Three tries, still have not gotten through this whole video without crying a little.

( But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. )

And also, for old times' sake, since I am wearing the black hoodie that I bought just to wear to the polls in 2004, and which I will wear on February 12 and wear again in November:

( Mosh the motherfucking vote, kids. )

*happysigh*

The Mountain Goats (sources of, I don't know, a lot of my story titles including "When the Sun Came Up" and "Maybe Sprout Wings" and, by mild bastardization, "Burn Up in Love Love Love") have a new album coming out, two weeks from Tuesday. The video is already out for the first single, "Sax Rohmer #1." It is, uh, not for the very-easily-motion-sicked, but I adore it.

DC types: they're in town March 22 at the Black Cat, anybody wanna go see?