Hrag Vartanian

Possibly the oldest photo of NY, from the 1840s is going on the auction block.

Brilliant sci-fi take on the fire. {via Curbed}

"…[Bush] made probably the most important decision of his presidency — whether to invade Iraq — without directly asking either Powell, Rumsfeld or Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet for their bottom-line recommendations. (Instead of consulting his own father, former president George H.W. Bush, who had gone to war in 1991 to kick the Iraqi army out of Kuwait, the younger Bush told me that he had appealed to a "higher father" for strength.)"

Oly tells it like it is…"Rist show bored me to tears"…and Dumas "wasn't anything earth shattering…[but] worth the admission price."