My cousin Leah, who recently moved to Berlin, sends this shot she took at the Obama rally yesterday. The teleprompter was in the way of The One’s head but there’s something cool about it, like one of those old doctored Kremlin photos. Click on photo for a better view.

Having interviewed many famous people over the years, much of my knowledge about life comes from them. For example, I recently interviewed Alanis Morrisette, a woman as thoughtful as she is talented. She also knows something about automobiles. At the height of the mania on her Jagged Little Pill tour, she realized certain dashboard instruments do not work as well when you are a major celebrity. Says Alanis (in an interview for Angeleno):

“I remember being on tour and people throwing their bodies on the windshield of the car as we were driving. All I could think was, ‘What do you do? Windshield wipers don’t work for that.”

This is amusing, though a colostomy bag would have been a nice touch. Vanity Fair “Cover”