One party down, one to go.
November 4, 2008 at 11:01 pm by Leilani Polk10:40: Just got back from the Blue Lucy party in Southside St. Pete. It was pretty quiet as I headed down Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Street. No cavorting or wild celebrations spilling into the streets – but somehow a sense of anticipation pervaded.
Blue Lucy artists/partners Phillip Clark and Chad Mize greeted me at the door, treating me to a cocktail and a Pepsi-style Obama pin (”The Choice of a New Generation”), and introducing me to a mish-mash of friends – Eddie from Lounge Cat, Damian, a lawyer who’d done some volunteer work for the Obama campaign, and Beau (admittedly his middle name), also an Obama campaign volunteer who glowed with his hope and expressed his happiness about how everything was going. A TV was set up on the back patio with the returns, everyone watching casually and chatting about the future. Presiding over it all was a Pinata Palin — glasses, red marmy dress and shiny shoes, stuffed with toy soldiers and other apropos accessories – hanging from a palm tree. She’d apparently taken a week to construct and hadn’t yet been bashed to oblivion by the time I left, though I could feel the moment building.
MSNBC has just confirmed Obama as the winner. Time to head to the kegger at Pickett’s.
