Evidence of a Barack star

obama through the signs, originally uploaded by Mr. Wright.

Some numbers on the Cowboy Barack photo below: Uploaded on Feb. 23 around 11 p.m., within 72 hours it had 1,096 views, 26 favs, 21 comments, and was, according to Flickr's algorithm, the third-most interesting picture I've taken. A good shot, yes, but I think the subject had more to do with it. The guy's mojo is really amazing. I'm not sure where it comes from, except that people our age (in Austin) are damn sick of Bush and want nothing much to do with The Hillary.

I was going to try to maybe sell the below image to a news service or to the campaign, but I see similar ones found their way to the wire. If you click on this Time story — which is pretty crappy, giving over an entire lengthy paragraph of unfavorable quotes to an admitted Hillary minion — you can actually see me in the very background of the picture (taken by a former Daily Texan coworker), upper-left-hand corner, all blurred out, wearing a brown shirt. Now that's blanket media coverage.

Barack Storms Texas

barack the cowboy, originally uploaded by Mr. Wright.

Something like 20,000 people showed up for a rally today in Austin. Wild stuff. I was incredibly lucky to get this shot. He was only wearing the cowboy hat for like 10 seconds while wading through a throng of volunteers backstage after the speech.

Yowza

My story on that giant mulch fire appears in the Post today, on page A02 no less. Wacky.

This is nutty

I really don't know what to say about the photos you'll find here. I just had to pass it along.

Special Edition Double Snapshot Post

My work week:





Those are from a mulch fire out in Helotes, which is just West of San Antonio. The pile's been burning for about two months now, pretty much right in the middle of town. It's a little surreal. When you come around the corner on FM 1560, which, contrary to the farm-road part, is a feeder into several newish subdivisions, you can't miss Mt. Helotes smoldering in the middle of a pasture. I actually said out loud "Holy shnikes!" — and I'm pretty sure I've never said that before in my life.

When the Post runs the story, I'll post it here. My only regret is that I missed, literally by seconds, going on an up-close tour of the site. The Express-News got some pretty dramatic shots while I waited in the parking lot with the PR woman who was supposed to get me on the tour but accidentally got left behind herself.

Still wavering on which of these photos I like better. The B&W is sweet large.

For the record

I'm starting to wonder if I'll ever get a chance to edit another photo or write a real blog post before I get my first ulcer. It's been that kind of February.

My God, this is ridiculous

The president of Cartoon Network has resigned because officials in Boston are dumb. I can't believe this is what stands in for homeland security now. Someone vote these people out of office.

UPDATE: I mean, we all saw this picture, right? How can you take anyone who would order that kind of emergency action seriously?



(By Lisa Hornak, Reuters)

John Stossel?

john stossel?, originally uploaded by Mr. Wright.

John Stossel came to town today. It was weird.