Photo of the day, week and month.

From the joy of Billy Preston to, well, this:

A colony of homeless men live in the warehouse. Wednesday morning a few fires were burning inside oil drums. Scott Ruben, 38, huddled under filthy blankets not 20 paces from the elevator shaft.

"Yeah, I seen him," Ruben said. The snow outside howled. The heat from the can warped the landscape of rotting buildings and razor wire.

Did he know who the dead person was?

"I don't recognize him from his shoes."

Did he call the police?

"No, I figured someone else did," he said.

"There's lots of people coming through here with cameras and cell phones. I don't got no phone. I don't got no quarter. Things is tight around here."

His shack mate, Kenneth Williams, 47, returned at that point with an armload of wood.

"Yeah, he's been down there since last month at least."

He was asked if he called the police.

"No, I thought it was a dummy myself," he said unconvincingly. Besides, Williams said, there were more pressing issues like keeping warm and finding something to eat.

"You got a couple bucks?" he asked.

Found via Metafilter. More info on this tragic location here, here and here.

Never let it be said that I left the end of the week on a happy note. See you Monday.

"My Sweet Lord"

I really need to just break down and buy the DVD and CD to the Concert for George. It's just so damn good:

Somebody's got to Shoot the Picture

Currently for sale on Ebay (Via Boing Boing):



Fellini would have had a field day with that thing.

Hillary Duff robs banks and kills people (but no kinky stuff).

Given that people have become sick of remakes, at least one director has found a solution: Just don't call it one:

Singer/actress Hilary Duff has landed her most challenging acting job to date - she is to take over the role made famous by Faye Dunaway in a new version of Bonnie And Clyde. Duff will take on the role of Bonnie in a new adaptation of the legendary story and will be starring opposite Air Bud actor Kevin Zegers.

The new movie, titled The Story of Bonnie and Clyde, will be directed by Tonya S. Holly, who has stressed it will be an entirely new movie, rather than a remake of the 1967 classic, which also starred Warren Beatty.

As a sidenote, this is an interesting role choice for two squeaky clean teen film actors. Glamorous gangsters or not, they're still playing killers. And since American society generally has a stronger stomach for violence than sex, I'm guessing they're not going anywhere near the whole impotent-Clyde-watches-Bonnie-have-sex-with-others aspect of the story.

But then she couldn't keep an eye on Russia anymore!

It appears that Sarah Palin isn't wasting any time with her political future. As was reported by a number of blogs today, she has created her own PAC (Political Action Committee) called, naturally, SarahPAC.

As you might guess, this is obviously a first step towards a run for the White House in 2012. But perhaps even more frightening is her plan to cut an Alaska-sized hole in the middle of the lower 48 so that she might relocate her state to warmer climes.

Doesn't James Bond usually handle nutjobs like this?

Does this tent have central heat and air?

Question: When you've decided to really rough it, to go out in the middle of the woods and learn how to live off the land, defend yourself from animals, protect yourself from the elements and still come out of it all alive, what one book would you choose to bring along?



If you said the U.S. Armed Forces Survival Guide, then you made a great choice.

If you said the U.S. Armed Forces Survival Guide (Kindle Edition), then you best stick to the suburbs.