Archive for October, 2008

I would totally be into being resuscitated to the beat of Staying Alive, if it came to that.

"It was really overwhelming when I saw that I had arms again."

"This Was His Best Debate So Far. He Was Able To Set The Agenda On A Lot Of Issues Like Taxes, Especially With Joe Wurzelbacher." McCain adds a new plank to the Republican platform.

"A musician who underwent brain surgery to treat a hand tremor played his banjo throughout to test the success of the procedure."

Not a travel plan, but a Mountain Goats song. Also, it just took me like 4 tries to spell Reykjavik correctly. I'm getting rusty.

Wow. Took them long enough to release these on DVD and now they go and put them all online.

A lot of Green-Wood uses the "family plot" model, where family members are all buried together in a single plot, tomb, or what have you. In the areas we walked around in last night, a lot of the plots are marked by a single larger monumnent, and then individuals are marked by smaller stones indicating only kinship, such as "Father," "Mother," or "Uncle." Sometimes initials were used instead of kinship relations.

Apparently the chapel at Green-wood is fairly busy. There had been a wedding there earlier in the day.

I underexposed this a little hard, but as I recall, I was facing New Jersey at this point.

This was a definite "Whaa?" moment for me during the second debate. McCain called Obama out for earmarking $3 mil for an "overhead projector" for a planetarium. Nevermind that those things could only barely be called "overhead projectors," never mind that they're used to teach science, never mind that museums across the country get federal funding for this stuff. And never mind that the earmark was not in fact, funded.