{"id":257,"date":"2008-10-31T23:20:35","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T06:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=257"},"modified":"2008-10-31T23:20:35","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T06:20:35","slug":"notes-from-underground-halloween-pre-election-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2008\/10\/31\/notes-from-underground-halloween-pre-election-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from underground (Hallowe’en pre-election version)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year on Hallowe’en<\/a> , right before my last day at Microsoft, I wrote<\/p>\n

Hallowe’en’s always been one of our favorite holidays, and of course our hood is one of the best places to celebrate it.\u00c2\u00a0 We’re both in a fairly low-key mood tonight, so rather than trick-or-treating, we’ll have a nice relaxing dinner, perhaps a glass of champagne and a bottle of wine (Chateauneuf de Pape probably suits our mood better than Adastra) … and no doubt a scrumptious dessert.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This year, after a summer<\/a> of fighting for civil liberties<\/a> and a new rebirth of freedom<\/a>, it’s the homestretch — and I’m right in the middle of it, with Voter Suppression Wiki and Twitter Vote Report.\u00c2\u00a0 Jeff Santos had me on 1510 the Zone (a Boston sports radio station doing a week-long special election series) to talk about voter suppression today, and introduced me as a patriot — and not in the corrupted neocon sense of the word either.\u00c2\u00a0 (I mentioned 866-OUR-VOTE and 888-YE-Y-VOTA and veyvota.org at least a half dozen times, and AALDEF as well.)\u00c2\u00a0 Fox News did a fair and balanced piece on TVR today; Voter Suppression Wiki will be able to get the word to CNN on election day if we need to, and Brad Friedman’s will be checking in with us.\u00c2\u00a0 I feel really lucky to be working with such incredible people and organizations — the Voter Suppression Wiki and everybody else at the intersection of the grassroots election protection and citizen journalism movements…. and I wonder if the rest of the world looks at the 8-hour-long lines in Georgia as a parallel to the first post-apartheid election in South Africa?<\/p>\n

Who knows what Tuesday will bring.\u00c2\u00a0 Right now, it’s infintite possibilities … and the sense that a change is <\/em>coming.<\/p>\n

And after dinner once again at Ma Tante Sumi (Chateauneuf du Pape again), Geomagnetic.tv’s Phantasmagoria 8 is tonight — Hallowe’en and psytrance in San Francisco, hanging out with the woman I love most of all on a special night.<\/p>\n

What a difference a year makes.<\/p>\n

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