My favorite has always been Edwin Moses. Smart *and* one of the most enormously talented atheletes in the history of ever.
Love makes you do the wacky.
Willow ,'Beneath You'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
P.M. Marc - Aug 22, 2008 9:57:19 am PDT #4890 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Connie Neil - Aug 22, 2008 9:59:43 am PDT #4891 of 10003
brillig
Eddie the Eagle! The Olympian without Peer! Flinging himself to certain doom for the honour of Queen and Country!
sumi - Aug 22, 2008 10:04:22 am PDT #4892 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
I have to admit I remember my mother and I watching Peggy Fleming when I was a young child.
Aims - Aug 22, 2008 10:08:40 am PDT #4893 of 10003
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I am long with the Nadia love.
shrift - Aug 22, 2008 10:11:35 am PDT #4894 of 10003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Wow. Discovering that you're in the background footage of a band interview? Deeply bizarre.
sumi - Aug 22, 2008 10:12:07 am PDT #4895 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
Details!!!
Theodosia - Aug 22, 2008 10:12:40 am PDT #4896 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Hell, it takes enough skill and guts just to go off one of those ski jumps without killing yourself that I'm not going to begrudge Eddie-the-Eagle his moment of fleeting fame.
shrift - Aug 22, 2008 10:26:10 am PDT #4897 of 10003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Details!!!
The perils of being a fan of a no-name Chicago band. They were shooting video outside Metro, and I was standing in line and occasionally chatting with band members.
I can see myself spotting the camera in the first few seconds of the video and obviously going, "OH, HELL NO."
sumi - Aug 22, 2008 10:27:04 am PDT #4898 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
Hilarious.
Steph L. - Aug 22, 2008 10:29:05 am PDT #4899 of 10003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
It's gotten really dark here in the past few minutes. Now the wind's picked up--I think we're going to get rain. (It's even darker further north, towards the Wisconsin/Illinois line.)
Just checked the radar. It's a small cell right over us, heading rapidly northeast for the lake.
About 20 minutes ago I hung out some laundry to dry, and -- hand to god -- as I hung the last item, a big bank of potentially ominous clouds rolled in. It's not yet raining, and it's 91, so I'm leaving the clothes out as long as I can (in 91-degree weather, they should dry quickly). I'm just keeping one eye on the windows so I can dash out back if it starts to rain.
Damn you, weather gods!