i'm listening to kpfa's flashpoints right now and waiting for dennis bernstein to let it rip.
pledge drive is wrapping up and some 1 told him he didn't need to yell during it. i think he needs to ignore that advice. it's who he is, some 1 who is passionate. last night, and this is not a reflection on the program, i fell asleep in the middle of what seemed to be an interesting documentary on the environment narrated by alanis morrisette and, i think, keanu reeves. i was so wiped out and thought i was just 'resting my eyes' while i was listening but i fell asleep. he woke me back up (thankfully because i had things i needed to do) when he was encouraging people to pledge.
okay, now he's getting vocal. that's dennis bernstein.
tonight he had greg palast on and some 1 who was on already when i started listening. they were talking about ken lay's conviction and about the connections to bully boy. they brought up the fact, greg palast made this point, that alberto gonzales had to recuse himself from the enron matter because of his own conflicts of interests there. but we're supposed to act like there's no connection between bully boy and enron.
it was a wonderful show and i'm sure they all were this week. i only fell asleep once and that had nothing to do with the show, just with keeping up with a tiny child. elijah was so sweet today (he was sweet the whole time). ruth called right before they pulled up to talk to him. she was asking him if he was missing his grandmother. he said 'yes' and she said she had a gift for him. (she hid gifts throughout the house for each day she was gone and she'd call during the day and tell him where the gift of the day was.) she told him this 1 was real big. he told me 'it's real big.'
his eyes were so wide. he was so cute.
she told him where it was and got off the phone. he grabs my hand, he was so excited, and starts tugging on my hand telling me 'it's outside.' so we go to the front door and open it and there's ruth holding a teddy bear for him - a very big teddy bear.
but he didn't even want it. he just grabbed her legs and hugged her like crazy. he was so happy.
when she picked him up, i thought they were both going to cry. (i almost did and i think treva was about to as well.)
we all had lunch and elijah had to sit in ruth's lap and tell her everything that had happened while she was gone. including the frog we saw in the backyard yesterday. that was probably the thing that had him most excited. he was talking so fast he'd have to stop and take a big gulp of air. ruth kept trying to insist on doing dishes after lunch but he wasn't letting go of her and treva and i were happy to handle it.
when i was getting ready to leave, he stopped me and was saying 'don't go.' i'm going to visit next week. i was just a substitute for ruth but i can't believe how close he and i got. i'm going to miss seeing him each day.
so i stopped off on the way home to visit with mike and he's so dark. he and his friend tony had been taking care of tony's parent's yard. apparently he doesn't sunburn, he just goes dark. i stopped to talk to t and catch up, then headed back here and packed while i started listening to
flashpoints. i'm not going to be blogging tomorrow or saturday. i will have something up come monday and i'll be helping some with the third estate sunday review. right now, i'm going to go crash. check out wally's 'THIS JUST IN! BULLY BOY AND BLAIR HAVE BEEN WHERE?' and please check out cedric's big mix which has posts every day this week. (way to go cedric!)
