Inauguration Eve
I’ve never in my life wanted to be in Washington D.C. so desperately. The live footage on MSNBC and CNN is just incredible, it looks like Times Square on New Year’s Eve. It makes me wish I still lived within driving distance. Instead I think I’m going to head to Interzone with my notebook; some of the employees were talking this morning about how they all want to watch it there, but they’d need computers to stream the video feed. This doesn’t feel like the sort of occasion to witness alone.
On another note… the 20th Amendment was written after the advent of radio (and, by association, real-time nationwide media coverage). Why in the world didn’t they adjust the time of the inauguration to be more amenable to folks on the west coast?
