Steve Wasserman: Amazon.com's Takeover - The Nation
Come a little closer; I'm a vegetarian.
Heron standing among Cypress Trees
Chicago at Night from State Street Bridge
Libraries...Biblioburro - a donkey library - visits Colombian children
Silhouette dream, with ripples
Lightning - Chicago
Sleepy Bear
Polar Bear - Lincoln Park Zoo - Chicago
Elemental
President Obama and a little boy
Pete Souza/The White House
When a Boy Found a Familiar Feel in a Pat of the Head of State - NYT
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This photo and the accompanying story ran in yesterday's NYTimes. I found the photo so powerful. The boy wanted to know if the President's hair felt the same as his own. The President bowed down and told the boy to see for himself. This gesture says so much about the man. I love it.
Polar Express
I took this shot at the Lincoln Park Zoo, in Chicago. It's available for licensing through Getty Images.
What I'm reading...the books I took out of the Chicago Public Library today
The Chicago Public Library is fantastic. I thought that after I started using my Kindle Fire that my library visits would slow down, but that hasn't been the case. I simply can't afford to buy every book that I want to read. I keep a constant flow of library books circulating in my apartment. These are my current selections:
Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine, by Jasper Becker
The Lifeboat: A Novel, by Charlotte Rogan
Gershwin Prize - Stevie Wonder sings "Alfie" - Burt Bacharach award ceremony - PBS
Does it get any better than Stevie Wonder playing Alfie on the harmonica? Amazing.
Solar Eclipse - compilation of photos by Cory Poole
Amazing photos of the solar eclipse put together by Cory Poole!
President Barack Obama - White Sox Fan
This photo is available for licensing through Getty Images.
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I took this shot in October of 2005. That was the year that the White Sox won the World Series, when Barack Obama was a U.S. Senator from Illinois. I went to the ticker-tape parade that Chicago held to honor the White Sox victory. It got a little too crowded for me, so I took a side street and Barack Obama happened to be walking by at the same time. There was a woman next to me urging him to run for president; he broke into his famous smile when she said that.
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I want President Obama to win in 2012.
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The 2012 campaign starts now! That's why I started my own grassroots fundraising page. Will you support President Obama by making a donation of $5 or more to my page today? Or start your own...
Thanks!
Sometimes writing feels like this: Masters of Movement - Darren Berrecloth
I can't stop watching this!
Chicago - Spring Showers
On the back of a dragonfly
The NYTimes has one of the Gregory Brothers Songify productions on Mitt Romney. You've got to see it:
Mitt Likes Music, Including This
In case you're not familiar with the Gregory Brothers, here's their most viewed work. They take actual news reports and songify them: