EPICENTER TV PARTY TONITE: LET IT SOUTH BEACH: EYE OF THE HURRICANE

"in a time of constitutional crisis, making the record has been an interesting experience. we'll see how both things turn out."
--peter

michael arriving with his dry cleaning and lyric backpack.
michael here:
   its been wild in the streets here in the epicenter of the questioning of the democratic process 2000. maybe a little flowery, but i think that the events of the past several days is much further reaching than who will be our president for the next four.
a week ago, days before the election, joe lieberman and his family were staying at our hotel to go to synagogue, taking the day off from the pre-election madness. there were secret service people everywhere, they were sweet.

gore was here with stevie wonder on the beach the night before election, and today peter and bertis went to the rally where jesse jackson was speaking.
  
on election night, we took off early from the studio to camp out in mike's room, ordered some room service and i finally just went to the bar and got a pitcher of pina coladas, peter red wine, bertis was drunk on exhaustion, he had gone canvassing the whole afternoon; it was funny and infuriating and wooley/whooly/whooley. like whooly mammoth, whichever it is.

 

here's bertis, looking very dismayed and exhausted by the broadcasts and the returns. we were glued to the set til 6 a.m. whatta rollercoaster.

mike mid evening election nite

irritated. mary matalin was probably on.
me and mike disagree and i left my dictionary somewhere.
   i dont think anyone could have expected that protests would be going on today over potential voter fraud, miscounts, civil rights violations, closeness of the candidates numbers in one county, or the electoral college and whether or not it is relevant or neccessary to today's process.
   as i watch tv tonite, i realize that bertis probably spoke to at least 229 people on election day, to urge them out to the polls, to vote. certainly, after this, no one could ever again say, 'my vote doesn't matter.'

i'm loving the chaos.

here's mike...

Usually the hurricanes that hit South Florida are of a different variety than the one in which we find ourselves. It's as big as the entire United States, and it feels odd to be in the middle of it (especially since we're actually at the southeast end of it, but I digress). Wooly mammoth. We are in the eye, and everyone is looking in our direction.

room service

more room service
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