YAS FIDO

Abraham Lincoln's beloved mutt Fido, the first Presidential dog to be photographed, 1861. pic.twitter.com/pk1bcSUIjS

— History In Pictures (@HistoryInPix) January 4, 2017

@FLOTUS was in NYC yesterday and went to the New Museum

here is my unofficial list of favorite first ladies:
1) Michelle Obama
2) Eleanor Roosevelt
3) Mary Todd Lincoln
4) Hillary Rodham Clinton
5) Betty Ford

hey mary todd, did you hear about the destiny's child reunion at the superbowl?

i know im freaking out too.

read what caity weaver has to say about it here.

are we going to see this?

thx bunners!

pina bausch

we can go see this in 3D at lincoln center. who wants to? via.

daniel day lewis is GAY

just kidding. he did just sign on to play abraham lincoln in a movie though, and everyone knows honest abe was dishonest about one thing: GAY! (not) kidding. the movie will come out of the closet in two years. ill be on pins and needles until then.

if you want to read a really awesome narrative fiction about president lincoln, i recommend gore vidal's Lincoln. read it!

live-blogging history.

did you know the civil war was getting going right about now, 150 years ago? crazy, i know. the new york times has created a blog called DISUNION, which outlines the events of each day starting at the end of october (a week before lincoln is elected), as its sesquicentennial (you're welcome) falls.

DISUNION

One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, Americans went to war with themselves. Disunion revisits and reconsiders America's most perilous period -- using contemporary accounts, diaries, images and historical assessments to follow the Civil War as it unfolded.

i think this a really amazing idea, and have added it to our blogroll so you never forget.

john's counterfeit penny

i heard a story at some point over the past couple weeks about john getting a counterfeit penny with some sort of shield on the the back of it. i was confused because why would anyone ever go the trouble to make a fake penny. it already costs more to fabicate a one cent piece then the value of the currency itself. anyway, turns out john threw away real money. i bet he really regrets that now. think of all he could have accomplished with that penny. more info on the redesign here. via.

hey rob, does this look familz?

last friday night, from a source that shall remain nameless, i heard a rumor about some erotic rubdowns going on front-&-center in chelsea. that news didn't strike me as odd, but it did seem illegally odd to the cops...who shut it the F down on dubious charges of permitting and sidewalk obstruction.

now, i'm not saying i endorse this sort of sexual display, or that the NYPD has a seething hatred for gays, but i will allude to the possibility of those sentiments for the sake of stirring shit up.

additionally, it seems the owner will protest his right to have a couple greasy men rubbing on each other in a storefront window (which we all know is explicitly protected in the bill of rights), so prepare yourself for the possibility of more purblic mass-sage.

r.i.p. gaybraham

jicyww, on this day in 1865, abraham lincoln was assassinated.

side note: legend has it that honest abe traded in his beaver-skin hat for his first top hat upon a visit to new york in 1860 to speak at cooper union's great hall.