as someone who survived the purple tunnel of doom - an inauguration ticket-holder who stood in line for hours inside the 395 tunnel along with thousands upon thousands of other ticket-holders, some of whom (but not me; too lazy) had been waiting since 6 in the morning or earlier – I have to wonder:

how many tickets did they issue to the inauguration?  and why wasn’t there infrastructure set up to handle that many ticket-holders?  it’s not like it came as a bloody surprise that so many people would turn up for the inauguration, for pete’s sake.

my housemate josh and his girlfriend vinny – silver ticket-holders – also got blocked from coming into their ticketed section.  but then they got stuck on a street they couldn’t escape – they were literally blocked on all sides – and had to spend five hours outside on this street waiting for the barricades to go down.

last night, in our kitchen, we were saying that today, no doubt, the washington post would have some article saying what a great job the city had done on the inauguration because no one died and there was no terrorist attack, nevermind the thousands upon thousands of people stuck outside in the cold, holding useless tickets for an inauguration they’ve been waiting all their lives to see.

note the peanut butter in the lower left part of the photo.  what, are they trying to kill us in the congressional snack bar?  who is behind this spreadable travesty?

well indeed!  baseball and free tickets and scalpers and libertarians in this week’s CityPaper.

the parking ticket reads: a transient

but it’s not me who’s the transient in question

I don’t even have a car