This is a camera phone picture of my cat transmitted directly to the blog.

My sense of things: New York (and my community in Brooklyn in particular) is more electrified about this election than any event in recent memory. The enthusiasm level is much higher than when the Giants were in the Super Bowl, for example.

Right now I am a little obsessed with this graphic:

Link to more…

Here are the “trending topics” on Twitter at this moment:

• DOW
• Bailout
• Wall Street
• Republicans
• Congress
• Black Monday
• Bush
• Wachovia
• GOP
• Dems

Until now, I thought the Republicans were going to make this election about the military. Wrong. It’s about abortion.

(Related: I wrote a post on my work blog about photo coverage of Obama’s acceptance speech.)

Happy National Train Day from Penn Station Baltimore.

New Yankee Stadium, seen from old Yankee Stadium.

Update: Yankees lost to Detroit 6-2.

Right now Flight of the Conchords has the number one album on iTunes.

Seriously? A quasi-fictitious novelty folk duo from New Zealand has the number one album? We knew them when!

My favorite thing about The Conchords’ HBO show is its use of weird, unglamorous New York locations… like Flushing Meadows, and the far Lower East Side, and wherever the heck this park is. After “Sex and The City,” HBO owed us big time.

Here’s a clip of The Conchords performance of “Sello Tape”… part of which takes place on an MTA bus:

Exhibit A: The geniuses who write copy for someecards.com:

Daryl Lang’s day off.