Your Turn: Tray Chic

Quite the “cultural” contrast between Sarkozy and Bruni-Sarkozy when compared to the pair on the left.

I needed the previous reference to get the context for this.

My take on Obama’s cultural impact vis a vis this photo? The glitterati always seem to trail after each other’s iconography. Would Sarkozy and Bruni-Sarkozy been likely to visit Ben’s Chili Bowl if Obama hadn’t been there, and had it not been highlighted in our media? Doubtful. Is it possible that other visitors from France will swing by to see – even if not to eat – in the future? Undoubtedly. What does it mean? :: Meh :: I’d say, not much. Color me curmudgeon.

Side Note: Still hoping for a preview feature in the future. Not necessarily right now. But, in the weeks ahead?

You want a comment on Obama’s cultural impact RE: this photo, do you? The only way I see to do that is to put Obama behind the lens, as photographer, in which case we see him welcoming the onrushing Euro-socialisty sorts and driving away the fat-ass Americans, who obviously are RAAAAACIST! and deserving of reproach by proper-thinking Progressives.

No get out there and change your own oil.

“no” is “now”. I second the ‘preview’ request.

We are collecting feedback on the new site, and we are keeping an eye on the comment threads. Anyone who has a comment, question or request, though, can write to openbag at bagnews dot com. Thanks!

My eye wants to see the dude on the L with a ‘plumber’s crack’…part of a larger phenomena I am observing as I enter my 7th decade: my mind/eye does more and more ‘filling in’ of what’s in front of me—headlines, street signs, and what else…glad I still remember to second-guess myself enough to go back and re-read, re-view…something in this seems to re-late to the TeaBaggers…hmmm…

re the re-newed Bag site: it is very dense, rich, I miss the old simplicity…suspect, however, I will make a few more visits and then drop it if I can’t make sense of it all.

Aurora

The new Bag News Notes is fine. Same great content, but it is unreadable in Google reader for me, either in Firefox or on the iPhone. You can read the text, but you can’t see the pictures.

I have noticed that different blogs come across differently in Google Reader. Some of them you can see the whole thing, including the part that is “after the jump”. Some blogs just show a summary, like most New York Times blogs. A few just have a link to the real blog, forcing me to go to the actual site to read it.

I’ve learned that since I can’t read this blog on the iPhone, whether in the reader or not, I just ignore it until I get to a desktop computer. It’s a minor annoyance, but not so bad that I’ll stop reading it. I do enjoy the content.

Chris

Just a note, this was from a few weeks before the Nuke summit.