Unless I had a mutant of some sort, that rumor is busted. It took off quite easily from the ground.

A lacrosse stick to fight bats is brilliant! Keeping this in mind if I am ever confronted with the challenge.

this just happened about 2 hrs ago



3 dead, 24+ injured

i wasn't there

Till hasn't topped 87 here this summer. Global warming is a myth like carbon-14 dating

5 dead, 48 injured...

i was sitting out on the porch an hour north when that blew in, and i pretty much thought i was gonna die too

More 90+ days here than in any other summer on record. Or, at least damn close to it.
You were saying?

Hasn't rained here since late May, and on Saturday we (barely) broke a streak of 28 straight over 100 degree days. And that streak was preceded by about three straight weeks of 100+.

Global warming or not, this is fucking brutal.

It was 69 degrees on my way into work this morning. I actually had the windows cracked. Felt like we'd finally wrestled out from Summer's grip and the big fade towards Fall might've begun....

Of course this means we'll probably have a heat wave the first week in September.

We just had a 40-day 100+ streak broken last Thursday.

Wow, Google is buying Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion.

25. Mark E Smith on Mumford & Sons
“There was this other group warming up … and they were terrible. I said, ‘Shut them cunts up!’ And they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them … I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers.”

<3

The Clapton one was best.

my favorite is:

14. Noel Gallagher on Jack White
“He looks like Zorro on doughnuts.”

interesting that 'She's a vile human being with no redeeming qualities' was only 5th or 6th.

I'm sure Luke Haines has ones that are much more scathing than these. The author probably has no idea who he is though...

Diamond Dave on Elvis Costello was the best.

Also: while I can agree with Coyne about Arcade Fire, it's kind of obvious. A Li'l Lord Fauntleroy who went to prep school disdains pretty much everybody not in his band/peer group? Color me shocked.

"Elliott from Harvard, the hitch hikers you picked up need the pills from your car. Meet them at the information centre right away."

While you ninnies are wittering on about the weather like a bunch of straights, a bunch of Norman Normals, least we forget today, TODAY, is the forty second anniversary of Woodstock. Remember, keep off the brown acid and keep on with the rain chant.

OOOOOOOOOOOHHHH OOOOHHH OH OH OH! OOOOOOOOOOOHHHH OOOOHHH OH OH OH! OOOOOOOOOOOHHHH OOOOHHH OH OH OH! OOOOOOOOOOOHHHH OOOOHHH OH OH OH!

Wow, everybody hates Morrissey LOL

Just finished reading The Princess Bride.
Amazingly, the book is just as good as the movie.

And, oddly enough, the author of the book, who also wrote the screenplay, as well as the screenplays to All the President's Men and Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, is from the town where I grew up. Kinda gives me a sense of hometown pride that I never really had before.*





*Although Steppenwolf Theater also began in the basement of a church in the same town. So, that was a little something, too.

Interesting that this has as much to do with protecting themselves from frivolous patent lawsuits as it does with developing mobile handsets.