The warmest spring in 117 years here in the US.
The Spring of 2012 Is the Hottest in U.S. History
In case, you know, you haven’t been outside in the past three month, it’s about to become official: unless a freak blizzard blankets the country by Thursday, the spring of 2012 will go down as the warmest for the U.S. in 117 years of record-keeping. The National Climatic Data Center won’t release a report on the temperatures in May until sometime in June, but based on their assessment of March and April, University of Maryland professor Steve Scolnik, who blogs at Climate Capital, says that our warm May will smash the 102-year-old record.
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Mary McHugh mourns her slain fiance Sgt. James Regan at “Section 60” of the Arlington National Cemetery May 27, 2007. Regan, a US Army Ranger, was killed by an IED explosion in Iraq in February of this year, and this was the first time McHugh had visited the grave since the funeral. Section 60, the newest portion of the vast national cemetery on the outskirts of Washington D.C, contains hundreds of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Family members of slain American soldiers have flown in from across the country for Memorial Day. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
Never forget.
I wonder if the three of us would’ve been friends in real life. Not as brothers, but as people.
The Darjeeling Limited illustrated by Phil Gibson :: via etsy.com
Danced with my wife to this the night of our wedding 16 years ago today. I’d do it all over again … in a fucking heartbeat.
A true labor of love, The Bloomsburg Daily continues to move forward. We now are getting submissions for Op/Eds from people in and around Bloomsburg, stories from Bloomsburg University students, and updates from various local organizations. I continue to feel good about our infrastructure and those providing it. Our social media integration continues to thrive as well. We are planning updates of the events calendar, classifieds, and mobile tools. In addition we are in the midsts of several new ventures around TBD that will hopefully continue to make it something people who care about Bloomsburg can remain proud of. I know that those of us working on it behind the scenes certainly are proud to be able to do it.
Shit. Rushmore is crazy good, but Tenenbaums has a depth that grabs at me. And then there is The Darjeeling Limited. I wonder what it says about me that those three films mean so much to me together? I refuse the choose.
What Does Your Favorite Wes Anderson Movie Say About You?
With the advent of Wes Anderson’s latest entry into his compendium of eight—the movie Moonrise Kingdom, out in New York and Las Angeles Friday—there’s enough of a catalog to ensure that there’s one for each of us. So, what’s your favorite Wes Anderson film? You would be amazed at what your preferences say about who you are, at least according to this entirely unscientific but completely authoritative exploration:
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
You like bands that other people like, but you only like their really obscure stuff. When you describe a piece of art or something as “difficult,” you mean it as a compliment. You probably have a graduate degree in something specific or you just work at a used book store. You want to move to Portland but you just haven’t done it yet. Sometimes people call you an asshole and you respond, “All I’m saying is that it’s important to understand what the term ‘craft beer’actually means.” If you’re a straight guy (and you probably are) you have a girlfriend named Cara who is a research assistant and wants to move to France, but not Paris. When you have a kid (not with Cara), it will have, for a first name, the last name of a writer you like. (Maybe Wallace, because you love Infinite Jest.) One summer when you were a kid you spent a month with your cousins at their island house in Maine and something big happened that you never told anyone else.