i was just watching an episode of match game. gene rayburn finished asking a question and the laugh track kicked in. rayburn immediately turned to someone off camera and rebuked them, "its not that funny, sam." i suppose he thought theyd cut that bit out.
have you seen google earth? "pritty...pritty...pritty" cool.
nearly FREE PIZZA via a guy in new york
San Fransisco in Jell-O. Short video on the final page.
exquisite corpse
Festival Express on Showtime at 9:30 tonight.
Fall menu, with extensive pictures and notes, from Grant Achatz's Alinea in Chicago. (It takes a couple comments for the thread to get going...)
squared circle
Wunderground weather blog is tracking Wilma. Great page.
asses and aspens all acluster.
The Hearst Tower discussion continues: 33 / 34 / 35

Someone makes the point that the top of the addition looks "lopped off." Agreed, from the original plan photos I thought it would be tapering, not boxy at the top. From the ground it does appear to taper. But from the side, at a distance, you can see it's just another damn box with a fake geodesic exterior. And the relationship to the "base"--hoo wheee. Check out the photos in the thread of the Urban Ziegfeld interiors--wild!
sideways on hbo again tonight - thats right im payin' for it!

i caught most of it in the middle of the night last week - i think its great and ripe for a second viewing
larry david interviewed by steve inskeep for morning edition npr
sk8 tv 1990 on gas(nick)
Pretty nice 360 degree panorama of NYC skyline.
Marijuana spurs brain cell growth (well, okay, in rats.) Still.
who said theyres nothing fun to do in culpeper, va? i wonder what The Great Pumpkin has to say about all this.
this is the car show thread - classic rides ch DIY - restoring a 1970 air stream trailer - 1st episode in the series - on now!
Dave and I once talked about opening a bar called "Pong Bar" that featured tons video game consoles from our youth. This ebay auction is all somebody needs to win to make the dream come true.
some oddities today on tcm including roman polanskis "horror comedy" The Fearless Vampire Killers (now playing).
goddamned hollywood liberals....
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pre-yat trivia answer-- this explains why the "winged wheel" but not what the winged wheel means. fucking inscrutable canucks.
Lost all my HBO channels. D'oh. Not something I would pay for, but it was nice while it lasted.
rip louis nye - himslef/judge on $1.98 beauty contest among other achievements