Wednesday Night

1. I’m so over Sarah Palin. I’m over hearing about how she’s the magic bullet. I’m over mentioning her name and devoting space on this thing to her. I’m over McCain’s new ad that says Obama “airdropped a mini army” of rabid lawyers on Alaska to investigate poor Sarah. I’m over the state of Alaska in general. I’m over the whole Palin clan except maybe little Piper licking her hand to slick down baby Trig’s hair.

So I’m taking a hiatus from the Palin cacophony.

2. McCain’s great-great-grandfather? fought for the Confederacy and may have owned a slave who was the mother of bluesman Mississippi John Hurt. Damn.

3. Ron Paul spurns John McCain’s plea for an endorsement.

4. I just started watching Gossip Girl. It’s like a combo of the NYTimes wedding pages and Perez Hilton.

5. Perez Hilton btw has some good stuff right now – Ellen’s wedding video and Anderson Cooper appearing on Sesame Street hosting a news show called GNN.

6. Don’t forget to watch Obama on Letterman tonight.

7. Last but not least, happy happy belated birthday to tlantz, who has officially entered her Saturn return. This year Saturn makes it back around to the exact position it was in in 1979. What happens when Saturn returns? Saturn is the Roman version of Kronos, my personal Greek mythological character of choice. He was born of Gaia (earth) and Uranus (sky), who together gave rise to three races of offspring: the Hecatonshires, the Cyclops, and the Titans. Uranus hated the Hecatonshires, who had 50 heads and 50 hands – so he would place them under Gaia. Gaia appealed to all of her children to help the Hecatonshires, and only Kronos responded, rising up and castrating his father Uranus. Yeah. Kronos and the Titans came to rule the universe. Kronos is the father to Zeus and the other original Olympian gods. Except Kronos, having prophesized that he’d suffer the same fate as his father, attempted to devour Zeus, who was then hidden away on the island of Crete until he was old and strong enough to rise up and murder his father. When Kronos died, universal power shifted from the Titans to the gods.

So Saturn returning indicates some complicated shit. Saturn is about the difference between action and inaction. And about consequences. Saturn was a Roman blend of the Greek Kronos and an agricultural god so he represents balancing forces and reaping what you’ve sown. It’s like Saturn coming back to look at the accomplishments of the first phase of you life and make you decide where to direct the next phase. But no pressure, lantz.

Anyway whatever, last night’s birthday celebrations were awesomeness.