Granted, I wouldn't use this dress even as a grocery bag. And granted, Mr. Wesley saw only obstacles when he viewed his model's fabric choices, not creative solutions, but I am going to miss him. I suspect he still had a variety of ways in which he planned to show off his legs to the viewing public. Here's a young man, godblesshim, who's not afraid to wear slim pants.It's about time that the retro
The AVA condo and hotel project at 8th and Pine has become the latest development to officially be put on ice. At least for the time being. According to the Puget Sound Business Journal, AVA has suspended active sales and is holding off opening its sales center until the market improves. However, [...]
It’s a sad day for the food blogging and food photography world.
As I’m sure a lot of fellow food bloggers have noticed, TasteSpotting has shut down. In its place was this little note:
I knew something was up when the site stopped being updated sometime yesterday. Am I surprised by this news? Well, [...]
Doug Farah, Steve Coughlin, and I have written about the efforts to replace jihad as a descriptive term for what we are fighting. In view of the reported decision by the State Department to reward these efforts, I do not want to belabor the point or my position (other than to note that there are plenty of human rights victims in countries that operate according to Shari’ah law who have much to say about whether the non-violent “striving” meaning of jihad results in innocuous statecraft)....(read more)
The stock market paid some attention to negative events on Friday.All of the major stock groups in the S&P were down with Capital Goods, Conglomerates and Financials leading the way lower as subprime worries and a few bad earnings reports from Cat and Google got under the skin of investors.Amazingly, an earnings miss the size of what Caterpillar posted was worthy of not rallying the stock, but pounding it down. Bad news was actually bad news there. Wow, fancy that. Just imagine what CAT's numbers would have looked like if the dollar had not been sliding as it was during the second quarter. But then again, the 'just imagine' line is as bad as saying, 'just imagine how how the stock market would be if financials did crater on subprime news'.As for Google, investors and speculators got what they deserved, especially the short term specs (don't investors always get what they deserve - good, or bad?). The miss was three cents a share on the bottom line and margins were nominally erod
S&P futures are down about 10 points already this evening on the Bear Stearns revelation that its two troubled hedge funds are not only troubled but pretty much worthless. Remember, this isn't a fund run by some guys in Fairfield County, CT who had a knack for trading and decided to leave their monolith Wall Street firm to start their own fund - this is Bear Stearns we're talking about here. These are supposed to be the smartest guys and most well funded and connected guys in the room, but this stuff still blew up in their faces because they used a different set of risk parameters. I guess they forgot that only Ace Greenberg knows how to do the magic tricks at Bear, and I get the feeling Jimmy Cayne is going to have more time to work on his golf game.In this 'all is quickly forgiven market' it's more than likely that 14k was not fleeting like Nasdaq 5000+ was, but the sledding is likely to be rough tomorrow if not for a few days. The biggest factor with the subprime prime epidemic
The Blog-Blond has tagged me with an education-related meme. The thing about memes is that they have rules, and the thing about rules is that they don't apply to me. So I may have slightly embellished a few of my answers. Enjoy.What was the name of the teacher that was most influential in your life from grades K through 6?Valdyrre the Magnificent. It was during the time of the Shadows, when the great gray-green tentacles of the horgauths tainted the land with their sickly sweet secretions. The only hope for the kingdom of Zumvalia was the semi-legendary Order of the Sparkly Razors. "Semi-legendary" because until that spring they existed only in the imagination of a confused old man, a man I knew as Valdyrre the Magnificent, or sometimes just "Ted." He trained me in the Ways of the Sparkly Razors, an art as old as Valdyrre's sandwich. "Don't eat that," we'd say. And he would just laugh, and die. There will never be another like him, thank the Hoary Lords of the Seven Unimp
For DC residents and insomniacs, I have some potentially sad news for you: George Michael of the 3AM staple George Michael's Sports Machine, is hanging it up after what I can only assume is 98 years.
George Michael: Sportscaster by day, Cryptkeeper by night. And also by day.
I can feel some of you snorting, saying to yourself, "He's just a local sportscaster in an era when ESPN controls
