Pancakes. Head. It’s a thing.

Every time I start thinking the NYTimes is getting hip to the internet, they blow it. Their piece on the omnipresence of images of Obama on the web started promisingly enough. Then I hit this paragraph:

Market interest has also helped small-time artists like Dan Lacey, of tiny Elko, Minn., a self-described disillusioned conservative who made a name for himself last year in the blogosphere with his inexplicably strange portraits of Senator John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin depicted with pancakes stacked on top of their heads.

Face. Palm.

Oolong was a rabbit, the beloved pet of Hironori Akutagawa, who chronicled their life and times together in a long series of photographs which he put up on the web. Over time, Oolong's fame grew. He was a perpetual ongoing unicorn chaser before the term was invented. As I said about the site on September 27, 2001, I don't think I can explain why it cheers me up as much as it does." Oolong died on January 9th, 2003, and was mourned by fans all over the world.