This clever and engaging little video was forwarded to me by a friend. I’ve been pining for a Trader Joe’s in Charlottesville since moving here almost two years ago (the closest one is in Richmond). I think this video is so good because it captures the essence – good, bad, and just plain weird – [...]
Categories: Videos
Tagged: charlottesville, richmond, trader joes, video, youtube
I’m in Portland, Oregon, at my mom’s place for Christmas. My flight landed on Friday evening just as it really started snowing in earnest. Since then, we’ve had probably 18 inches and it’s still coming down. Things were mostly shut down over the weekend, with unreliable public transportation and iced-over roads. Though it’s been a [...]
Categories: Miscellany,Videos
Tagged: benny hill, christmas, for emma forever ago, oregon, portland
During an unannounced visit to Iraq today, our esteemed president was pelted with shoes by an Iraqi journalist in the middle of a press conference. As they say, a picture is a thousand words – making this 30-frames-per-second video worth nearly 112,000 words – but I’ll just say that a shoe is of special significance [...]
Tagged: george w bush, iraq, Politics