Someone from Weymouth Won an Emmy

And the Emmy goes to...

Abigail Adams!!! Ha ha! (Did you think I was talking about someone else or the other one?)

Laura Linney won best supporting actress for her portrayal of Abigail Adams in the HBO miniseries John Adams. She said, "Every time I look at this I'll think of the community organizers who founded this country." Awesome. And THAT seemed to set off a whirlwind of political talk. It was like a third convention!!!

Every other person mentioned politics, activism, voting or something to that effect.

Except Rickles. Rickled effin' rocked the hizouse.

It could have also been called the "Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart Night of Appreciation." Along with John Adams and Recount.

The hosts were poop but this thing that Jimmy Kimmel did with them at the end, treating the award winning like reality TV winning was pretty good.

I'm happy Cranford won anything -- it was such a sweet miniseries and in a lot of tough categories. Yeah Masterpiece theater on PBS.

Anyway, it got off to a rough start but got good eventually.

My Girl - Abigail Adams

Why is Abigail Adams my girl? Because, she, like me, is from Weymouth. It's one of the few things about Weymouth that I like - the fact the the first woman (and by far the best, comparatively speaking) who was both a First Lady and a First Mother was from this godforsaken town.

So's the guy from the movie Blow, but we don't like to brag about that.

The reason why Abigail Adams is so worthy of praise are the declarations of women's rights she made to her husband, John Adams. They were written in letters she sent to him while he was working on this kind of important document thing that we here in America like to call the Constitution.

MARCH 31, 1776
ABIGAIL ADAMS TO JOHN ADAMS
I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands.

Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.

To see more Abigail Adams quotes on women's rights, go to this section of thelizlibrary.org.

I've just been thinking a lot about Abigail because of - duh - Hillary. You know Abs would be running for prez were she alive today, too! You go girl! (No, I'm not saying that for real. I'm saying it in an ironic way.)

Eatin' Healthy & The Adams

(see my blog entry on Abigail Adams here)

Waddup Quincy and Weymouth: home of the Adams!

Eatin' Healthy-That's the name of the little cafe I'm sitting right now. It's in Quincy Cennah (Quincy Center for those without thick Quicy-style Boston accents). I'm listening to a woman chattering rather loudly into her cell phone. She is speaking Haitian Creole. This makes me sad that I forgot my headphones to listen to my iTunes and also that my mp3 player has not yet arrived in the mail.

(Side note: I need to learn Haitian because I want to know if the kids at school are talking about me behind my back or other inappropriate things after school. I know French en peu so I get about 5.25% of what they say...)

This place is pretty good. Free wifi (hence the blog), close to work, a little more expensive than a regular casual dining place but that's what happens when there's vegetarian, healthy food available. What's funny is that if this same place were in Maine (well, there are a thousand places like this in Maine), the guy behind the counter wouldn't be a tuff Quincy kid with a wicked thick accent and backwards Red Sox cap, but some dread-locked, nose pierced ditzy dude.

What is similar is that it's close to a park. Only this National Park is in a business building in the middle of the city and serves people who love David McCullough books. (PS This link is to the Thomas Crane Library, which is down the street from the park.)

This is what I see right now:

And now it's pulled away. It's the trolley to take you to the Adams birthplaces, which is right down the street from the first house I lived in, soon to be a museum, I'm sure. As soon as one of you readers writes my Wikipedia entry, as requested on several occasions now.

Anyway, then the trolley takes you to the Adams Mansion.

Guess the name of the street where the Adams' mansion is located. Guess!

That's right: Adams Street.

You are a genius. You should be a city planner.

Anyway, the trolley doesn't take you to Weymouth, but that's where Abigail Adam's birthplace is. I should know. It's drilled into our brain every year of school while going through the Weymouth Public School system. I've been on a field trip to the Abigail Adams birthplace. In 8th grade I sang a sonata about Abigail Adams. If I were in middle school right now, I would have gone to Abigail Adams Middle School. As a camp counselor, I subjected further Weymouth youth to the Cult of Abigail by making them be quiet when the fake Abigail came to our rec program perform a biographical play about her. Abigail Abigail Abigail.

Still, she is by far the best woman in American history to be both first lady and first mother. The other one, I hear, is a real bi-atch.

Off to finally complete my assignment for good ol' grad school.