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politics, but she's pretty fabulous, so who gives a damn?"
(Tenured Radical)

Thursday, July 07, 2005

SNAPSHOTS FROM HOME


It’s two in the afternoon, July 6, outside the Garrett Park, Maryland post office. UD is racing down the steps to the place in order to check her mail (there‘s no home delivery in Garrett Park). The taxi that’s taken her from the metro to the post office is idling behind her, waiting for her to come back from getting her mail so that it can drive her home.

A few steps from the post office door, she’s stopped by three teenage boys - she vaguely recognizes them as locals - who start filming and interviewing her.

“Excuse me,” one of them says to her. “How do you feel about G-Unit?”




UD peers down from her higher step at the boy below her. Despite her very wide-brimmed hat, she‘s squinting from the sun. She is in a hurry.

“Hm,” UD replies. The camera is rolling. The boys are staring. “G-Unit... G-Unit... I feel … that you should only wear a ... G-Unit... if you are at the beach.”

The boys look at each other and giggle. UD proceeds into the building.




On her way out, the boys salute UD from their shady bench near the post office. “Thank you!” they call out. “Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!”