Why so modest, Des Moines?
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Just read some of Bill Bryson’s books.
Even if you end up with the odd one that doesn’t mention Des Moines you’ll have a nice, enjoyable read and learn… something.
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A food truck park / bar, coming soon to Gregson St., Durham:
Just feet from the other can opener on Gregson St.
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It will be fantastic-as long as none of the trucks is over 11’8”+8”!
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Is one of them electric?
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I foresee many food trucks paying the price for this bit of geographical humor.
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Tornado over Borkum!
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Streamer and a few thousand of her viewers were a third wheel overhearing this guy attempt to make a move on a girl.
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Huh. I never thought we would find a situation where someone at Microsoft actually cared what a customer thought.
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Well, it is apocryphal.
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He fights bad guys with regularly interrupted programming? Woah!
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But isn’t that exactly what we all need? -Interuptions to our regular programming
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I wish I knew enough about music and composers to properly appreciate this:
If it sounds like the composer might be a vampire, it’s Bach.
If it sounds like the composer is trying to set the violins on fire, it’s Vivaldi.
If it sounds like the composer is trying to sell you fancy mustard, it’s Haydn
If it sounds like the composer is making fun of you, it’s Mozart.
If it sounds like your high school graduation, it’s Elgar.
If it sounds like the composer is trying to make you as deaf as he is, it’s Beethoven.
If it sounds like the composer is trying to shoot you, it’s Tchaikovsky.
If it sounds like the composer is mansplaining to you, it’s Wagner.
If it sounds like you bought Star Wars on Temu, it’s Holst.
If it sounds like a fancy costume party with rich old people dancing, it’s Strauss.
If it sounds like an angry costume party with rich old people trying to kill each other, it’s Brahms.
If it sounds like it’s ripping off Celene Dion, it’s Rachmaninoff.
If it sounds like the composer is trying to incite a riot, it’s Stravinsky.
If it sounds like there’s 10 hands playing a single piano, it’s Liszt.
If it sounds like there’s 10 hands playing a single piano and all of them are clinically depressed, it’s Chopin.
If it sounds like Christmas, it’s Tchaikovsky.
If it sounds like every single choir kid in the entire city is on stage at the same time, it’s Mahler.
If it sounds like the composer tried to make a piano out of feathers, it’s Debussy.
If it sounds like it’s in the shape of a pear don’t make me laugh sea foam you’re tickling me, it’s Satie.
If it sounds like two marching bands playing different songs meeting at the 0 yard line, it’s Ives.
If it sounds like it’s very urgent that you do something IMMEDIATELY but you don’t know what, it’s Orff.
If it sounds like someone spilled all the notes and now they’re all coming out in a random order, it’s Schönberg.
If it sounds like
_________________, it’s Cage.
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If Christmas sounds like somebody trying to shoot you, you’re probably American.
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The story goes that the audience rioted at the premier of his The Rite of Spring…
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