I'd like to learn more about photography.

Do any of you know of some good online resources or books to learn about photographic techniques? I see so many amazing things in this city, it's inspired me to start learning more about photography.

Last night Aaron, Aimey and I went to a really great bookstore. I picked up a humor collection called Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans.

From my favorite section so far: audio commentary by Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky for "Fellowship of the Ring":

CHOMSKY: The film opens with Galadriel speaking. "The world has changed," she tells us. "I can feel it in the water." She's actually stealing a line from the nonhuman Treebeard. He says this to Merry and Pippin in The Two Towers, the novel. Already we can see who is going to be privileged by this narrative and who is not.

ZINN: Of course. "The world has changed." I would argue that the main thing one learns when one watches this film is that the world hasn't changed. Not at all.

CHOMSKY: We should examine carefully what's being established here in the prologue. For one, the point is clearly made that the "master ring," the so-called "one ring to rule them all," is actually a rather elaborate justification for preemptive war on Mordor.

The publisher is also the group that runs the pirate store I mentioned the other day. So, you see, we have come full circle.