About to eat some Gumbo at the DNC

This is a pretty cool town. I was here about 8 or so years ago when a friend of mine got hitched. One of the early birds. I really only remembered two thoings from that trip (the wedding was, as it should be, a drunken blur): backpacking in the rockies at 10,000 feet ... and a hot gumbo joint called, well, Gumbo's.

Anyway, this town is starting to buzz pretty good. Though there are as many t-shirt vendors as there are delegates and visitors. The crowd is actually quite interesting. Saw a "rednecks for obama" contingent with proper signage as well as the to-be-expected pro-life folks with airhorn and accompanying high res late term abortion photos. The EVR is "limited" pro-choice, but seeing actual photos like that at least make me understand the pro-life perspective.

Woo hoo, the gumbo is here and I'm gonna scarf it while trying to lip read wolf blitzer in HD at the bar.

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