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USA! USA!
In honor of the double-plus impending international sporting event, I give you proof that the USA is clearly – clearly – the winner of the world cup of moustaches. Via The Baseball Chick.
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Thought while moving
I pushed back the door of the U-Haul truck and the hot, dry air made my eyes tear up. The image I couldn’t get out of my mind, as we unloaded boxes and furniture, was of the antechambers of King Tut’s tomb. “Wonderful things,” Howard Carter said as he peered into the dark – furniture [...]
This Is Not My Beautiful Camera
Special Live from Villesèque des Corbiéres Edition…
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From Pyongyang to Afrikaans in 32 Days: Portugal
This is the twenty-fifth installment in BBB’s Sports Department countdown to the World Cup. Most days leading up to kickoff a team will be presented for its most compelling rooting interest. Teams will be listed in reverse order of their quality, based on Nate Silver’s excellent Soccer Power Index. Today: Portugal There is not so [...]
From Pyongyang to Afrikaans in 32 Days: Uruguay
This is the twenty-fourth installment in BBB’s Sports Department countdown to the World Cup. Most days leading up to kickoff a team will be presented for its most compelling rooting interest. Teams will be listed in reverse order of their quality, based on Nate Silver’s excellent Soccer Power Index. Today: Uruguay Uruguay is a forgotten [...]
“Truth, Stranger Than Fiction,” Take 3,971,783,426,001
From the Detroit News, we have this eye-widener: “A man who posed as an Austrian prince but is accused of being one of Michigan’s worst deadbeat dads has been arrested in New York City, officials confirmed Tuesday. [...] Meyers, also known as the Austrian Prince Josef Franz Prach von Habsburg-Lothringen, was sought by the Oakland [...]
From Pyongyang to Afrikaans in 32 Days: Slovakia
This is the fifth installment in BBB’s Sports Department countdown to the World Cup. Each day leading up to kickoff a team will be presented for its most compelling rooting interest. Teams will be listed in reverse order of their quality, based on Nate Silver’s excellent Soccer Power Index. Today: Slovakia Slovakia may appear to [...]
Spike Jones
… is probably still the greatest cowbell player who ever lived. (And no one gets Roethlisbergered in this one…. Except perhaps for that bagpiper at the beginning.)
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There is strange music all around us
For this upsettingly humid Monday, first: When she repeats “around me” around 1:44 I just die every time. And the whole falsetto is just a shade below nails on a chalkboard. Perfect.
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