I'm really having a problem with Reverend Wright. When all the blah blah first started, I sympathized with both Barack and Reverend Wright. And I was impressed by both of them. Reverend Wright, is, well, right about 911, and goddamning America, and Barack Obama is right in giving that gorgeous Philadelphia speech and distancing himself from the ( Read more... )

I've been writing, mostly about the wedding, at http://dingmoonment.blogspot.com. We are entering a critical phase in the proceedings wherein we start to approach banks for loans so we can make downpayments on the two big purchases -- reception and pictures. Lauren's been turned down ( Read more... )

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The plane leaves for North Carolina at 9 AM. I get in at 4 PM and will be picked up by Lauren's mother and someone else -- a sister or aunt. I stay for a little over 48 hours and then come home, possibly again with the assistance of Lauren's family, who live about an hour away. My grandmother's husband has decided not to tell her because she just ( Read more... )

It's been postponed until March 28, same time and place, so that I can dig up some more people and get my head together. I leave for N. Carolina tomorrow and getting it all together was just getting to be too much. Thanks to Miasia and Emma for calling a bunch of people yesterday known and unknown, who knew and didnt know that my dad had died, to ( Read more... )

For those of you who have inquired, I *would* like company to the funeral. I'm working on figuring out transportation for everyone and will post here as I get things together. The service is tomorrow at 7, I will leave DC around 4:30, so I can get to his rental office by 6:00, pick some of his neighbors up and be at the church by 7. Stay tuned : )

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