Friday's Quirky Newsy Bits

Your Money or...

et tu Brute?

Snakes on a Plane! ORly? YaRly!

A fish tale.

The ugly get their due.

Remind me why I'm going to Nepal?

They robed my hardware store in downtown Berkeley on Tuesday night! The Brazen Dorks were nabbed only a mile from my house. They are going away for a long time :)

Bush Por(n)trait

Quote of the day:
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
- Stephen King

A Wrinkle In Time

Sigh...a childhood favorite gone.

Madeleine L’Engle, who in writing more than 60 books, including childhood fables, religious meditations and science fiction, weaved emotional tapestries transcending genre and generation, died Thursday in Connecticut. She was 88.

Her death, of natural causes, was announced today by her publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Ms. L’Engle (pronounced LENG-el) was best known for her children’s classic, “A Wrinkle in Time,” which won the John Newbery Award as the best children’s book of 1963. By 2004, it had sold more than 6 million copies, was in its 67th printing and was still selling 15,000 copies a year.

With Thanks to Quirky Panda Cub!

WIFE POWER!

The people of Knoxville demonstrated one hell of a great way to disrupt and basically neuter a KKK rally. The 100th ARA (Anti Racist Action) clown block came out to cheer them on in their own special way. Here is an excerpt from the days action.