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Yesterday when I was driving home in the car I caught the end of NPR's broadcast of the Inaugural Concert, and when Bruce Springsteen (!) and 89-year-old Pete Seeger (!!) led the crowd in one of my favorite songs, This Land Is Your Land, I completely lost my shit. I kind of lose it anyway when it's just Springsteen singing it, but there was no resisting this. Then when I got home I watched the rebroadcast on HBO (though as imogenics said, what's up with it only being rebroadcast on pay TV, not the networks), and saw Springsteen w/the gospel choir singing The Rising -- I mean, come on. How is a person supposed to withstand that kind of thing?
When I was living in Chicago one of my favorite shows was Check Please, where they'd pull together various people from the community, who'd go to their favorite restaurants and talk about it. I remember when my boss's girlfriend was on, we were all so excited. Anyway, they are running a clip from when Barack Obama was on in 2001, talking about Dixie Kitchen, in my first Chicago neighborhood, Hyde Park. So here's President Obama as a restaurant critic (they said they never aired the original episode b/c he was too smooth, too good).
I also saw in the New Yorker this week a picture of Barack & Michelle Obama from 1996, along with an excerpt from an interview, that I thought was very interesting -- she mentions that there's "a strong possibility" he will pursue politics, and that she's leery of it.
When I was living in Chicago one of my favorite shows was Check Please, where they'd pull together various people from the community, who'd go to their favorite restaurants and talk about it. I remember when my boss's girlfriend was on, we were all so excited. Anyway, they are running a clip from when Barack Obama was on in 2001, talking about Dixie Kitchen, in my first Chicago neighborhood, Hyde Park. So here's President Obama as a restaurant critic (they said they never aired the original episode b/c he was too smooth, too good).
I also saw in the New Yorker this week a picture of Barack & Michelle Obama from 1996, along with an excerpt from an interview, that I thought was very interesting -- she mentions that there's "a strong possibility" he will pursue politics, and that she's leery of it.