, waited and waited and then left before getting to vote because the new episode of Buffy was on. I thought that was a reasonable decision. If you&#8217;ve seen how they organize the voting in New York, you&#8217;d pick Buffy too. It&#8217;s easier to fight vampires than stupidity.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/solitaryphoenix.com\/BuffySMGBuffy.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/R6fXs75n8mI\/AAAAAAAAB6Q\/o0eOcxZgBmM\/s400\/BuffySpikeBuffyOMWF.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5163332664797164130\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">I was totally into the &#8220;Spuffy&#8221; relationship.<br \/>I wuv Spike. Shut up, Paul. You&#8217;re just jealous. <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Speaking of voting, when I was coming home from the gym last night, I noticed a guy carrying a messenger bag with a black-and-white photo button of a woman on it. I wondered, &#8220;Why does that dude have a button with Princess Diana on it?&#8221; Then I took a closer look and realized it was Hillary Clinton. But that got me thinking about what royal person I&#8217;d like to vote for, and it would definitely be Elizabeth I.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/R6fc9L5n8qI\/AAAAAAAAB6w\/_bUIAzotR9c\/s1600-h\/elizabeth_armada.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/R6fc9L5n8qI\/AAAAAAAAB6w\/_bUIAzotR9c\/s400\/elizabeth_armada.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5163338441528177314\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8220;Vote for me, bitches!&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> <\/span><br \/>As for football, I didn&#8217;t watch the Super Bowl, though I did enjoy some wings and nachos with <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/book-club-suspended-due-to-birthday.html\">BarbaraB<\/a> and gorgeous client Brooke. I realized the Giants won when I heard people screaming in the street while I was enthralled with a Law &amp; Order rerun that had a big role for Detective Munch.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/autodaddy.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/belzer-belzer-belzer.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/R6fe9b5n8rI\/AAAAAAAAB64\/wPAPlcOWAqo\/s320\/belzer.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5163340644846400178\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">I love me some Munch.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The screaming was kind of cool. You know what&#8217;s not cool? The shizz people talk pseudo-seriously about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebridiot.com\/2008\/01\/13\/jessica-simpson-and-her-curse-doom-cowboys\/\">Jessica Simpson<\/a>&#8216;s being a curse on Tony Romo and <a href=\"http:\/\/thebiglead.com\/?p=4470\">Gisele Bundchen<\/a>&#8216;s being a curse on Tom Brady. What the fuck? If those dudes suck at their jobs, why should a woman catch the blame? That is sexist bullcrap. Do you go into the office and blame all your mistakes on your significant other? Like, &#8220;Oh, my husband has cursed me, that&#8217;s why there&#8217;s no toner in the copier today.&#8221; Or &#8220;That embezzlement? Totally my life-partner&#8217;s fault. He has cursed the accounting department.&#8221; It&#8217;s probably worthless to address jackholes who don&#8217;t wash their lucky boxers for months to &#8220;help&#8221; their teams, but &#8230; Grow!Up!<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED TO ADD: I contacted the non-voting Buffy fan to tell her that she was now anonymously famous thanks to me and <a href=\"http:\/\/fabgirls.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/exorcise-your-right.html\">Fabulous Girl&#8217;s Boudoir<\/a>. Non-voting Buffy fan told me that the next time she was at that polling place, it was much better organized. Could it be because she wrote them a stern letter following her bad experience? If so, she really gets results! I should have her fight my battles with the <a href=\"http:\/\/wendyhatesblogger.blogspot.com\">Evil Empire<\/a> in the future. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in one of the Super Tuesday states, don&#8217;t forget to vote. There&#8217;s no excuse not to vote because Buffy the Vampire Slayer is off the air. Some years ago, a woman I worked with went to her disorganized voting place, waited and waited and then left before getting to vote because the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/musings-on-voting-and-football\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,8,15,49,37,107,39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-feminism","7":"category-gorgeous-clients","8":"category-gorgeous-family","9":"category-in-the-news","10":"category-queens","11":"category-sports","12":"category-tv","13":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}