January 2009
25 posts
A more wholesome contribution to the htown music...
A Russian couple walks down a street in Moscow...
Man to his wife: I think it's raining.
Wife: No, that feels like snow to me, dear.
Man: Let's not fight about it. Let's ask Comrade Rudolph (a minor communist party official) whether it's officially raining or snowing.
Comrade Rudolph: It's raining, of course.
Wife: I know that felt like snow.
Man: Rudolph the Red knows rain, dear.
The Man Who Rode the Thunder
On July 26, 1959, Lt. Col. William H. Rankin, a US Marine Corps pilot, was on a routine flight between Massachusetts and South Carolina. He was flying an F8U Crusader supersonic jet at 47,000 feet (14,326 m) above a well-developed cumulonimbus cloud system, or thunderhead, when he was forced to eject due to a seized engine (a condition created when pistons expand so much due to overheating...
“Jdach is: Wheels rolling D.C. en route Durham, NC with stops en route.
about 14...”
– So much for the road trip play-by-play. Where are your “twits” about Richmond, Raleigh, and the rambling roads of I-95?
darkwingdach:
The President’s closing remarks at...
“Hello Julia Lovett,
Thanks for forwarding that suspicious-looking email....”
– PayPal makes me feel like a warrior fighting the good fight in the battle for Internet security, while simultaneously deploying a condescending tone appropriate for a user that still thinks the Internet is a series of tubes.
Inauguration Dates on Craigslist →
Perhaps equally important...
Margaret Colin, Actress and Honorary Co-Chair of Feminists for Life, will be speaking at Georgetown University’s Tenth Annual Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life.
fiatluxemburg:
ELENOR WALDORF IS JEFF GOLDBLUM’S WIFE FROM INDEPENDENCE DAY (#).
This is… as important as something can be.
Ikea to Drive Mock Motorcades through DC in... →
Fiction Reading on the Rise, Way to go Twilight
The NYT reports the findings of the National Endowment for the Art’s annual survey assessing literary culture in the United States. Since 1992 (when 54% of adults were reading), the percentage of Americans reading has been decreasing. For the first year since 1992, numbers are once again hovering around 50.2%.
What made 2008 the year of the novel…?
Stephanie...
