Thank you to the CAQ school for letting me into their world!

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For anyone who’s not familiar with capoeira, I highly recommend watching a few videos on YouTube to get an idea of what it sounds like.

Malverne and Valley Stream, NY.  Nov. 2008

Below: A small portion of the images I shot of this year’s New York Anime Festival at the Javits Center last Saturday.

Click the thumbnails for a larger view.
(Once you do that, you can click again to see the original large JPEGs, but be warned… they’re massive. I’m postponing editing them down until I can save them on my new laptop! Or find my external hard drive amidst my unpacked boxes. Sigh.)

As promised, here is a link to my WSN editorial:

http://nyunews.com/opinion/columnists/in_picking_sarah_palin%252C_reason_is_misogynistic

I am enjoying the comments a lot, particularly the one that insinuates I am not a woman (and would understand the female commenter’s support of Palin if I were one).

Also, for the sake of it, here is a paragraph that was cut from the final version, because my editors thought (as did I) that people knew these things by now. The second sentence mentions why Palin has been less than successful as governor:

“While speculation abounds regarding McCain’s motives, no one seems to know quite what to say about Palin’s background. In less than two years as Alaskan governor, Palin has racked up a surprising number of concerns, ranging from charges of nepotism to a persisting desire to fund the infamous ‘Bridge to Nowhere.’ She is easily outranked by Obama, who McCain has criticized for his meager three years in the federal government. As Kerry so pointedly reminded us in his speech at the Democratic National Convention, choosing Palin is flip-floppery of the highest order on the part of Senator McCain.”

Just a few photos from last Sunday. Each the result of a chance meeting a with cool person on the street.

Except for the one involving a piggy bank and my dear friend Mariana: A cool person, but a planned meeting, in attempt to illustrate student frustration over tuition hikes.

And in attempt to play with a piggy bank.