January 2012
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If all else fails, I drink half a bottle of rum and play a Handel oratorio on...
– David Ogilvy (via austinkleon)
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In support of Wikipedia and the anti-SOPA...
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Florida on Fire →
In other fire news, “The Senator” burned down.
The 118-foot-tall cypress tree in Longwood, Florida, is estimated to be 3,500 years old, which made it the world’s fifth oldest tree. It burned from the inside out, like a chimney. And then it collapsed. Really sad.
Elizabeth, I hope you will write something poignant and poetic about a childhood field trip to this historic tree.
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521. There is just no good reason to ever look...
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You this read wrong.
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December 2011
23 posts
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It's Holiday Office Party Season!
ratsoff:
(gif via burbanked.)
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What's the forecast in Chicago? Just ask... →
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twentyfourbit:
Video: Ryan Adams, Live on Letterman
Ryan Adams performed at the Ed Sullivan Theater last night for a live webcast of a full 70-minute set, complete with banter and solo acoustic takes on tunes spanning his days in Whiskeytown to the new record. In fact, he even brought out a post-Ashes & Fire cover song that’s been added to recent setlists following last month’s Bob Mould...
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mentalflossr:
Over the weekend, The Chris Matthews Show revisited a funny moment in political history. On April 4, 1995, four days after Tommy Boy premiered, Chris Farley crashed a meeting of the House Republican Conference dressed as Newt Gingrich. Here’s the clip from C-SPAN.
This is pretty great.
aliveinorlando:
Free Sugar Ray concert in Orlando next weekend. Why doesn’t the Westboro Baptist Church protest things like this?
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Things of Note
- I am on a bus trip. - For the unbelievably low price of $3.50, I bought a roundtrip ticket from Orlando to Atlanta. - I paid 2 cents more than that for the Hardee’s burger I just ate at the truck stop in Tifton, GA. - There is free wi-fi on the bus. - I am streaming audio from a Bon Iver concert on NPR. - I am finally reading “Sex, Drugs & Cocoa Puffs.” - If you nap on a...
November 2011
79 posts