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.