This video makes me really happy about the fact that in 30 days, I’ll be home.
The Nola Chamber of Commerce should put this video on their website. It’s wonderful.
As the dancers effortlessly swing, hop and sashay throughout New Orleans – from the abandoned Six Flags amusement park to Marigny balconies and a streetcar gliding down St. Charles Avenue – it’s impossible not to get completely swept up in the entire thing.
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Happy birthday to Philip Glass, born today in 1937, and the man behind the music in this classic Sesame Street clip.
For a midafternoon snack, Sitko sometimes eats 10 bananas.
that’s what she said
Stumptown Girl: An indie-rock star satirizes hipster culture, on “Portlandia.”
“Portlandia,” which débuted last winter, on the Independent Film Channel, and returns on January 6th, is the rare sketch-comedy series that has a sustained object of satire. It’s about life in hipster enclaves, and the self-consciousness that makes hipsters desperately disavow the label. Many of its characters are caught up in the prideful culture of D.I.Y. entrepreneurship, in which people reject office jobs in favor of becoming, say, an appliqué-pillow designer with a page on Etsy.-
Interesting peek into the relationship between Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen.
Ron Swanson coffee mug
