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Fun stuff. I was called out in Helldump as a “pedophile” on the fabulously famous Something Awful forums. The typical deal. Moe is pedo, according to post-pedocaust SA. Always awesome. It is quite the shame, since I loved SA Mart and playing MMOs with goons.
This was a fine 1.5 year run as a goon and I’ll miss those nice deals on worthless electronics I don’t need.
On an uneventful Black Friday (for once, thanks to the flagging economy), I felt lazy. Very lazy. All I did today was sleep in, sit at my desk, and waste away the day. Youmu agreed that laziness was the best course of action. I was almost feeling too lazy to blog.
I did pick up No More Heroes ($15) and Fallout 3 ($30) on the cheap from the comfort of my own home. Not half bad for a lazy day.
What are you thankful for? I’m thankful for Akiyuki Shinbo, Yoko Kanno, Yasunori Mitsuda, ZUN, Tim Schafer, Warren Spector, and other anime/game industry visionaries. Most of all, I’m thankful for cute little girls. Little girls make the world go round and warm the heart and soul.
Time flies when you’re working a Presidential campaign. Just yesterday, it felt like I was walking into a tiny Barack Obama office, next day it felt like I was an integral part of a 100-person+ office right in my town. Now Mr. Obama is our President-Elect. Sometimes, the sweetest rewards come after hard work.
Combined with my aspirations to help elect a fine politician into our highest seat, juggling this with work/school, and life in general, this crazy series of tubes we call the internet was somewhat neglected. And so, this very blog suffered. Now I have been keeping up with my hobbies, including animation of the Japanese variety, but sadly, I’ve been struggling to pick it back up. Encouraged by an old friend finding his voice and a spirited entry from a friend of a friend, I’ve decided to re-enter the ring. I don’t know in what form or what direction I’ll take this blog in, likely the post-on-a-whim style, but I’m happy to be back blogging after a long hiatus.
Isn’t it the heart which tends to bring you back?
Some of you who know me personally, know that I’ve been working as an intern for the Barack Obama campaign as of recently. This is the reason why my blog has been semi-missing in action for about two weeks now. While I’ve still been keeping up with anime and games, my time (and thoughts) have been dominated with Obama and how to best help him achieve the Presidency through my volunteer work.
As proud citizen of the United States of America, I have seen our country’s decline over the past eight years from the mismanagement by the Bush administration. I was getting more and more disgruntled with our politicians. As a left-leaning moderate extremely annoyed with the Republican party, I was looking to our Democratic majority in the House and Senate to clean up the mess, but I wasn’t seeing much progress.
After reaching the conclusion, before the primary process started, that Hillary Clinton (a politician I can’t stand) would be the Democratic nominee, I was ready to call it quits on following politics for the next 4-8 years. Yes, I was an Obama supporter since the start, but I have no realistic notion that he had a chance until his Iowa caucus win. Actually, since his speech in front of the Democratic National Convention in 2004, I wanted him to run for President. This was hard for me, being that politics is my second love after technology and gaming. Little did I know how much everything would change.
Come January 3rd, I was blown away by Obama’s surprise win and re-energized in my love for politics. At that point, I knew he would be the next President of the United States. From that point on, a sizable portion of my time has been spent, and still is, following political blogs and otherwise keeping up with this historic period in our history. He proceeded to clean up on Super Tuesday and win eleven straight primaries. On June 3rd, after a long-fought primary process, due to to Hillary Clinton’s stubbornness for the most part, Barack Obama was declared the Democratic nominee.
I admire Barack Obama as a politician, a man of strength and values, a supporter of stem-cell research and technology, a negotiator with our enemies, not a warmonger, and a genuinely good human being of heavy conviction. He is running an extraordinary campaign, based on the internet and individuals, not corporate interests and lobbyists. I am 21 years old and I feel as if he speaks to and cares about our generation, unlike the average politician that sees re-election as their primary concern. As a member of his campaign, I will do all that I can to ensure that he becomes our next President. I hope that you all assist me and the rest of our great country by donating to his campaign, volunteering (every little bit helps!), and lastly, voting for Barack Obama come November 4th, 2008. Yes, we can.
Besides, it’s not only Obama who we need to become our next President. We need to keep a Democratic majority in Congress to recover from the horrid mess the current administration has put us into time and time again. We need to all go out and vote for our Democratic Congressman and Senators, in addition to Obama, come November 4th. This isn’t a choice. It is what we must do to save America and guarantee the well-being this country for our children and grandchildren.
My blog isn’t dead, but my writings will be much more sporadic. Not that they were ever regular, but I have a reason now, at the very least. I’ll still be online, following the few series I was already watching, reading Touhou doujin, playing games, and updating this blog when creativity comes to me. I’m currently playing through Metal Gear Solid 1-3 from the beginning after buying the Essential Collection, since I’m in a MGS mood, and starting up Final Fantasy Tactics A2. It’s more that don’t have as much time nor energy to blog about my hobbies until Barack Obama is in the White House. My heart just isn’t into anime blogging as of now.
I feel as if I have a duty to mention the sudden and tragic loss of Tim Russert, one of the pioneers of modern political journalism, who died of a heart attack today. Russert was the longtime host of the widely respected Meet the Press and a NBC political analyst. He was an intrepid reporter, known as one of the most fair and balanced straight-talkers in the business. He will be missed dearly. RIP, Tim Russert.
