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That was quick

Let the schadenfreude begin.

"The voters have stolen my nomination"

Here's a priceless, if somewhat vile, mash-up of a turgid historical drama with current events. Definitely NSFW [and for that matter, completely unsafe for the drinking of fluids while viewing].

[With a hat tip to Andrew Sullivan, and apologies to Professor Godwin.]

Cool tool

Here's something cool: A web-based tool that turns your photos into instant antiques. With just a few clicks on a Japanese website, you can give your modern-day JPGs the "browned out, decades-old look" that might even fool your grandparents into thinking you are using an old-fashioned Graflex or Brownie camera.

That's WWP above, by the way, just a week or so ago, in the desert outside of Las Vegas. [Here's the original photo.]

Give it a try for yourself. Report your results, if you like.

[Via Waldo Lydecker's Journal. Don't miss the Japanese-to-English instructions!]

British in bed?

Courtesy of the Merc's Blogtown, we were allowed to test out our bedroom rating today. Turns out, WWP is something of a ... Cossack.

And we quote:

“Your lovemaking is revolutionary. It will inspire others to stage their own revolutions for generations to come. You’re a Czar in the bedroom…”

But, hopefully, not like this one [though apocryphal].

You?

Daredevil, that WWP

WWP and amigo Cliffdweller returned earlier this week from their Daredevil Tour of Las Vegas, where they ventured out upon the world's scariest viewpoint, dangled from a skyscraper, and screened a scary movie. [Kidding about the last one ... sorta.]

Cliffdweller finally got around to consolidating all the photos and posting them. If you are interested in seeing all of the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas pictures of WWP and Cliffdweller's excellent desert adventure of last weekend, click here.

[Note to Cliffdweller: You seem to have left out this one.]

A grand canyon

WWP and un amigo, Cliffdweller ("the other Paul"), journeyed this past weekend to parts southwest.

Where in the world was WWP?

The killing field

It's been said that writing is like sitting down to a typewriter and opening a vein. Blogging is like that, too, we should say.

But now it appears that the consequences of writing and blogging could be more dire. Here's how you would know.

We're No. 6

Fortune magazine is saying that Portland is the No. 6 best place in the U.S. to "live and launch" (as in, start up and conduct a business). We're pretty certain that will come as news to this guy.

Paging Tonya Harding

"They think they have a sense of entitlement to the presidency."  [Bill Richardson, governor of New Mexico, speaking of both Bill and Hillary Clinton's post and present presidential ambitions.]

Anyone else think that the time for Hillary Clinton to bail out of the race for president is soon approaching [if it has not passed altogether]? An increasing drumbeat to this idea is now is building, but Bill and Hill won't have anything to do with it, of course. [Typical, many would say, of the notoriously insular, tin-ear Clintons.]

No matter what one thinks, when the narrative descends to the level of this unfortunate escapade, can the end to our latest national nightmare be far away?

A degree or two

It seems that this was the weekend for WWP amigos to be drawn into the orbit of the junior senator from Illinois.

On Friday, longtime bud and Statesman Journal reporter Peter Wong had the chance to sit down with a face-to-face interview with the Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama. [The interview was limited to five minutes, but it's worth watching, especially for the last part where Sen. Obama compares the weather and "vibe" of his mostly native Hawai'i with that of the Pacific Northwest.]

And then yesterday, on Easter Sunday, WWP amigo Chuck Currie ["the Rev. who riles"] was caught on the ABC nightly "World News" national telecast expounding on Obama's spiritual adviser. See the story here, the video link here.

For his part, WWP had a much quieter weekend, thankyouverymuchforasking, nothing at all like these two friends. Kudos to both.