October 26,2010 from my bathroom sink.

Jul5,10|Laguardia Airport

Committed to a period of time so as to become a human representative of the era. Monterey Pop Festival; Bob Dylan going electric and racial equality are current events. Fortunately writer preservationists, baby boomer primacy cultural curratorial staff (unpaid) and NYT columnists pump out volumes of current news from the 1960s for Preservationists to catch up on the latest breaking events from those years. This Preservationist is currently catching the latest Grateful Dead news in the cleverly titled tome, A Long Strange Trip.

For a Preservationist of the first degree the 'Trip' is never over. Death is a new beginning and perhaps a chance to get the latest afterlife news.

Writers and pundits can't figure out what to call the first decade of the 21st Century. The New Yorker did a bit by Rebecca Mead on the failure to find a hook for this time - the Oughts never took off. The Millenials are people. It's a decade without a name...until now

I propose we refer to this period as the first totally Digital Decade.

It is the first decade of widespread internet use. It is the first complete decade in which I utilized digital photography from start to end. It is the decade that saw the end of analog TV broadcasts. It is the first complete decade of cell phones, email and social networks.

In a nutshell, it is The Digital Decade: 2000-2010. That's my vote. I challenge you to come up with something better.

This leaves us the question: What is Photoshop really for?

"I'm pretty certain Selleck Waterfall Sandwich is the real reason Photoshop was created."

Shout out to Amanda Eisen. Thanks girlfriend