One of my favorite entries from Wonkette's take on the inauguration:

11:58AM: Four more years, minus about a minute. Just keep the bourbon coming.

And another:

12:00PM: Pre 9/11, America was in "repose" and on "sabbatical." Or maybe he's just talking about himself.
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Anyway. I'm wearing blue today. But I did spend money despite pleas to do otherwise. Sorry, America -- I've failed you yet again.
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Two of my favorite photos from this weekend's Oregon trip: The first is a shot of the tide coming in - I like how the ocean appears to be a smooth plane of glass instead of the choppy, wavy tide it really was. The second photo is from the aptly named Whalehead Beach:




Two of my new favorite things, musically:

The new Esthero EP

and

the Boulevard of Broken Songs mash-up (Green Day's Boulevard of Broken Dreams w/ Oasis's Wonderwall, Travis's Writing to Reach You with some Aerosmith and Eminem thrown in for good measure. Toronto's Eye Weekly breaks down the mash-up as such:

GREEN DAY VS. OASIS VS. TRAVIS VS. EMINEM, "Boulevard of Broken Songs": Here's an example of the wit and intelligence at work behind this mash-up by San Francisco producer/remixer/alt-radio guy Party Ben, built around Green Day's soon to be ubiquitous "Boulevard of Broken Dreams": when he gets to the line "I walk alone," he segues seamlessly into "All the roads we have to walk are winding" from "Wonderwall." And for good measure, he tosses in the first verse of Travis's "Writing to Reach You," which poses the burning musical question, "And what's a wonderwall anyway?" Dazzling.

Check it out.