Power of Story time boys and girls! COD and I were just talking about this.
So do you know anyone going to DC for the historic hoopla, and can you take time to tell us about it? Would you go if you could, and why or why not? What would you most want to see and do there, if you could just magic yourself in?
Cocking A Snook! 
I might go for something like this, for example — call it “better than real:”
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Obama Drama: a Political Theatrical Spectacular!
“CREATIVE DESTRUCTION is a theatrical collective dedicated to the creation of political, diverse, electrifying drama. We aim to exemplify the values of creativity, diversity, generosity and innovation. Creative Destruction seeks to create large-scale change through the creation of dramatic mayhem. We create this mayhem through the commissioning of new work, cross-disciplinary collaboration, re-imagining classics, and infusing our work with the joy of creation. “
I’m 50 miles away, I certainly could go. However, I don’t like crowds.
That’s me too — I haven’t even been to a Gator game in more than a decade.
Chris, what’s the weather gonna be like next week? Will we have people getting frostbite from exposure?
High around 32F with a chance of snow.
Why did the Founders set this occasion in mid-January again??
Answering – “Would you go?” Nope, there’s no bailout and no stimulus program for Golden Retrievers yet.
Answering – “Why’d they set Inaug. in Mid-January?” To cool off hot heads.
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They didn’t. It used to be in March. It was changed in the early 20th century, I don’t remember why.
Too bad then, while they were changing things to mid-January, they didn’t move the seat of government to Miami or Orlando. 🙂
A good friend is going to the CBC ball. I’d love to go but expect that watching it from home will be a better use of the day. I’ve already requested the time off and will make toast the end of the Bush Maladministration with champagne (or at least a good beer).
They changed it because they thought 4 months was too long between election and inauguration. I believe that based on what we’ve seen since Nov. 4th, we ought to change it to 2 days.
I’d jump on that proposal (two days) but felt burned in 2000 by Bush v Gore stretching into the holidays. And heck, this year we STILL have senate seats hanging fire . . .
Daryl gives me a thought, though. What is the perfect beverage with which to enjoy the inaugural festivities, wherever you will be? Is Chicago famous for anything wet? — or we could look to Hawaii. Something tall and smooth and complex, right?
Along the same lines, I heard on cable news earlier today that there are Obama cookies being sold all over the place, different kinds, mmm.
Here’s a recipe for Michelle Obama’s Ritz-Carlton cookies at HuffPost.
Wild horses couldn’t drag me into that traffic. However, I do know a local PSer (daughter of a friend) who is going as a member of a student group.
Chicago? Maybe a six pack of Old Style? Good luck finding it in FL though! It’s cheap swill, but it is the quintessential Chicago beer.
Oh heavens, no cheap swill for Obama! What do they drink in Cambridge then?
LOTP, Favorite Daughter came home from campus today saying two students were being obnoxious in the honors lounge today, criticizing their peers planning to skip work and school Tuesday to watch the inauguration (not to go, just to experience the way I plan to, on tv like the Superbowl.) 🙂
She said they were agreeing with each other how people were only excited because he was black and the media made so much of it, that if McCain had won people wouldn’t be celebrating —
Well. No. (And yes!)
Here’s what the Smithsonian is doing for the inauguration, starting today.
I like it!
I’d love to hop in the car and take a ride up for the spectacle. The big draw for me aside from the historic is the parade. I love a parade.
Diane Flynn Keith calls this a “virtual field trip to the inaugural” for the kids . . .
I’m about 12 miles west of DC, and only 1 mile from a metro station and NO WAY would I try to go in to DC on Tuesday. However, I am going in on Wednesday morning with the kids for a class at the natural history museum. Wish me luck with that!
I know many people who are planning to go or who are attending balls. If I had the guts to be smashed in with zillions of people, I think it would be energizing to be so close to the action. I’ll be watching it on TV with friends instead. They are already warning us that traffic around my neighborhood will be a zoo because of the metro station. I may even have trouble getting to my friend’s house.
Not sure I would want to go if I were elected!
Traffic. Ugh.
And all of those people. I think I might have to socialize.
Nope. Even if I was elected, I’d stay home and watch it on the tube. 🙂
I got the Times inauguration special section in dead-tree 3D and it’s pretty cool, makes me feel more a part of it than just watching the screens. But if you don’t have it in your hands, you can still browse it here and here.
The Inauguration modeled in Legos! Just went on display yesterday, with more than 1,000 figures. Seriously, you gotta check this out with the kids. Here’s a full slide show of 16 scenes from the dignitaries and entertainers like Oprah and Aretha, to the crowds at the White House, to the porta-potties. This slide show from across the pond might be better. And here’s the CSM story, also with art.
Frisky cock of the snook to Lynn for this, she’s got the main sequence of five Lego Future History scenes in her post: