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Saturday, January 24, 2009

bye bye obama. gotta head west.
1 thought first, tho:
the other day my sister asked me - she 2 was 1 of the 1,800,000 in the mall - if i thought u could succeed @ helping cure our many ills. it was a simple question 4 a labyrinthian situation, but still i offered a simple answer...borrowed 1, actually, from all the people i met along the way to washington 2 feel history make small arm hairs stand up: the haitian amer ex-prosecutor from brooklyn, the students from d south & the upstart artist behind this portrait - folks whose born-again-optimism (along w. your brisk early days in office) reveal u've already started.

good luck.

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read my lips: more new puppies.

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clinton spokesman said this was the 1 loyal friend slick willy felt he had in DC.

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BTW...@ the newseum's presidential pets exhibit, the weekly voted 4 them 2 adopt a shelter dog by droppin change n that tube.

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belushi appeared @ breakfast in balmer.

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Friday, January 23, 2009

restaurant week in baltimore means money prix fixe menus incl. ea spot.s best tastes - like those at deliciousnessish mezze in fells point, who also does mean sangria in 2 shades.

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lil local lore on d walls of duda's in balti's historic fells point. ghosts of balt colts on d wall; ghost stories common on cobblestone streets outside. nothin illusory about 40 cent shrimp deal @ duda.s tho.

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national aquarium in baltimore sits on a harbor right in downtown. cool joint...but MBAQ.s reign as the best isn.t in danger from this direction.

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temp risin @ upsetting news: my obama shop @ union station sold out of obama hot sauce ('heat u can believe in'). same goes 4 bobbleheads. i demand a recount.

couldn.t leave DC w.o taking down a specimen of their signature foodstuff...the 'half smoke.' w. d works.

1mo insight from newseum...a map of world.s free press. (red = unfree/censored, yellow = partly, green = free).

here.s a scoop.

yes.

best bathrm tile decor theme of all time?

hee hee.

the pisser takes the piss outta d media @ newseum...w. classic media missteps like this n d bathrm tiles.

as 1 pulitzr photo of the year winner says, 'it.s not a photo contest.' here r some of the most striking of all the winners on display @ newseum.


racial hatred erupts after new bussing laws, 1976. (chicago, i think, but don.t quote me.)

south african nat.l congress - zulu conflict, 1991.

philadelphia, 1986.


rwandan refugees, 1998.

sudan, 1994.

mo pulitzer pics. this is boston fire, 1976.

secret service shuttin down union station rush hr.

the pulitzer photog exhibit is worth the price of adm alone ($20. $2 press discount!). this shot won after okla city bombing.

the bells n whistles here - the chopper hanging in the lobby, the biggest elevator of its kind (left ), the 4 D movie among them - r cool...but the simple power of the images and words produced by a free press r more than enuf 2 dizzy & inspire by themselves.

from 9/11 to jesse james' assasination...this place documents the way history is documented in vivid and accessible ways.

the vast media treasues here incl. both historic papers dating back 100s of yrs 2 today.s intenat.l press.

the newseum filled the last developable space on penn ave in 07. what a beautiful, compelling, invaluable use of space.

bye bye long johns. it.s 50 F. these double deckers make sense again.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

people - crowding numbers reapproaching normalito.

local media is ranking feinstein near d top of dems dat mite make obama.s life harder than anticipated. (she.s always been cool wit me.)

musta been d marty mcfly vest. a guy who looks like christopher lloyd approaches me near Newseum. when he asks 'where is 12 th & E?' his voice confirms his ID.

my personal fav front pg comes fr. hawaii, hang loose shaka bra incl.

from florida.

the lauded Newseum just off d mall posted yesterday.s front pages out front...

'painting w. statue of liberty,' roy lichtenstein

'jack in pulpit V,' georgia o'keefe

'nude woman,' pablo picasso

weekly publisher erik cushman - who worked kitchens here 4 several summers - sez the east wing of nat.l gallery of art is 1 of his fav places in DC. architecture alone merits a visit.

'i shall never forget...these things even if i am condemned to live as long as god. never.' -elie wiesel, nobel laureate

'we r the shoes, we r the last witnesses...b.c we r only made of fabric & leather & not of blood & flesh, ea one of us avoided the hellfire.' -moses schulstein, yiddish poet

names of jews help shape architecture here.

heard sumpin in holoc museum film on rwanda that resonates w. what BO said @ lincoln show...'u hav 2 c the other as yourself.'

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holocaust mus had 1+ hr. wait earlier...the crowds havn.t left yet. fortunately they.re 10 min now. i call dat a nice lil window of time to post a few capital capsules.

Lil guy came fr. old england 4 historic american moment.

vegetarian sando @ venerable old ebbitts grill - portobella, feta, peppers & mo - b.w slabs of fried eggplant.

malcolm X marks d spot.

generals of the daughters of the amer revolution. 1963.