1) A woman walks by shouting excitedly into her cellphone something approximately like "Yeah! People were jumping off... I had to jump off... yeah, and that's why I've been in therapy to deal with these issues! And he isn't dealing with it... I don't go around sharing this stuff with everybody..." (Um... I think you just did...)
2) A couple walks by. I don't catch what the guy says, but I do hear the woman say, "Can we skip the part where he has sex with everybody?"
Thank you all for sharing.
The famed comedian said the $45 million (U.S.) remake of his own film and broadway smash, The Producers, won't be shot here because of our bagels.
"The bagels, just the bagels alone," he said. "You go to Toronto, they're mushy."
Brooks, a Brooklyn native, will instead shoot the movie at a new studio in his native borough.
Brooks also said new financial incentives and his love of New York helped persuade him to shoot at the recently opened Steiner Studios.
Having been to Toronto, and having just attended a wedding featuring a brunch with bagels brought from Toronto, I can testify that the food there is great and the bagels were better than most around the Bay Area.
I suppose New York could use the moral boost (and Brooks could use the financial incentives). But Mel, why did you need to diss Toronto?
My mom and I were supposed to go meet with the caterer, but when she met me at Lake Merritt BART, I noticed her car had a flat tire. Luckily we were right by a "pod" and I had my membership card with me. So I drove a silver station wagon to our appointment. On the way, as we were about to turn onto the road that leads into Alameda from Fruitvale, I noticed a van next to us that said "Corporation Busters" — it was a (perhaps the) Nader/Camejo 2004 van. Are they in the area? (Yes, I resisted the urge to yell "Kerry/Edwards 2004, W00t!" out the window.)
Anyway, if you live in the Bay Area, go visit www.citycarshare.org . I'm sure Nader would approve.
Yep, they're on KQKE 960 AM as of today sometime.
Their monicker? THE QUAKE. Heh.
It was kind of a gentle, rolling sort of motion, just enough to get my window shades rattling and to move a door in the other room. Nothing online about it yet.
Update: Yep, it was a 6.0, and it was on the Central Coast, probably almost 200 miles away!
A strong earthquake occurred at 10:15:24 AM (PDT) on Tuesday, September 28, 2004.
The magnitude 5.9 event occurred 14 km (9 miles) NNW of Shandon, CA.
The hypocentral depth is 1 km ( 1 mile).
I was in Santa Cruz during the 1989 quake. My next-door neighbors had several parrots, and one of them supposedly used to squawk "Earthquake, earthquake that was!" after each aftershock. Heh.
Update: there was a 5.0 quake following the first one... and it was actually 270 miles away. Wow.
Update: they're having a bunch of aftershocks, including a 3.5 and a 4.7. That could go on for a while (we had them for a few weeks in Santa Cruz.)
A new study (a couple of them, actually) finds that walking can block dementia in the elderly. The article also mentions that Europeans in their 70s, 80s, and 90s had a 65% lower mortality risk if they ate a "Mediterranean" diet, exercised moderately (again with the walking), didn't smoke, and drink alcohol moderately. That doesn't sound so bad, does it?
Here's a "translation" of John Kerry's positions on Iraq from Slate. A sample: "Bush says Kerry habitually contradicts himself. Kerry's answer is that Bush habitually contradicts the facts. In his speech, Kerry cites Bush's claims about Iraq's WMD (contradicted by Bush's chief inspector), its links to al-Qaida (contradicted by the 9/11 commission), the trustworthiness of Ahmad Chalabi (contradicted by recent intelligence), and a host of postwar conditions—Iraqis' embrace of their liberators; the adequacy of the current number of troops; the size and readiness of postwar Iraqi security forces, and the trend of postwar fighting—all of which are contradicted by data and independent reporting on the ground."
A column in the Miami Herald which warns that "Any day on the calendar could be the next 9/11. Anyone who thinks that impossible or even unlikely because the president has ''taken the fight to the terrorists' is risking a nasty shock."
The RNC/GOP mailer that's been making the rounds in the South. The design is just about as ugly as the message.
I rarely watch television and I don't live in a swing state, so I don't get to see a lot of campaign ads. This may make up for it.
Zogby International says that the presidential race is a dead heat (which may make 2000 look like a walk in the park), Americans are overwhelmingly unhappy about outsourcing jobs overseas, and Muslims are flocking to back Kerry.
And that's the way it is.
THE police were in hot pursuit. So he threw the baby girl from his moving car, then took off again.
Later, he died when his car hit a road block, the US police said yesterday.
The dramatic car chase was caught on video and released on television, stunning US viewers.
The incident began as a domestic dispute between a couple in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, but escalated into an attempted kidnapping.
The baby survived without a scratch, quite possibly because of the car seat she was strapped into. (Wonder which brand?)
Many morals of the story here, folks: 1) babies are less fragile than they look, 2) carseats save lives, 3) don't be a violent deranged asshole and 4) if you insist on driving like one, get rid of yourself and don't take anybody else with you!
Every now and then when I'm walking to BART, I see something that makes me pause and scratch my head.
Grand Avenue has more than its share of odd signage, I think. This is the place, after all, with the gourmet chocolate shop nestled next to the Weight Watchers office.
So on the left we have a sign for a copy place. Most of those items make sense, but what the heck could "Fairy Out Put" be? It took me a second to realize they were talking about "Fiery Output" — "Fiery" being a type of color printer. (OK, it's a strange name to begin with, but what can you do.)
The other sign is your standard "Keep Oakland Clean!" type of deal. I've seen it a million times. For some reason, though, this time when I walked by it I really started thinking about the sentence construction and possible sinister interpretations of it.
Think about it. "Take pride in Oakland. Put litter in its place." Put litter in place of your pride in Oakland? Huh?
Maybe I should drink coffee before I walk out the door.
