walking downtown...and it was worse than THAT.
so many people, crowds and crowds... and this wasn't even the big shebang...
jumbotrons...and immense mass of people from the Lincoln memorial straight down to the Washington Monument, and thousands more between there and the Capitol...
Even Garth Brooks rocked the District today.
And I hate Garth Brooks.
So many out of towners...everybody in the nationalist uproar. Flags and free drinks. Traffic like you wouldn't believe. Like trying to get across New York City on December 31st.
Amazing and enthralling and Obama even sang along to Brooks' rendition of "American Pie." Here's a guy with some spark to him, not just the same old sagging governors. D.C. flags everywhere, too.
Sheryl Crow ruins the Wailers, thank god Marley wasn't here to see this...
Goold ol' Sheryl, just another thing that other races don't get about white people.
Even with my embittered anti-nationalist tendencies, it's kind of overwhelming to be right there, caught up in the whole show of it. Jumbotrons for blocks, the whole of downtown packed in like sardines, or Chinese chirstians trying to escape the Motherland.
And the vendors! Everywhere, Obama-themed pins, buttons, t-shirts, sweaters, hats, earrings, earrings for gods' sake!, gloves, more t-shirts, posters, god knows what else.
Even in the bitter cold, it wasn't chilly, however. The warmth of a couple thousand-strong crowd seemed to allieveate the wintry grip that the City has been entagled by lately. Not a drop of moisture, mind you: snow is still a pipedream, but the wind rips through even the toughest jackets, which sucks for the many visitors who perhaps misjudged the exactly climes of the area before packing, but for those safely in the throng, its' like a winter miracle.
It bugs me, though. When we first saw people walking towards the Washington Monument...
It looked like people heading towards the Rapture.
Figures drawing into Heaven, Bliss, Oblivion.
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