A change is gonna come...

Radio 4's Saturday Live has as one of its guests this morning photographer Martin Parr. Not only is he one of the UK's leading snappers but, apparently, his various collections of ephemera (stretching from 1970's detergent packaging to commemorative miners' strike plates) are also highly regarded as a valid catalogue of society and as a social study in themselves.

This notion of "stuff" certainly appeals to the hoarder - and untidy bugger - in me and I was amused to hear of his various items of Obama memorabilia, particularly these boxers...

Nice. But how long are you supposed to give it before switching to another of his campaign slogans?

image: Christopher Oakley

The Re-inauguration will NOT be televised...

Whoops! No cameras allowed please, we don't want to draw attention to the first black-Irish-American (Barack O'Bama) making a mistake in his first day in the job now, do we...

US President "re-takes oath of office" following a mistake...

The Revolution WILL be Televised

The revolution WILL be televised (and blogged, podcast and goodness knows what else) Now, dubious Reservoir Dogs imagery aside (surely, surely the Daily Record isn't hinting at Mr. Black?) what has struck me most about the planet's most talked about news story is the uncanny similarity in speech - sound, inflection and rhythm - Mr. Obama's inauguration speech bore to the great Gil Scott Heron's Black Power anthem. I half expected him to say 'there will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers on the instant replay'. Radio Scotland really took the biscuit though with their reporter's insightful observation that 'it didn't feel like MY history being made, more like America's'...you don't say?