Things That Make Micah Happy

Guy loves his nap nook (at Deux-Plateaux)

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:21:25 -0400

Guy loves his nap nook (at Deux-Plateaux)

Robert "Say" McIntosh - Wikipedia

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:29:33 -0400

Some of his campaigns have resulted in self injury, e.g. he once crucified himself on the capital steps, strapping himself to a large wooden cross to protest racism by state officials. There was a problem with the setup (he wore thermal underwear on the hottest day of the year, telling reporters they would trap his sweat and keep him cool), and he developed heat stroke and nearly killed himself resulting in a several day hospitalization. Earlier in the week, McIntosh set up his cross in front of the Governor’s Mansion. Governor Frank D. White was entertaining foreign dignitaries at the mansion that day, and when they asked him why the man was on a cross outside his residence, White deadpanned: “He displeased me.”

Creedence Clearwater Revival dining at Taco Bell in...

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:44:37 -0400

Creedence Clearwater Revival dining at Taco Bell in 1969

Looks like they had a $.25 chili burger on their menu then…

Il s’appelle Indiana Jones (at Riviera 3 Allabra)

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:29:30 -0400

Il s’appelle Indiana Jones (at Riviera 3 Allabra)

Ivorian sunset (at Le Beverly Hills)

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:22:54 -0400

Ivorian sunset (at Le Beverly Hills)

Happy??

Sat, 11 May 2013 06:22:08 -0400

Happy??

He escaped the wrath of Guy… this time (at Riviera 3...

Wed, 08 May 2013 14:40:26 -0400

He escaped the wrath of Guy… this time (at Riviera 3 Allabra)

Never get over Guy’s tuft of white chest hair (at Riviera...

Mon, 06 May 2013 08:17:37 -0400

Never get over Guy’s tuft of white chest hair (at Riviera 3 Allabra)

at Riviera 3 Allabra

Mon, 06 May 2013 08:16:13 -0400

at Riviera 3 Allabra

Abidjan

Wed, 01 May 2013 18:11:30 -0400

Abidjan

"At that point, the report says, Witherspoon got out and asked the trooper what was going on. After..."

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:33:32 -0400

“At that point, the report says, Witherspoon got out and asked the trooper what was going on. After being told to return to the car, she “stated that she was a ‘US Citizen’ and that she was allowed to ‘stand on American ground,’” the report states.”

- http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/04/21/us/ap-us-reese-witherspoon-arrest-.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0 AP: Witherspoon ‘Deeply Embarrassed’ After Arrest

Photo

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 23:21:24 -0400

10 Covers of LCD Soundsystem "All My Friends"

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:12:12 -0400

musicforants:

I recently watched Shut Up and Play The Hits, which brought back all the waves of emotion from LCD Soundsystem’s final concert just over two years ago. In honor of that seminal moment in modern indie rock history, here’s 10 covers of LCD’s greatest tune (and best song of the 2000s) “All My Friends” in various formats, plus LCD’s momentous live version from Madison Square Garden.

01. Franz Ferdinand MP3

02. John Cale

03. The Main Drag MP3

04. Baths

05. The Flying Change MP3

06. Tokyo Police Club

07. Stephen Francis MP3

08. Kodaline

09. Vanaprasta MP3

10. Cold Blood Club

All My Friends (LCD Soundsystem Cover) by Cold Blood Club

LCD Soundsystem (Live at Madison Square Garden)

THE SAUDI MARATHON MAN | The New Yorker

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:34:31 -0400

kateoplis:

“A twenty-year-old man who had been watching the Boston Marathon had his body torn into by the force of a bomb. He wasn’t alone; a hundred and seventy-six people were injured and three were killed. But he was the only one who, while in the hospital being treated for his wounds, had his apartment searched in “a startling show of force,” as his fellow-tenants described it to the Boston Herald, with a “phalanx” of officers and agents and two K9 units. He was the one whose belongings were carried out in paper bags as his neighbors watched; whose roommate, also a student, was questioned for five hours (“I was scared”) before coming out to say that he didn’t think his friend was someone who’d plant a bomb—that he was a nice guy who liked sports. “Let me go to school, dude,” the roommate said later in the day, covering his face with his hands and almost crying, as a Fox News producer followed him and asked him, again and again, if he was sure he hadn’t been living with a killer.

Why the search, the interrogation, the dogs, the bomb squad, and the injured man’s name tweeted out, attached to the word “suspect”? After the bombs went off, people were running in every direction—so was the young man. Many, like him, were hurt badly; many of them were saved by the unflinching kindness of strangers, who carried them or stopped the bleeding with their own hands and improvised tourniquets. “Exhausted runners who kept running to the nearest hospital to give blood,” President Obama said. “They helped one another, consoled one another,” Carmen Ortiz, the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, said. In the midst of that, according to a CBS News report, a bystander saw the young man running, badly hurt, rushed to him, and then “tackled” him, bringing him down. People thought he looked suspicious.

What made them suspect him? He was running—so was everyone. The police reportedly thought he smelled like explosives; his wounds might have suggested why. He said something about thinking there would be a second bomb—as there was, and often is, to target responders. If that was the reason he gave for running, it was a sensible one. He asked if anyone was dead—a question people were screaming. And he was from Saudi Arabia, which is around where the logic stops. Was it just the way he looked, or did he, in the chaos, maybe call for God with a name that someone found strange?”

Read on.

Ultra-Orthodox passengers riot aboard El Al plane over screening of film

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:44:23 -0400

Ultra-Orthodox passengers riot aboard El Al plane over screening of film:

Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, the leader of the Lithuanian Haredi community in Israel, published a halakhic ruling in the past stipulating that Cohens mustn’t fly in this plane because they are prohibited from flying over a cemetery. Later, Rabbi Eliashiv found a solution to this issue, ruling that wrapping oneself in thick plastic bags while the plane crossed over the cemetery is permissible.

Science comes to the rescue!

errbody get up

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:02:26 -0400

errbody get up

electronicsquid: There are drawbacks to living with an...

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 20:28:06 -0400

electronicsquid:

There are drawbacks to living with an ocelot

(Al Fenn. 1961)

Babou!!

Limbaugh Declares Defeat on Gay Marriage

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 10:14:16 -0400

Rush Limbaugh said those who oppose same-sex marriage must accept that they’ve “lost the issue.” Said Limbaugh: “This issue is lost. I don’t care what the Supreme Court does, this is now inevitable — and it’s inevitable because we lost the language on this.” He added that conservatives “lost the issue when we started allowing the word ‘marriage’ to be bastardized and redefined by simply adding words to it.”

Adding words like “fourth” before marriage??

Interesting clouds in MtP (at WMATA Bus Stop #1002870 (S1, S2,...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:12:17 -0400

Interesting clouds in MtP (at WMATA Bus Stop #1002870 (S1, S2, S4, S9))

at The Great Salt Air

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:45:36 -0400

at The Great Salt Air