MAKING THE ROUNDSWelcome to the latest series at the Washington Canard: an occasional round-up of blogs from around DC and by people I know who live elsewhere. I'm expecting this will be a Saturday thing, although it may end up being a Sunday thing, or even a next Saturday thing. Who knows? Nor will it always be this long, at least not if I want to keep it up. I also haven't come up with a decent name for this series, and suggestions are welcome. This is an experiment, and I don't quite know how well it will work. Anyway, if you've got a few mintues, follow me:
- I've always found the signage in the Metro to be somewhat confusing, especially at Gallery Place-Chinatown, but Mike Grass' Washington Oculus highlights one at the station that hadn't occurred to me.
- DCist's Martin Austermuhle — whom I believe is technically an employee of Hugo Chavez -- points out some ridiculous DC-geographic mistakes on TV and in some Metro-related local advertising.
- Jesse Walker at Hit and Run points out that Krist Novoselic's political career is finally starting to take off — he hasn't been elected dog catcher, but it's close.
- Also straddling the Beltway and Pacific NW is National Reviewer Eric Pfeiffer, guesting at Wonkette. He picks up on a "Jarhead"-related post by Brandon Hartley/Welcome to Blog/Blog/laurabush.info/pick one and stick with it.
- Cato policy analyst Will Wilkinson is calling for a "mindblowing contrarian essay arguing that not only do we need Cheney as POTUS, but that he can win." Which he would find hilarious.
- At some time during the past year or two, Dan Atkinson has publicly disclaimed belonging to any "blogosphere." Well, that must have changed, because now he's using the word "MSM."
- I predict that by sometime in mid-December Matthew Yglesias' Typepad blog is going to be an all-NBA, only-NBA website.
- NFLL has the best pictures of any blog I have ever seen. Every single post, but this one in particular.
- I'm always amused at the misplaced hostility of the commenters at Hotline On Call.
- Ball Wonk gets the goods on next year's Nats uniforms — from a "former Hill staffer," or so he reports.
- J. J. Joe Jr. considers the historical significance of Paris Hilton: "Speaking of myths and ridiculousness ... doesn't it smack of something ridiculous that Paris Hilton gets involved with guys who are probably heirs to the same fortunes involved in the Peloponnesian War?"
- One of the things I enjoy most about current Deutschland resident Morgen Morgan is the way she casually knocks down the elitist American opinion that Europe is so much better than the U.S. If you like convenience, stay stateside.
- The Myth of Eternal Return wins this week's prize for the hap-hap-happiest blog post. [Update: Permalink may not work. The main blog link is here. Look for the Nov. 8 entry.]
- Now that he's a civilian and a college student, Bryan Roberts has no excuse not to start blogging again.
- The Portland Not-Quite-Daily learns the hard way that you should write long posts in a text editor instead of the Blogger interface. Meanwhile, the blog certainly certainly succeeds in fulfilling the promise of its name.
- When James F moved to the Beltway, he found that he hated the place enough to start a blog called Why I Hate DC, and his hatred has not waned in the intervening years. He recently came thisclose to a Microsoft job in Seattle, but was not hired; let the DC-hating recommence.
- Zerlesen, whose life and work spans the Anglosphere, has voted with his feet and is not moving to Kansas. Nor has he likely has seriously considered doing so.
- Oregon Commentator editor Ian Spencer isn't sure who's being stupider — the college student who criminally implicated himself in a posting at Facebook, or the communications professor who thinks the police shouldn't use Facebook as an investigative resource.
- I never did get around to carving the pumpkin I bought last month, but Kenny went all-out, even carving the first jack-o-lantern I've ever seen that includes a reference to "The Simpsons."
- The Weekly Standard's Vic Matus brings to my attention the recently-discovered ancient alligator Dakosaurus; through the magic of computer rendering, which has already brought us an androgynous-looking Tut, we can determine that Dakosaurus was one scary-looking bastard.
- I didn't know this until just now, but apparently The One-Handed Economist is actually Batman.
Well, that wasn't so bad. Let's do this again sometime.
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