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A small collection of the best photos that I took at the Axis of Eve panty flash in Battery Park this evening. This was easily the most entertaining event of the RNC Week. Heading back to Berkeley in a few hours — which seems like the more appropriate place for this sort of thing. Update: From: eve@axisofeve.org Subject: Re: Photos from the Panty Flash Date: September 2, 2004 2:32:09 AM EDT To: cfarivar@cfarivar.org Reply-To: info@axisofeve.org Cyrus Eve : Your photos…

George P. Bush, son of Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) and his Mexican-born wife Columba Bush and nephew of Pres. George W. Bush, and grandson of former Pres. George H. W. Bush addressed the RNC tonight in NYC. A search of “George P. Bush” on Google reveals this gem from the annals of Bush history: CNN, August 4, 2000 Thursday’s appearance is not George P. Bush’s first time in the convention limelight. “P” stepped onto the national scene at the 1988…

Cops Put Brakes on Bike Protest

And such was the prophetic wisdom of Abdoulaye Diawara, an octolingual cab driver that drove Dallas and Martin and I back from Spanish Harlem on Friday night back to my apt. I was wearing a bootleg replica jersey of Khalilou Fadiga, No. 10. “What is that, Diouf?” he said, referring to the most well-known Senegalese soccer star. “No, Fadiga,” I replied, leaning into the window of the cab. I smiled. “Na nga def?” I asked, switching to Wolof. His eyes…

I’ll have a story in tomorrow’s edition of Wired News. (Rachel will too, actually.) I have five Gmail invites. Is there anyone in the world who doesn’t have one yet? First five to email, get ’em.

Check it, yo.

So we had a break from our NYPD RNC briefing for about an hour before Jack Shafer of Slate fame (who interestingly seemed to dismiss the concept of j-school in this Slate article circa 2002) and I headed down Broadway to supplement my two-hour-old lunch of a single small apple. I came upon Absolute Bagels today, the best bagels in the city (according to Pacific Time on KQED) and had a $0.95 cinnamon raisin bagel with butter. It was firm…

Ed: Jack Shafer of Slate fame came to talk to the J-school today. He challenged the audience to live-blog this at the beginning, so I did. This is a rough account of his talk. The joke is on the people who aren’t new media people. In the last 10-15 yrs, we’ve seen a convergence of media all into one. It begins at a New Media project. They’re weaving a new media before they rebroadcast it as a newspaper. That’s really…

Ed: “Doc” refers to Dr. Frank X. Ford, the theatre director at Samohi. Audrey says: Talked to Doc today, and he seemed really sweet and pleasant for the first time in ages. I asked him about Carl Hammer, and he said that Mr. Hammer and his wife had taken in an abandoned, fucked up girl who didn’t have a proper home, to live with them as sort of a foster child. Apparently, she confused herself with who the “enemy” was…

Guerrilla Dancing Update (from John Perry Barlow, of the Grateful Dead and EFF fame): Along with fifty or sixty others, I’m going to dance at them. Dividing ourselves into several platoons of guerrilla dancers disguised as ordinary pedestrians, we are going to roam the sidewalks in Republican rich zones, periodically erupting into wild and inexplicable explosions of dancing. We will sustain these for a few minutes before melting back into the crowd and heading off to strike someplace else. I…