Blog Guy, I collect photos of very unlikely matchings of people. Last year you arranged for a picture of comedian Jimmie Walker and columnist Ann Coulter.

Yes, I remember. That was quite a job! How is your collection coming along?

Not well. You’re the only person who actually provides this service. Now I want a shot of boxing promoter Don King and the Duchess of York, side by side. King needs to be wearing a stupid-looking jacket and holding an Israeli flag.

Are you on drugs?

No, I’m just an honest reader with a lot of faith in your skills. Don’t let me down.

Okay, here you go. In the caption I’ve put (R) after King’s name, so you can tell which one is a boxing promoter and which was a member of the Royal Family.

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Above: Actor Jimmie ‘J.J.’ Walker and columnist Ann Coulter in 2007 photo. REUTERS/Fred Prouser

Below: Boxing promoter Don King (R) and Britain’s Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson together before a concert celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Peres Center for Peace in Tel Aviv, October 27, 2008. REUTERS/Pavel Wolberg/Pool

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Blog Guy, your recent posts about political coverage have been a virtual textbook for aspiring photojournalists, what with pieces on shooting shoes, handshakes, stair-climbing and what-not. What else makes for a great photo?

Luggage, for sure.

You mean like suitcases?

Yep, especially journalists’ suitcases. The public has an insatiable appetite for details of what kind of luggage we travel with, as you can see from these photos from yesterday.

Just look! Festive red ones, somber black ones, hard, soft…. I personally think we’ve kind of under-played the press luggage angle for this campaign, so these shots are a welcome change.

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Baggage belonging to the traveling press is laid out on the tarmac for a security sweep before loading onto Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s plane at Albuquerque Airport, October 26, 2008. REUTERS/Jason Reed

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Congratulations, it’s your wedding day!

Sure, as the groom, you may have cold feet, it’s only natural. Like maybe you’re afraid to take the plunge because oh, let’s just say for instance you remembered you’re already married to someone else.

So on the morning of the wedding you go talk reasonably to your bride-to-be, or her parents, or your clergyman, right?

Or maybe, like the brilliant, take-charge groom in our story, you just set your hotel on fire so there can’t be a wedding…

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Above: A couple holds their wedding ceremony inside an ice chapel earlier this year in Japan. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao

Below: A bride in traditional Japanese wedding attire poses for photos with her groom in Japan earlier this year. REUTERS/Toru Hanai

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Note to TV producers: The bidding starts today on a new super-hit series. It’s an action cop show called Jeannie Lamborghini, and it’s all true. And by “all true,” I mean some of it is true.

The Italian police have their own Lamborghini sports car for police work. It can go 203 miles an hour, perfect for catching getaway cars that can only hit 200. It has gadgets galore, even a heart defibrillator, which of course will be used to zap street scum in every episode.

Picture this sleek baby screeching along mountain roads and hairpin turns with spunky, wise-cracking cop Jeannie Lamborghini at the wheel! If you want a different car, I’ve also registered Annette Corvette and Portia Porsche.

I see Jeannie played by someone like Angelina Jolie, but with fewer children. And the car could maybe have a hotline to Jeannie’s secret boss, a hip young black President. Networks, take out your checkbooks!

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Police unveil a Lamborghini car donated to the Italian state police, in Rome, October 24, 2008. REUTERS/Lamborghini/Handout

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To the Commander of Russian Cavalry:

Comrade, I’m not going to say I told you so, but it was your idea to cut out the training budget for our new cavalry recruits. “How hard can it be to figure it out themselves?” you said.

Well, here is your answer. The new horsemen put on a show this weekend, and it was pretty pathetic.

The riders were pelted by vodka bottles tossed from the parents’ seats, and most of the horses were laughing so hard they couldn’t make it back to the stables!

Surely we could  at least afford to show new recruits a fricking stick-figure DRAWING of a guy sitting on a horse? Or maybe buy an old Gene Autry DVD to give them a clue?

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A police officer performs acrobatics on horseback during a presentation to foreign diplomats in Moscow October 25, 2008.  REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin

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Hey, Blog Guy! I’m in Las Vegas this week, and you won’t even believe who I saw at a strip club! It involves a certain…

Let me stop you right there. You saw a Sarah Palin look-alike stripper contest, right? Now see, if the real candidate had been there, our reporters would have written it up.

Oh. Yeah, the one I saw did seem to change outfits very quickly. So those tough guys guarding the stage weren’t Secret Service?

No, bouncers. That explains the leisure suits and pork-pie hats.

Still, if it HAD been the real candidate, it would have been the weirdest-ever thing involving the vice presidency, right?

Not even close. Back in 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr killed a dude in a duel. And I didn’t even mention the Dick Cheney hunting thing.

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Contestants take the stage during a Sarah Palin look-alike stripper contest in Las Vegas, Nevada October 23, 2008. Contestants competed for $10,000 in prize money and a trip to Washington D.C. for the presidential inauguration. REUTERS/Tiffany Brown

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The emperor has no clothes, and apparently neither does the empress.

We have this fashion show photo, which I have tastefully cropped for you, in which nothing covers the model’s breasts except her own two hands. This is called a fashion “creation.”

Ladies, before you rush out to spend your money on something - or nothing - similar, consider just some of the problems I foresee:

• Guys will always be asking you what time it is.
• At picnics, tough to eat corn-on-the-cob.
• How do you reach for canned goods at the grocery?
• You can’t salute the President.
  
• At church, taking Communion can be very awkward.
  

A model displays a creation from XFIT LYCRA’s Spring/Summer 2008/09 collection during Fashion Week Mexico in Mexico City, October 22, 2008. REUTERS/Henry Romero

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Blog Guy, I’m just a regular dude selling strawberry shortcake down here in Florida. I have a recurring nightmare that one day a presidential candidate will just stick his big grinning face right through my window.

That would push me over the edge, for sure. What are the actual chances of this kind of a strawberry shortcake window political intrusion?

You can forget about it. The odds are a billion to one. It hasn’t happened since 1964.

If you say so, then I’ll return to my strawberry job,  but I’m scared. Who was the candidate in ‘64?

A Republican named “Berry” Goldwater.

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Republican presidential nominee John McCain ducks through the window to order a strawberry shortcake and greet employees at Parkesdale Farms in Plant City, Florida October 23, 2008. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

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Chad Ruble, our guy who collects odd video clips, is back today with lots more stuff from World War II countries.

He’ll try to make you lose interest with a blogging plant, but if you stick through that you’ll get to the leather underwear footage. Be patient.

Here’s Chad and here is Chad’s Archive…

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Blog Guy, I know you’ve helped a lot of people with fashion requests.

Well, a bunch of us gals have formed a death squad. You know, nothing fancy, just small assassinations, some vigilante bake sales, Tupperware incursions into blue states, stuff like that.

Of course, we’d like to look good - we’re about being sassy, not slovenly, and we may run into some hunky guys in a male death squad. Any ideas? By the way, don’t even TRY finding out who we are!

Um, did we used to work together? Anyway, have a look at this creation from a fashion show yesterday in Mexico City. It hides your identity, but not your figure. Wait a couple of months, and the outfits will go on sale after the festive holiday death squad parties.

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Models display creations from XFIT LYCRA’s Spring/Summer 2008/09 collection during Fashion Week Mexico in Mexico City October 22, 2008. REUTERS/Henry Romero

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