If you’ve been thinking about running in the Boston Marathon this year, you are already too late to sign up, even though the race is still almost 10 weeks away, according to this True/Slant blogger. The open slots were filled all the way back in November. It’s only the second time in the race’s history that all the available slots have been taken.
However, if you’re a fan of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Little House” books, there’s still plenty of time to register for LauraPalooza 2010, being held in July in Mankato, Minnesota. The final details for the conference schedule will be announced over the weekend, but you can already make your reservations for lodging at the university which is hosting the conference. You don’t have to run 26.2 miles, either…although they may be arranging for a plague of locusts, a blizzard, or some other “Little House”-style entertainment.
Yes, badgers do have vanilla creme filling, but who could resist these delightful chocolate hedgehogs!
Ooh, I hate it when that happens: How To Fall 35,000 Feet And Survive Protip: Carry an ACME Brand parasol at all times!
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 [...]
