TODAY AT THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE

It's just occurred to me that I've been at three "centers of the universe" in the past three to four months. I.e., in the middle of huge crowds who were ecstatic about something.

First, it was Grant Park in Chicago on Election Night.








Then, it was the National Mall during President Obama's Inaugural.









And then it was today, sitting at my desk, while outside an estimated 400,000 people gathered to celebrate the Steelers' victory. I took this photo with my BlackBerry from my window. It's not great, but you get the idea:

Actually, we were kind of stuck in the office for the most of the day. It was like being lodged deep in the internal gears of some huge vast machine that was grinding away... and you could HEAR the grinding... BOM BOM boom BOM BOM boom WE WILL WE WILL ROCK YOU...

Et cetera

My favorite scene, which we have on our web site: Troy Polomalu doing the Mosh Pit thing:




You can see the video of Troy at our Post-Gazette web site here.