Day 16: Living history. Obama’s Inauguration.

Apologies first. I didn’t take a photo today. The camera’s batteries are dead. (and I’ve gotta stop putting these posts off until the middle of the night!)

But I still experienced something new, something vastly more important than any of my Project 365 experiences so far. Today, Barack Obama was sworn in as our nation’s first black [...]

President Obama, sunshine and my historic vote

On November 4, 2008, the USA chose its first “black” (bi-racial, really) president, Democrat Barack Obama. Put it in the history books. And the blogs. I feel like I’m jumping on the Obama Obandwagon to write today. But I know that if I don’t, I’ll look back in 20 years with my memory chip in my [...]

Zombie expert Max Brooks and Fangoria writer on live TV

One of my favorite horror bloggers, Chris Alexander of Fangoria magazine, and Max Brooks, author of the great Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z, were both interviewed on an episode of some MTV show. Some really great stuff here:

1. Chris Alexander nails the cultural and social importance of zombie movies, which is that zombie movies [...]

NOW WITH PICTURES: What do “Rock the Casbah,” a baby octopus, and Pope John Paul II have in common?

But I haven’t totally wasted my time. There are lots of things on Earth that I have done. In fact, I’ve done some pretty awesome things.

Click below for another list, hopefully also forever partial, of cool things I HAVE done. If you have an unlisted favorite memory of me/us, you let me know.

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