From the Paramount….
“A New Birth of Freedom” commemorates the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. The words, echoing across 200 years from Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address, express Lincoln’s hope that the sacrifice of those who died to preserve the United States would lead to “a new birth of freedom” for the nation
January 20th, 2009 marks a historic day in our nation’s history and The Paramount Theater is proud to be a part of this by opening its doors to the community and broadcasting LIVE in HIGH DEFINITION the swearing in of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama.
Doors open at 10:30 am with the broadcast beginning at 11 am, featuring the historic swearing-in on the steps of the U.S. Capitol at exactly 12 noon. As a service to the community, this event is FREE, but tickets must be obtained in advance (limit is 2 tickets per person).
Come out and join us for this historic event – a tradition that will continue here at the Paramount Theater every 4 years!
Details:
· Tickets are General Admission and limited to 2 tickets per person
· Tickets available to Paramount Members on Monday, January 5th, 2009 at 10 am. Anyone not currently a member of the theater may take advantage of getting tickets early by making a tax-deductible membership contribution when placing your order!
· Tickets available to General Public on Thursday, January 8th, 2009 at 10 am
· How to get tickets on the dates above: Theater Box Office (open Monday thru Friday, 10am-5pm), as well as by phone at (434) 979-1333 or online at www.theparamount.net.
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So I can go watch the inauguration of a president whom owes his election to the media with a bunch of people who blindly bought what the media sold them?
No thanks.
/oops … did I bring up politics?
//grammar nazis: did I get the who vs whom right?
Can’t I watch it at home on the big screen and turn it into a fun drinking game (pants optional)
ummm, so we can go watch the first black president be inaugurated in a venue that is known for having excluded blacks forever, then allowing them only to sit in a segregated balcony (extant) and only then if they entered by the side door through a separate ticket-window?
and can someone get that fucking childish primitivist obama painting down from the A&N storefront, it drives me batty every time i pass it (not for political reasons).
@2, Pants off Dance off?
@4 Throw in some ball gowns and we might have something
A little sassy this morning, aren’t we, otter?
@7
piqued, only.
i couldn’t care less about politics, but i’ve been worn down by the media frenzy to get us to wrack ourselves with woe over the economy, and contrarily but simultaneously do a daily Buck&Wing-Dance while fawning obeissantly over the presumptive Second-Coming in form of that cliche-prating and publicity-shot-moue-ing demagogue-to-be-paternalistic-dictator.
Who knew my innocent Vote For Hope would turn into this media-circus luv-fest. I’m sick of this pending presidency already–not for the Man, who is no doubt a good and sincere man, but for the Myth (far in advance of his having done anything) which is not his fault. It’s worse than having an actor in the whitehouse, frankly. I just want the inaguration to be over so we can ADMIRE and RESPECT him for what good and sensible things he DOES rather than for the color of his skin or his rhetorical devisiveness.
i’m also somewhat suspicious of the ’service to the community’ bit.
is Paramount doing this for free, and if so why (it’s an arts not a political venue); or is it paid-for by the city?
@7 (also) Darling, it’s because the land has been holding out for a hero… I don’t know. All I do know is that I’m invoking the domestic goddess today and you all (especially you, dear otter) are more than welcome to some chocolate almond bark, amaretto balls, and the world’s most amazing sugar cookies (well, maybe only in the land o’lakes) with lovingly homemade buttercream frosting… Maybe that would take all the bitterness away?
googled–the land found one, evidently: “Results 1 – 10 of about 16,900,000 for obama hero”… now can they leave him alone to govern and us to be governed?
wait–this is fun:
Results 934,000 for jesus savior
Results 1,810,000 for obama savior.
Results 934,000 for mohammed prophet.
Results 2,280,000 for obama prophet.
Results 84,700 for hitler demagogue.
Results 161,000 for obama demagogue
Results 245,000 for einstein genius.
Results 7,820,000 for obama genius.
Results 547,000 for ron jeremy big dick.
Results 703,000 for obama big dick.
I suppose it might want to be taken into consideration how Google’s search alogorithm runs… It scanned pages for those search terms but not necessarily in the context of a MENSA-card carrying, well-endowed, prodigal president-elect… That aside, those are pretty interesting results. I wonder what other interesting juxtaposed search results can be found…
i’ve played this game before on here, and some humorless STATS-major at humorless UVA reamed me for it.
it’s funny precisely because it’s unscientific. fallacy of authority, of numbers, etc.
So you mean to tell me that I need scientific method to prove that my google search for the terms Halsey and Minor and douche yields 2,160 results?
I most heartily choose humor over sound numbers. Besides…couldn’t those Google results be considered, say, inferntial statistics? I have no bloody idea. Just give me my books and linguistics and critical theory…
that could be 2,160 times someone saying that Halsey is only a minor douche.
you’d think my comments on this site alone would’ve pushed that number up over 3,000.
Have a cookie on me, OD, you poor thing…