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Cloud Pedant

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One Sentence Movie Review: Iron Man

Iron Man is the best superhero movie ever made, except for The Incredibles.

BREAKING: Ray Smuckles Taps TPHS Alum Tony Hawk for VP Slot

Today's Achewood.

Really, the whole election storyline beginning here has been hysterical.

The Real Chuck Nesson

Talking poker on the Colbert Report:

Miracles, etc.

Andrea is totally putting a whole new person into the world. We should wish her well.

Deep Cover

John Rogers (not the one I know) has got his hands on the best CIA interview ever. Go read it.


Believe in heroes.

Priorities

Via ATL, this motion to continue at trial on the grounds that it conflicts with the LSU-OSU game is pretty awesome.

Grandma at the Movies

I really love Jeremy Blachman's posts about his grandma's opinion of the new releases.

There Are No Such Thing As Shark Attacks

Gilbert Arenas has a blog. An awesome blog:

I know this is random, but I just want to clear this up for people out there.

There are these things called shark attacks, but there is no such thing as a shark attack. I have never seen a real shark attack.

I know you’re making a weird face as you’re reading this. OK people, a shark attack is not what we see on TV and what people portray it as.

We’re humans. We live on land.

Sharks live in water.

So if you’re swimming in the water and a shark bites you, that’s called trespassing. That is called trespassing. That is not a shark attack.

A shark attack is if you’re chilling at home, sitting on your couch, and a shark comes in and bites you; now that’s a shark attack. Now, if you’re chilling in the water, that is called invasion of space. So I have never heard of a shark attack.

When I see on the news where it’s like, “There have been 10 shark attacks,” I’m like, “Hey, for real?! They’re just running around? Sharks are walking now, huh! We live on the land, we don’t live underwater.”

Already Falling Behind

I heard on the radio about an article in Time Magazine about The Sopranos State of North Korea and I thought to myself, "Hey, isn't that what Sheena's thesis was about?" Sheena is a friend who lived down the hall from me freshman year, and we all went to watch her presentation. So I roll on over to the website and sure enough, the venerable newsweekly has written a feature article about her work, listing her as "a researcher at Harvard University."

I spend the rest of the day feeling like I've been wasting my time at school.

Keep Calm and Carry On

Apparently, the Walgreens a few blocks up was destroyed by arson. I say apparently because I wasn't here to see any flames, let alone any saboteurs setting them. I only saw the burned-out hulk of a rooftop air conditioner in the middle of the intersection, surrounded by police barricades. The locals told me it was arson. No word on whether the air conditioner was dragged there after or, as I prefer to imagine it, popped off the roof like a champagne cork and came crashing down in a cloud of fire.

Noah's Bagels across the street boarded up its windows, but its owners have spray painted the plywood with encouraging pleas for normalcy. "I ASSURE YOU," reads my favorite, "WE ARE OPEN."

Hey, I Know That Guy

Congratulations to Law Review President-Elect Andrew Crespo. Article by our very own PBB.

Everyone know what this means, right? I have to start working on Andrew Crespo jokes right away. Anybody got any ideas?

Congratulations Are In Order

He told me earlier this week, and I didn't want to be the first to write about it, but Mikey got into Harvard Business School. This is awesome for him, of course, and it means that he'll be here in Cambridge next year. Which is good, because our flag football team needs another wide out with some legs.

Congrats, Mike.