Books: Touch and Go
December 17, 2008 | Books
I just finished reading Studs Terkel’s memoir, Touch and Go. Anyone?
That was a size 10 shoe he threw at me
George Bush,Iraq,Media,Politics,SNL,Television,U.S. government
That’s what President George W. Bush said after ducking shoes thrown at him by an Iraqi journalist.
See? Everyone’s a comedian. Maybe he’s lobbying for Amy Pohler’s old job on Saturday Night Live.
Dude, where’s my $700 billion?
Banks,Economics,Ethics,Leslie Bennetts,Movies,No clothes!,Politics,SLBTM,U.S. government
Headline of the day. But, then, I’m partial to the whole Dude headline theme. Maybe I should see the movie, eh?
You say it’s your birthday …
Birthday,Goon Squad Sarah
It’s my birthday too, yeah.
Happy birthday, Sarah!
Have a piece of my cake. Angel food. Mmm.
They tried to put the girls’ last candles on the cake (you do the math), but they kept falling over. That’s OK. I got to be 1 again instead.
Posted by Becky @ 12:13 am | 12 Comments
Still freezing …
December 15, 2008 | Iowa,Weather,Winter
… with jaw-dropping (or -locking) 30-degree-below-zero windchill.
Is that even legal?
Well, it shouldn’t be.
Posted by Becky @ 7:42 pm | 2 Comments
Walking in a winter wonderland
December 9, 2008 | Iowa,Weather,Winter
Well … sort of.
It’s our first snow day.
Posted by Becky @ 8:33 am | 2 Comments
Abba dabba dabba dabba dabba dabba dabba, said the monkey to the chimp
December 6, 2008 | Words
Sayings that make me giggle.
“It’s always in the last place you look.”
Well, actually, it’s usually in the second-to-last place I look. Because after I’ve found it? I like to keep looking.
Gandy, Smeal: Maloney should replace Clinton
December 4, 2008 | 2008 campaign,Barack Obama,Colbert Report,Hillary Clinton,Politics
The National Organization for Women sent a press release today, announcing that the NOW Political Action Committee and the Feminist Majority PAC endorsed Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, D-N.Y., to replace Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., in the Senate if Clinton’s nomination for U.S. Secretary of State goes through.
The press release quoted Kim Gandy, NOW president, and Eleanor Smeal, Feminist Majority president.
Hmm. I wonder why they didn’t announce it on Comedy Central.
I never meant to be so cold
Iowa,Weather
My car tells me the outside temperature. If it could talk like my GPS, though, I think it would have a lot more to say about the current state of arctic affairs. (I keep expecting my GPS to start screaming at me, instead of calmly repeating, “calculating route,” over and over and over again when I don’t do what she tells me to do.)
It’s amazing to watch the inside-the-garage temperature drop to outside-brrr temperature … 30 degrees in two minutes … when I drive to school every day.
It’s almost like watching the stock market.
