headlines

I'm sure that by now you've seen what I think to be a brilliant invention that should've come to be much sooner. If you haven't experienced this moment of bliss yet, check it out here.

A fake newspaper's a fake newspaper (I'm pretty sure I made one in 5th grade), but this one not only made me laugh, but gave me hope. That people in this country care enough to put together a comprehensive, in-depth commentary on our country's current situation (grammar nitpicking aside) and then stood on the streets of New York to diseminate it makes me proud. In the way that John Stewart makes me proud. Amid this Proposition 8 madness, I've found it hard to be proud of my country.

What struck me even more than this, though, were today's headlines in the real New York Times (yeah, remember that paper?). Here are the highlights:

Gay Marriage Begins in Connecticut

The Return of the Interview Suit (!!!)*

AIDS Patient is Reported Cured (I'm not kidding).


* exclamation marks are my addition

Don't get me wrong: there are a lot of headlines you'd rather not see. There are more headlines about kids shooting people and civilians dying in Afghanistan and there not being any money (for anyone), but good things are happening in the world. Good things are happening all the time.

Americans are talking back, a historic election right behind us, and now peaceful protests will happen simultaneously on Saturday in over 80 cities in all 50 states to show the country (and mostly the Mormons) that discrimination is not ok.

I don't know where I was going with any of this. I even neglected to make any pretense of connecting this post to the topic of my blog (making a fake newspaper is art, right?). Whatever. I'll write about Andy Goldsworthy soon and you'll all forgive me. I promise.