everything is going to be fine

watching mark do a keg stand in my backyard at 4 in the morning after my birthday party while the last five people still there danced to hall & oates, i felt like i did at the end of senior year when everyone was rolling around on my living room floor to tears for fears. like i've managed my life pretty well so far.

like a bird

last night when my mother came over to a deliver a fan to my apartment, my superintendent was hanging around outside with a parrot on his shoulder (as he is wont to do). so naturally we started talking about pet parrots, and my mother says, "parrots have very deep emotions. maybe deeper than humans."

i can buy that animals feel. but deeper than humans? really?

hercules hede of the day

From Greek mythology, Obama learned a lesson

pretty sweet lede of the day

Bush honors basketball champs

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nice comeback, Kansas. Pretty sweet welcome back, too.

why i hate new people

stupidity:

Adam Leibsohn, a 27-year-old communications strategist who makes roughly $60,000 a year and pays $1,650 a month for his own apartment in the East Village, says the trick to squeaking by in the city is to swear off impulse purchases and credit cards . . . “It’s kind of a spartan lifestyle,” he says.

reality: Median income in New York City in 2005: $43,434

moqtada al-sadr cracks me up every time

from the washington post:

Moqtada, his friends said, has always been a prankster, in ways both innocuous and macabre. Once, he made a big show of offering a 7-Up to a student, who was then surprised to learn that Sadr had filled the bottle with water. In a more recent incident, he anonymously sent Shaibani, the aide, text messages threatening to kill him, only to reveal later with laughter that it was all a practical joke.

possibilities

Could an owl, not husband, have killed N. Carolina woman?