[kj] OT: Spontaneous eruption of mas singing, etc., in NYC after midnight

[Alexander Smith]

I live a stone's throw from Union Square, and the electricity was  
palpable, but the feeling was overwhelmingly positive.

Let's hope that lasts.

Alex in NYC


On Nov 6, 2008, at 3:02 AM, B. Oliver Sheppard wrote:


> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrj_bc2Xy9s

>

>

> Above, apontaneous celebration in NYC at 1:45 AM captured on home  

> video at Union Square. Haven't quite seen anything like it, the  

> spontaneous bursting into song, etc., in my lifetime. It doesn't  

> have the ugly feel of the Bush/Cheney/9-11 nationalism, but a  

> strange new sort of resurgent American nationalism I have never seen.

>

> I'm hopeful -- I feel like I can travel to other countries now  

> without having to pretend I'm Canadian! -- but am trying to soberly  

> have no illusions about what's to come.

>

> -Oliver

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