28 Feb
[photo: fotologic]
I’m a little late with this year’s Valentine’s Day blog — I didn’t forget, I was just savoring the moment and besides, the florist was closed when I went by at midnight — but you can’t tell me that romance and true love are going out of style. What? You’re not telling me [...]
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26 Feb
[photo: jurek d.]
I’m not a hunter (although I have gone hunting once in my life and I enjoyed it) but this blog post, if accurate, suggests that a well-respected hunter and writer was punished for not towing some kind of imaginary line. What did he say? He suggested that — just maybe — it wasn’t [...]
Posted in Sports by: Allen
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26 Feb
…a beer. It’s a robotic beer delivery system. The machine is quite impressive. The beer? Less so.
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Hat tip: Gizmodo
Posted in Science & Tech by: Allen
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26 Feb
[photo: powerbooktrance]
The headline was “Gore’s Oscar Fuels Call for Late Run.” Thanks to early morning sleepiness, I thought the headline was suggesting we all go out for coffee. In all honesty, I’m much more excited about the latte than about the other thing.
Bagel?
Posted in Movies, Politics by: Allen
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24 Feb
[photo: kiddharma]
I can’t dance… at all. But nothing makes me wanna dance like being told I’m not supposed to dance.
“Recreational dancing is not a form of expression protected by the federal or state constitutions,” the court wrote.
I’m really glad we got that straightened out. Clearly what needs to happen here is some good old-fashioned civil [...]
Posted in Drugs, Law & Order by: Allen
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23 Feb
[photo: tiagodoria]
I have not much else to add to appeal at Gizmodo.com to boycott the RIAA (Radio Industry Association of America) next month. You can read the whole thing here. I’m just trying to figure out how I can possibly withhold more money in March than I did in January and February. My music collection [...]
Posted in Music by: Allen
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23 Feb
Buy Wild
Originally uploaded by AllenThompson.
Yesterday I was out snapping pictures of anything that would stand still (and a few things that wouldn’t) when I came upon this rather ironic scene. There’s just not much wildlife left to support in this small, neglected strip of land [...]
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20 Feb
[photo: Lorri37]
Most of what I see on Wonkette is hyperbolic raving (or ranting) about one or another Washington D.C. event or person. I keep coming back because, even when they’re taking someone I admire down, they’re doing it with class — or with what passes for class on Wonkette. Even when I strongly disagree, I’m [...]
Posted in Politics, Science & Tech by: Allen
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18 Feb
[photo: jonfeinstein]
I wasn’t going to blog on this terrible turn of events but TT and I started riffing on it this morning over coffee. As you may have heard (and, honestly, where could you have been to prevent the hearing?), Britney Spears, after spending one day in rehab decided to shave her head. According to [...]
Posted in Movies, Music, Stuff, TV by: Allen
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17 Feb
[photo: Tom (hmm a rosa tint)]
Most people want to be buried in the ground inside a casket after they die. I like this guy’s style. If you really love something, try to die whilst doing it.
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Police called to a Long Island man’s house discovered the mummified remains of the resident, dead [...]
Posted in Stuff, TV by: Allen
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