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I'm still working on photos, I've pared it down to about a 1000, but it's still going to take me a while to find all the really good shots and crop and edit them the way I need to. Plus apparently I can't hold a camera straight in portrait mode to save my life, so I'm going to have to straighten out quite a few of them as well.
This week SXSW kicks off, with over 500 bands invading Austin starting Wednesday. Or well they've already started playing, but the official SXSW music events don't start off for another 2 days. 95% of the one's coming I've never heard of, but that's kind of the point of this festival. There's also a film festival going on right now as part of it, but I haven't had the time to catch up with all of that.
This weekend I went to the Austin Chocolate Festival and basically chocolated myself out. It was held as a fundraiser for the Susan G Komen foundation for breast cancer research (which 1 in 8 women will get breast cancer in their lifetime, I had no idea it was that high!). They had 16 different chocolate vendors giving out samples of their chocolate, and not only had traditional bar chocolate, but also hot chocolate, chocolate milk, chocolate covered nuts, chocolate ice cream, chocolate brownies, chocolate cookies, and even a chocolate dessert pizza (a sugar cookie covered in chocolate sauce with apples and banana's on top, it was simply divine). I ate all I could handle and then put the rest in the take home box which is still full of chocolate. This is why I love Austin, we have all these goofy awesome festivals all the time!
And now for some more Obamarama!
Rolling Stone has a really interesting article about the grassroots nature of Obama's campaign and how it all got started. To quote from the piece:
"He is still the same guy who came to Chicago as a community organizer twenty-three years ago. The idea that we can organize together and improve our country — I mean, he really believes that."
Europeans and other across the globe sure seem to like him.
And speaking of international news, the foreign policy experience she's claiming in regardless to the Irish peace process? Not so much after all. It's got to be embarrassing to get called out for lying by a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Her other experience claims don't stack up too well either
Here's an older piece by the NYT that is kind of interesting to read now that we're almost a year out from when that was written.
One of the major (non)news stories of the past week was comments by Samantha Power about her personal feelings toward Hillary. And while she really does have no excuse in what she said, it is the kind of thing that happens when you have Pulitzer Prize winning Harvard professors as your policy advisor, instead of political hacks (a-la Bush and Mike Brown, aka the Katrina "Heck of a job Brownie" guy). There's actually an article from October 2007 where she states "That's the one thing that terrifies me," Ms. Power says. "That I'll say something that will somehow hurt the candidate.". There's another good quote in there about how Obama makes decisions that I think is very telling to the kind of person that he is: "He would bring very different people into the office with very different perspectives. He would watch them argue with one another, and he would play devil's advocate and push back. But then he'd make a decision."
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