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.
San Fransisco in Jell-O. Short video on the final page.
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...)
Wunderground
weather blog is tracking Wilma. Great page.
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!
larry
david interviewed by steve inskeep for morning edition npr
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).
dont know if this is new for google or just a clever programmer but it seems like an ad is embedded in this search result.
1937 Mobil Oil Chart Vintage Print AdAdClassix.com is Ads - All Ads - Just Ads. Over 100 years of vintage advertising!
www.adclassix.com/a3/37mobiloil.htm - 17k - Cached - Similar pages
AdClassix.com is the ultimate collection of vintage print advertisements on the net. Browse or buy from our online gallery.
www.adclassix.com/ads/25mobiloil.htm - 15k - -
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