In issue #4 Mang goes to narnia through the secret entrance across the street from the neon guitar. Mang’s phrenology reveals that he’s a jenky mixture of astro boy, heathcliff, popeye, huck finn and oliver twist. There’s 10 mo’ pages and a back cover coming up!

so, last night sean and I are in the mission, and we come across this fellow:

WEARING our hoodie! I thought for a second that sean was going to call the police, but after determining that he was probably not the thief (we have photos of that guy), and that he was very suspicious of the 2 guys who were expressing a strange interest in the hoodie, we decided to simply buy it from him. $25 later, and we had recovered it.

i guess the moral of the story is: If you steal from us, we’ll find you (we’re everywhere). but then we’ll give you more money to return our property.

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The New York Times has a moving article today focusing on the handful of Democratic delegates who will be there tonight and who were also there for King's famous speech on the National Mall on August 28th, 1963.

From a practical standpoint, when it is so urgent to get the Republicans out of power before they further wreck the country, I am sorry it's not Hillary up there. I am still not confident that Obama can defeat McCain, although I am pretty sure Hillary would have.

However, from a standpoint of seeing how far America has come, there is something wonderful about seeing Barack Obama, a black man, standing up there as the presidential candidate of a major party. Forty-five years ago, when black men and women were still being beaten in the streets of America for trying to claim their basic rights, it could only be a dream -- and the most bold thing that Martin Luther King Jr. could do was to relate that simple dream.

Today, Barack Obama is a symbol of how far America has progressed. Today it is a black man who may lead our nation. That's change I can believe in.

"This is not really an elegant dish," he said of his burritos as he added jalapeños, with seeds, to the pan. "Some girls feel weird about getting sauce on their faces; it’s too intense for them. On the first few dates this is the test for me. If they like the dish, I’m smitten. If not, I know it’s not going to work. There’s no girl I could care for who would be immune to it."

Love that last part, it's sweet and probably a fairly accurate test. I like guys who are adventurous eaters with good appetites, but I think my dealbreaker is seeing how they treat my dog; they don't need to pick him up and fuss over him when they meet him, but if they can't at least say hi and pat his little head...

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Mr. Maneuver [El Profesor de Spanish, West Swedshon Jr. High of Swedshon, Indiana]

Mr. Sheldon Maneuver fancies himself Latino. His fondness for all things Hispanico began in his early teens and can be traced back to his first taste of meaty Taquito at a roadside 7-11. After this fateful encounter, Mr. Maneuver sought out the only Espanish persona for 6 counties, an 88 year old Puerto Rican shut-in named Ferraro Dominguez. At first, the elderly señor was put off by the attentions of the Gringo, but he quickly warmed to the plucky Maneuver. In exchange for Spañol lessons, Maneuver performed odd jobs around la casa Dominguez, such as spackling cracks and moving mounds of dirt back and forth. On his death bed, Sr. Dominguez willed Maneuver his mama’s pearl-laden prayer book, somewhat out of kinship but mostly because he had no living heirs. Maneuver whispered into the fading man’s whiskery ears a promise to return to la patria, the homeland of Costa Rica (Ferraro would have corrected him had he either cared or been conscious).

Knapsack heavy with Mango juice and tamales, Maneuver set out for the “Rich Coast” by Greyhound bus. Unfortunately, he made it only as far as Laredo, Texas before running out of dinero. Maneuver eagerly took up residence in the bordertown, playing the part of un hombre by working as a day laborer. Locals referred to him as “el Flaco Rubio.” At night he sipped tequila at the local cantina before nuzzling into the warm flank of his genuine Tejicana novia, Abigail Charles, a sandy-haired Californian who was one-eighth Cuban on her mother’s side. After six months abroad, Maneuver felt worldly enough to return to Swedshon and pursue his dream of teaching España. He delights in recalling tales of his adventures in South America to a captive audience. Currently, Maneuver is dabbling in video dating (just got his first VCR!) when he is not watching telenovelas or recording his own series of language learning cassettes. In between classes, he snacks on platanos and attends to his blonde bob.

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Daphyn and I managed to hit the small town of Noank (think “no + anchor”) a few weeks ago during our trip up to Connecticut. We stopped in to try the lobster at Abbott’s on the Rough. The Prince Edward Island Oysters were good and the steamers were decent, although I must confess we were a little disappointed with the lobster rolls. The town itself though was about as picturesque as can be. A few shots taken with my meager iPhone below.

If you look closely to the right you can see they serve up “conversation” with other edibles.

I don’t see signs like these in my neighborhood for some reason.

All the graphic and identity work for the Obama campaign really deserves an award. And it’s about time politicians get savvy with design.

Yes, we CAN be aesthetically pleasing!

I take a photo and my location is updated on my blog. This will really motivate me to take even more photos as I am getting a tangible added value from photo documentation.

This would be nice to have embedded in Facebook, as an iGoogle widget or possibly something much more lightweight that you could embed with javascript anywhere.

Also, unrelated — Jake at Local Projects has launched his City of Memory project, curated stories from the five boroughs. I had a small hand in this project a few years back, well worth checking out.

Skyfire is a free, downloadable mobile web browser that makes browsing on your phone exactly like browsing on your PC. Now, you can use the web from your mobile phone with unprecedented speed and simplicity.

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The lyrics are on their site if you'd like to sing along plus you can buy Weng Weng shirts—and if you still haven't had enough Weng Weng, the Australian guerilla filmmaker Andrew Leavold's currently working on a documentary called The Search For Weng Weng, billed as the "ultimate history of Filipino B-films, and chronicles Leavold's obsessive quest to find the truth behind the midget James Bond of the Philippines."

I know the New York Asian Film Festival doesn't screen documentaries but I'm hoping they make an exception for this one, I'd really love to see it!

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i love it.

(Meanwhile Fandango is basically in the same business but only charges $1.50 or so. WTF! Oh Pearl Jam, why did you betray us way back when...)

One of the things I got to do before I die was to work with Dave and Neil way back in the internet 1.0 era, around 1997, when I was director of City.net, owned by Excite.com. City.net at the time was the most popular travel site on the web according to PC Meter (later Media Metrix). We had tons of traffic and were looking to bulk up our content offerings.

I can't remember how Dave and Neil came to us but their website, WhatsGoingOn.com, provided the perfect, original antidote to the standard travel guides that anyone and everyone could license for the web. With their original take on offbeat events and their unique set of icons indicating "danger," "risk of vomiting" and the like, we loved what they added to our service.

And Dave and Neil were such nice guys, we were really glad to send our traffic their way. It wasn't hard back in those days for Excite to drive a hard bargain with a small content producer -- and we often did -- but there were times when you helped somebody out too, and that's how we felt with Dave and Neil. At least that's how I remember it today and I hope they'd remember it the same way.

Of course many web 1.0 dreams did not work out, and WhatsGoingOn.com eventually fizzled out (so did Excite, for that matter). I kept in touch with Dave and Neil only occasionally, usually through some address book update.

Reading his obituary was not a happy way to be reminded again of Dave. But I was glad to realize how he and Neil had ultimately turned their website into a best-selling book that captured the public imagination as much as their website had captured ours more than a decade ago. And reading the tributes to Dave made me realize how many people he had reached, and inspired.

If there's one thing any of us would like to do before we die, it's to inspire others and be remembered for it. Dave pulled that one off. I'm happy for him.

Were you paying attention when Chris Brogan gave 100 Personal Branding Tactics Using Social Media?

Do you promote your blog to offline audiences? Maybe you should?

More as I dig out from a week away.