I got one of those invitations! I don't want to stand around in the cold and freeze my ass off either, but I confess I was still thrilled, and the wording--inviting me to "attend and participate" gave me a bit of a frisson, one of those "hey, we're entering a new age" moments.

Calling him a dumb fat fuck? Here come the knives....

Suitable for framing.

Glad to hear your still hopey. I'm unsure if I'll listen to the invocation. Maybe, I'll put my fingers in my ears or maybe I'll listen looking for a reason to be my often cynical self.

I got one too. I think everyone who donated to the campaign did. Mine will go up on the fridge or maybe on the noteboard in my office.

I got one too - I wonder what it took to be on the mailing list?

I volunteered online, I volunteered knocking doors, making calls, working the polls on Election Day, and I contributed money, but all of that was before I moved to my new place.

People just don't get that we love our Unicorn because he gives us multiple Hopegasms.

Are you sure it's engraved? I bet it's thermography. Figures.

Is this for donating? I'm going to look for mine in the mailbox. Though it's probably curved into a little tiny roll in my little tiny mailbox and water damaged for good measure. Shame.

I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but you got it about 3 weeks later than everyone else - without much time to actually make travel arrangements. You should go just to spite him.

Watching you la-la to RW alone would be worth the price of admission. True, it isn't a real inaugural invitation - meaning, I guess, an invitation to the ball, but I think it's nice to have received an invitation- such as it is. It's an acknowledgment of your help - such as it was - getting our new prez elected. And since, apparently, the dollars flooded in from many, many, many supporters, a lot of these acknowledgments went out paid for not by taxpayers but by private donations.

Dan, you WOULD have frozen your ass off and the closest you'd have gotten to the President is watching a large screen and a huge speaker. I heard today that there will be blocks and blocks of people there which I'm very happy about, but at this point and without better access, watching it on TV is gonna be the best deal.

And thanks again for your support!

...and I loves me some President Barack, but I'm not coming home until I can get married there.

I'm here in DC, and it is a people clusterfuck. But in so many ways, it is beautiful. Saw Christine Gregoire on the street with hubby and two big dudes. She looked, uh, frazzled walking through the crowd. I can't beleive the only celebrity I have seen in person is my governor. Weird.

@ Dan: Hey, it's who ya know and who ya blow. If you can't schmooze your way onto somebody's corporate jet, well, if you left right now in a hybrid car and floored it, you could probably be hoisting a post-inauguration celebratory beer in ...Omaha, Nebraska.

We got this invitation a long time ago, Dan. I'm debating whether or not to frame it. And I'm thinking about buying the inaugural china. Is that gay?

I'm sorry pasty cakes is giving the invocation. I'm glad you're going to feel all hopey again though. Our country has so much potential now. Almost 60 dems in the senate and Obama in the white house, it's enough to make even the most bitter, cynical liberal think we may have a real chance at progress now. My only regret is that all these great things had to come at a price for the LGBT community.

Still, it is likely the LGBT community will have their voices heard now moreso than ever before, and with any luck they will gain more ground than they lost in this election cycle. I hope you enjoy the inauguration, Mr. Savage. I'm a big fan of your show, and I'm straight, but sometimes you make me wonder.

Take care,

J

@ Balt-O-Matt,

Don't do it. Not only is it blah (okay the Magnolia House set is kinda pretty), but it's the George W. Bush II state china! Picked out and presented by Laura Bush to the tune of $493,000. So now every time someone sits down to a meal in the White House they'll be reminded of Dubya.

It was sweet. My partner and I received our commemorative invitation in an envelope addressed to both of us.
Now I can't wait to get my new blue Obama dildo!

All together, class. Ticket. Invitation. Invitation. Ticket. Not the same thing.

Dismissed.

"Commemorative" inaugural invitations are actually a long-standing tradition. In February or March of 1961 I received one for the Kennedy/Johnson inauguration, presumably in recognition of my work as an 11 year old gofer at the Northern Indiana campaign headquarters. I still have it and it has the same format as the Obama one. My understanding is that "real" invitations are about half the size of "commemorative" ones.

If you think of it as a souvenir rather than an invitation, you may want to hang on to it.

I'm sending mine back to the P.I.C. in protest of Warren. Obama can earn my support back, with good policies. But he sure doesn't have it right now.

It's "embossed", Dan! You silly.

Forget the dumb fat fuck. The question of the hour is: Why the hell wasn't Gene Robinson's beautiful invocation at the start of Sunday's inaugural concert broadcast? Was HBO behind this? Was it the Obama people? Who is to blame? I want to protest, dammit!

For some reason, I now can't get out of my head this image of Warren singing the "La la la la la-, la la la la la-, la la la la la-," falsetto part of the song "Loving You." Dear video-savvy internet: please get on it.

One of these--which millions (?) got? I did--sold on eBay yesterday for $76. I pity the buyer.