The Travels and Rants Journal

1. Cool photography: CLICKmgz

2. Savable puppies: Dogs In Danger

3. Awesome Bobbi picture: Old Truck

4. Kinky octopuses: Wild sex!

5. Sly.

I always try and document those momentous occasions when I break the existing dollar amount record for filling the Beige Bullet’s 27 gallon gas tank. And I didn’t even get to 23:

The first photo you will see from the new camera. Five points to the first person who correctly identifies the subject matter.

1. Officially started my new job today.

2. My new camera is arriving. I’ve gotten the body and one lens. Two more lenses and various other toys/accessories are expected this week. Soon I will be playing.

3. Plans are progressing for my Alabama trip to the Magic City Art Connection. I have two more pices I want to finish, and the usual logistical concerns (mailings, display prep, etc), but all is more or less on schedule.

4. Picture.

1. Among my favorite (apparent) April Fool webjokes: cVillain being sold to the Cville Weekly.

2. From Daily Kos: Clinton campaign: popular vote doesn’t matter:

Clinton’s campaign has one premise — victory at all costs. If that requires sundering the Democratic Party, so be it. She doesn’t care. Therefore, there is no logic that applies… Clinton personifies the worst of the “with us, or against us”-type thinking that has gotten us in trouble with the rest of the world.

3. And from the Virginia Quarterly Review Online, Hillary Clinton Like Rocky?

Okay, laying aside the fact that this reference is thirty years outdated, it’s a very strange comparison to make. First, did Clinton see Rocky? Yes, Rocky fights bravely to the end—before he loses. I’m not sure how that’s supposed to rally the crowd… But, stranger still, Sylvester Stallone—you know, the star and writer of Rocky—has already endorsed McCain.

4. Tranquil:

1. How frickin cool is it that Ryan Zimmerman won the first game ever in the new Nationals Park with 2 out in the bottom of the 9th with a walk-off homer?

2. I’m getting a new camera - a Nikon D200. I’ve been lusting after it for a while now. The time is right.

3. Happy April Fools Day.

4. The Jesse Dog.