December 2008

Day 1203: What

December 12, 2008

When vertebrate paleontologists gain access to a video camera and waaay too much time: “Evolution, revolution, Darwinism, skepticism!” (Thanks, Julie, I think?) Tweet

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Day 1203: Christmas (w)Rap

December 12, 2008

Took some time off from the Hostilidays yesterday and watched the bombs fly. Today, we ride. One two! Take that! In recognition of enemy Liprap‘s birthday: Tweet

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Day 1202: It’s Snowing In New Orleans!

December 11, 2008

On this day in the year of my birth, “an Icelandic gunboat opened fire on British fishing vessels in the North Atlantic Sea.” Also on this day in 1997, nations began to sign the Kyoto Treaty on climate change. EDIT: It’s snowing even harder now and the stuff is sticking to the roofs of buildings [...]

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Day 1201: Vern Fonk Creeps Even Me Out

December 10, 2008

Dear Diary, It’s late on Day 1 (for me) of the 2008 Xmas Video Hostilidays. Life is difficult in the trenches – the enemy is a wily one, and a nutria came for my last bite of fruitcake ration but I bravely fought it off with a plastic scabbard saved from Halloween – yet we [...]

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Day 1201: It’s About The Cross

December 10, 2008

Dear Greg, it’s on! Tweet

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Day 1200: Diverse Louisiana?

December 9, 2008

It just dawned on me that, for all of its backasswardsness, Louisiana gave the nation its first Indian-American governor and its first Vietnamese-American congressperson. I’m sure most of you got this when the election results were announced, but hey, I’m still coming off the NyQuil. Score one and two for diversity! The Multi-Cultural Party In [...]

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Day 1199: Another Account Of School Censorship

December 8, 2008

For the love of freedom, they’re probably not such prudes in Kuwait any more! NewRochelleTalk.com | Now Playing in New Rochelle, “Book, Interrupted”! Students at New Rochelle School High School are going to find it difficult to complete their next assignment: comparing the film adaptation of “Girl, Interrupted” to the best-selling book. In the book, [...]

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Day 1198: Mark Your Calendars

December 7, 2008

The upcoming Krewe du Vieux parade falls on February 7th, 2009. Tweet

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Day 1197: More Saturday Morning Goodies

December 6, 2008

* Can’t stop laughing at Jeffrey’s post on the announcement of a new biosafety laboratory inside the Tulane National Primate Research Center in Covington. Never mind the obvious implications of placing a hazardous facility in a hurricane-prone zone. Jeffrey references not one, not two, but three instances of Escape From Covington by dozens of research [...]

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