Ann Lamott - The Dark Side Rising Diet

[realFedUp]

she's so good.

http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/lamott/2004/09/09/diet/index.html

The Dark Side Rising Diet
Follow these four simple rules, and I promise, the hopelessness and gloom you've been feeling for the past week will start to subside.

By Anne Lamott

Sept. 9, 2004 | I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon -- because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist. But last Friday, with news of the massacre of children in Russia, Bill Clinton's sudden hospitalization, and the Time Magazine poll that showed Bush pulling ahead by 10, I sank into such stunned hopelessness that I honestly didn't think anyone could write or say anything that could help me get my chops and pride and sense of humor back.

No wonder a lot of us feel paranoid and hypochondriacal -- it feels more and more as though the Dark Side is truly rising. Did it cross anyone else's mind that Karl Rove was somehow involved in Clinton's heart disease? No? Well, never mind ... The only things that cheered me up at all last week were the Bush twins and Zell Miller at the Republican National Convention.

On top of it all, it was hotter than fucking hell, as Sam put it. I hate the summer. To plagiarize myself, from these very pages: It's too hot and the light is unforgiving and the days go on way too long. Spring is sweet, the baby season; but summer is the teenage season -- too much energy, too much growth and beauty and heat and late nights, none of them what they were cracked up to be.

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There are four rules of the DSRBD&E. First, moisturize, moisturize, moisturize. Put lotion on your legs and drink a lot of water. We Democrats are still -- and perhaps even more deeply -- in the desert, and I hate the desert. It is way too hot, there are snakes, the light is implacable, and when there is actually some shadow or shade, it contains too many surprises -- and I'm not talking Easter eggs. So you need living water -- tap, bottled, spritzed-on-the skin -- and you need unguents, unscented unguents, as there are many aroma-sensitive people in our lives, and they are all liberals, and we don't want to lose their votes.

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[Politicub]

1. Good Anne Lamott column

And she makes some good suggestions to deal with the insanity of Bushco.

I love Salon. I've been reading it religiously since 1997.