November 2008
Blue Angels Hold First-Ever Open Tryouts
87 Dead, 243 Injured in Day 1 of Weeklong Event
PENSACOLA, FL—Harold Enderby’s friends say that when he first saw the Navy’s televised announcement that the Flight Demonstration Squadron, better known as the Blue Angels, would be holding open tryouts for the first time in its history, the lifelong aviation buff turned to his fellow sanitation workers at Doug’s Dugout Bar-N-Grill...
the parrot
A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird’s mouth was rude, obnoxious, and laced with profanity. John tried and tried to change the bird’s attitude by consistently saying only polite words, playing soft music, and anything else he could think of to “clean up” the bird’s...
Take Back Your Time Day →
and on the blog, Paved Paradise (part three), or What is your “fullocity”? http://simplyscott.wordpress.com/
Saturday • December 13 • 11AM–3PM: SOCK MONKEY...
Baltimore Md / American Visionary Art Museum Saturday • December 13 • 11AM–3PM: SOCK MONKEY SATURDAY! Don’t let the holidays drive you BANANAS! Relax by making your very own Sock Monkey. A great last-minute gift! And something just fun to do! FREE, but you must bring 2 pairs of (clean) socks to get in! Instructions, stuffing, sewing needles, thread, visionary baubles, and camaraderie...
20 Stupidest GI Joe Vehicles Ever!!! →
Toccata and Fugue (short story reprise) →
excerpt:
The sheets smelled like vomit. Her vomit. There was no doubt about that. And she could taste it still. She’d had to swallow most of it down to keep from choking, to keep from making any more noise. Just doing so had almost made her puke again, and the horrid emptiness in her stomach, less from the vomit than the overwhelming fear, kept her from retching again.
Should the Government Bail Out the Big Three U.S....
what to do with American automakers? attach requirements to the money with expectations of alternate fuel vehicles, extended mpg requirements and the return of mass transit, fulled by the (former) “auto” industry — buses, trains, trolleycars, trams, monorails, and shuttles.
Recycling: the good, the bad and the ugly →
Be like the Obamas: Get Married -- a blog post →
Floating Air Hotel →
So much for the underwater hotel, this one floats in the air like a blimp.
No More Brain Drain →
Watchouch!
Maryland Outdoor Club →
Put up your dukes →
this is pretty good, so far. several writers contribute.
Nerve -- embarrassing sex letter contest ends...
Who’s got a tale that beats the period-stained panties off of last week’s Red Streak? Who — besides Miss Info — has met an officer of the law halfway through a handjob? Who’s done the Walk of Shame in a Barney Rubble costume, post-Halloween? Send an email to erin@nerve.com by 5:00 p.m. Sunday, November 16, and tell me, in 350 words or fewer, your most mortifying bedtime story....
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the black and white of being the President: Go...
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A few years ago I wrote a piece called “Support Your Local President of the United States”, a play on an old Western called “Support Your Local Sheriff”. It was not a screen play about George W. Bush (yes I agree he was a horrendous President although I won’t go into the reasons now), but it did center around Bush after the 2004 election and just...