CT Road Berner Blog

Day 2 - Iowa - Countdown


So I never made it out to Iowa City - the monster rally - Vampire Weekend and Killer Mike.
The intense having fun part succumbed to getting the job done part...and besides word was out that  Rostam Batmanglij left the band - making it  a less than meaningful trip. - then..too late to go.. word again got out he would be there..  I door knocked and made calls... and saved a 4 hour round trip.

I'm bernin out my CT Road Berner T shirt - wearing it everywhere I go.  It elicits comments and discussions and me always asking "are you going to Caucus?"  At breakfast in the hotel the nice service staff likes Bernie.  Talked with a couple of heavily tatooed stocky big haired guys who said - maybe facetiously "go bernie" but they were out of towners and said they can't vote..
Turns out they are a part of ...

one of the hotel staff on my way out of the breakfast room said they were part of the band that's staying here at the hotel - and playing a gig somewhere this weekend in Des Moines... I know as much about Hairball as I do, really, about Vampire Weekend... But - its all part of the Caucus texture here in the political epicenter of the world.