Sun rises on thousands in the buff: Naked crowd in Mexico City eclipses photographer's record

Your Shiny Happy Discount Death: Amongst the bulk cheese and the plasma TVs, a slew of coffins, now at Costco. Bargain! (see also: the author's tricky adds in his blurb at the bottom ( Read more... )

My sister, who writes for the Oregonian, was one of the Pulitzer finalists for feature writing. One might say that we are, as a family, pretty damn proud of her. (Sometimes little girls declare they are going to be writers before even hitting middle school [or junior high], never waver, and grow up to be Pulitzer finalists ( Read more... )

For serious! (It is even on Google today!) It's also my brother's birthday! Happy birthday, John ( Read more... )

1. It was just snowing ( Read more... )

Yeah, I went. :)

More later; I'm off to badminton on three-ish hours of sleep. Have unrealized this and must act on it.

Moby plays in Paris tonight, doing a DJ set, which is incredibly rare for him. I just found out about this.

Do I go?

I'm torn, in case you couldn't tell.

My dad took some (stealthy ninja) pictures of my (immobile until photographed) cat and sent them to me and my brother (the cat moved to my dad's after my brother left for his two months in Japan, which are drawing to a close -- PB was a little too much for his housemates). My dad, as mentioned in the title, has a freaking sweet camera, and a ( Read more... )

Am I wrong for thinking this is kind of funny? I mean I know that the whole ready-gov thing is a bit odd anyhow, but come ON it is just BEGGING for "your mom" jokes.

1) I hate always being in trouble. Isn't it funny how, as we get older, sometimes true things our parents said to us as children become Much More True and Way More Relevant? Getting this in spades ( Read more... )

Who just talked to their brother in Japan ( Read more... )