So I did a thing

and now I'm going to write about it.

I went to Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity (October 30, 2010) in Washington D.C. It was great. I went with that guy (no names) and some other guy who didn't know. We left Toronto at 8:30 at night and arrived in D.C around 9:30 in the morning. I did not sleep much or at all.

People have talked a lot about Stewart and his motivations for the rally and I don't have much to add so I won't.

D.C's Metro is pretty nuts in its brutalist-futurist jaw dropping scale and carpeted subway cars. There are a lot of black people, in contrast to T.O's brown and yellow people. We had a pretty good position to watch the rally. We were too far back to really see the stage but we were close to a screen and the sound was good. I understand that this was not universal for everyone who attended, so we were lucky. D.C knows how to build on a monumental scale. The Canadian Embassy is huge. Americans are cool but their patriotism and the way they express it does not translate well across the border. Canadian national identity is so nebulous that other, stronger, identities look alien by comparison.

It's hard to find food around the National Mall. The area is designed to impress, not for livability. The two gay couples (Richard Florida Gays) on the bus next to us planned ahead and took a taxi to some snazzy Ethiopian resto. I did not eat one vegetable in my entire trip. I had an egg and bacon bagel from mcdonalds on two separate occasions. The second time I was feeling powerful cravings for it. I don't normally eat at mcdonalds.

The whole trip cost about $60 plus $30USD in souvenirs and 10-20$ in snacks. The question was generally, why are you going? What's your reason for attending? I dunno bro, b/c it was a cheap day trip to washington D.C? I like the Daily Show and I like visiting cities I've never been to before.

The crowd was pretty white, I think, judging from the people around me, but the ages were diverse, which was unexpected and good to see. Stewart and Colbert were funny. The musical guests were kind of rando and not appealing (Kid Rock, Sheryl Crowe, John Legend).

Overall it was good trip. I would do it again.