My dearest daughter (age 10 in a week) was totally psyched the other morning that she figured out how to tune in the local NPR station on her ipod-dock/radio. To J: “Now I can hear what’s going on with Barack and McCain every morning.” Man, when I was her age I couldn’t stand when my parents put on NPR. I’m so proud of her.
Charles is a volunteer from Boulder, CO who won a raffle to meet Barack at the rally in Denver a few days ago. It’s great to hear the perspective of someone who has been around as long as Charles has and who saw first hand what FDR did to pull us out of the Great Depression.
Scout Tufankjian shoots for Time, Newsweek, US News & World Report, Le Monde, Newsday, and The New York Times. Her website currently hosts a really beautiful gallery of her photographs of our next president.
That nonsense with the Facebook-Wordpress integration was a total bust, so here’s a neat little Firefox add-on called ScribeFire that purports to post to my blog.? Wonder it this shiny new marvel of Internet wisdom will actually work.
I’m still sad about Joe Strummer’s death. I think he had a lot more songs in him, as one certainly attests to.
I’m testing out a new plugin that claims to be able to cross-publish to Facebook (and vice versa).? I’ll believe it when I see it.
P went to Liberty with my mom to visit my Grandmother Marty at the end of the summer. She took our camera with her and took a bunch of really cool pictures. I love seeing how P sees the world and what she things of as worthy of recording. Everything from door handles on a rental car to the shadows on Marty’s courtyard. This is not one of her pictures, rather it was taken by my mom.
After a dry spell where I hadn’t heard anything terribly exciting and was doing more reading than listening to music I begin to have some hope that things might someday turn around. Until then, I’ll keep on reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy (recommended by Mr. Barbot) and occasionally listening to the following:
