Sen. John Kerry will announce today that his presidential campaign has raised more than $43 million in the first three months of this year, smashing Democratic Party records and signaling a party-wide fund-raising resurgence for Democrats, according to top party officials.
I completely forgot to blog that we saw Rupert from Survivor at P.F. Chang’s on Wednesday at lunch. There were a bunch of us there from work, and he came in and sat at the bar. A few minutes later his friends came in and sat with him. I completely refrained from running over to him and shouting “Rupert! Rupert!” Aren’t I nice?
Several southern TV stations are joining together and are planning to do their own Survivor show, entitled “Survivor: Southern Style.”
Apparently, on the April 13th episode of Gilmore Girls, the “Spring Break: Gilmore Girls Gone Wild” episode, Rory and Paris kiss. Finally! How much fan fiction do people have to write before they figure out what everyone really wants to see?
Update: of course it was played off as an experiment that Paris was doing, and ended up being about the male gaze anyway.
This is a pretty fun site if you love hats the way I and my sister do. I’m picking out something fun to send to her…
Ooo, they have 1920’s women’s flapper cloche hats…. I love these! This is the hat they’re wearing in all my vintage photos of lesbian couples and cross dressers. Cute!
Elena, a Russian woman with a motorcycle rides through and documents the ghost towns and abandoned buildings around Chernobyl.
Elena seems to have a new site at a dedicated URL.
UPDATE: Apparently Elena’s story isn’t entirely accurate. The original site claimed that she rode through on a motorcycle by herself, but the site later edited the story to merely suggest that she did so. Other sites say that riding through the area really isn’t possible. One can be escorted through on a tour, but riding around the area alone in an uncontrolled situation would be illegal and dangerous. Dunno
The new liberal radio station, featuring Al Franken and Janeane Garafalo among others, has a streaming audio so you can listen to it even if you aren’t in one of the big cities.
Now that I’ve finished my book club selections months early, my next reading endeavor is going to be “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Sunken Treasure and Ships.” Why? Because I won the book at work last year, but they were out of print, and they finally tracked down a copy and gave it to me. It’s a fun book, and I like treasure books. So that’s my next completely frivolous read.
For those of you who may not know this already, my company publishes The Idiot’s Guides series, along with lots of more serious text books and computer science books.
Interesting list of questions that the Associated Press suggests need to be cleared up by Dr. Rice when she testifies before the 9/11 Commission next week.
Those are good, but Salon’s list of questions is much better; it covers more of the White House’s actions surrounding 9/11 and not just contradictions between Clarke’s testimony and what the White House said.
“Sorry we let unsubstantiated claims drive our coverage. Sorry we were dismissive of experts who disputed White House charges against Iraq. Sorry we let a band of self-serving Iraqi defectors make fools of us. Sorry we fell for Colin Powell’s performance at the United Nations. Sorry we couldn’t bring ourselves to hold the administration’s feet to the fire before the war, when it really mattered. Maybe we’ll do a better job next war.”
Columnist Rick Mercier in The Fredericksburg (Va.) Free Lance-Star, making an apology for failing readers.