General

We didn’t have an internet connection in Miami, and I seem to have come down with something since we got back — probably caught it on the American Airlines flight home.

I will post some notes/findings on Miami soon.

To make it easier to point someone to one page when requesting press access, I’ve created about pages for myself and James.

If you’ve written something wonderful about us on your blog and I haven’t linked to it, please do let me know!

[photo by the lovely and talented Robert Boyd

I don’t feel like writing about the Katrina tragedy much. You can read James, Kos, or Atrios instead.

When I heard about Bush visiting the areas hit by the hurricane, my first reaction was that it would waste a lot of resources for photo ops that could be put to better use. It hadn’t occurred to me they would actually ground helicopters delivering aid while he was there!

From the Times-Picayune:

Three tons of food ready for delivery by air to refugees in St. Bernard Parish and on Algiers Point sat on the Crescent City Connection bridge Friday afternoon as air traffic was halted because of President BushÂ’s visit to New Orleans, officials said.

The provisions, secured by U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-Napoleonville, and state Agriculture Commissioner Bob Odom, baked in the afternoon sun as Bush surveyed damage across southeast Louisiana five days after Katrina made landfall as a Category 4 storm, said MelanconÂ’s chief of staff, Casey OÂ’Shea.

“We had arrangements to airlift food by helicopter to these folks, and now the food is sitting in trucks because they won’t let helicopters fly,” O’Shea said Friday afternoon.

The food was expected to be in the hands of storm survivors after the president left the devastated region Friday night, he said.

It was too crowded to see the main room (Jen Bekman concurs) at the show Thursday night, so I took a couple of photos of the floor in the smaller project space. I suspect most images of the show will focus on the main room and the walls, so this is a reminder to look down when you visit.

Note to hipsters with cell phones: If you can’t navigate a crowded gallery and talk on the phone at the same time, go outside. And leave large dogs at home. They don’t seem to appreciate packed openings.

While you’re on Jen’s blog, check out this Frank Gehry post too.

The people on Mitchum’s PR team are idiots. This morning I heard the news of the London attacks when I woke up. While riding the subway to Soho tonight, I saw this:

One would think someone would have thought of the Madrid attacks, and what happened to the stupid MTA ad censors that have previously prevented such things as safe sex ads on the subway? I would think the suburban guys that are at the top would find this… problematic.

We all have your guilty pleasures, and this blog is mine. She’s working as a flight attendant, but she is also an artist. I met through a friend and fellow art blogger.

Don’t miss her review of the new Lincoln “museum.”

Check out Mica’s rainy day video post.

[image from her post]

Three Graces (detail from Botticelli’s La Primavera)

My first post was three years ago today.

[image from luminarium.org

I don’t actually feel this way. I’ve found denial to be very effective. I just like the comic.