Obama Inauguration Thoughts

I will confess that I played hooky and called in sick so I could stay home to watch and to tape the inaugural proceedings. It starts from the various dignitaries entering the platform to the actual inauguration (botched oath and all) to the luncheon (NBC screwing up the report that Byrd had a seizure instead of Kennedy) to the parade to the D.C. Neighborhood Ball to the first half of that night's edition of Charlie Rose. All in all, eight hours of VHS recorded. Is that so wrong? I'm only sorry that I couldn't capture it digitally on a DVD and even that the tape was recorded in EP mode instead of SP for better picture quality.

So let's have some thoughts on this historic day and beginning of a presidency.

Obama Gets Chewed Out By Bartlet

This is a fun read that Mike forwarded to me. Maureen Dowd has Sorkin down pat (or did he actually write it? If he did, she shouldn't get a byline on that, should she?). Maybe she should've helped him on that promising-but-ultimately-awful "Studio 60". I miss "The West Wing"...:
Aaron Sorkin Conjures a Meeting of Obama and Bartlet