DMTC Board Meeting

Wednesday night, DMTC had its monthly board meeting.



The board began to consider the question: What form of government would be most ideal to run the City of Davis?

• a parliament of hereditary noblemen;
• a business-oriented tyranny; or
• an anarcho-syndicalist commune?

Then someone asked: What are the chances of the Kings making the NBA playoff finals this year? Everyone got all distracted then, and we lost our train of thought.

Then we remembered that Steve wanted to step down as DMTC Board President after having served in the post for eight or nine years and so we needed first to choose a head for our own government.

We opted for a Latin dictatorship, with fascist caudillo overtones, and lots of star power.


New DMTC Board President Ryan Adame. In this photo, Ryan was making an obscure Italianate hand signal that I did not understand (not being Italian and being fairly innocent), but not wishing to cause possible offense out of ignorance, I cropped the photo so as to concentrate instead on Ryan's clear focus on the future.

[Postscript, 8/19/05: Steve subsequently informed me that Ryan's peculiar partial thumbs-up gesture was used frequently by Bill Clinton, and was later adopted by John Kerry, and has particular resonance in political circles. Here is the wider view:]

In his first function as President, Ryan addressed the Board:

It won't be easy, you'll think it strange
When I try to explain how I feel
That I still need your love after all that I've done
You won't believe me
All you will see is a guy you once knew
Although he's dressed up to the nines
At sixes and sevens with you

I had to let it happen, I had to change
Couldn't stay all my life down at heel
Looking out of the window, staying out of the sun
So I chose freedom
Running around trying everything new
But nothing impressed me at all
I never expected it to

Don't cry for me DMTC
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days
My mad existence
I kept my promise
Don't keep your distance

And as for fortune, and as for fame
I never invited them in
Though it seemed to the world they were all I desired
They are illusions
They're not the solutions they promised to be
The answer was here all the time
I love you and hope you love me

Don't cry for me DMTC......

Don't cry for me DMTC
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days
My mad existence
I kept my promise
Don't keep your distance

Have I said too much? There's nothing more I can think
of to say to you
But all you have to do is look at me to know that every
word is true