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Thursday, July 02, 2009Arrest Made In Connection With East Hartford Shooting - Courant.com: East Hartford, so much to answer for. The old hometown keeps making the news for all the wrong reasons. Murder on Tuesday followed up by a murder on Wednesday at the vigil for Tuesday's victim. Labels: crime, local flavor 20:27 c-dog UConn Reunion In Detroit: Pistons Add Gordon, Villanueva - Courant.com: Dream Team! If they could just find a way to pry Ray Allen away from the Celts to add to the mix ... they'd be unstoppable. 20:13 c-dog Wednesday, July 01, 2009Doctor Who vs Eminem(?) - Regularly Irregular: Jon Pertwee's eyebrows steal the show. My new favorite mash-up. Labels: doctor who, youtube goodness 22:46 c-dog
Barclay Villa: We went to wedding at the beautiful Barclay Villa a few weeks ago. They quote a bit from Frederick Law Olmstead, who stayed there in the 1850s on their website, but they refer to the book they took the quote from as "Cotton Kingdom". When I tried to find a Google Books clip I was stumped at first, then found the text in "A Journey to the Seaboard Slave States in the Years 1853-1854". Labels: history, local flavor 22:24 c-dog NOVA | scienceNOW | Auto-Tune | PBS: The inventor of auto-tune shows how it works. Labels: auto-tuning, science 22:09 c-dog
Mysterious 'sewer creature' sparks curiosity :: WRAL.com Labels: cryptozoology, local flavor 20:52 c-dog Tuesday, June 30, 2009
"Now it's a party" Labels: movies 19:19 c-dog Sunday, June 28, 2009'Do The Right Thing' still asks burning questions - washingtonpost.com: "'White people still ask me why Mookie threw the can through the window,' Lee said in an interview. 'Twenty years later, they're still asking me that.'I guess to get to a post-racial America we'd need folks of all colors to both have the compassion to understand why and not have the life experience that makes it so they don't even have to ask. We are not there yet. Labels: movies 14:38 c-dog Friday, June 26, 2009'Doctor Who: The Next Doctor' review - Sepinwall on TV - NJ.com: "'I'm The Doctor,' goes a familiar refrain from David Tennant early in 'Doctor Who: The Next Doctor,' the latest installment of the British sci-fi institution. Wow. I must've been busier than I realized. This completely snuck up on me! I was thinking it was still months before the last Tennant specials showed over here, but "The Next Doctor" is tomorrow and "Planet of the Dead" is next month. Labels: doctor who, TV 22:09 c-dog
Gov. Ted Strickland Responds to Library Outcry in New Letter | Cleveland Leader: "Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, who proposed cutting state funding to library's by 50 percent, has responded to the enormous outcry by libraries and his constituents in a letter posted to his website just moments ago." Labels: Books 21:11 c-dog
Score: Ran out to see what my neighbor is selling at the garage sale tomorrow and picked up six dvds for $10. Spidey 2, Army of Darkness, Shaun of the Dead, The Abyss, Bourne Supremacy, and Monsoon Wedding. The last may seem like one-of-these-is-not-like-the-others but I recognized the director's name from the upcoming Amelia biopic so I thought it could be advance scouting. Plus, it couldn't hurt to get at least one that the missus'll watch with me. Bonus: got back inside just in time to see Ortiz go yard. That's timing. 20:49 c-dog Marc Steinmetz Photography | Escape Tools: Reminded me of HD's shiv post a while back. Labels: pictures 19:24 c-dog RI closer to changing state name over slavery - Yahoo! News: I lived in RI for eight or so years and never had a clue its full name is "State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations." Labels: local flavor 18:40 c-dog Wednesday, June 24, 2009BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Many sharks 'facing extinction': I'm terrified of sharks. It doesn't help that a neighbor relayed a "how about that?" story that pretty much makes it impossible for me to go in the ocean ever again. My neighbor saw some of those planes with the propellers that tilt-up flying low over the beach and it turned out that one was being piloted by a friend of his who is currently on active duty. The friend told him he saw two huge sharks maybe 50-60 feet from a pier where there were bunches of people in the water who were, presumably, blissfully unaware of the presence of giant fracking sharks nearby. This story is tangential to the link; I'm not actually advocating shark extinction. I'm just saying, stay out of the water. Labels: sharks 22:45 c-dog
An interview with basketball great Sue Bird. 15:35 bone daddy Transformers 2 gets worst reviews of the year. Didn't see that coming. 15:33 bone daddy Saturday, June 20, 2009A Literary Legend Fights for a Ventura County Library - NYTimes.com: "'Libraries raised me,' Mr. Bradbury said. 'I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.'" Labels: Books 12:34 c-dog Friday, June 19, 2009
Unlistenable, But Nice Job on the Video Try JibJab Sendables® eCards today! Labels: Obama, youtube goodness 22:32 c-dog
A Little Pre-Father's Day Bizarreness  GET MORE AT ManBabies.com! Looks like a Slitheen. Labels: interweb 21:17 c-dog Thursday, June 18, 2009New Features Added to Google Books It's easier to link now. This is just a little test to see how it looks, but it is something I am meaning to get around to reading one of these days. 20:50 c-dog Auto-Tuning is NOT NOT NOT Dead, Just Ask Home Page Guy! Auto Tuning from Casey Donahue on Vimeo. Labels: auto-tuning, youtube goodness 18:34 c-dog Give it a Sec ... Cool K-9 Illusion Labels: doctor who, youtube goodness 18:25 c-dog Wednesday, June 17, 2009Top Ten Gypsy Curses in Film and Television « Cinematropolis: Seeing the trailer for Drag Me to Hell got me thinking, "it's been a while since we've seen the gypsy curse in action." I started wracking my brain trying to think of other examples, but the only other ones I could remember were Angel, the gypsy fortune teller machine in Big, and Lon Chaney's Wolfman. Yet, the gypsy curse seems like such a famous device it must be more common. That's when I went searching and found the Cinematropolis link, which arose from the same prompting. Aside from King's Thinner, which I'd forgotten, I don't think I'd even so much as heard of the other references. (I'm not convinced the X-Files one is accurate and am years removed from having watched and episode of The Simpsons.) There must be other notable gypsy curses, perhaps in comic books, that I'm forgetting? For some reason Abbott & Costello keeps coming to mind, but dang if I can recall why. Maybe there was a gypsy in A&C Meet Frankenstein? Labels: comics, Lists, movies, TV 14:19 c-dog |
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