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October 29, 2007
Monday Night
Back from a super-enjoyable and totally exhausting weekend that included a quick jaunt to DC, then up to Boston for Friday night's Thunderdome spectacular with Catch, then Brooklyn Saturday for costumed revelry. (Thank you so much to everyone who came out! Yall looked GREAT. Special shout to the disturbingly beguiling Cosmo, who came through as a fully supermanned "ho.") Add a couple of Sabres wins down in Florida, the Bills completing the '08 sweep of the Jets on Sunday evening, and the grueling Greyhound trek back to work early this morning, and I'm fucking beat. Paid, triumphant, happy, but beat.
1. Cute Overload's got photo documentation of the best Halloween costume I've seen all season.
2. Matt Zoller Seitz gives his three year old son a disposable camera, and the results are terrific.
One day my three-year old son, James, saw me opening a new pack of cameras and asked if he could take some pictures. I taught him how to look through the viewfinder, click the button and wind the roll to the next picture. He developed a taste for it. He's gone through about 10 disposable cameras since then.
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There are lots of pictures of relatives, neighbors, plants and flowers, the remains of meals, pay phones, trash cans, dogs, cars, bikes, fire trucks, playground equipment, pigeons and the photographer's shoes. There are also a disproportionate number of snapshots of attractive young female strangers -- typically posterior views, taken after they've smiled at him in passing. James' signature image is a portrait taken from his height looking up. This angle forces the subject to look straight down into the lens, which means that almost everyone James photographs appears to have a triple chin.
3. Amazingly thorough smily gallery.
4. Quick 2008 Horserace Update:
a. Obama and the "ex-gay" gospel singer;
b. The essential question: "Are we just going to crown Hillary President?"
c. Friends of the Earth's radio ad for Edwards;
d. Democrats debate tomorrow night here in Philly. 9 o'clock EST, MSNBC.
Posted by caps at October 29, 2007 07:35 PM