March 2011
50 posts
my-life-aquatic:
“we are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.”
samuel johnson
February 2011
21 posts
Watch“It is very easy in this day and age to kind of look the other way.” - Anderson Cooper, Saturday
3 tags
Watch
1 tag
1 tag
5 tags
See Picasso
Unless you end up visiting Paris one day, Richmond, VA is providing a once-in-a-lifetime experience, which must be taken advantage of between the dates of this past Friday and May 15. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is the sole East Coast stop on the seven-city international tour of “Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris,” beating out even New York. The other...
3 tags
Libya
For those unaware, the government is still not allowing journalists in, but some witnesses have described the actions of the military against the demonstrators as mass genocide.
3 tags
I'm going to talk about me.
Maybe I’m absolutely crazy, but I spent the whole weekend back home and all that was going through my head was “What I Love About Sunday” by Craig Morgan.
2 tags
WatchWelcome to my home!
(I walk past this every day and eat here when spare change allows.)
3 tags
2 tags
Stellar News
The sun released a solar flare the size of Jupiter early on Tuesday, reportedly hindering several communications here on Earth. According to CNN.com, scientists at NASA said it could bring the northern lights as far as Washington D.C. and that the sun could be warming up for a major storm around 2013.
I realize solar flares of this magnitude have occurred several times throughout history, but...
2 tags
Edit
Three posts down: Happy Chinese New Year!*
2 tags
Feature: Sleep
Besides being something I should be doing right now, it is also tonight’s this morning’s post topic.
If you’re tired and groggy throughout the day, it may not be that you haven’t been getting enough sleep, but that you simply have been waking at the wrong times.
You may already know that when you sleep, your body travels through four stages, all the while switching back...
BEMINE
is the code for a free Redbox movie—today only. Happy V-Day from moi to you. It was the least I could do.
4 tags
Watch“Remains of an 1800s Nantucket whaling ship with a poignant tie to the book ‘Moby-Dick’ have been discovered on a remote reef almost 600 miles northwest of Honolulu.” - The Boston Globe
Well call me Ishmael.
2 tags
Clicking this might be in the interest of college... →
1 tag
“And you have your choices, and these are what make man great — his ladder...”
– Mumford and Sons, “Timshel”
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the...
THIS is actually what what the very first Big City Kitty post was going to be:
“Welcome.
Now that you’re here, I’d like to ask you to become part of something new. Whether you do it to bring some fresh ideas to the world, to bring an issue to the forefront that is currently lacking some attention, or simply to aid the growth of a rising generation, even in the smallest way, please share...
