The Bruce Springsteen media blitz is driving me crazy. Matt Lauer acts like he is talking to God as he walks along side Springsteen. The interview is cut in half and shown over two days. The NPR reporter likens his music to Gospel music and talks about his new song about 911 as if it is the only song ever written. I know it is my age, but I just don't get it. Bruce Springsteen is no Johnny Cash. Hell, he isn't even Bob Dylan. But I suppose to the generation before me, Springsteen is their Johnny Cash. Bored now. I suppose my generation's Johnny Cash would have been Kurt Cobain. But thanks to Courtney, we get to keep Johnny Cash as our Johnny Cash.

Ok. Ugh. Listening to NPR again after maybe a year of staying away from it. I have to complain. They just told me how much I need to see "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" and how it is one of the top ten movies of all time. God. I can't wait for these people to lose control of the media. Lame. Bored Now, again. I sometimes think that pundits and personalities on the radio/tv haven't seen a new movie or listened to new music in the past 15 years.

I am a little negative and testy today. haha. My tolerance for the lame is quite low, I think. Oh, then they just told me that Bill Frist is preparing to run for President. Um... The man looks like a corpse and used to adopt cats from animal shelters to "practice" on them. He lied and said he was adopting pets so that he could cut them apart! This fact is in his own book!

I think living in a "blue state" or a 90% democratic city like Washington, DC is really kinda bad for me. It makes my tolerance of "red state" ideas and people very very low. Which makes me think of the normal craft show in Anne Arundel County, Maryland this past weekend that I did with my sister. It was on a county fair grounds with a tractor pull. I didn't sell anything, which wasn't a surprise. But my sister didn't sell anything either! I am always surprised by the complete lack of imagination in places that are mostly "red state" or *whisper* republican. And Jeff always scolds me jokingly that I shouldn't be. Some things that I noticed while there: 1. So many women ugly themselves up by dressing like men in giant denim shirts. 2. Most people at these things hate bright colors. 3. My pink hair scares people. 4. True red staters don't like any jewelry not made of gold. 5. People worry too much about whether something will "match" the rest of their house or room. As if there is a special hell for the woman who adds the wrong color to her living room. 6. People buy holiday specfic items as if they have never seen them before. When I see a 50 year old woman buying a ceramic Santa Claus, I think... don't you already have 10 others of those at home? 7. Their fears and ideas of what is "strange" drive me crazy. 8. Americans are way too fat. I mean, just huge and sickly.

Anyway. I am done with "normal" craft fairs. I would like to say that I am done with red staters and conversative America, but I worry that the only way to escape that is to never leave my little Washington, DC, neighborhood. With two girls on the way, I know I will need to branch out and show them the world, no matter how unimaginative the people in it may be.