• Kári is still trying to figure out how to fly three feet up hill.  ETA: OMG, he made it!  Now I want to see how far back I can move it and have him eventually figure it out.  Kári!  THE ASTOUNDING FLYING FERRET!

• I saw a truly *stupid* number of cops in my neighborhood and the neighborhood just west of mine where I went to the post office tonight ( Read more... )

• I finally heard someone in the local political race say exactly what I wanted to hear on education on yesterday's morning news. Basically when asked about what he wanted to change he said what almost everyone says: more hours in the classroom. BUT THEN added, as part of the 'after school' program he wants to initiate parents will have to show a ( Read more... )

Great story coming out of the Chicago Gay Pride Parade. These guys must have been on Broadway because I didn't see them, but this really is quite awesome....

I'm sorry.

Thanks to Tintop_Lizzie for pointing this out.

Okay, so most of the stuff I've posted hasn't been photographically brilliant, but that's okay.  A parade is an exercise in shooting as many moving targets as I possibly can.

But this one?  Yeah, I kind of like it from an artistic perspective...


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One of the fun things about Pride is that people go out in outfits that would normally get them arrested they typically save for the S.O.

( No preview on this one... wouldn't want to scare anyone's cats. )

Okay, let me just say that the thing that made me most nervous about this post?  Pulling a shot and going, "Look, a drag queen!" and then discovering that it really was just an unfortunate shot of a woman...

But I'm pretty sure these are all guys. :)

Great drag...


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Some of these are just funny, some thought provoking.  Most of them can only be seen at Gay Pride and every year I'm reminded why I'm very glad I don't have kids that I need to explain some of these to ( Read more... )

First of all, I didn't even realize we *had* Circle K's in Chicago. I kept looking for Bill and Ted ( Read more... )

Just went into the living room to check the girls before I go to bed ( Read more... )