everything goes better with bacon.

(i should return to proper blogging shortly. and by “shortly,” i mean “when i get around to it.”)

insufficient drinking hours in DC for the inauguration!

okay, that’s not quite what’s been going on around here, but the dc city council did just pass emergency legislation extending alcohol-serving hours until 5 a.m. for bars, nightclubs and restaurants january 17 thru 20. heaven forfend inauguration revelers might have to get a sober groove on!

i’d link to the actual legislation, but the dc site’s search system is a bear. it’s far easier to find legislation on thomas, and that’s for the whole damn congress.

my order of yarn from knitpicks arrived today. i ordered a lot of yarn.

i have tickets tonight to see they might be giants perform flood in its entirety at the 9:30.

i’m seriously thinking about staying home to play with the yarn.

what’s wrong with me?

update 12/3/08: welovedc has a nice review of the concert. the highlight of the second set (of the part that i stayed for, anyway) was why does the sun really shine? (the sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma), written to correct the scientific inaccuracies of why does the sun shine? (the sun is a mass of incandescent gas). S-E-X-X-Y was pretty good, too (lyrics here).

and p’raps defamation, too? those who post reviews of their exes to the “dating psychos” website (while the concept tickles me) could be be treading in questionable territory. and you know how tenacious those psycho hosebeast exes can be when they get pissy about something…

senior yearbook pictures go pro. (and some of the girls look like pros, if you know what i mean.)

according to crooks and liars, he’s a member of the keating family. you know, the keating five?

and according to the wapo, the tax-averse, unlicensed small-business-owner-wannabe owes almost $1200 to the state of ohio in back taxes, appears to be doing plumbing work illegally, and might even be a bit of a racist.

hmmmm.

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obama: apparently it means “that one” in swahili. (at about 5:20 in the video)

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and for today’s news typo, i give you the following from the wapo front page. took me a moment to figure out what “shaply” was supposed to mean.

seen at the denver international airport:

with all the hubbub and panic about the large hadron collider going online earlier this week, i’ve started to wonder:

where’s the small hadron collider? hmmm?

maybe it’s in sarah palin’s pants.

(okay, i have no idea what that’s supposed to mean. i haven’t had coffee yet. for an insightful, nuanced analysis of palin, go read holly’s blog.)

this headline caught my eye. a viral factor for alzheimer’s? could be fascinating, if you’re a public health geek like me.

but no, someone just misspelled “plaque”. shucks.

guillermo del toro’s elves look an awful lot like elric of melnibone:

and wall-e is a dead ringer for an infantilized johnny 5: