RB and I are watching a rerun of SNL as I type this. Oooo-weeee… What up with that! What up with that! Anyway. For your Tuesday pleasure, a few intriguing lists I’ve seen floating around the Internets. 1. 15 Wonderful Words with No English Equivalent (via Mentalfloss.com). These are all fantastic, but my favorite is “Iktsuarpok,” [...]
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A whole week of sha-a-arks
I’ve posted this before, but can’t resist doing so again, in honor of Shark Week.
Is your house famous?
An excellent and easy-to-use mashup from Box Office Quant pinpoints the locations where scenes from more than a thousand movies were shot. How else would I have ever known that a scene from Jaws II was filmed mere miles from where I grew up? Or that the slumber party scene in Grease, one of my [...]
My new favorite game
I have a new favorite game. It’s called “cornhole.” It’s really simple: you throw beanbags at a slightly slanted piece of plywood, trying to make them land on the wood (1 point) or go through a single hole that’s been drilled into it (3 points). It’s like horseshoes, but without the shoulder strain. Here is [...]
At the neighborhood car wash
Living in LA, you never know what you’ll see. Specifically, you never know what weird celebrity moment you might have on any given day. At my local car wash in DC, the most interesting thing you’d see was the occasional black Lincoln towncar used to ferry some congressman around. Here, a trip to the car [...]
Yea or Nay?
1. Fingertoe shoes: Orthopedically sensational invention that cool people wear? Or fashion disaster? 2. X-Men: Moving allegory for discrimination in our nation’s history? Or goofy comic-book franchise? 3. Anthony Weiner: Resign? Or stay? 4. Lance Armstrong: Doper? Or unfairly maligned champion? 5. Edible gift for Father’s Day? Or… a tie?:
Views from my windows
One of my favorite features of Andrew Sullivan’s blog, The Dish, is “The View from Your Window.” Readers from all over the world send in photos they’ve taken while looking out their windows, and each day he publishes one. I love taking a peek through someone else’s window and getting a little taste of what [...]
A supposedly fun thing I’ll never do again
I’ve been playing this game a long time: Ever since I was little, I liked to play hard and get dirty on the field. I still love it now. Oh, don’t worry – I’m not going to stop playing softball. It’s too much fun. What I am going to stop doing [...]
