Friday, August 12, 2005

Blog things

Landscaper Zombies
You Look Like I Need a Drink
This business plan makes more sense than most dot.com ventures.

I was driving home today and on my horrendous drive I happened to notice a landscaping truck with the company name of Romero. Thinking about George Romero, I started to daydream about zombies. Then I came up with the idea that it would be cool to own a landscaping business where your employees had to dress up like zombies …

Speechless
Two girls in DC
There’s a strong underlying angst, a world-out-balance feeling, in this well-written post. It opens powerfully.

There are a lot of things happening simultaneously. Big things. Things that therapists say you should not do all at once. Whatever. A lot has been going on at the personal and friendship level as well. Maybe too much to write about here but I feel I should write about last night. Partly because I'm still unhappy after certain things that happened and partly because I met some people that I thought were amazing. But let me paint you a picture of how it began …

Sticks and stones
A Silent Cacophony
The tarnishing of Iraqi war veteran and Democrat Paul Hackett, who challenged Republican Jean Schmidt for a House seat in Ohio, draws the ire of this blog writer.

A few weeks ago, during the heightened level of vitriolic name calling by members of Congress from both parties who were using analogies where descriptions of political adversaries were couched in terms of Nazism among other things, I remember thinking that the political discourse in the country had sunk to a new low.
Popular or successful?
Circle V
This is a very interesting post about a recent Gallup poll on “popularity.” It’s an analysis that leads to a good observation.
I have been doing some PR work for one of my good high school friends who now lives in Arkansas. In high school she was "a smart kid," but also quite "popular." In fact, she was in homecoming every year she was in high school, and was even Homecoming Queen our senior year (oooooo, ahhhhh)….


Also noted:

Art News reports Bethesda Art Walk tonight (Friday) has 13 participating galleries and studios.

A Capitol Life has a review of Jaleo We spent much of the night greedily discussing how we would make our own. There were also softshell crabs with tomato, little glazed lamb chops, tiny chorizos that tasted like Red Hot sausages and a sleek mushroom risotto.

 

1 Comments:

At 12:41 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Don't get the point of "Speechless." Mad at friends? What happened? Very obscure.

 

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