Dreams & Roller Coasters

We were at the bar Metropolitan in Williamsburg the other night with my ex Doug and his friends. Nice space with a huge garden out back. We got on the subject of dreams and what they mean. Is the stuff that happens in dreams imaginary, or is it real by the fact that we saw/felt it so vividly, almost as vividly as real life? Why is our waking life reality more valid than our dream reality? If I dream that I have a Penthouse apartment in Gramercy Park and feeding Lizzie caviar and hairball-reducing champagne, why can't that be true? If reality is just a function of our brains telling us this is so, than what are dreams? Doesn't the brain also feed us images/events in dreams? I thought of Jacque's dream about Liz Taylor night at the Urge -- I don't remember there being a Liz Taylor night, but it is entirely possible, and if enough people dreamed it, did it not happen? GREAT idea, by the way.

We also got on the subject of the latest thrill rides in our nation's amusement parks, notably Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey. Doug mentioned he went there recently and went on El Toro, his friend Amy talked about Kingda Ka and everyone piped in about their own experiences on various screamers. These rides are quite extreme, but sound so fun. It's not enough to let gravity take you to unbelievable speeds, now it's got to be electro-magnetic or hydraulic propulsion, to speeds over 100 m.p.h. in less than five seconds. It seems like I'm so behind on all the action, as my last new thrill ride-of-the-moment was Nitro at Great Adventure, five years ago (or so). This is kid's stuff nowadays. Anyway, Gay Day at Great Adventure is Friday, Sept. 8th from 6pm to 1am, and we can't wait to go.

Maybe we'll have dreams about it afterward.

Joe Lieberman Must Go

If anyone reads this post before tomorrow's CT Democratic primary and she or he lives in CT, please vote for Ned Lamont. This is shaping up to be such an important primary, not just for the people of Connecticut but for the rest of us as well. Who wins tomorrow will definitely impact the direction Democratic candidates everywhere want to take, and the kind of stand they are to take against the Re-THUG-licans. I think Ned Lamont embodies the kind of tough progressive most thinking people want in a candidate, one who openly questions not only the criminal Iraq War but almost every other bad policy of this horrible administration, and demands accountability in Congress. Lieberman has almost singularly defined himself as being the only Democrat in Congress to do everything opposite -- voting for the war, supporting Israel at every turn no matter what they do, voting for the abysmal and cruel Bankruptcy Bill on the heels of Katrina, voting to disallow a fillibuster on Sam Alito for Supreme Court, knowing full well he could be pivotal in overturning Roe vs. Wade, the list goes on and on. He's basically the Republican candidate at this point. And he has the nerve to say Lamont's supporters are vindictive and ruining his anointed Senate seat. And his campaign tactics against Lamont could have been taken right out of Karl Rove's playbook. Need I say more?

Please, if you can tomorrow, volunteer for Lamont's Get Out The Vote campaign, or if you live in CT please please please vote for Lamont. November will look that much brighter if Ned wins.

Thanks.