Those “Bikini Girls” who kept getting all the attention from the cameramen during the NFC Championship game last Sunday are busy enjoying their 15 minutes of fame for being willing to take off their shirts in minus-4-degree weather.
But they’re just amateurs compared to what the citizens of Verkhoyansk, Russia have to manage. Verkhoyansk is the coldest city in the world, with an average daily temperature for January of -49 Celsius (-56 Fahrenheit). Human flesh freezes in a matter of seconds at those temperatures, and in the capital of the Yakutia province, the government officially warns people not to wear eyeglasses outdoors because they will instantly freeze to your face.
“Show us your ta-tas!” isn’t a football cheer in Verkhoyansk, it’s a death threat!
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, just so we [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT. Since you cannot click [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and neatly into [...]
