Siobhan just pointed out this to me. It’s a clip of someone telling Dick Cheney to f off. On CNN. On live tv. At the end, the reporter asks have you ever heard someone say that to you before? He says this is the first time. And I just remembered that last year Cheney told [...]
Archive > September 2005
There’s Nothing
Let’s be honest, ok? You google yourself. You just do. You’re curious. You’re intrigued. You’re bored. And mostly, you’re just vain. But whatevs, no skin off your nose. And hey, by the same token, you google other people, right? Ex-girlfriends and boyfriends, your family, people you went to high school with, old enemies of yours, [...]
Another Storm!
And get this, it’s called Hurricane Nate. HURRICANE NATE INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER 8A NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 2 PM EDT WED SEP 07 2005 …NATE CONTINUES TO STRENGTHEN SLOWLY… AT 2 PM EDT…1800Z…THE CENTER OF HURRICANE NATE WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 29.4 NORTH… LONGITUDE 66.0 WEST OR ABOUT 215 MILES… 345 KM… SOUTH-SOUTHWEST [...]
The Fresher
When I was in London(oh so many years ago), I learned that they called their freshman ‘freshers’ instead of how we call them ‘froshes’. So there’s that. But I’ve been reading Tom Wolfe’s last book, “I Am Charlotte Simmons”. Which takes place on an ivy-league style school and concerns Charlotte, a frosh. What makes this [...]
