Thursday, June 25, 2009

Farewell? and Journalists

After many, many months of guilty contemplation, I have decided to sell off my Leica CL.

Its not him, its me.

I just cannot, for my sake and his, get used to handling a rangefinder. Yup, I am an single / twin lens reflex nut. And incurable. So for his sake, I hope he finds a better owner than me, someone who will have the time to bring him out and take some genuine street shots.

): I can't believe I posted the sale too. But its okay, at least I got the guts to admit he needs a better home.

Okay, I sound crazy here, but getting attached to your camera gear is VERY easy. I have had yet to sell any away and gah, it hurts.

Well anyway, let's move on to something more fascinating than my attachment to inhuman objects.

Look what I found!

An article on Journalists' Secret Lives.

Politico feature writer Helena Andrews says she’s “not the regular Washington wonky reader.” Her first stop is Entertainment Weekly’s online News & Notes. From there, it’s GoFugYourself.com, a celebrity-skewering blog that Andrews calls “quite possibly the most awesomely bitchy and brilliant blog in the history of the world.” It puts her in the right frame of mind, she says, to write about pols.


I don't know you, but she's cool.

There are some other cute tidbits, like this one:

CNN’s John Roberts fell in love with motorcycles as a kid—he tried making one by attaching a lawn-mower engine to his bicycle. It worked. Years later, Roberts is the proud owner of two Harley-Davidsons.


I think, I need to do one about Singapore's journalists. Although I'm not sure if their lives might involve more than just working, and overtime.

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