In which The Gay Recluse welcomes a change.

If you didn’t get a chance to see David A. Paterson’s speech today, we 100-percent recommend watching the whole thing. (We’d post a link but we couldn’t find one.) By the time he gets to his conclusion: “Let me introduce myself again: my name is David Paterson and I’m the Governor of New York!” we felt a chill of excitement and — dare we say it — hope (and that was on the treadmill!) He’s likable, unpretentious and can memorize long lists of information! (Plus he lives in Harlem!) By the end, we were not only like “Eliot who?” but “Eliot who cares!”