January 2010
59 posts
“City prosecutors ruled Thursday that a Johns Hopkins student who killed an...”
– Justin Fenton (via)
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Does anyone have a link to that old SNL sketch with Michael J. Fox as Dan Quayle?
I can’t find it but it’s always fitting this time of year, even 20 years on.
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“In the future, Beach House would like to score a film. Legrand already has some...”
– Oh, really Beach House…New Moon? (via)
“You were brought up to work—not especially to marry. Now you’ve found your first...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (via toe-knee) (via hiitsbradd)
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Starbucks back from the dead? (via)
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“If you’re the voyeur type, a Tom Waits fan, unexposed and looking for some...”
– “Drink” section of Louisville, KY on wikitravel.com
Well. Looks like I’ll be stopping in Louisville during my southern road trip this spring.
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Hey wow maybe now political parties, and the members therein, will nominate candidates who aren’t hacks but can actually: campaign, spell the name of their state correctly, not have their handlers shove reporters, be bothered to shake people’s hands, not insult the local sports legend, stay/lobby in their state when an election is near, not suggest members of a the largest religious...
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“Baltimore soccer stadium feasibility study is approved”
– Hell Yes!! Though, I wonder if DC would move?? My thoughts are no. :(
Baltimore soccer stadium feasibility study is approved - baltimoresun.com
(via baltimorebrigade)
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The Jay Leno/Conan thing is getting as over-talked...
zachfey:
christielouwho:
(via thatgirlfaren)
I read Conan’s response, and now I am done. Shall we carry on to the next topic?
I agree that there is a lot of Conan/Leno bullshit being tumbled, but lets not forget that Conan’s response, as well as his current situation with NBC, are both open-ended. The results of the current stand-off have implications for millions of regular people who...
“The Backcountry Trails Program provides participants with intense challenges on...”
– AmeriCorps’ California Conservation Corps job description.
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— The Everybodyfields, “Mardi...
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On sports.
Not normally into American Football (3+ hours to play a 60-minute game? I’ll stick with soccer, thanks) but I couldn’t figure out who to root for in today’s Ravens/Pats game.
There’s my hometown team hosting my adopted hometown team. Making matters tougher, the star player on the Ravens was arrested for murder while the star of the Patriots is a womanizing supermodel...
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“The Togo national team bus has been machine-gunned by Angolan rebels on the...”
– Unbelievable.
the city is beautiful this morning.
i love fresh snow.
The Wire is now academic
“William Julius Wilson, the prominent Harvard sociologist, is the latest to announce he will teach a course on the show, next fall out of the black studies department.
For the 40th anniversary of the death of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., when Dr. Wilson gathered scholars, activists and the show’s creator to analyze the series’ impact, he did not mince words: ‘[The Wire] has...
On Dixon →
I was going to quote parts of Stephen Janis’ piece, but there was just too much.
