Did anyone else experience the shock this morning of thinking the New York Times had been taken over by a ChiCom/Obamaite/Starbucks junta? The photo editor must have coordinated with the ad guys, right?
Archive for November, 2009
Tomorrow’s nostalgia today: The Aughties
Quick, what comes to mind when you think about what’s happened in the world since 2000? We’re at the end of the first decade of the 21st century (okay, pedants, I know the new decade doesn’t technically start until 2011, but roll with me here), and the inevitable looking-back lists are starting to appear. One […]
Budding
I’m a recent convert to Mortified!—the performance initiative that presents people reading from their original teenage journals, letters, poems, stories and other angst-ridden and embarrassing adolescent material. Check out their website to find performances in your area. The evening was brilliant. Jon Stewart could not have made me laugh and cry more than the geeky […]
Wow
It’s important, I think, to be completely amazed from time to time. Check out this image from the Hubble telescope: It’s a tiny patch of sky, and each point of light is another galaxy. There are 10,000 of them in this photo. You can read about the experiment that produced the photo here. Here’s a […]
The lustre had gone out of her
“And she felt that she had been given a present, wrapped up, and told just to keep it, not to look at it⎯a diamond, something infinitely precious, wrapped up, which, as they walked (up and down, up and down), she uncovered, or the radiance burnt through, the revelation, the religious feeling!” ⎯Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway […]
Warmest welcomes
You might have seen this when it went viral last week, but in case not, here’s the most incredibly touching welcome home I’ve ever seen: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RlF205rU8c[/youtube] It turns out that there are a spate of such “welcome home” videos, showing soldiers returning from the Middle East to rapturous receptions from their kids… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfYnCDUzA5I&feature=fvw[/youtube] … and […]
The Monday Photo (Art Agnos google image search . . . 5th place!)
Hey, so I thought this was cool. Art Agnos was the first San Fransisco mayor to ride in the pride parade. He’s a somewhat important California politician. And my shot of him is in fifth place. I was surprised to learn this as Jeff Koons and Milk came up on FB and I noted this […]
