omg.

obama at the g8 summit this week in italy -

kind of love sarkozy's face also. hey prez - did you think the photographers took the day off??

at least i'm in the top 10%.

woke up this morning to an email from "tim", the founder of pandora. among other things, he notified me that due to costs of royalties, pandora will begin capping monthly usage at 40 hours. he says, "most listeners will never hit this cap, but it seems that you might." damn straight i will, tim! i listen to pandora all day every day at work! his "first option" seems ok - paying 99 cents for unlimited listening after you hit your 40 hour monthly mark. but i am not going to start getting a membership to pandora. the beauty of it is that it's free! at least tim says they'll show you a counter, so you can see if you're starting to get close to your 40 hours. i'll keep listening, since i love it so, but does this piss anyone else off? what will the economy affect next??

at the end of his email, tim says to "please feel free to email me back with your thoughts." maybe i will....

this breaks my heart.

...and made watching the entire memorial service worth it.

mj matrix.

thanks to z (and nymag) for this michael jackson approval matrix. my favorite is "you're a vegetable. you're a vegetable" in the highbrow/despicable quadrant. not sure what that means, but i know i love it!