I love that he drops three F-bombs upon learning that he won the award for children’s literature.
Newbery, not Newbury. Also FUCK!!!! I won the FUCKING NEWBERY THIS IS SO FUCKING AWESOM E. I thank you.
Neil Gaiman’s Tweet Upon Learning He Won the Newbery Award
Jan 26, ’09
9:57 PM
Photographs of Bush
Jan 26, ’09
8:51 PM
From Errol Morris’s blog at the NY Times:
The traveling pool of press photographers that follows presidents includes representatives from three wire services — AP (The Associated Press), AFP (Agence France-Presse) and Thomson Reuters. During the last week of the Bush administration, I asked the head photo editors of these news services — Vincent Amalvy (AFP), Santiago Lyon (AP) and Jim Bourg (Reuters) — to pick the photographs of the president that they believe captured the character of the man and of his administration. There are overlapping pictures — of the president with a bullhorn at Ground Zero, of the president looking out the window of Air Force One over New Orleans, of the president receiving the news on the morning of 9/11. It is interesting that these pictures are different. They may be of the same scene, but they have different content. They speak in a different way.
(The photos are reproduced here with their original captions, unedited.)
(via Kottke)
The Wild Burros of Red Rock Canyon
Jan 26, ’09
2:33 PM
VegasRex heads out to Red Rock Canyon:
While the scenery is cool, my absolute favorite aspect of Red Rock is the wild burros that roam freely throughout the area. These large donkey creatures are all over the place, and are surprisingly tame.
As a matter of fact, if you stop your car with the window down, it is not uncommon for one of these beasts to stick their head through the window and take a look around.
When I go up to Red Rock, I like to take a couple of apples to give to the burros. They will come right up and eat it out of your hand. Although there are some shy and standoffish burros, most of them will let you pet them.
Obama’s First 100 Hours: A Clean Break From Bush
Jan 26, ’09
1:53 PM
ThinkProgress has a roundup of some changes Obama has already done.
Daily Dose of Ingersoll
Jan 26, ’09
8:20 AM
Is it possible that an infinite God created this world simply to be the dwelling-place of slaves and serfs? simply for the purpose of raising orthodox Christians? That he did a few miracles to astonish them; that all the evils of life are simply his punishments, and that he is finally going to turn heaven into a kind of religious museum filled with Baptist barnacles, petrified Presbyterians and Methodist mummies? I want no heaven for which I must give my reason; no happiness in exchange for my liberty, and no immortality that demands the surrender of my individuality. Better rot in the windowless tomb, to which there is no door but the red mouth of the pallid worm, than wear the jeweled collar even of a god.
Robert Green Ingersoll – “Individuality” (1873)
