Election Day on Tuesday in New York. Fernando Ferrer will loose by a truly embarassing margin to Mike Bloomberg. Will this finally prompt change? Who knows. Local politics are complex. The rubber and the road are in near-constant contact, the fortunes at stake are personal.

If I'm still here in four years I'll do something. 4-to-1 matching funds means if you can get a little bit of an organization together, you can get the money to make it a professional operation. On the other hand, you can still spend $1.5M and get less than 20,000 votes.

Outside the Tea Lounge just now are three kids who are volunteering for Gloaria Mattera, the Green party candidate for Bklyn Boro Prez. They're using the Defend Brooklyn line, which is interesting. For all the fine work of the Williamsburg Warriors, it's a loosing battle. The third wave is upon us.

The "third wave" by the way, is not the real artists/bohos (1st wave) or their somewhat better-heeled, less productive, and plainer-looking wannabe imitators (2nd wave). It's the euro trash and single guys who work in finance. Just wait. It's going to get a lot worse.

Seems like things are still simmering. I don't think '06 is going to be a watershed year for politics, much as I would like it to be. I think the game we're playing is longer than that.