It’s been a couple days now, and it keeps happening — and at the oddest times, too. Sometimes I can control it and sometimes I just let it happen, let the people on the subway stare. My breath hitches kinda funny, hiccups, and my throat and voicebox shake like a bus on a bumpy road. My eyes tear up every time and I’ve just sort of stopped wiping it away.

I can’t tell if I’m happy or sad when it happens, mostly I’m just swallowed up by the enormity of the feeling. It’s like being a particle of plankton and getting swallowed up by a gigantic, benevolent whale.

America elected Barack Obama to be the President of the United States on Tuesday night, and the emotional aftershocks just keep coming.

So along with the spontaneous, random sobs of joy and relief, I’m having this recurring hallucination. Or maybe it’s a daydream. But whatever.

Every time I see, hear, or imagine somebody doing something incredibly well, that person has Barack Obama’s head.

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Free Love Forum, mentioned here previously, will be performing a free show Tuesday, February 26th at 6 PM at the People’s Improv Theater. They (and some other groups who are thus far unnamed) will be auditioning for a chance to perform at the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival.

I’ve never seen these jokers live before, only snickered at them while hunched over a flickering laptop alone in a darkened room. This should be a great chance to snicker with a bunch of strangers in a larger darkened room, with slightly better posture. And, it’s FREE!

Here’s another video, just as a taste: