on Oct 22nd, 2004
Pachyderms and Jackasses -an open letter
Snoop Dogg –yes, Snoop Dogg the rapper and former murder defendant –just came onto my TV set and told me to vote. Yes, well, thanks, Snoop. After months of debates, news coverage, political ads, and moronic rhetoric (more on this soon), your thoughtful, well-articulated, and quite upbeat message about my American duty has convinced me that I should get my lazy butt off the couch, hop in my red, white, and blue truck, and vote in this upcoming presidential election. Yup, you, Dogg, have pushed me over the political edge. Congratulations –job well done.
Though I have to pause for a second, man. Something comes to mind…
Oh, yeah –I live in Utah. Well, Snoop, sorry. We’re not a battle ground state. I can pretty much tell you how it’s going to go. Bush has got it. In fact, it’s a lock. In this state, Mormon equals Republican and Democrat equals Evil. And this is Utah, man. Mormons abound.
I hear ya, Snoop. It’s not right to be generalizing a peoples. But that’s how it’s seen by the locals. And since it’s seen that way, well, that’s the way it is. Bush wins, even without my vote. Or even with my vote cast against the world’s favorite oil man.
So thanks anyway, Snoop. And feel free to visit my living room again the next time an election makes a great way to push your upcoming album release.
“came on to my TV set”
hmmm… not so much a set as a TV.
I read your post and was like “Snoop was just here like a month ago in SLC, now he’s at KCSG in St. George?”
then i re-read it, noticed the time stamp, and realized…. OH YEAH…. that makes more sense now.
anywho, yeah.
ROFLAO!
DUDE! You just made the day of two toilers in the non-profit field. Thanks for the laughter … and the tears.
Haha…just found your blog and I have to say that I enjoyed reading it. Keep up the blogging!
If the dog can bark loud enough for you move off the couch then that is good. To have you vote to vote is good. To think it will not count then look at the local topics and focus on the right to change something, at the cost of nothing to you! Remember the freedom won by others also cost you nothing. Now Vote and vote because you can, for what ever reason.
Ah, I knew that eventually someone would chastise me, thinking I would not vote. The truth is that I’ve already voted (absentee yippee!) and feel that the local election is even more important precisely because of the fact that Utah has already who it wants for President.
Yo Dog I Loved Your Post. Pressures On Now That Your Building Up A Following. I Am Writing This Note From My Cell Phone Just Because I Can. Will Wonders Never Cease.