Tilda Swinton is a quirky woman. She's an incredibly talented, unique, quirky woman. Over the weekend, she reminded all of us just how quirky she really is, by napping in the middle of New York City's renowned Museum of Modern Art. And no, she wasn't snoozing through one of MoMa's film screenings - she was part of a performance art piece called "The Maybe."
In the 2012-2013 NBA season, there have been multiple hot-starting, streaky teams. With the Los Angeles Clippers pumping out a 17-game win streak, as well as the Denver Nuggets on a 14-game tear, things have been pretty intense all year. That doesn't even mention the most notable win streak of all, with the Miami Heat currently at 25 wins and counting.
I grew up in the country of a small farming community surrounded by cornfields and farmer tans. It's called the American heartland, but as cancer rates in my small town skyrocket, it begs the question of whether exposure to farm pesticides could be killing my friends and family.
Canadian oil pipelines have been in the talks for years as foreign oil prices continued to rise, but as the closing date draws near on three of them, it's raising the ire of local aboriginal groups.
The Canadian government has been hit hard by bottlenecks at their current pipelines and an oil glut that has cut prices for Alberta oil, but they see a light at the end of the tunnel with the creation of three new multi-million dollar pipelines.
If you head west across the northeast corner of South Dakota on U.S. Highway 12, a large city rises from the prairie 96 miles out of Milbank, SD. That city is known as Aberdeen. Aberdeen? Why that? It came about thanks to the president of a railroad -Alexander Mitchell, head of the Milwaukee Road- having been born there. When the town was platted next to the Milwaukee's tracks, it was named after his home town.
Fracking is the controversial method of procuring natural gas and oil from the ground by injecting chemicals at high pressures. At first, fracking was hailed as a way to acquire hard-to-get stores for oil and natural gas at a low price. Fracking helps keep natural gas costs down, but there is the potential for negative environmental and health impacts.
Donald E. Westlake was a genius. Not only did he write great fiction, he also was a keen cultural observer. He was so good at the latter he could expose fads for what they were via dryly satirizing them.
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It was 1990 or 1991 when I went into work on a Monday.
One of my bosses, a grave, dignified man, had just watched the Huskies destroy USC or somebody. With that hilarious defense that put 9 men in the box and just crashed everybody. Google STEVE EMTMAN, kid.
Then he'd watched the Seahawks on Sunday, and in those days they weren't exactly lighting it up. Anyway, Jowls Executive nodded his head sagely and told me, "You know what, I'd rather watch college football ANY DAY than the NFL. Those kids really care about what they're doing."
I thought, um, yeah, I've got a bit of a clue as to why you think you like "college football." It's called Dave Hoffman.
James Holmes' latest court appearance sparks a question: Why is it that sometimes there are cameras present when he is before a judge and sometimes not? It seems that the state of Colorado cannot make up its mind about TV cameras in court for this one.
Where do you draw the line, when it comes to public health? Just about everyone in favor of laws against the use of asbestos and lead-based paint. The dangers of asbestos and lead poisoning are so obvious that it seems only natural to have them banned at the federal level.
