As a bit of stuck-at-such-an-interminable-delay-at-O’Hare I’m-willing-to-shell-out-the-7-bucks-for-intarweb-access blogging, to follow up on Rob’s tribute I’ll second Kathy’s remarks here. …Glen Kenny has more thoughts here.
Month: April 2008
There’s been lots of buzz recently in New York about the big Takashi Murakami show opening at the Brooklyn Museum. You know Murakami. He’s the one who creates Japanese animation-style imag
Only two remain. While G. Mackin’s “Muirshin Durkin” currently sits tied for sixth place, 150 points behind acclaimed LGM blogger djw’s ingeniously dubbed “Watkins 1̶
Old Man Heston has passed away. Heston occupied an iconic space that was weirdly similar to that of John Wayne, but with an important difference. Although Wayne the actor eventually became lost in Wayne the icon, at the various points along his career you could tell that he was a fantastically talented performer; his Ethan […]
Circa 1377, the twenty year old man who would become King John I of Portugal begat a son with a woman who was either the daughter of a Jewish cobbler or a descendant of Charlemagne (who knows; perhaps
One wonders how differently the primaries would have played out if Hillary Clinton had done what it took the Colombian government much less time to figure out how to do…
Well, maybe not. Regarding the search for the responsible party in the “bad ammo to Afghanistan” scandal, Laura Peterson writes: The public may never really know, if a recent Government Accountability Office report is any indication. The GAO found that 42 percent of the workforce at the Army’s Contracting Center for Excellence, a division of […]
We now have pictures of HMAS Sydney. It appears that her bow is completely gone, which supports the idea that a magazine explosion sank her very quickly. Check out the photos here; see especially the
Went to my first baseball game of the season last night, so today is an appropriate time to discuss the prospects of my beloved Reds. All projections via Baseball Prospectus (AVG/OBP/SLG/Fielding Runs
I’d be remiss in letting the day pass without noting that April 4 is not only the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination but also the 149th anniversary of the first known performance of “Dixie” (or “Dixie’s Land”) by Bryant’s Minstrels in New York City. The song was a hit in New York in […]
Henry, having befouled nearly all of my daughter’s Sesame Street dolls, consummates a “special relationship” with Beefeater Bear.
Thomas Beattie, the transman who is about 6 months pregnant, was on Oprah yesterday. You can find video of the first 3 parts (of 4) here. I think he handled himself really impressively. And what an im