pop culture, reviewed

I had a really great phone conversation with a friend this afternoon and during the course of our conversation we talked about both pop culture and the upcoming election.  She and I are both Obama supporters and she asked whether I had blogged about the election at all.  I said I hadn’t, because this site really is about fluff and not real life, and the upcoming election is nothing if not real and — as we all know — very, very critical.  (Plus, I have hardly blogged about anything these days, real life or no.  Must rectify that.)  But then I got off the phone and realized that really, the primary season has captured my heart and my interest much more than anything pop-culture-related lately, and it’s not because of the writer’s strike.  It’s because it feels so good, and so important, to be watching history as it happens.  And it feels absolutely magnificent to support a candidate for whom I not only feel confident in casting a private ballot, but for whom I feel inspired — and even compelled — to proclaim my choice as loudly and publicly as possible. Go Obama!

By the time the election rolls around, Jake and I will have a three-month-old baby (and oh my goodness, if I have not told you personally that I’m expecting and you just read it on the blog, I apologize profusely and castigate myself severely).  It’s probably a little bit of pregnancy hormones, but in announcing my pregnancy over the last couple of weeks I have felt so overwhelmed by love and support from so many good friends and family members that I feel like the luckiest girl in the world.  I feel so happy for this baby that he or she will grow up in not just a loving marriage and not just with a wonderful father, but with wonderful grandparents and great-grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins and old, beloved friends.  There is no doubt that no matter who is elected, this baby is going to be loved and protected (and spoiled)… but I really, really hope that it is loved and protected (and spoiled) and has Obama for its first President as well.