i'll send a free 8x10 print of any image on my blog to the first person who can correctly identify what this is :)
[update] congrats to chris orwig who was the first person to identify that this is the end of a shinai, the bamboo sword used in kendo.
thanks for all the guesses :)
The historic takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which could come as soon as this weekend, moved to the forefront of the presidential campaign Saturday.
In the arena that night, the whole last minute was drowned out by cheers — and then when the soaring music swelled, the confetti rained down as the harbinger of balloons and the hopeful first family took the stage, forget about it — it was a perfect end to a convention that last Monday, no one even knew if it would happen. But it did, and I'm so glad to have been there.
