Friday, August 19, 2011

Indiana is devastated by Oliver's departure

For those of you who don't know my brother, he is ridiculously creative and funny. After visiting us in Indy last summer, he determined (rightly so) that similarly to many indie rock bands in Japan, Oliver is HUGE in Indiana. When we moved back to Seattle, we received a series of post cards documenting the impact of Oliver's departure from Indiana. For those of you who don't know, the backstory behind the third postcard relates to our former next door neighbors in Indy. Let's just say that they were crying in their tea bags the day Obama won Indiana and the presidency. Then, the day Obama signed the health care act into law (Obama-care if you will), they turned their everflying American flag upside down and left it that way until Memorial Day. Yup, they flew their flag upside down for more than TWO MONTHS because we were expanding health care coverage!

3 comments:

h.Lo said...

Those are awesome. =)

h.Lo said...

By the way, those neighbors were NOT awesome.

MH said...

"profound void..."

"melancholy, ennui, and senselessness of existence..."

"bleak and desolate..."

"endless ruins and rubble..."

"forlorn, post-apocalyptic wasteland..."

"hopeless and monotonous hellscape..."

While some observers might think your brother views the world through rose-tinted glasses, I believe that he has provided posterity with the best and most accurate summary of conditions here in Indiana that I have ever read.

I salute him!