"How I believe in God," from Roger Ebert's blog.

Maureen Dowd called up Aaron Sorkin and had him pen a dialogue between Barack Obama and Jed Bartlet. And it is awesome. Thanks to meldraw for pointing it out to me.

If you happen to be in London, that is. If so, you could check out the Architectural Jelly Banquet. Many thanks to snuggle_muffin1, without whom I would never have known about this banquet, OR about the term "jellymonger," which may now be my life's goal.

"What is it that you do?"
"I'm a jellymonger!"
"Awesome."

My friend Mel has written a great bit on her experiences at last Saturday's Nebraska Democratic caucus. If you've never caucused, it's a great read for insight into that process. If you never even plan on caucusing, it's still a good read. If you don't give a crap about politics whatsoever, it's still damn funny, so would you go read it already ( Read more... )

A few links!

* Stephen King's top 10 movies of 2006. There are some spoilers in the descriptions so give it a skim for titles if you are worried about being spoiled.
* A production of David Sedaris' Santaland Diaries is playing locally until 1/7. Anyone else interested?
* And, at last, a grateful public cries out "It's ABOUT DAMN TIME!" for the ( Read more... )

A whitepaper from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (csis.org) entitled, "Biological Warfare and the 'Buffy Paradigm'".

(Yes, they're talking about that Buffy.

Yes indeedy. Walking carnivorous fish. And not far from my hometown!

"Frankenfish" in Crofton

Designer science. I've heard of taking your dead pet to the taxidermist, but
Cloning Your PetI dunno, folks. I mean, I'm all for the advancement of science. But this sounds like two and a half steps (four or more Marlon Brando steps, since lately he's kinda gotta do that mincing thing) short of the Island of Dr. Moreau, eh? Sure, some rich guy ( Read more... )

Usually I don't like the contrived-sounding articles that the papers come up with around Valentine's Day, but this is really interesting. A piece of local history - a downright wacky piece, in fact!

Elkton, Marry-land

What a shame the article doesn't say anything about whether they have Elvises available for your marrying pleasure.