The beauty of this Monday is twofold. First we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his legacy of courage and inspiration. Second, we end the Bush era of government in the United States. I noted the first just after midnight as I sat with a friend at King Tut's on Charleston at Jones for the Sunday night Jam Session. I was reminded of the second by the "fabulous" Ms. Conception as she finished her number at the SINDAYS promotion at Krave. At King Tut's I got to sit in with the house band and a guest singer playing Honky Tonk Woman and Walking the Dog (with the intro, I might add). As I left, I wished my friend "Happy King Day." I glanced at my watch and realized that if I made the lights I could catch the show my friends Pete and Minta continually remind me of and invite me to see at Krave on Sunday nights. I got to Krave just in time to see the coolest, funniest and best interpretation of a song featuring the word "pussy" that I have ever seen. Ms. Conception is truly a spectacle and spectacular. After she finished the song (and with her merkin still in full view) she announced that "tonight we celebrate the end of Bush!" It goes without saying that Ms. Con made more than a few comments about shaving bush. The whole bush thing was outrageous and hilarious. And it made me think that as we celebrate King Day and the end of the Bush era and look forward to the promise of a new administration, maybe we can finally live in a nation were all the musicians and drag queens will be able to join hands with the politicians and religious fundamentalists and walk together as brothers and sisters in freedom and justice. When we let freedom ring, we let it ring from every part of every city, in every part of every state in this great nation and we recognize that the day has come when all of God's children, Black, White, Brown, Red and Yellow people, Jews and Gentiles, Christian, Muslim, Atheist, Hindu and Buddhist people, Gay and Straight people will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old negro spiritual: 'Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'
(Thanks to Dr. King for inspiration and paraphrase in the last paragraph)
BjK.
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The true beauty of America is that we've always been free to do what you suggest. Some of us seem to forget that, though, choosing to focus on other things of less importance. It's our job, as human beings who actually like other human beings, to set an example and make it a common occurrence. (We can't keep waiting for everyone else, can we? Nope. So it falls to us.)
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