And now, the second entry in the Irrational Fears Proven Not So Irrational Thanks to a Story Linked on Fark. This one comes to us via, yet again, the UK, where freak accidents happen all the time, apparently. A cyclist said he thought he was going to die after an auxiliary fuel tank from an RAF Harrier jet fell from the sky and missed him by inches. … The empty, 10ft-long metal tank landed on…
Everyone’s shuffling around this month. Kristin’s settling into her new apartment in Nashville. Ditto for Jason and his triumphant return to the ‘boro. Brandon is now here in Memphis. J.R. will be stateside shortly (does this mean yet another change to the blog title? “Tales from Stateside?”). I think Patrick moved into a new place, too, maybe in late December. And Phil and I are slowly crouching and getting ready to pounce once moving day…
My web-surfing experience today has been all sorts of unexpected fun, since I finally installed Firefox (at work, at least) like all the cool kids. I am totally digging the tabs, and I’ve organized all my bookmarks into neat little categories and everything. I might, just might, install this on the ol’ Mac at home. But I do have an emotional (and aesthetic: mmm, metal) attachment to Safari that I’m not sure I’m ready to…
Oh, why not. I used to do the Friday Five before it went belly-up. (Was that almost a year ago? Yeesh, the time!) So here it is, the Friday Feast (seen at Sugarfused): AppetizerHave you ever seen a ghost or an angel?Not that I’m aware of. That’s not to say that I don’t have creepy experiences where I think I see supernatural things. It’s mostly a function of my overactive imagination. I hope. SoupWhat is…
Today I’m introducing a new Theology & Geometry feature: Irrational Fears Proven Not So Irrational Thanks to a Story Linked on Fark First up is a harrowing story about an elderly man who has been suffering from nocturnal spider bites from a giant effing tarantula ever since he brought a box of bananas home several weeks ago. The 76-year-old man first noticed a large spider running out of a box of bananas he bought some…
So I’m passing the time by reading the Fark comment thread of the possible Futurama resurrection, and I am reminded to look up “teh” on Wikipedia to see where it originated, and I learn that it’s attributed to one of the Something Awful writers. Well, boy howdy. I think I might trust Wikipedia for this kind of random, useless, trendy info. Cold, hard, historical facts? Maybe not so much.
Seriously. Variety is on the case (and, yes, they use some idiotic words in the process). (Thanks, Fark.)
Stories like this make me sick, and cause me to fume at the idea that some people feel we are living in a post-feminist world, or, worse, a world past the need for feminism. Sure, our little cultural bubble may be so enlightened and so egalitarian that it’s easy for us to think of many powerful and influential women who prove that women have conquered the earth and gleaned all the prosperity and happiness and…
The apartment I looked at at 2 was huge, but a little on the crappy side. I don’t know — it had a creepy, open back entrance (up three flights of flimsy metal stairs), worn wooden floors, crazy-ass red paint in the dining room and orange (like UT orange) in the bathroom, nice built-in bookshelves with glass doors, mirrored (but cracked) French doors between the dining room and living room, and classy grated radiator covers.…
The West Virginia mine story is awful. Watching Geraldo Rivera’s shtick is even awfuler. I gave that moron a bye back during Katrina because I felt that his pathetic sensationalism was necessary to wake people up to what was really going on, but now I feel just dirty for ever being a Geraldo apologist. America, I’m sorry. You too, Canada. And I’m sorry for the shoddy coverage the print media offered of this story. Look.…
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