Stop Bush!
It is a bit unsettling when friends call you from small town (and I'm being generous) middle America to tell you that your picture is in their local Sunday paper! Then the process repeats itself, but this time it's from Florida. And then Oregon. And it continues... It turns out that both AP as well as Reuters have had several of your pictures from the anti-war rally of Saturday in Los Angeles on wire , and obviously it got picked up by more than a few publications. So I spent part of the day answering questions like; is that you behind Cindy Sheehan? Was Martin Sheen there too? (No, he was/is in Europe) What was Jackson Browne like? Is Mike Farrell taller then Alan Alda? Isn't Ron Kovic far more interesting in real life than Tom Cruise's portrayal? And of course, I pretended that I was the celebrity specialist, particularly on anti-war ones, while making up answers to many of the questions. My only qualms? How come my name is missing from every single caption? I guess I can't be considered a celebrity, even after an editor in Iowa puts my picture on his front page. O' well.
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