this is a protest and a performance - well, a call for a protest performance, actually. because I am so absolutely disgusted by the recent election and all that transpired down in florida (can you say fix?) I am reaching out to my sisters (I do not have a better word, nor do I feel I need one right now as we are on a level of basic instinct and shifting quickly into survival mode, thank you very much) in order to get this message out. I will start with my own experience as it became a revelation/performance/protest/epiphany.
the other day I was standing in the shower thinking about the holidays and the new year. I began to obsess about the recent election and this clown prince president we have been saddled with. his father calls him Quincy affectionately invoking the Adams legacy. the smugness by which 'W' has been appointing his daddyís pals in order to finish the job he so CIAnidely (read: cyanide-ly) starting slowly poisoning us with made my blood boil. there in the shower I began softly chanting 'no more bush, no more bush, no more bushÖ' over and over again until I was in a mantra/trance-like state. I reached for the lady schick, a slick bar of handmade soap and before I knew it, there was no more bush. completely shaven I stood in the shower laughing. I laughed until I cried and then it hit me: women are probably going to be the most affected by this recent faux-lection. why then donít we do something that will at least show our disapproval for the recent decision. the way I see it:
ONE CLOSE SHAVE DESERVES ANOTHER!
less than 300 votes is a close shave, Iíll say. but a complete and closer shave is due and in order here is what I am proposing:
women - get into the shower and say it - 'no more bush!' cut, clip, shave, etc. just get rid of it. but here is the next part (as suggested to me by my friend Cara Jepsen - a writer from chicago) save the clippings, bag them and send them to our clown prince president for his inauguration. better still, letís all go to the inauguration and throw the 'bush clippings' at our new president like confetti at a ticker tape parade! his legacy will not be likened to the Adamsí but rather that day when women all over the country rid themselves of Bush because right now, today, we still have a choice. for the next four years we might have to look this in the eye from another angle.
pass this email on to women all over the country - let this get around and travel in a way that only the internet could allow. we have the power, now get into the shower, and repeat after me: NO MORE BUSH!

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