Aaron Brethorst (Page 78)

Aug 23, 2008
Photography

Getting that 'vintage' look in your pictures

Rosie, one of my favorite photographers on Flickr, has a handy-dandy post up on her technique for achieving a ‘vintage’ look and feel in photographs, which I’ve often wanted to duplicate. I was guessing that she was taking some semi-arbitrary text...

Aug 22, 2008
Politics

A noun, a verb, and a mansion?

Robin Leach of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous—um, fame—isn’t exactly helping John McCain out with the hullabaloo over how many John McCain owns: In an early morning phone call Friday from his fabulous crib in Las Vegas, Leach told The Times tha...

Aug 22, 2008
Politics

Star-Crossed?

I don’t get Barack Obama. Sure, he was annihilated by Bobby Rush back in 2000 in a primary campaign for a Congressional seat, but ever since he’s seemed like such a star-crossed politician: 2004 Senate race: Jack Ryan, a wealthy Republican who sh...