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I’ve never liked Jay-Z, but combine him with New York and Alicia Keys (who I want to be when I grow up), well, it’s a winner:

Luckily others agree with me and have made this song even better. To wit: Alicia Keys and Stephen Colbert performed a suburban version of “Empire State of Mind” on his show a few months back: (03:

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And then the folks at College Humor went even better with “Galactic Empire State of Mind” where Stormtroopers and Rebels dance off to MC Vader’s lyrical memories of the Trilogy, while giant video screens show key scenes from the films. The Leia/Alicia Keys character’s keyboard is inspired, and the lyrics, along with the video, are here at College Humor. (Found this at Neatorama)

A friend of mine recently accused me of being Dorian Gray since I still look like a kid. Maybe he was onto something:

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Needless to say, my teenage days are long in the past.

Jan 19th: The Illinois Inaugural Gala

So my friends in Maryland and I got tickets to this event the evening before the inauguration, on the hopes that the Obamas would show. They didn’t, but we had fun anyway. Here’s the dress…

On inauguration morning, I got up at 5.30am (after 2.5 hours of sleep) and headed down to the mall. Getting there around 7am meant I got to see the end of sunrise:

This is me by 10.30am. Cold, tired, and not too cheery:

This is me at noon – he’s the president!

Woohoo!

The meaning explained at neatorama