They were playing on Fountain Square opening up for The Breeders in a support Barack rally. Natalie Portman spoke and introduced them. (She was anything but inspirational. Very timid and sheepish.) The National were pretty friggin' good. I need to revisit the 2 albums I have that never really caught me.

I was crossing town tonight after touring a site and stopped to see what was going on. At first I was wondering why there was a beer truck on fountain square for a political rally. It made more sense when I found out a band was playing, then I saw it was The National and got a little excited.

That's pretty damn cool, Tim!

All of that by accident.

David Suzuki spoke at our campus this week and that was the most exciting that happaned around here since the film festival.

Yeah? Well, I ran over a skunk on my home from work tonight.