Archive for August, 2009
TMK Stadium?
Posted on August 26, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Nationals Park, Ted Kennedy | Leave a Comment
I’m not expecting it or anything, but it would be a wonderful gesture if the Lerner family took this opportunity to alter their ballpark’s name. I think locals would be very accepting of the change; Ted Kennedy certainly had a presence in our city, and it would be a nice reflection of the old RFK [...]
Goodbye To A Lion
Posted on August 26, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Ted Kennedy, health care, liberals, obituaries | Leave a Comment
The one thing I’ll remember about Senator Kennedy, above all else, is that he was always there.
That may not sound like much, but it truly means quite a lot. Kennedy was a constant in our national politics, from the time when my parents were kids until today. For just shy of fifty years he fought [...]
I Guess He Almost Cost Me But Promptly Turned Around And Saved Me $10
Posted on August 11, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Inglourious Basterds, movies | Leave a Comment
So I didn’t really know what Inglourious Basterds was about, beyond it being “Quentin Tarantino’s World War II flick with Brad Pitt.”
Then I read the first page of Jeffrey Goldberg’s Atlantic article on the film and thought, “Well, that sounds like a pretty cool concept (despite Goldberg’s creepy lede and my concern regarding the involvement [...]
Greatest Dracula Adaptation Ever
Posted on August 11, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under comics | Leave a Comment
Go read Abhay Khosla’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula. It’s hysterical.
(Parts two and three are also available at that site; four and five are supposed to be coming soon.)
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It’s Funny Because You Supposedly Have One Of America’s Best Newspapers
Posted on August 4, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under The Washington Post, the media | Leave a Comment
Wait, is this satire? I can’t tell; maybe it’s real.
Whoever created this video did a great job. If you don’t get the joke, go read this not so humorous story from last week.
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Pearl Jam Is Confused By The Intertubes
Posted on August 3, 2009 by andrew- Filed Under Pearl Jam, music, the internets | Leave a Comment
I find this interesting for two reasons:
1) I’m one of those people who misses album art and liner notes in this otherwise wonderful digital age, and Tom Tomorrow’s art for the album is pretty cool.
2) “Find images from the album that have been scattered across the Net, and win a free downloadable mp3 of a [...]
