Can We Wear Obama On A Bandana? YES WE CAN!

Let’s start this inauguration off right: With this wonderful accessory my wonderful girlfriend purchased for me today near 30th Street Station. There’s even a website address on it in case you really need one of these. Ha ha, the Obama Pepsi knockoff logos in the corner! And the little sheep holding the Obama flag! Man, not even president yet and he’s already broken the record for presidential commemorative merchandise.

I’ll also direct you to this incredible faux-Warhol shirt Erica bought. Look, the inauguration is pretty cool, and Obama’s “Georgia 300″ train is really awesome, but I think it’s all the people trying to make a buck that are really getting into the true spirit of America. It almost makes a man want to cry.

Joe Biden’s speaking in Wilmington. He just quoted James Joyce: “When I die, Delaware will be written in my heart.”

Sheep Wanders Off Wrong El Stop, Captured In Kenzo

This morning, a sheep got lost on its way to work (at Comcast), wandered off the wrong El stop and was found wandering in Kensington.

Someone first spotted the sheep at around 5:30, according to the Associated Press. “Police chased the sheep down several streets,” the AP report says. “Each time the officers cornered it, the determined animal managed to escape.”

There are only two explanations for this: One, sheepfighting. (That seems pretty unlikely.) Two, this is part of Brian Tierney’s new “flying sheep” newspaper promotion.

Update: A reader — okay, my mom — emails: “With all the retail outlets pushing the Christmas season so early, I think the sheep wandered away from an early nativity scene.”