Spent the weekend at the LA Times’ “Festival of Books” w/Tom again only to be NOT disappointed by the offering for a second year in a row. Due to travel schedules, neither of us had time to pick up the free tickets for any of the panels which meant getting shut out of “The Sunday Funnies” with Berkeley Breathed; however, magically we managed to pretty easily pick up 2 tickets to see Gore Vidal in conversation with Arianna Huffington! Do I need to tell you how amazing it was? They reminded us, the rapt audience, that it’s time for the Opposition Party to start presenting some real answers, ideas to change the tides. But as a woman in line for the restroom afterwards said to me, Who wants to step into the wake of the Disaster President, knowing it will take several generations to undo the damage he hath wraught and that the blame for a slow turnabout will fall heavily on their shoulders? That s/he will be our second Hoover?

I’m sure I’ve forgotten more that I had originally intended to share (particularly in reference to Gore & Arianna) but you get the idea. It was a good weekend, even though I didn’t get to go to Coachella. Again.

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