I just e-mailed my boss with my "I'm sick, can't work today" message. I started getting a scratchy throat on the drive home from the inauguration party yesterday afternoon, and now I've got a sore throat, cough, and slight fever. Um, yay?

This is the busy time for us right now, so I hate doing this to her, but I just can't go in and get everyone else sick(er) than they are already. Also, I'm ready to take another nap only an hour after I woke up.

Also, with the chopper, I couldn't tell...did Bill get on that thing, too? Was it all the still living ex-presidents on that thing? Because I know Bush Sr. got on that.

I kinda hope it was all the ex-presidents. What an awkward conversation that would be.

Bush Sr.: So. Uh. Hi guys.

Clinton: Is there a wet bar on this thing? I could use a beer.

W.: Me too!

Bush Sr.: Shut up, you. So. Carter. How's it goin'?

Carter: I'm doing okay. Being a statesman. Having my name touted about, you know.

W.: Didn't you win a contest or sumthin'?

Bush Sr.: I told you to shut up.

Carter: A Nobel Peace Prize. Wanna see it?

Clinton: You carry that thing around with you?

Carter: Yeah. Why?

Clinton: No reason. *coughneedycough*

Carter: I heard that.

Clinton: Wanna drink?

Carter: What about you, Bush?

W.: Well...

Carter: I meant Senior.

Bush Sr.: Yeah, shut up. I'm doing fine. Skydiving, you know. How about you, Clinton?

Clinton: Doin' all right. I have a waterbed in my office covered with money and interns. I go and roll around on it at lunch.

Bush Sr.: Nice. Dignified.

W.: Did you know I was a war president?

Bush Sr.: I TOLD YOU TO SHUT THE FUCK UP! You are SO GROUNDED WHEN WE GET HOME!

W.: Awww, Dad...

I was annoyed because the channel we were watching cut away before we could see how they were getting him down the stairs. I really wanted to see that...B-DUMP! B-DUMP! B-DUMP! B-DUMP! B-DUMP!

On The Daily Show they showed a clip where Cheney was turned dramatically out of frame at the top of the stairs. All I could think was "Dalek".

On The Daily Show they showed a clip where Cheney was turned dramatically out of frame at the top of the stairs. All I could think was "Dalek".

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!

I bet the Clintons stayed in town - isn't Hillary still being voted on in the Senate?

I am glad to have had the discussion of Lowery's closing here yesterday. Already having the Zora Neale refernce, I dug a further today to find the original source: "Big Bill" Broonzy's classic "Black, Brown and White Blues (Get Back)."

And original being probably loose, since the phrasing was probably a chant and part of an oral tradition of protest song/chant before the 50s when Broonzy recorded the song.

Anyway that is more time than google challenged right-wing co-workers deserve, but I am happy to have the knowledge.

W.: Did you know I was a war president?

Is it wrong that I'm hearing this in Ralph Wiggum's voice?

Is it wrong that I'm hearing this in Ralph Wiggum's voice?

This would have made the last 8 years slightly more tolerable instead of the faux good-ole-boy voice W. really uses. But I don't think Ralph Wiggum mutilates the English language enough.

Is it wrong that I'm hearing this in Ralph Wiggum's voice?

BWAHAHAHA!

On The Daily Show they showed a clip where Cheney was turned dramatically out of frame at the top of the stairs. All I could think was "Dalek".

In the second video on dailyshow.com you can see it at about 3:50