On Sunday, January 18, 2009, I found myself walking down to the mall with a group of friends to see the inauguration concert.
I hadn’t planned on going. I was just going to have breakfast with the group that was going, but then I just went. I hadn’t slept much Saturday night (we had put on our monthly house concert that had gone into the wee hours with dancing),
and after the exhausting day in the cold,
I went straight to another gathering until about 10:30pm. I was too wiped out to write anything, and it didn’t really get better until yesterday, so I apologize for the missing post.
But I took photos for you all. I hope you like them. Fortunately, they fixed our broken jumbotron before the concert started. pfft. windows.
I was surprised at two things:
1) How good and smooth the concert was, and
2) How much fun it was. The crowds actually made it more fun. They really did look beautiful.
And the river of people waddling up 16th st afterwards as far as the eye could see was good practice for Tuesday.
Wow, people still haul around “homo” signs to political events? I hope they agonize over the next four years as much as I suspect I will enjoy them. Nonetheless, I’m glad they are free to express their stupid-as-fuck opinions no matter how ignorant they are. I will never understand what is actually threatened by accepting homosexuality, seeing as how it’s real, genetic, and permanent.