Currently browsing the category “just plain weird”.

  • Meet Mister Glitch

    Fred Rogers tries to vote.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuWRj1db-wE

  • Annals of the easily amused.

    They’re harvesting the corn in the huge field across the road, which reminded me of this article:
    Anyone with normal hearing can distinguish between the musical tones in a scale: do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do. We take this ability for granted, but among most mammals the feat is unparalleled.
    This finding is one of [...]

  • George Clooney has good taste.

    He’s doing a film of a truly fascinating book:
    Even the writer can’t believe his luck. The cast of a film version of British journalist Jon Ronson’s acclaimed book The Men Who Stare at Goats sounds too starry to be true. Actor George Clooney, who bought the film rights at the Cannes film festival this spring, [...]

  • Oh my stars and garters.

    An interesting round-up (by a conservative) of this season’s greatest hits in the “conservative” blog world, serious derangement division, includes the following gem (emphasis added).
    Ann Althouse has a unique ability to see things that no one else sees, not unlike my Aunt Agatha, until she was sent away to a rest home and forced to [...]

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  • Paragraph of the day.

    Some reporters have all the fun:
    “My wife’s not a lawn mower, and I didn’t put up an illegal shed just to mess with the township,” said Craig Bowes, 52, who owns a company that cleans supermarket floors.
    Allentown area woman ordered out of ‘bubble’ - Midstate PA Local News, Weather, Sports & Entertainment - PennLive.com.