Laura's Baby Shower

My friend Laura, whom I haven't seen in ten years, had a baby shower July 21. She and Dan have been together for 13 years, basically ever since I have known her. That's pretty amazing, considering a lot of marriages don't make it to 13 months.
Anyways, I am very proud of Laura, and it was great to see her. She and I had a lot of great times in highschool. Its amazing how much life can change in such a short period of time. Ten years isn't too short, but so much has changed since then. Its cool to see how even though you haven't seen someone in so long, you can still hang out with them like it was yesterday.

This is Laura looking at a very cool gift, a glass ball which is supposed to mimick DNA.
Click on it to see more baby shower photos.

Don't cry for me federal attorneys (and torture victims, John Ashcroft, etc.) part dos

Alberto "Gonzo" Gonzales once again looks like he is gonna cry during a Senate Judiciary Hearing. Here he is getting grilled by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). My new complaint of Gonzales is that he always shows up wearing what looks to be the same suit and tie. This can be very confusing. If I wasn't an organized person I would wonder which hearing he was at denying everything.

I kinda wonder why they bother with Gonzales testifying. He's just gonna deny everything. He's never gonna resign, though I get the feeling he'd like to, but is to chicken. Bush will never fire him, and Congress can't force him out of office. It does provide for great theater though, watching him squirm.

Once again I despise Code Pink. They were rude and disruptive during the whole proceeding. Don't they get it that no one cares about them anymore. I refuse to take their picture, but in this case the sign wound up in the photo anyways. Jedi Master Doug said he liked the photo. That made my day. I feel like Luke Skywalker now, well maybe Lukette. Though I still have much to learn.



That reminds me of what Yoda said in "Episode 1":

"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering."

And for another Gonzo - Gonzo the Great.

W00T

Check out the nytimes.com. Hopefully this pict is still up.

Metro Fairy

Normally I don't think that I have the most interesting commute, that is until I decide to photograph it. Then interesting things happen. Last Friday I was coming home on the Metro after gathering audio for the Crow, when I saw this interesting concoction. Feathers. Feathers and peacock feathers too! Turns out these two ladies and a gentleman (not pictured) were on their way home from a photo shoot on the Mall. From what I gathered, the lady in black was supposed to be Icarus.



Normally this is my standard view of my Metro commute. It never seems to change for 26 or more minutes, twice a day, 5 times a week.



Walking back from the Metro I have to go through an athletic field at this school. The other day I saw some dude sleeping under a blanket, except I wasn't too sure if there was someone under the blanket, and if there was, I wasn't too sure if he was sleeping or dead. I didn't check, I was late for work. Later on that day, coming home I saw a cop talking to the guy. I think the guy left behind this, because it seems to have been there ever since:



Despite this rare occurence in my otherwise boring commute, I consider myself to live in a very odd neighborhood that sometimes borders on the surreal. In fact, the above picture probably could have been included in this essay I did about two years ago. Its on my old website that I don't bother to update anymore. I now have a new website which doesn't include that essay.

In other news tomorrow I'm up on the Hill covering Sara Taylor testifying before the Senate Judiciary on the firing of 8 federal prosecutors. That is if she testifies. Bush invoked his executive privilege. Yawn. This behavior from the White House has become so predictable. I can't wait to see what the Code Pink Ladies will be doing for this (not).

I never realized how dangerous fireworks are....

I never realized how dangerous fireworks are until I saw this picture that I took yesterday:





click on it to see the rest of the pictures on my flickr.

On Independence Eve I went to go see my friend Carol Bui play the other night at the Red and Black.. The opening set was this dude Malonius, who said something very interesting while wishing us a happy Independence Day. At first when he said Happy Independence Day, no one clapped. Then he mentioned how we don't have to celebrate our government, but we should celebrate our Constitution or Declaration of Independence. I agree, though I do think that the Netherlands is probably more free or lenient than we are, but I digress and shall save that for another post, or for Hoi to respond to.
Oh by the way, go to Carol's sight and check out her music. Come to her next show. She is awesome and very beautiful for those of you who need eye candy to look at.