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Well, yay. Enough things on this blog are now so completely borked that I'm going to have to start paying attention to it again. Maybe all of the forthcoming image fixes will convince me to start updating this thing on a regular basis.

Okay, okay. You can stop laughing now. Get off the floor. Please.

In the meantime, while I scour ten years of hard drive cruft trying to find the stuff that was here, please enjoy the following video:



Test card photo by tm-tm. Wall located in Riga, Latvia.

So when do we get to have another World's Fair?

Let's see, we have Obama, of course, then Biden, Hillary's at the end, and then we have... Wow, I never knew that Morrissey was a high-ranking cabinet official. Or is that David Byrne?

I've been maintaining for a few months now that the presidency of Barack Obama, if nothing else, will at the very least result in a level of kitsch that has not been seen since the JFK era ended.

Here, now, is the proof of that hypothesis.

So now I'm left wondering...

The crowd being informed that they're actually in line for the Carousel of Progress.
(photo by ryptide)

What, exactly, would have happened if he did swipe the pen?

Well, that and why the Chief Justice of the United States can't seem to remember thirty-five goddamn words.

And why they didn't send Bush out of Washington on a vehicle more fitting to his legacy than Marine One.





Like, say, a tricycle.





With a busted wheel.





And pink tassels on the handlebars.





And a little basket. Can't forget the little basket.

WUSR Fun Fact #4,012

Total number of people affected by this announcement: 2

Really, guys, Regis could use the work...

I swear that Dick Clark and Jerry Lewis are having some kind of competition over who can look more pathetic in their yearly television appearance.