Today, three people I love the most were in the same room at the same time sharing a meal. This is happiness.

meaghano:I’m gonna buy this for the office. Hahahha.
This is hilarious.





NOT what the good men of the FDNY want to be doing tonight. Photos from flickr.
The real question is, what’s going to happen on Nov. 4, 2010?
Off to meet with Scott Harrison of charity:water. If you don’t know about charity:water - they’re basically killing it in all areas of social media for social good - you should check them out.
"The question is why we've turned so small and mean that we only see half of it — the half we happen to agree with."
Whaddaya Mean Obama Hasn’t Done Anything?
Published in Esquire by John H. Richardson
… Here’s the conventional wisdom in a single paragraph: Three hundred and sixty-four days after he was elected president, Obama is still stuck in Iraq, hasn’t closed Guantánamo, is getting deeper into Afghanistan, hasn’t accomplished health-care reform or slowed the rise in unemployment. His promises of bipartisanship are a punch line (see above). And there’s still no peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. What a failure! What a splash of cold water in the face of all our bold hopes!
But the conventional wisdom is insane. Consider the record:
A week before he was sworn in, Obama jammed part two of the bank bailout down the throat of his own party — a $350 billion accomplishment.
Two days after he was sworn in, Obama banned the use of “harsh interrogation” and ordered the closing of Guantánamo.
A day later, Obama reversed George W. Bush’s funding cutoff to overseas family planning organizations — saving millions of lives with the stroke of a pen.
Three days after that, Obama gave a green light to the California car-emissions standards that Bush had been blocking for six years — an important step on the road to cleaner air and a cooler planet.
Two weeks after that, Obama signed the stimulus bill — a $787 billion accomplishment.
Ten days after that, Obama formally announced America’s withdrawal from Iraq.
A week later — we’re in early March now — Obama erased Bush’s decision to restrict federal funding for stem-cell research.
In April and June, Obama forced Chrysler and GM into bankruptcy.
In June, Obama reset the tone of our relations with the entire Arab world with a single speech — an accomplishment that the Bush administration failed to achieve despite a series of desperate PR moves (anyone remember Charlotte Beers?) and a “public diplomacy” budget of $1 billion a year.
Also in June, Obama unveiled the “Cash for Clunkers” program, a “socialist” giveaway that reanimated the corpse of our car industry — leading, for example, to the billion-dollar profit that Ford announced on Monday.
I haven’t even mentioned Sonia Sotomayor, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the order to release the torture memos, Obama’s push for charter schools, his $288 billion tax cut, or the end of Bush’s war on medical marijuana. Or the minor fact that he seems to have — with Bush’s help, it must be said — stopped the financial collapse, revived the credit markets, and nudged the economy toward 3.5 percent growth in the last quarter.
Oh, and one more thing: President Obama is now a month or two from accomplishing the awesome and seemingly impossible task that eluded mighty presidents like FDR, LBJ, and WJC — health-care reform.
Obama’s early returns also include a host of remarkably cautious and prudent national-security decisions that seem, these days, to have been completely forgotten:

One year ago. It was incredible.
Image (c) Buchino

Saucy: Food for Good. M2 one more time. What could be better?
Today, with the help of some pretty inspiring people, Robin Hood raised/received pledges of over $18,000, enough to buy 360 meals to feed 2,880 New York families in need. Not too bad for a day’s worth of work.
Feeling inspired? Buy a meal & join us to celebrate on Nov 12.
If all that doesn’t do it for you, do it because Stanley Tucci says so!
Started laundry in basement at 9pm to be safely done by 11pm when the basement elevator locks. Super didn’t change the elevator time for daylight savings. Laundry FAIL.
NYC Marathon @ Mile 20. Energy & enthusiasm courtesy of Alicia Keys, Jay-Z, strength, determination and gusto. Tim, Tim, Lindsay & the other 40,000 crazies, you inspire me.
Jay Z & Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind | Live At World Series 2009 Game 2 Yankee Stadium
Listen for reaction in Yankee stadium at this line: I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can.
If I ever leave this city, this will probably be the song that makes my heart ache. Let’s hear it for New York, New York, New York


