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everyone go to www.thedailyshow.com and watch the 20 october episode. in the second segment they interview the current mayor of wasilla, alaska. it's.......just watch it. by the way, for those of you who are wondering (and i know you all are), wasilla has exactly one zip code: 99654. i remember this from when i worked for the post office. shit, i never talk about that, cos i like surprising alaskan folks with my esoteric knowledge.
changing the topic from people unqualified for a federal post to people who will or have occupied the white house, today i saw a statue dedicated to this american hero. (this is hard on the heels of seeing some pictures devoted to him last week.) being at wikipedia for a change (God, being back in the state is going to be terrible if i keep going there like i'm used to), i of course had to follow the link to this intriguing page, where i found out all sorts of other fantastic information.
for instance, did you know that FDR's first dog was named Flamer? (double-check me if you don't believe it. and yes, i'm assuming that the one at the bottom of the list came first, since i know Fala was last.) and that George Washington has not just "dogs" but "staghounds" and "black and tan coonhounds," the second of which combines not only the wonderfulness of a dog breed named after a beer but the separate wonderfulness of a very specific and hilarious type of not-a-"dog"-but-a-"hound." J. Q. Adams had some weird shit, and his dad really knew how to name his dogs (as did Washington, now that i re-examine his hound-naming prowess).
but easily the best one is Coolidge. he's got lions, bobcat, donkeys, a wallaby, a "birddog" named OK Computer, some fucking raccoons (for God's sake), and of course Billy---who you know *has to* have his own wiki page, because could it possibly be any other way?
i saw Fala when i was walking around the tidal basin again today. this time it was with Sonya, a nice girl from chicago that was going to arlington at the same time i was. we walked around the graveyard, saw the changing of the guard, then walked over to Lincoln, FDR, and Jefferson. she happened to be meeting someone on the red line (of the metro...er, the subway), which is the same line i was taking out to blooma's house. so we even rode the train together. this was cool cos i got to see her friend's rather brilliant trick to make sure they met up and also didn't have to wait for the next train. "go to the very last car in the train; i'll join you." brilliant.
changing the topic from people unqualified for a federal post to people who will or have occupied the white house, today i saw a statue dedicated to this american hero. (this is hard on the heels of seeing some pictures devoted to him last week.) being at wikipedia for a change (God, being back in the state is going to be terrible if i keep going there like i'm used to), i of course had to follow the link to this intriguing page, where i found out all sorts of other fantastic information.
for instance, did you know that FDR's first dog was named Flamer? (double-check me if you don't believe it. and yes, i'm assuming that the one at the bottom of the list came first, since i know Fala was last.) and that George Washington has not just "dogs" but "staghounds" and "black and tan coonhounds," the second of which combines not only the wonderfulness of a dog breed named after a beer but the separate wonderfulness of a very specific and hilarious type of not-a-"dog"-but-a-"hound." J. Q. Adams had some weird shit, and his dad really knew how to name his dogs (as did Washington, now that i re-examine his hound-naming prowess).
but easily the best one is Coolidge. he's got lions, bobcat, donkeys, a wallaby, a "birddog" named OK Computer, some fucking raccoons (for God's sake), and of course Billy---who you know *has to* have his own wiki page, because could it possibly be any other way?
i saw Fala when i was walking around the tidal basin again today. this time it was with Sonya, a nice girl from chicago that was going to arlington at the same time i was. we walked around the graveyard, saw the changing of the guard, then walked over to Lincoln, FDR, and Jefferson. she happened to be meeting someone on the red line (of the metro...er, the subway), which is the same line i was taking out to blooma's house. so we even rode the train together. this was cool cos i got to see her friend's rather brilliant trick to make sure they met up and also didn't have to wait for the next train. "go to the very last car in the train; i'll join you." brilliant.