Room for Rent -- Inauguration Day/ObamaCon 2009The funny thing? I'm betting the dude/dudette is simply SWAMPED with offers.
Date: 2008-11-11, 11:45AM EST
In a search of a room in DC so that you can spend Jan. 20 standing in the bitter winter cold with thousands of like-minded souls watching the historic transfer of power from one Harvard grad to another? Look no further.PostingID: 914613135
Me: Heartless, greedy right-wing oppressive type looking to make a buck.
You: Obama's election was Christmas/your first kiss/May Day all wrapped into one. You dutifully wore his button -- which you have yet to remove -- contributed money to his campaign from your non-profit job and chanted "yes we can" as if it were the 11th commandment. A strange void now exists in your life and -- like an old hippie looking to recapture the spirit of Woodstock -- you are undertaking a pilgramage to Washington for one last gulp of the Kool-Aid.
Along with my bedroom you will have access to the house's many amenities including cable television (not that you watch much TV) for viewing Keith Olberman's latest unhinged rants and CNN in high-def. Wireless internet means that the Huffington Post and DailyKos are only a click away on your MacBook. American flags and other patriotic paraphernalia in the room can be removed upon request.
The house is located in the diverse neighborhood of Adams Morgan with people of many different skin pigmentations that will allow you to revel in your tolerance. Rest assured, however, that this diversity does not extend to ideology and that you are sure to march lock-step with the prevailing sentiment ensuring that your most strongly held beliefs remain unchallenged.
Easily accessible subway and bus stops will help ensure a minimal carbon footprint while fair trade coffee is never more than a few steps away at any number of independently-owned establishments. Nearby non-chain bookstores similarly mean that tomes such as Mao's Little Red Book, Chomsky's latest masterpiece or additional copies of The Audacity of Hope can be easily purchased either for yourself or as early holiday shopping.
Rather than state a price I am requesting that you bid on this fabulous opportunity to ensure profit maximization on my part so that I can better weather the Bush Recession.
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Friday, December 12, 2008
Classic!
Good Friend Lori out in the Bay Area Soviet Socialist Republic sends along a link to this:
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Now, that is funny...and you know the lefties are falling all over themselves bidding.
ReplyDeleteThat is sheer brilliance (and incidentally outrageously funny)!
ReplyDeleteI was watching Fox and Friends this morning and Jeri Thompson (Fred's wife) said that they have a place that they are going to rent out for the inauguration. so not so far fetched afterall.
ReplyDeleteHey, maybe Fred T. wrote that ad! ; )
ReplyDeleteBest of craigslist is generally loaded with gems of all kinds. (Tread carefully and exercise your discretion, just the same.)
"Good Friend Lori out in the Bay Area Soviet Socialist Republic"
Aw, Buck ... ; )
I know only one person in the Bay Area who's from the former USSR, and she's (not surprisingly) in Berkeley. Where I live, the majority of folks are Italian-American. In my little 10 acre immediate neighborhood, the only out-of-the-ordinary political signs were one McCain/Palin sign (in the yard of the couple across the street, who this evening left on our doorstep a freshly baked panattone and a bottle of pinot noir on their own label) and a No On Prop 8 sign in our yard. (The ordinary political "signs" are pro-police bumperstickers at one end of the road and U.S. flags at both ends.)
And this is definitely a neighborhood that appreciates the Second Amendment. : )
Pat: I'm sure they ARE. I've seen a couple of pieces that say all of metro DeeSee's hotel rooms are gone on that date. I'm glad I don't live there...
ReplyDeleteChristina: It most definitely is all that and a bag o' chips!
Jenni: I'm with Lori... maybe Jeri and/or Fred posted this!
Lori: I'm glad I was sitting down when I read this, re the McCain sign. In MARIN? Wow! Your neighborhood sounds almost normal! ;-)
But seriously... thanks again for this.
"Lori: I'm glad I was sitting down when I read this, re the McCain sign. In MARIN?"
ReplyDeleteNah, I live in Sonoma (County).
Marin is still ... Marin. (Blech.)
: )
Woops! Sorry 'bout that. And I DO know the difference. Sonoma county has great wine. So does Marin, but there's an "H" after the "W." ;-)
ReplyDeleteSonoma county has great wine. So does Marin, but there's an "H" after the "W." ;-)
ReplyDeleteTHAT is the truth!!! : )
SMART. That is so smart...and just funny. gotta love CL.
ReplyDeleteLori - I *love* that your neighbor left you panettone. That is awesome. And I looove Sonoma - so nice up there. I find it much more chill than other parts of wine country.
Yep, Mezzo, that Sonoma is chill is one of the big reasons I live here. Napa is too snooty and Marin is snooty AND whiny. Mendocino is good and even more chill than Sonoma, but there's more pot there than even *I* can cope with. ; )
ReplyDeleteYep, Mezzo, that Sonoma is chill is one of the big reasons I live here. Napa is too snooty and Marin is snooty AND whiny. Mendocino is good and even more chill than Sonoma, but there's more pot there than even *I* can cope with. ; )
ReplyDeletesorry for the double post ... dunno what happened there ...
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