home again! marvelous trip. last evening involved rain, a ridiculously recalcitrant wheelchair and meeting up with brewsternorth and (briefly) triedunture and attempting to find both dinner and an accessible bathroom in midtown. i did get to the zoo and there are tons of pics and even some video ( Read more... )

just a few recent ones:

man admits taking part in over 100million dollar Securitas raid

children's tylenol product recall Important.

mayor of kiev bans hotel on WWII massacre site

david attenborough's fifty favorite natural history momentsplan: coffee, zoo with penguin highlights (polar bears not accessible, which is Suck, but everything else ( Read more... )

today at 2:30pm there is a penguin tour/feeding/talk. the zoo is wheelchair accessible and easily reachable by bus.

(and: these are the same penguins featured in 'and tango makes three' that kids' book with the gay penguins i keep squeeing about.)

SO EXCITED YOU HAVE NO IDEA.

sleep nao

i have had a marvelous weekend in new york with adularia, including but not limited to:

• cheap and amazing dumplings and perfect sexy-nommy scallion veggie filled pancake
  
• drinking perfect coffee with a lovely girl on a lovely early fall evening
  
• window shopping around lower manhattan
  
• the moma design store (design stores are FUN, especially with a design ( Read more... )

successfully red-eye'd it and landed in boston this morning! listened to broadway classics all night while sleeping badly. desperately want an xm radio now. rescued from the airport by the_new_perfect, went to her place, napped, chilled out and i think tomorrow we're checking out northhampton, and then cindy_lou_who8 is picking me up in the evening. totally LJ bankrupt but i ( Read more... )

clickies from mactavish and magie_05. animals and diseases today with a side of children (who are also animals i suppose)

simon's cat in 'fly guy' short animated cartoon, worksafe. pretty visually necessary, sound recommended (the sounds are adorable)

today's daily otter is ADORABLE BEYOND BELIEF

chicago plague related death: federal health officials probe ( Read more... )