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There’s no such thing as a free lunch
By Kate | September 28, 2008
“Oh, and by the way. You are in charge of getting Mr. Nader lunch. He likes Lebanese food and fruit juice.” This is what we were told two hours before the Nader rally at UCSD that we were in charge of getting peeps in San Diego out to. When we got the call, we were in the middle of silkscreening our custom, “SD heart Nader” shirts. Neil went on an emergency mission for some Tabbouleh and Pita & Hummus, which was successful & well received by the Nader crew.
As you can see below by the standing ovation for Nader, there was a most excellent, to quote Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, turnout at the rally. More than 1/2 of the crowd were hearing Nader speak for the first time.
Nader was well recieved, Matt Gonzalez also spoke and people had fabulous questions. But, let’s face it… the shirts were the real highlight of the day. I gave a shirt to Mr. Nader while he was doing a book signing. Unfortunate timing because, he thought I wanted him to sign it & signed the ill fated gift. Luckily Nader’s “handler” caught it & said he’d give it to him later. Now Nader has the ultimate self-aggrandizing shirt. An “I heart myself” shirt with his own signature. Again, most excellent.
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September 28th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Yay for a good turnout! I’m glad it went well and that you found some last minute hummus
oh and just a side note…..I don’t know if you noticed or saw last night, but Julie B. Beck has a quite similar asymmetrical do going on .. thought that was funny.
September 28th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Oh that Julie Beck, always on the cutting edge of fashion!
September 28th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Kate and Neil-
I Love reading your blog butI rarely respond. It wears me out just reading it! You do so many incredible things! Keep up the good work. You are showing us what you can do when you have a passion for it.
September 29th, 2008 at 7:38 am
Too bad you didn’t have time to take Ralph snorkeling. Glad there was a good turnout, and that the Veep-to-be also spoke.
This election is going to be down to the wire, with Ralph et. al. neck-and-neck with the Demoplublicans and Recalcitrantrats. Keep lobbying, there’s a cabinet post in there somewhere for you two.
September 29th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Don’t I remember Ralph predicting the current impending financial doom several years ago?
He is a brilliant, albeit grumpy and not-qualified-to-be-president man. He would have taken down those sleazy greedy Wall Street bad-guy bankers down with one arm tied behind his back!!!!
Can I do a retroactive vote for Nader in ‘04????
September 30th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
im glad that the SD rally was such a success. you guys must have had a wizard of an emcee.
those shirts are so, so amazing. there aren’t words. im tearing up.
October 1st, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Awesome!
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:12 pm
it just goes to show what a little effort and some contacts in the gay bowling biz can get you these days. answer: a democracy. hip hip! you guys are awesome.
October 8th, 2008 at 9:04 am
Cool post. Especially your earrings.