Morrie the Toupee Salesman

Things are dark out there. One thing should bring cheer to just about everyone — 10 months from today is the last day George W. Bush will be the president of the US. There will be parties.

“Madrid’s newfound freedom of speech and expression prompted its citizens to do, well, anything and everything. Call it what you will – hedonistic, flamboyant, debaucherous, subversive, perverse, libertine – the overall sentiment was taboos don’t exist and the harder you party, the better. Thus spawned La Movida, or “The Movement,” a new way of drinking, drugging, rocking, dressing, cross-dressing, creating, loving, living.”

That was when Franco died. I expect the entire world will probably experience something similar on Jan. 20, 2009. Or at the very least, we’ll all decide that we’re not going to take it anymore and we are leaving our shoes on, thank you very much.