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Immortalized in Paul Simon's Kodachrome, it's the end of an era as Eastman Kodak makes one final run of Kodachrome, retiring a legend.

Sure, you can't even buy it in stores anymore, but ... to think those vibrant, beautiful colors and all our memories of vacation slide shows ... a thing of the past.

"Makes you think all the world is a sunny day, oh yeah!"

One of the most famous Kodachrome pictures was the 1985 photo of a young Pukhtana Afghani girl, Sharbat Gula that Steve McCurry took for National Geographic.

Sharbat Gula by Steve McCurry

Have you ever been a fan of something long before it becomes trendy?

Well, I've been hating on Newt Gingrich for a long, long time. Now all of a sudden, everyone's jumping on the hate train. I got another petition to sign in mah emailz asking Sen. Sessions of Alabama to censure Gingrich (as if that's ever going to happen). I signed it, though.

It's a sort of funny clown car / train wreck style of thing. It keeps coming and coming, and you can't not watch.

Clown train

Angels spinning

in infinity

hallelujah

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Cat. Yodeling.

World of Warcraft really DOES totally look like teh swine fluz!

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*sigh*

Well, hell.

Back_to_drawing_board

End of semester

Thunderstorms gathering clouds

As hens gather chicks

Thunderstorm

I think it's because my Mom watches Fox news all day every day. I try to reason with her, but she is fully indoctrinated into the Republican machine. It's frustrating, but one cannot yell at one's mother (especially when said mother has bone cancer — that's the trump that wins everything).

So I've been thinking about the insanity that they spew through the propaganda network recently, and it must have

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In this latest dream, everyone I run into is freaking out in ways yet unseen because on the morrow, there will be no more United States of America. They cannot explain why, only that it is the President's fault. They huddle together and speak animatedly about this horrible, awful, cataclysmic catastrophe. Even people I think of as being incredibly smart people have bought into this plague-like talk.

No one listens to me when I tell them that they are over-reacting to propaganda. At some point, I begin going into my typical schpiels about how THIS is America, how we will ALWAYS be America, that no amount of chicanery on the part of the "rich, white special interest groups" will ever change the fact that the Grand Experiment continues. Etc., etc. I think I may have been interviewed on camera at some point, and I vaguely recall applause.