[LEMONS] 10.08.2003
Forget Arnold...
I'm just going to bed, and maybe you're just getting up. Tonight, I saw one of the most surreal things I've ever seen in my life broadcast on television. It was an OJ-slo-mo-car-chase/news-meets-celebrity moments when Hollywood and reality bump up against each other in an uncomfortable way, leaving you with a psychological vertigo alternately laughing and fretting when it hits you... it's real.Arnold is not an aberration, as some argue. But he's not a movement either, or at least he's not the movement partisans would have you believe. He's both Jessie Ventura and Ronald Reagan, Clint Eastwood and George Bush, jr. (or whatever). He's all image and charisma and--most importantly--advisors. Arnold is an empty vessel. And everyone knows it, even Arnold. But so what? He's gives good sound bites and (we hope) has a team of advisors to prevent him from, say, annexing Baja. If they pull his strings, well...
But enough about that. Forget Arnold for now, for there's a far more interesting story right under our noses. This week's Bay Guardian article on the mayoral race is one of the most compelling things I've read in ages, and is sure to take your mind off of the, um, fucking train wreck that's going to be careening into Sacramento any day now. It's a new day.
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